familiar surroundings

collocation in English

meaningsoffamiliarandsurroundings

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familiar
adjective
uk
/fəˈmɪl.i.ər/us
/fəˈmɪl.i.jɚ/
easy to recognize because of being seen, met, heard, ...
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surroundings
noun[plural]
uk
/səˈraʊn.dɪŋz/us
/səˈraʊn.dɪŋz/
the place where someone or something is and the things that are ...
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(Definition offamiliarandsurroundingsfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Under these circumstances, infants are put down, but in thefamiliarsurroundingsof a home base, not in random points in the bush.
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Still, the adolescent always found himself infamiliarsurroundings.
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For example, a patient who no longer recognizes his surroundings or his care providers will try to leave to findfamiliarsurroundings.
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It is likely that the sudden absence of structure,familiarsurroundings, and socialization following a 6-week program negatively affected the sustainability of exercise levels.
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In our case, any improvement or stabilizing health effect individuals may have experienced within their previous,familiarsurroundingsmay be threatened by the removal to a new and foreign environment.
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Physiotherapists and occupational therapists know that danger follows changes made in otherwisefamiliarsurroundings: chairs moved, corners of carpets rolled up for cleaning, a visitor trailing the flex whilst vacuuming.
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It is not intended as a general rule that elderly confused patients should be moved from theirfamiliarsurroundings.
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There are many civilians who, because they have taken on war jobs, are a long way fromfamiliarsurroundings.
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All of us know that, especially as people get older, they can be disoriented if taken out of theirfamiliarsurroundings.
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They had at any rate the consolations of genial companionship and offamiliarsurroundings.
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We opposed their policies of constructing massive, faceless public housing schemes in faraway places miles fromfamiliarsurroundingsand from family and friends.
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Let them remain in theirfamiliarsurroundingsfor a long time to come, in their favourite places.
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A great deal of emphasis is now placed on keeping people in the community if at all possible and infamiliarsurroundings.
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Patients now enjoy the reassurance of being treated locally infamiliarsurroundings, with staff whom they know and with families close at hand.
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The difficulty is that we do not like to think of ourfamiliarsurroundingsdevastated.
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There is the shock and mental strain of seeingfamiliarsurroundingsdevastated, and it is only training and discipline that can overcome that.
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It is extremely bad for old people to be taken out of theirfamiliarsurroundingsand bunged somewhere far away from their family and friends.
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Taking evidence through a commissioner infamiliarsurroundingsmay be the answer, or a video link with the court could be appropriate.
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Caring for patients in the morefamiliarsurroundingsof their own homes will cost money.
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Most of us prefer to be treated in our own homes among family and friends and infamiliarsurroundings, whatever our illness.
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