How To Use A In A Sentence
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The difficulties of the next year or two will, no doubt, reawaken the pro-euro lobby.
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The buildings are usually gabled, with rows of tiles along the ridges of the roofs.
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If you wonder about ‘furphy’, as I did, here's a gloss and explanation.
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Richardson, are proprietors of shows, and the berouged, bedraggled creatures who exhibit on the platform outside for their living.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
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In my view his confrontational, gladiatorial style has been a major contributor to the widespread disdain of the British public for politicians generally.
Times, Sunday Times
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Smith, who is also a director of Norwich City Football Club, said her CBE was a "very, very great honour".
BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
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Three tall memorial archways inscribed with Chinese characters stand outside the temple.
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I'm just a little bit caught in the middle. Life is a maze and love is a riddle, I don't know where to go, can't do it alone.
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These observations will provide a valuable supplement to the simultaneous records of other expeditions, especially the British in McMurdo Sound and the German in Weddell Sea, above all as regards the hypsometer observations (for the determination of altitude) on sledge journeys.
The South Pole~ Remarks on the Meteorological Observations at Framheim
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Liberal democracy is a fraud, a cover for the power of the elite.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were 42 free-kicks, two penalties, four bookings and three players sent off, two of whom had to be escorted from the pitch by police.
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The ball rebounded from/off the wall into the pond.
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He described the sequence of events leading up to the robbery.
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Season with a pinch of salt and pepper.
The Sun
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I can't find any relevant material on him in the library.
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It's good to have a cry sometimes.
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A thin veil of fog had rolled in off the bay, obscuring his view and coating the area in a pale gray-white mist.
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Jeff, clad in board trunks and a T-shirt, leans back in his chair with the lappie on his, uhhh, lap, and his bare feet up on the desk.
Savages
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He was a cute little beggar, looked like you as well.
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When the new foods that came from the Americas - peppers, summer squash and especially tomatoes - took hold in the region, a number of closely related dishes were born, including what we call ratatouille - and a man from La Mancha calls pisto, an Ikarian Greek calls soufiko and a Turk calls turlu.
NYT > Home Page
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Mix together with as few stirs as possible - mixing too much will make the muffins too dense and heavy.
The Sun
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What we do not know are the precise weighting of factors that go into why prices increase at any particular time.
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It would almost be better to have no backbench bills at all than the current system, which offers a false glimmer of hope.
Times, Sunday Times
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I don't touch garlic.
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When we see her, we remember that hot July day doing five knots pulling Jess and Jerry on a tube and Russ skippering his first yacht.
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Some were members of Turkey's elite military class known as "pashas," a title of respect harking back to Ottoman military commanders Monday for allegedly planning to blow up mosques in order to trigger a military takeover and overthrow the
WN.com - Photown News
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While on the way thither she fell in with a polacre-rigged ship flying the
The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2)
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WorldCom promises not to impose a minimum call charge and no set up or monthly rental fee.
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Lobefins today have dwindled to the lungfishes and the coelacanths ‘dwindled’ as ‘fish’, that is, but mightily expanded on land: we land vertebrates are aberrant lungfish.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
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A little pyrotechnics display tacked on just serves to emphasise its lack of cutting edge.
Times, Sunday Times
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Within five years, a unified currency in 1933 the "central" issue of "legal tender" currency has been relatively stable, so Donglai Bank has to resume business.
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My aunt is very old-fashioned.
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Blackpool Scorpions notched their first away win of the season against a good attacking Leigh team.
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Luckily, I have a very understanding boss.
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She tore her eyes from them for a moment to spy the bodhrán player in the tree, tapping out her rhythm with her eyes closed, not noticing the spy amongst them.
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You think Spielberg would only have a rattletrap third-rate spaceship like the Millennium Falcon to ensure his survival?
Does George Lucas think the world will end in 2012?
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At the iron railings turn left into the war memorial gardens.
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The aircraft descended into a wetland area and had since been forgotten about as it sank below the surface.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was all cold and bedraggled after falling into the river.
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Add white soy sauce and milk, season with salt and pepper to taste and bring to a simmer.
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Sceptics stung by that debacle may still be wary.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ask for an aged standing rib roast from the forequarter, trimmed and chined; bring to room temperature before roasting.
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It sparked to life in the second act, when the symbolism gave way to themes of lust and sexual temptation.
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They could have been classed as ship-rigged sloops-of-war and were built by Thomas Fishburn in 1770 at Whitby.
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The critics call its recipes bland, unhelpful, unoriginal and unhealthy.
The Sun
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By the time harmony was a few centuries old, it began to shiver and shake from them.
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The application of fertilizer increased the size of the plants.
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Laura Wade's Posh, timed to open as the Tories edged into power in May 2010, reminded us just what we were in for: overprivileged hooligans in drinking-society blazers who trash a pub as thoughtlessly as they will trash the country.
Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre
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Some of the crew went off-shift, stringing up hybrid bunks and hammocks belowdecks, the others continued working.
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The unit can connect to any video source that has composite video and stereo audio RCA jacks, though the encoded audio is limited to mono.
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It is, we learned, easier to learn to fly a plane than to master touch-typing.
Radio review: Fry's English Delight: The Trial Of Qwerty
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The Fat Controller and I were back inside the bolt when it arrived from the bonded warehouse at Felixstowe.
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If we have spent several class periods introducing conventions of reasoned evidence in argumentative writing, we usually look for such features in student papers.
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I bought a dozen eggs and every one of them was bad.
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Elisabeth found herself with a straggle of colonists in a mosquito-ridden, uncleared jungle where sandflies bored into the skin of the feet and the clay soil was so intractable that nothing would grow.
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Hopefully, North Norfolk will soon shake off this surreal obsession with the Lib Dems and embrace their NE Cambs neighbour's decent Tory stance.
Will Iain Dale have to repay the donations ?
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The Staff of Volans has a limited supply of magic energy. Roll a dice after each spell is cast.
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This came out of an investigation he was carrying out into when a ternary quartic form could be represented as the sum of five fourth powers of linear forms.
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But at lunch on the first day we were approached by the helpful Hotel Manager Henri and offered a swap to an overwater bungalow.
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She has certainly branched out into more interesting work in recent years.
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Intellectual Dublin seemed no longer to consist of writers, but of folk singers, bearded or otherwise.
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They are essential atmospheric cladding which prevents the earth from becoming a frozen planet.
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Spending on a perennial effort to expand gambling at race tracks, known as "racino," increased four-fold to about $620,000 in 2010.
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It also seems to carry the well-tempered glow of late Woody Allen with a well-satisfied view of late life and with few illusions.
The Unshine Boys
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People in no way adhere to regular social conventions online.
Times, Sunday Times
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People at MSFC have told me over drinks that this study concluded that EELV are human ratable but they were going to do what Griffin wanted.
Obama Policies on Transparency, Openness, and Participation - and NASA - NASA Watch
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He wrote and tcanslaited many fortunate connexion « Mr. Boweai other works, and among the rest being unable to pay the costs in-* wa»the author of one play, called curred by the suit in the Spiritual
Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse:
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An imprimatur is not guarantee of theological soundness, in reality.
Dr. Janet Smith replies to Dr. Schindler, defends Christopher West
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Wine lovers in the U.S. are increasingly describing their favorite vintage as molto buono, instead of très bon.
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Several selections contain strings of double notes, primarily thirds and sixths.
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He specialized in moonlit and winter scenes, usually including a sheet of water and sometimes also involving the light of a fire, and he also painted sunsets and views at dawn or twilight.
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He watched them disappear from his view, his father still waddling along with that bloody basket.
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Moreover, she is being asked to do this while remaining scrupulously impartial and keeping the viewer entertained with talk of trade deals, tariffs and employment figures.
Times, Sunday Times
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That gave us the time to move arbalests and mangonels into position along the walls.
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Dom recognized a master tactician when he saw one.
SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
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The Plover is to be communicated with each year by a man-of-war — the Amphitrite is the next.
The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II
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In 1984, he started Oh Boy as an outlet for his songwriting.
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Management claimed the lockout was a temporary measure and that the plant would be reopened on May 9.
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Which is stupid, considering the drivers around here A: Don't normally stop for people and in fact have been caught trying to sneak ~around~ them and B: I've been nicked several times and almost hit three times different instances last summer attempting to obey the biking laws, none of those for mistakes on my part as I've been scared shitless at the lack of aware driving that's crept over my town.
The funny thing about Pain..... (Let's talk trauma!)
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As the holiday movie season winds down, we thought we'd preview the films of 2003 to see which ones stand out and which should stand down.
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The pain in his side was crushing, as if there was a steel hand in there relentlessly closing on an organ.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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The speech was brimming with ideas for rewarding work and reducing dependency.
Times, Sunday Times
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The poems, plays, and essays of the committed cultural nationalist are characterized by a markedly hortatory or didactic manner.
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Before Malfurion could ask who she meant, Tyrande brought the glaive up in a salute and murmured something in the hidden tongue of the Sisterhood.
WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE
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He hoped the roots would harbor the fungi and spread them throughout the compost, but the fungi didn't spread well enough.
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I didn't open my mouth until he talked himself out.
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Druses were common throughout the mesophyll tissues, and peltate, glandular trichomes were present on both epidermises.
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The protests were going on about 1 kilometers away in the main street and some of the protesting crowd were running from tear gass used among them, towards Salehi St. The film is shot by my friend who was standing beside me.
Iran Election Live-Blogging (Saturday June 20 Part II)
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Before we did anything we wrote and rewrote the script until we felt what we had got written down was a really good story.
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Lovecraft dealt not with the supernatural but with the "supernormal," as Joshi puts it -- the unrealized side of material reality.
The Lovecraft News Network
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They were now surrounded on all sides by a ring of excited, curious faces.
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The main square is called “Rynek” (which basically means “central market place”), and in the middle there are two buildings: “Ratusz” or City Hall (compare with German “Rathaus”) and “Sukiennice”, a long one-level building not unlike a bazaar, filled with stores.
Matthew Yglesias » Krakow
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Unless contraindicated, prophylaxis with a gastrointestinal motility stimulant laxative and a stool softener is appropriate in terminally ill patients who are being given opioids.
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Itty bitty kitty comitte boat sinked. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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Once tawhid is accepted as the first axiom of thought, the goal of life becomes bridging the gap between the asserter and the asserted.
William C. Chittick, Ph.D.: Islam and the Goal of Love
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Demos they may be but these Hazlewood rarities are rounded, rustic country songs: lustrous and lustful, quirkily and dryly humorous, yet poignant stories from the other side of love.
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By adding the chlorides of strontian, uranium, potassium, sodium, iron, or copper to the liquid, various effects may be produced, and these bodies will be found to produce the same color on the plate that their flame gives to alcohol.
American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype
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As I did at FIAC, I selected 18 galleries and asked their most anglophonic expert to pick an image and talk about it for under two minutes.
Michael Kurcfeld: Doing Shots: The Old and the New at Paris Photo 2011 (VIDEO)
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There's a big difference between an amateur video and a slick Hollywood production.
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But then on the other hand, the whole cosmos or universe is based on this love or compassion.
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In this edition, such mistakes are corrected, and the original errata slips are also published.
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Watching celebs suffer from hunger and lack of home comforts is somehow really entertaining.
The Sun
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It is recognised as a crime against humanity under international law.
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A specially designed speculum is used to help direct the injection into the G-spot, with effects lasting around four months.
G Marks The Spot
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I just know that one beer bash was fine, two was tolerable, and the third was just a way to eat up time on Memorial Day.
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The lizard's light brown skin acts as camouflage in the desert sand.
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A heart will not be hurt for pursuing a dream, when you truly want something, all the universe conspires to help you complete the.
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He called the foiled butt "Really juicy and nearly perfect.
Physicist Cracks BBQ Mystery
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Assuming that 15 pound breaking strain line is used, an angler using monofilament might have to use a six or eight ounce sinker and use a 20 lb class rod to carry that sinker weight.
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Frogs and newts have already been attracted to three new natural spring ponds at Abbey Meads School.
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When the moment finally comes, one look through his cataract lenses is all it takes.
Christianity Today
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Academic excellence was matched with extra-curricular activities of every description - from drama through sport to foreign travel.
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Serve the chicken with salads and chips or potatoes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Concentration now had to be aimed at the means of transporting the aircraft from the field to the carrier in Glasgow.
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The resettlement fee shall be calculated according to the number of agricultural population to be resettled.
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Would reverse flow undergravel filtration be better?
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The following years were characterized by rifts with Russia, in which the Ukraine jealously guarded its own independence against its overbearing neighbour.
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The mysterious jack snipe is a typical bird of the often water-logged northern taiga, birch and willow country.
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I never believed in God, not even between the ages of six and ten, when I was an agnostic.
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The Pepper Street gang, of which Jackie was the acknowledged leader, was not a gang of drug-selling hoods.
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The poor bugger has nowhere else to sleep.
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We carried spare water for the rad, a hand pump just in case the Dunlop pressure dropped, and maybe even a canister of petrol.
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I am told that Ferguson has called me 'unsellable'.
The Guardian World News
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They need access to the right help so they can rebuild their lives.
Times, Sunday Times
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When your bulbs arrive, or you buy them from the garden center, gather everyone together, hand out garden tools and start digging.
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Secondly, he makes the team too much money, raking in ticket and merchandise sales like crazy.
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Apart from any other objection, a different classification would be reached if the characters were used in a different sequence.
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It is by these special touches that the author infuses the books with the spirit of humanity, without which a fantasy becomes an empty fancy.
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Statutory rape laws were first enacted to protect minors from older predators.
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Before you know it, all the Sandy Clarks and Billy Starks doing the media rounds are back in business until the next time they are given their jotters for failing to meet fans' expectations.
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During adolescence , boys and girls will take on secondary sexual characteristics.
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Note that you'll be able to find the demonstration projects themselves as open-source projects on the companion site to the column (see Resources).
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He asked me bluntly, ‘Why would you want to leave private life and take on such a difficult, dangerous and probably thankless job?’
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Have a cosmic awareness, an interest in ecology, environment, vegetarianism, or are very socially conscious.
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To supplement his income, he taught private voice lessons in his home and sang in a church choir.
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a class in conversational Spanish.
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Chlorophyll is only one of several pigments found in plants, but it is by far the most important.
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As he ran past, the arquebusier shouted something about Susanoo, the kami of storms, and how he was punishing them for their arrogance.
Blood Ninja II
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It was a typical gesture of love and togetherness.
The Sun
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In the forecabins, the head and shower is located forward and has a large mirrored vanity with ample storage below.
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This does not exclude the existence of pockets of the urban population with unrealized homosexual desires.
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Fertilization therefore results in an egg carrying a nucleus with contributions from both parents, and it was concluded that the cell nucleus must contain the physical basis of heredity.
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Rose of Sharon braced her body against the movements of the car in an effort to protect her fetus.
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The brightly colored outfits may be made of either cotton or such dressy fabrics as velvet, satin, and lamé.
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Gone was the prim nodus; instead her long hair was parted in the center and allowed to fall loose under a veil, in a deliberate echo of the statuary poses of classical goddesses.
Caesars’ Wives
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According to police and prosecutors, the two got into a fight after she told him he should be committed to a mental hospital.
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The fin's origin is relatively far behind the pelvic fin insertion.
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I learned how to negotiate fights between adolescent girls without making it seem like parental interference.
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The affinities between music and poetry have been familiar since antiquity, though they are largely ignored in the current intellectual climate.
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The air had grown thick and smoky.
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Maurice Mair seemed to spin like a teetotum and pitch upon his face like a ninepin.
The Complete Father Brown
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Combine the corn with steamed green vegetables like asparagus and offer baked potatoes to ensure the children don't go hungry.
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In 2005, the Mugabe government launched what it called a slum clearance scheme, that bulldozed major shantytowns, brutally displacing hundreds of thousands of people.
CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2007
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I used to think the worst feeling was losing someone you love. But, I was wrong. The worst feeling is the moment you have lost yourself.
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Their prayers were answered and the child was found safe and well.
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When Modin scored from the right circle to make it 3-0, it looked bleak for the Devils, who rallied from one-goal deficits twice before winning Game 2 in overtime.
USATODAY.com - Tampa Bay creeps closer to New Jersey with 4-3 win
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A lot of schools don't really encourage team sports .
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The sheer volume is so overwhelming that the police cannot get on top of it.
The Sun
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The school has a very good relationship with the community.
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Our ambition is to build a prosperous, inclusive and outward-looking country.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have to find grass and bring it up to them, otherwise they'll die.
Times, Sunday Times
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Police are anxious to trace two men seen leaving the house just before 8am.
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The hat, I think the style was called fedora, had a dark band and a dint in the top, which my father would sometimes correct with a chopping action of his right hand.
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In 1850 Joy and Edward Wilson patented twin boilers working in parallel within the same casing.
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The interiors are beautifully kept and the countryside is lush and fruitful.
Times, Sunday Times
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He made a very positive contribution to the overall success of the project.
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Using a bold colour such as yellow is risky.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first batch of ten shows is seen as a test of viewer demand.
Times, Sunday Times
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Forbes: In terms of scale, the size of a bank for lending, is there a point where being bigger does not make you more efficient in lending?
Transcript: Richard Bove
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They have recognized that their business depends on world of mouth, and that world of mouth is based on customer satisfaction.
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On the other hand, a blazer and slacks would probably be acceptable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then there are the PIP implant problems that thousands of women have had to contend with.
The Sun
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Come to think of it, it should read "sententia" but you managed to misspell in Latin the word you misspelled in English.
When Latin Tattoos Go Wrong
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The aerobrake - a huge, convex disc underneath the spacecraft - was producing friction with the Martian atmosphere.
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The funeral will be held according to church.
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Everyone's at it - apart from a few notable and honourable exceptions.
The Sun
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But yes, good of Prof. Adler, who I hope will be a little chary of Althousian pseudoreality in future.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking the Washington Post to School
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It's impossible to look at yourself in a pair of new frames and not see another character.
Times, Sunday Times
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You can't have a show called Politically Incorrect and then abjectly apologize for not being PC.
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The net result of all these changes is that schools should be able to deliver a better service to pupils.
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A second problem is damage caused by the buildup of excessive electrical charges in the plate from the unwanted ions.
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The scale of the economic gulf between the two parties came as two polls yesterday showed that the election remained wide open.
Times, Sunday Times
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I reassured him it was secure by logging into my account and viewing his profile.
Computing
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Here's the good news: When you bring what I call unconditional presence to the trance of fear, you create the foundation for true spiritual awakening.
Undefined
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Begin by tightening your buttocks and lifting your hips off the floor.
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We had engaged a very nice mare and stanhope, which we knew we could depend upon, when, the day before the race, the chestnut was declared lame, and not a presentable four-legged animal was to be hired in
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846
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Malory won the toss and will serve.
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She had a constant parade of young men coming to visit her.
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Visitors are welcome to fuss and pet the animals.
The Sun
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The firm employs ten people and hires drivers when required.
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Will you sing a song to us?
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Yet, there are times when I wonder if my love is misplaced, if I should temper my affection.
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Press Y to select evenly spaced columns.
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Some groups consistently face discrimination: age is one mode of socially structured disadvantage.
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The firms restructured in different ways.
Times, Sunday Times
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We need first of all a fact finding mission and then we need to put together a coalition of conservators, a cultural coalition.
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It's good for you to suck in fresh shore air.
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It is the way they keep their finger on the pulse and keep in touch with their audience.
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The caller urges the often elderly victims to transfer their money to a'safe' account set up in their name.
Times, Sunday Times
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I expect him to win the rematch.
The Sun
