How To Use Alarm In A Sentence
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I set the alarm clock for a quarter to midnight, and settled down for a couple of hours sleep.
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Yes, the gearbox was a bit saggy and I was alarmed at how much pressure the brake pedal needed to do an emergency stop, but other than this, all was well.
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I set the alarm clock for a quarter to midnight, and settled down for a couple of hours sleep.
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Connecticut schools have been fitting yellow intruder alarms next to fire alarms in their corridors and dining halls.
Times, Sunday Times
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The breaking of a branch under my foot alarmed the deer.
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The team apparently circumvented locked gates and an alarm system, while the sculpture was in the process of being moved to another location.
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He sped along Bellhouse Road and crossed a mini roundabout diagonally, to the alarm of many pedestrians and motorists.
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CAMBODIA - Cambodia is alarmed at the illegal import of pigs from the neighboring country of Viet Nam.
ThePigSite - Global Pig Industry News Feeds
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It appeared the family had never been properly screened by the DIB, which was alarming given that its activities were supposedly well monitored, he added.
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The baboon would keep the goats together as they grazed during the day, giving alarm calls if it spotted cheetahs or leopards.
Times, Sunday Times
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Local environmentalists have sounded the alarm that it may well be the beginning of an end for the species.
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Every few minutes a piercing ringing sound could be heard when the inspector examined each alarm.
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But alarmed experts have warned of the dangers.
The Sun
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There were also reports of increasing calls to personal alarm services from elderly and vulnerable people.
Times, Sunday Times
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The suicide rate among men between the ages of 16 and 25 has risen alarmingly.
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More alarming -- not to mention revolting -- than any revelation, which has come out thus far about Bachmann, Kennedy once commented to Democratic political adviser Bobby Baker, "You know, I get a migraine headache if I don't get a strange piece of ass every day" see endnote 54.
Lara M. Brown, Ph.D.: Michele Bachmann and Migraines: Presidential Disqualifier or Sexism?
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It's like a silent alarm ringing on a carefully coded genetic clock.
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Many cities require registration of alarm systems, provide for a warning process, fine violators and authorize disconnection of alarm systems.
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Second-place winner Nada Bader, a 12-year-old seventh-grader from Crestwood Middle School, met her downfall with the word "conniption" - a fit of rage, hysteria or alarm.
Times Leader News
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Journalists alarmed by the directions of both the profession and journalism education said the initiative comes at an opportune time.
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There's nothing quite like the shock of the alarm going off in the morning.
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That's when I stopped what I was doing, got out of bed and brained the one in the red pyjamas with my alarm clock.
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None rested quiet or mute for a second, except the one who kept close as his shadow to her father's side, and unwittingly was treated by him less like the other children, than like some stray spirit of another world, caught and held jealously, but without much outward notice, lest haply it might take alarm, and vanish back again unawares.
John Halifax, Gentleman
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The bag is fitted with a special alarm programmed to go off if someone reaches inside.
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She bit her lip in confusion, alarmed at the wash of warmth in her body.
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Mum sounded very alarmed and distressed and told me to lock the doors.
The Sun
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I've set the alarm clock to go off at 7 am.
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You should check that the smoke alarm is working properly.
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Even if your alarm code is written elegantly and well, there is a compelling advantage to a centralized service.
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She was alarmed to hear a very obvious lack of conviction in her voice, though.
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What is so alarming about the commissioner's report is the revelation that so many relatively minor inroads on civil liberties have gone unremarked and unnoticed.
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Is that strangling the nascent ‘alarm tone’ market?
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At present, IMS provides automatic equipment alarm, meeting notifying, mail notifying and productive system notifying on important issues.
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But others, founding their assertions upon more plausible reasoning, say that the petty Mussulman kings, who were the neighbours or tributaries of Benabad, justly alarmed at his alliance with a {93} Christian king, solicited the support of the Almoravide.
History of the Moors of Spain
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As the battle stations alert and klaxon alarm sounded, he donned a helmet and life jacket as he left the bridge and headed below.
CHAINS OF COMMAND
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If crows have become unwelcome guests, Martens recommends scare tactics, such as Mylar tape, pie tins, scary eye balloons, scarecrows, and auditory alarms.
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There has been considerable alarm about the new proposals.
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On the surface, the report could appear alarming.
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The sores are usually relatively painless, and this procedure, like the urethral investigation, need give no cause for alarm.
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Ben had heard that significant cry of alarm, and almost simultaneously the "plash" made by the little Portuguese as her body dropped down upon the water.
The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea
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He said the people seemed to panic more when the fire alarm went off.
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That alarmed the conservationists while failing to satisfy the engineers.
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It was cool without being chill, and took the warmth of one's hand flatteringly soon, as if it liked to do so, yet kept its freshness; it was smooth without being glossy, mat as a pearl, and as delightful to roll in the hand; and of an exquisite, alarming frangibility that gave it, in its small way, that flavour which belongs to pleasures that are dogged by the danger of a violent end.
The Judge
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One of the executioners then pulled off a kind of furred tippet which covered her bosom; her modesty taking the alarm, made her start back a few steps; she turned pale, and burst into tears.
The Pacha of Many Tales
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Three single pulses could produce a false alarm, but the likelihood of nine regular pulses three times was remote.
Times, Sunday Times
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We have an alarming number of distressing cases in our files of youngsters, families and old folk who need us.
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It would only be a matter of minutes before the alarm was raised and the guard called out.
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Alarmed at the first sound, we hit the dirt.
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His alarm will be chucked in the dustbin and he can lie-in every day safe in the knowledge of a job well-done.
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Neuerthelesse, the rumour was great, and they rang alarme: wherefore the sayd slaues comming to prison, as it was ordeined in al the alarmes, were met of the people, which in great anger put them to death: so that there were slaine an hundred and moe the same day.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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The alarming increase in media oligopolies has led to a subsequent decline in any need for public accountability on the part of media corporations.
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When they arrived back at their home they discovered the source of the triggered alarm.
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Campaigners will step up their fight to dual the A120 after reflecting on alarming new figures.
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The alarming trend for desperate medical sector docs and surgeons to reduce waiting lists by doing non-urgent but easy procedures first is life threatening and wrong.
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The results show that the alarm time depends strongly on both the gas concentration and the emission current of the ionization gauge.
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The fire alarm deploys a curtain covering the paintings, and then activates the sprinklers.
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In Liverpool there is a sulphurous whiff of rebellion - bitter talk, alarming to some, of direct action.
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Poor Ernest has been suffering since Wednesday last with the jaundice, which is very distressing and troublesome, though not alarming ....
The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861
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It's telling that car alarms have become mere annoyances rather than effective tools to prevent crime.
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There is growing public alarm at this increase in crime.
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With all the flow and rafts of weed washing downstream it was very difficult keeping the bite alarms from bleeping continuously.
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Their range includes hunch-whistles, high squeaky or piping whistles, trills, and alarm screams.
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More alarmingly, the degree and extent of the complicity involved is shredding the credibility of the Hierarchy.
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There are also unfamiliar noises such as alarms and bleeps which help the nurse to monitor the patient.
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He made a noise of what I took to be assent, muffled as it was by the furious flapping of his frilly pinny over the shrieking smoke alarm.
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The moves are likely to alarm prison governors.
Times, Sunday Times
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If the building only contains manual toilet flushers instead of the self-flushers, then there should be an alarm above the toilet that sounds every time there is no flush.
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A burglar alarm went off, prompting the arrival of officers who detained the two undercover cops.
The Sun
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One early high note goes alarmingly astray.
Times, Sunday Times
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Like many smart devices, my phone has an alarm to tell me when the battery is low.
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Let's begin with two conversations I have with alarming regularity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mrs. Blower, knows how to bring down that robust health, which is a very alarming state of the frame when it is considered secundum artem.
Saint Ronan's Well
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Then, somewhat more alarmingly, there is the hunger for a voluntarist transcendence of the limitations of history, the fantasy of escaping from the inextricable complications and complexities of the past into some pure state of agency.
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Then he ran up the rope of the alarm bell.
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Southern Cross, the troubled social care provider, posted half-yearly results yesterday that have implications far beyond the pockets of its investors, or even the 31,000 residents of its 750 care homes, and the staff who work in them, for whom the future is alarmingly uncertain.
Editorial | Social care: Cross purposes
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Nineteen per cent of households have intruder alarms, according to Mintel.
Times, Sunday Times
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The leader rapidly tapped in the combination that opened the door and switched off the alarms.
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She is the one who has raised the alarm about radicalisation in prison as well as online.
Times, Sunday Times
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The thieves ran away when the burglar alarm went off.
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Terrors shall come upon them: God will cause an alarm of war to be heard, even in Rabbah, their capital city and a very strong one, v. 1.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Wire the thermometers up to trigger off an alarm bell if the temperature drops.
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What other burglar alarm could be so musical?
Times, Sunday Times
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The draft code will require auditors of big banks to liaise more closely with regulators and to raise the alarm if problems are discovered.
Times, Sunday Times
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The government had some foreknowledge from an informant as well as the buzz of rumours, but there had been so many rumours and false alarms that at first it did not take it seriously.
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This brought the majority of the crew onto the main deck, many armed, all alarmed.
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Alarm clocks were going off, playing rock, Christian pop, jazz or reggae.
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There's a tamperproof anti-theft alarm and bike locator.
Times, Sunday Times
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be lead to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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He loves spreading alarm and despondency.
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The thief then grabbed her purse as the shocked pensioner raised the alarm by shouting to her husband.
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To religious conservatives, however, even these tentative and moderate reforms were undesirable and alarming.
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Three hundred firemen and 400 policemen raced to the Hofburg after a smoke detector set off the alarm soon after midnight.
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My alarm clock didn't go off this morning.
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At the same time, you must overtake the security guards, disengage the alarm system, and disable the security cameras.
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‘Ah - Miss Corel,’ he greeted her charmingly, ignoring the clangor of alarms and frantic shouts from outside.
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Halfway across the Pacific, computer alarms also sounded and staff pagers beeped at a seismic centre in Honolulu.
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In fact, sleep apnoea sufferers are so zonked out that they have an alarming tendency to fall asleep at the wheel.
Times, Sunday Times
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The night on which this curious machine was first brought into use was one of great anxiety and alarm.
Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain
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Each station has an alarm which will page duty staff if water reaches critical levels.
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When I latched on to this hold and let my feet swing out from the face below, I felt an alarming sense of fatigue in my arms.
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FI system, IDD telephone, smoke sensitive , fire alarm and well - equipped toilet.
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Some joker keeps setting off the fire alarm.
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In view of a few likelihood by cankered person the website making friend that use is absent " blacklist " on, alarm make the most of of minor of the appeal that inspect hall " Bai Ming is odd " means.
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Lizzie was carrying a rape alarm but it was out of reach in her handbag.
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In another incident the poor air circulation prevented the smoke alarm from going off when a small fire ignited.
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The architect, thought long and hard about the look of his upturned boats but evidently did not realise that the stoor created by construction work would trigger the fire alarms.
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There are a few exaggerations, but none to be alarmed at, as they are frankly made for exportation.
Times, Sunday Times
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As the last words came hoarsely forth on to the night air, _clang, clang, clang_, burst out the tocsin of the alarm bell, silencing the music in the ballroom and sending an electric thrill through every listener within the precincts of the castle; but ere the great bell had sent forth a score of vibrating notes which came quivering through the darkness and echoing from every wall, the clattering of hoofs began in obedience to the whispered commands of his Majesty of France:
The King's Esquires The Jewel of France
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While the current version can only raise the alarm, it could be adapted to corner an intruder if the customer wanted…
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The thing is, hardly anybody installs a silent alarm these days, except as a supplementary sys-tem.
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With my alarm, we have it set so at night there is an unalarmed 'pathway' down the stairs to the kitchen.
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Police are warning homeowners to fit strong locks on sheds and garages, cover windows with old curtains, install an expensive but noisy alarm and ensure that the household insurance policy covers the value of shed contents.
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Pressing this button causes an alarm to appear on the radio console.
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I traced it on his computer, I can get into it with a bit of effort, and because he's dead he'll never miss the money and sound the alarm.
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Yet the news has alarmed the charity world.
Times, Sunday Times
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My pet peeve for the day is waking up in the middle of the night, curled in a warm hollow under the blankets, relaxed and thinking dozily about blogs and mailing lists… and then the harsh bleep of my alarm ricocheting through the dark.
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He turned on the heat as high as it would go, and an alarming gust of hot air burst through the broken vents.
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I can see her now, fingering her brittle bangs, blinking so fast that this microscopist she's found might be alarmed if he were to look at her, but he has not done much of that; instead he peers at the monitor, uses a sterling accessory to show her the worms.
Florida
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The guard loosed the dogs when the burglar alarm went off.
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The lack of oversight alarms some members of Congress.
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Back in Siemiatycze, however, Radomski believes alarmists in the West who fear an invasion of immigrants have got it wrong.
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Luckily, prison reformers need not be alarmed.
Times, Sunday Times
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These all possess an extraordinary organ situated on the neck, the well-known Y-shaped tentacle, which is entirely concealed in a state of repose, but which is capable of being suddenly thrown out by the insect when alarmed.
Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays
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Heterorhabditis bacteriophora, which kills western corn rootworm larvae, is relatively unresponsive to an alarm signal ((E) - beta-caryophyllene, which is released by the infested roots) Turlings has successfully improve H. bacteriophora's response to caryophyllene by selective breeding of the nematodes.
RedOrbit News - Technology
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I'm alarmed that people over the age of 16 can act so unpleasantly towards their fellow humans, but I suppose that makes me naive and thin-skinned.
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The appearance of green algal blooms should likewise ring alarm bells.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Cruze 2.0 VCDi LT Auto is priced £17,145 on-the-road and comes with several standard features including full climate control, parking sensors, cruise control, front fog lamps, 17-inch alloy wheels, rain sensitive wipers, automatic headlights, a six-CD autochanger and MP3 socket, and an alarm system.
Carscoop
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the alarm clangored throughout the building
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Community officers working in Warminster are now urging residents to look out for elderly relatives and raise the alarm if they see suspicious callers.
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Compare radio alarm prices, read radio alarm clock reviews and check online store ratings.
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Improved car security and more home burglar alarms and window locks have driven down vehicle crime and burglary.
Times, Sunday Times
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I didn't tell her that he was late because I didn't want to cause her any alarm.
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Goods being offered at ultra-low prices should always set alarm bells ringing.
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No alarm went off, and the officers patrolling the perimeter didn't notice anything amiss.
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The soft noises of slumber coming from the kitchen were quite comforting until a very alarming, roaring noise boomed down from the hills behind the post.
THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
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If there is no problem, there will be no alarm bell.
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The alarm goes off at 8.30 but I press the snooze button and roll over a few times.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fortunately the alarm stopped, the film crew were able to leave, and the anesthetist arrived to offer me a pre-med, and eventually, it was my turn.
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Is your car fitted with an alarm?
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The alarm system had been wired directly to the sheriff's office, Sheriff Watters was probably on his way right now.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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What do you say, when you discover the unimpressive and slightly alarmed figure behind all the carefully crafted demonizations?
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She added that none of the three was able to raise the alarm suggests that they died quickly after injecting and that the drugs could kill within moments.
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The patient was okay - it was a false alarm.
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Put the alarm clock on for 7 o'clock.
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The councillors concluded by adopting the report and agreed to promote the idea that every house in the town should have smoke alarms installed.
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Don't get alarmed, don't get peevish, don't get panicky, don't be a wicked old flutterer, Ham, my boy!" he said.
Bones in London
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No longer is Art Theft a refined craft of niminy-piminy alarm evasion, but more and more a matter of going in with all the guns blazing.
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The sanitary issues of raising more than 50 Labradors in a pigpen apparently didn't set off any alarms, because with demand so high, all the puppies were sold even before they were born.
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At a time when diseases spread by mosquitoes such as dengue fever and filariasis are on the increase, the experts' warning is alarming.
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But there's no paws for alarm, as the beast is safely behind a thick sheet of toughened glass.
The Sun
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Robinson was surprised and a little alarmed at such an untypical gesture.
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Heterorhabditis bacteriophora, which kills western corn rootworm larvae, is relatively unresponsive to an alarm signal ((E) - beta-caryophyllene, which is released by the infested roots) Turlings has successfully improve
EurekAlert! - Breaking News
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Although an individual transporting a diplomatic pouch may have diplomatic immunity, that individual and his or her nondiplomatic accessible property and checked baggage must undergo screening and all alarms must be resolved.
Wired Top Stories
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And we both hurried off filled with relief; Tony because he'd got away with setting the fire alarm off, and me because Tony had saved me from what had seemed a certain caning.
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Yet the way she says it is urgent, funny, alarmed but undogmatic.
Times, Sunday Times
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She told me that the stomach biopsy showed mild chronic gastritis, which is neither a surprise nor especially alarming.
Assorted
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I pointed out the mysterious and mildly alarming position of the bag to an usher, and he, rather phlegmatically, held on to it until the woman returned to claim it.
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First there is the murder of one of the police deputies and then, even more alarmingly, the arrival of her willful and wayward daughter.
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I knew that they did not respond to the alarm call playbacks, so I had to come up with something more enticing.
The Elephant's Secret Sense
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CAIRO — None of the alarms and only seven out of 43 surveillance cameras were working at a Cairo museum where a Vincent van Gogh painting was stolen, Egypt's top prosecutor said Sunday.
Van Gogh Painting Stolen From Museum In Egypt
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More than €1 trillion will be injected into the eurozone to halt an alarming slide into stagnation, it was announced yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times
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I've set the alarm clock to go off at 7 am.
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If a fire really breaks out, please sound the fire alarm.
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All the air raid warnings , without exception , had been false alarm.
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Rodd literally jumped in his alarm, for there was a tremendously wild cissing from the pan and a horrible suggestion therewith that Mrs
The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise
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Use a fireguard if you have children, and fit smoke alarms in case a spark goes astray.
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As I was walking back, she saw me and went to roll down the window but hit the door lock by mistake thus activating the car alarm.
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The risk of death in a house fire is three times higher in homes without smoke alarms.
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Fire exit doors to stairwells, for example, should unlock when a fire alarm is tripped.
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At the blatting of my morning alarm, the signal shifted again to bring me the smarmy voice of Rick Santorum, a menacing rumble from the streets of Greece, and a bitter harpy of a chant that said I now have more past than future.
Yakkety-Yak
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When the yellow fever broke out in New York, and caused much alarm, nearly forty years ago, the first cases occurred in the vicinity of Trinity Church, and until destroyed by a black frost, it spread gradually in every direction from this common centre, insomuch that the "infected district" was clearly defined and marked out from day to day.
Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale
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But after the ignominious recapture of a king who appeared bent on internationalizing his plight, other monarchs were alarmed.
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A shoplifter went prepared for thieving with a specially adapted carrier bag designed to stop alarms going off.
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Me and Keith got caught by an alarmingly large gust of wind and ended up in the drink.
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Not every morning wake up your alarm clock, but dream!
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Three single pulses could produce a false alarm, but the likelihood of nine regular pulses three times was remote.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bleary eyes, he says, are down to a lack of sleep because of a faulty alarm on his motorbike.
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It is very alarming that some Bantustan administrations have been given land for personal use under the pretext of so-called chieftainship whereas these leaders are historically and traditionally not chiefs.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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There's a four-digit number you have to enter in order to deactivate the alarm.
HOPE TO DIE
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Yet the liberal interpretation of divorce laws appears to have led to the alarming trends already observed.
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It calmed me so much so that I was totally unalarmed when I saw a large black spider go scuttling by along the wainscotting.
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There was immediate panic when the alarm sounded.
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He set off an alarm so waited for cops.
The Sun
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The kitchen now has a smoke blanket, the study has a pinboard, clock and smoke alarm, and the window handle in the bathroom is no longer falling out of the frame.
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The fact that it journeyed unimpeded to its final destination was offered as alarming proof of the porousness of our ports.
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In our region, the home is precisely where the most widespread and alarming forms of violence against women, adolescents and children - such as femicide, rape and domestic abuse - occur," the activist said.
IPS Inter Press Service
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In the West we are faced with this fact in alarming health statistics like one in two men and one in three women will get cancer.
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The rate of violent crime is alarmingly high: in 2004 over 2000 murders were committed as well as countless vehicle hold-ups carried out at gun point.
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He had withdrawn from the company of his friends to an alarming extent.
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The baboon would keep the goats together as they grazed during the day, giving alarm calls if it spotted cheetahs or leopards.
Times, Sunday Times
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Through that month and the three following the liquid items follow with alarming monotony, only separated here and there by entries of "tee" and sugar and certain yards of "cotting" and "scanes" of silk for Sarah.
Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm
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The unexpected course of events aroused considerable alarm.
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And when you have a blockage, the alarm goes off and it sends the alarm and the electrogram to an external device, which gets your baseline electrogram from 24 hours ago and the one that caused the alarm, so you can take it to the emergency room and show them, and say, take care of me right away.
Robert Fischell on medical inventing
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Some insurance companies have links with alarm providers and locksmiths who may offer extra discount on the cost of locks or alarms.
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Alarms sound if gas supplies break down, and automatically connect reserve tanks.
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When the first clergywoman appeared in the United States, it was predicted by alarmists that men would be driven out of the pulpit by the new competition.
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The women had worn heavy metal belts that were blamed if the alarms sounded.
Times, Sunday Times
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Baboons barked an alarm and thereafter bulbuls, warblers, shrikes, robins and other feathered choirs begun to sing.
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And I on the opposite shore will be, ready to ride and spread the alarm
