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• everything: A towering three-legged war machine emerges from deep beneath the earth and, before anyone can react, incinerates everything in sight.

• ton: Last week Hackney council in London incinerated 10 tons of illegally imported cattle feet destined for a market in East London.

• waste: The proportion of waste incinerated with energy recovery has remained roughly constant at just under 9 per cent.

• %: Of this 81 % goes to landfill, with just 11 % recycled or composted and 8 % incinerated with energy recovery.

Modifying Another Word

• rather: The new Bill would introduce a landfill allowance trading scheme which financially rewards councils which incinerate rather than bury their waste.

• much: Holland has a very good recycling record and incinerates much of its waste, like Germany.

• locally: Currently around 140 cattle are culled each week, some of which are incinerated locally, the remainder shipped to mainland Scotland.

Used with why or when

• where: It is possible that the Japanese lost another 20,000 dead as a result of American tactics whereby Japanese troops were incinerated where they fought.

Infinitive complement

• produce: A total of 80 % of municipal waste is landfilled and 8 % is incinerated to produce energy.

Preposition: in

• furnace: The superconductor was then incinerated in a furnace... A moving electron is flying compared to the motion of the heavier ions.

Preposition: with

• recovery: The proportion of waste incinerated with energy recovery has remained roughly constant at just under 9 per cent.

• waste: It seems to me then that, as Mrs S suspects, it is likely that the fetus was incinerated with the clinical waste.

Preposition: for

• fear: The USDA ordered 155 acres of nearby corn to be incinerated for fear of contamination [ 10,11 ] .