Converse of object

• oppose: The old opposing power blocs have gone, but have been replaced by a dangerous and unpredictable tapestry of shifting alliances.

• join: Meanwhile at one of the bridge entrance hundreds of Greek activists joined the Turkish bloc to confront the police.

• create: This central policy of creating blocs of exclusively female workers had an adverse effect.

Adjective modifier

• Soviet: The collapse of the Soviet bloc threw Cuba's whole economic system into crisis.

• 25-nation: They have fled a country with 18 per cent unemployment, the highest figure in the 25-nation bloc.

• eastern: There was an ' eastern bloc ' feeling whilst waiting in the queue for our train tickets.

• communist: To what extent did economic problems in the Communist bloc bring about the end of the Cold War?

• autonomous: Despite strong police presence on the Autonomous bloc there was very little antagonism on the march.

Modifies a noun

• resection: Further investigation is needed to better identify those patients who would clearly benefit from an en bloc resection of the autonomic nerves.

• country: Ian would probably be working in an Eastern bloc country within weeks.

Noun used with modifier

• trading: Trading blocs like the EU will become a thing of the past.

• voting: Due to their large numbers they have the potential to be a powerful voting bloc.

• communist: This month is our first of two forays into the old communist bloc.

• trade: You cannot be an exclusive trade bloc, you have got to face up to global competition, you have got to look outwards.

• currency: On interest rates, limits were agreed at $ 200,000 per currency bloc in delta terms.

Preposition: of

• voter: The largest single bloc of voters in the boro are the progressive voters â voting for anti-war left of New Labor parties.

Preposition: with

• bourgeoisie: There are conditions: we do not make a political bloc with the bourgeoisie.