ADJ
- gigantic, huge, large, massive
- massive constructions of bamboo and paper
- basic, simple
- It has a basic construction of brick under a tiled roof
- complex
- heavy
- the heavy construction industry
- solid
- walls of solid construction
- careful
- The drainage system needs careful construction
- brick, fibreglass, steel, timber, timber-frame, wooden
- a two-storey brick construction a schoolhouse of brick construction
- bridge, building, canal, house/housing, railway, road
- Road and bridge construction is underway
VERB + CONSTRUCTION
- begin, start
- complete
- Construction of the new road has now been completed
CONSTRUCTION + NOUN
- industry, sector
- company, firm, group
- project, programme
- contract
- job
- work
- worker
- site, yard
- costs
- materials
- method, process, technique
PREP
- during (the) ~
- Major engineering challenges will be faced during construction
- under ~
- A new factory is under construction
ADJ
- grammatical, linguistic, sentence, syntactic
- active, passive
- adjectival, infinitive, predicative
ADJ
- literal
- logical, sensible
- proper, true
- ruling on the proper construction to be given to section 78 of the Act
- strict
- a strict construction of the clause
- ideological, social, theoretical
- changes in the social construction of marriage (= the meaning of marriage in society)
VERB + CONSTRUCTION
- give sth, put on sth
- What construction do you put on this letter (= what do you think it means) ?