Collocations withsurroundings
These are words often used in combination withsurroundings.
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comfortable surroundings
The home was opened about five years ago and thirty-six people are housed there in warm, comfortable surroundings with everything catered for.
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familiar surroundings
Under these circumstances, infants are put down, but in the familiar surroundings of a home base, not in random points in the bush.
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immediate surroundings
In what are people to participate in fashioning their own immediate surroundings within a conceived overall framework?
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natural surroundings
We have long recognized the value of domiciliary consultations as a means of seeing people in their natural surroundings.
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new surroundings
What characterizes them is the disorientation we notice in people wanting to adjust to new surroundings.
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physical surroundings
Because the latter phenomenon is so closely tied to environmental attributes, the physical surroundings of germinating seeds will be discussed first.
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rural surroundings
On his professorial appointment, he sought a 'retreat' for work in rural surroundings away from city and university.
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strange surroundings
Obviously, a child of sixteen would not be in the condition to defend herself in strange surroundings when brought before a magistrate.
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unfamiliar surroundings
Some children are relatively fearless and quick to interact with unfamiliar surroundings and people; others find unfamiliar situations aversive and tend to withdraw.
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