How To Use But In A Sentence
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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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It's not bad but neither is it brilliant - which won't bother 99 per cent of buyers one jot as they are in it for the image.
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Sodium thiopental was used by most U.S. states as part of a lethal injection combination, but many have switched to an alternative drug called pentobarbital amid an ongoing shortage.
The Seattle Times
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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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‘In the absence of those assurances, we will have no choice but to ballot for industrial action,’ he said.
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I chatter with enthusiasm whilst knobs of butter slide off the fishes' backs and sizzle to blister bubbles.
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When the King heard this, he bade his son be slain; but on the next day the second Wazir came forward for intercession and kissed ground in prostration.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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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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Intellectual Dublin seemed no longer to consist of writers, but of folk singers, bearded or otherwise.
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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 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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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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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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But then on the other hand, the whole cosmos or universe is based on this love or compassion.
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That's as it should be, as the newspaper has a global audience but not global printing presses.
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But they want it knocked back into a field of muck and dirt.
Times, Sunday Times
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I badly wanted the job, but knew that my age would probably tell against me.
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The finishing line may be in sight but the final lap is shaping up to be an epic battle.
Times, Sunday Times
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My generation was raised on a diet of stultifyingly tedious, but worthy accounts of embryology, typically very badly printed on what appeared to be rice paper.
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He called the foiled butt "Really juicy and nearly perfect.
Physicist Cracks BBQ Mystery
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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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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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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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He made a very positive contribution to the overall success of the project.
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But they have an undeniable gentleness and elephantine beauty about them, with their hanging folds of skin and ponderous outlook on life.
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If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex.
Goodnight Tweetheart
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Kids at one Connecticut school don't like a new rule, but you probably won't hear them expressing themselves by using profanity: the rule to keep kids from cussing.
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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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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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Begin by tightening your buttocks and lifting your hips off the floor.
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Warner wrote from Egypt expressing sympathy for their unfurnished state of affairs, but added, "I would rather fit out three houses and fill them with furniture than to fit out one 'dahabiyeh'.
Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete
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But for the watermark, the thickness of the paper and the missing security thread, the note, reportedly obtained from a private bank, looked like genuine currency for all practical purposes.
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But he has to be a little more careful about how he reacts.
The Sun
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This is a movie with a distinct and startling cinematic language, but with uncomfortably coercive mannerisms.
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He said this was an abuse of public monies and the fact there was no contribution from the business community was ‘grossly unfair.’
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She is "not a medium", we are told, but rather "a supersensory explorer who has been trained in the cosmic language of symbols for more than 20 years.
British Blogs
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There is a tradition of magickal practice in my family but sadly it fell into abeyance a couple of generations back.
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Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you; though, I know, to divide him inventorially would dizzy the arithmetic of memory, and yet but yaw neither, in respect of his quick sail.
Act V. Scene II. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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But Labour's focus on abolishing child poverty is not, as he (deliberately) patronisingly claims, for the "aah" factor.
Labourhome
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Chile's top constitutional court blocked a government bid to promote the free distribution of the morning-after pill to minors aged 14 and over, dealing a new setback to President Michelle Bachelet.
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Her mother has written to him explaining the situation but has not heard back.
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Not only by the immense number of adherents that were won to his views during his lifetime, but also by the literary productions he left behind him, Tsong K'aba's influence has been great during the last five centuries of Tibetan history.
With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
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Words are confusing, but they're nothing compared to non-words, mainly because non-words lead to rash assumptions and misunderstandings.
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And the fact is that women just dig men who see clips of defenseless mother pigs stuffed in crates so small that they can't turn around, and then blurt out, "But, I love me some bacon!
Josh Tetrick: Five Reasons Why Man = Meat
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But the avant-garde has found support for its imaginative approach from such sciences as biology.
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Keeping specific goals and metrics for testing in mind not only helps track status and results, but also avoids the last-second scramble to pull together necessary reports.
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Metformin and sulfonylurea drugs -- the latter a class of diabetes drugs including glyburide, glipizide, chlorpropamide, tolbutamide and tolazamide -- are often among the first medications prescribed to lower blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes.
Drug linked to increased risk for older diabetics
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The score may actually have been 32-0, but it seems the scoreboard operator could not keep up.
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She described him as 'maddening, but lovely' and the untidiest and clumsiest person she had met.
Times, Sunday Times
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And we -- it does extent all the way up toward Jacksonville, all the way down into West Palm Beach, all the way over to Fort Myers, and northward, almost kind of budging into the pan -- the Big Bend area, almost into the Panhandle, but not quite just yet.
CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2004
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The altitudinal distribution of Earth-surface processes is controlled by all these factors.
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They therefore blame not the buddy system but political patronage for government inefficiency.
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That not only means that more information can be crunched at once, but these chips can also handle more complex instructions.
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There are some fantastic pubs and inns nearby but you should take advantage of the welcome pack you receive on arrival.
The Sun
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Just the other day, I was almost run over by a two-wheeling speed demon who felt that a four-way stop applied to everyone but him and his Schwinn.
Keith Ecker: Bikers vs. Drivers vs. Pedestrians: The War Wages On
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But here's the caveat: Not all books written by newspaper reporters should be reviewed.
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But there was an element of delusion, mild trickery even, about this process.
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The magnificent 18 th-century mansion is set in private landscaped grounds at the edge of the town, opposite the golf links and West Sands but totally screened by trees, woods and 18-foot high lodge gates.
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There was no mail coach -- no driver in scarlet -- no mail guard -- no passengers, but only a ramshackle iron mail cart -- a "postboy" as driver and carrying no arms.
The King's Post Being a volume of historical facts relating to the posts, mail coaches, coach roads, and railway mail services of and connected with the ancient city of Bristol from 1580 to the present time
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Horatia was still in mourning for her mother, and wore a black skirt, but Lucilla's was of rich deep gentianella-coloured silk, and the buttons of her white vest were of beautiful coral.
Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster
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He tried to refuse but she insisted so much that he gave in.
Times, Sunday Times
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The CDC asks states to report confirmed flu deaths by age group but not by subtype, meaning H1N1 deaths are not necessarily tracked.
STLtoday.com Top News Headlines
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I don't know who'll get there first, but Las Vegas is a good bet.
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His colleagues listened politely to his harangue but ignored him.
THE GUARDSMEN
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Such aggregations not only promote transmission of micro-organisms but through repeated exposure allow large doses of these.
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The distich caused discussion regarding the quantity of "hic", but the pope defended the prosody of Voltaire who confirmed his opinion by a quotation from Virgil which he said ought to be the epitaph of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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Xmas hurtles at us like a skateboarding troll trundling downhill - it's big, impressive, but to be viewed with a certain trepidation by those in its path.
Toys R Us - Military Sword & Sorcery is coming ("#### Harry Potter! Daddy, where's my axe?")
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But, fortunately, there were cavities in the two teeth on either side of the gap -- one in the first molar and one in the palatine surface of the cuspid; might he not drill a socket in the remaining root and sockets in the molar and cuspid, and, partly by bridging, partly by crowning, fill in the gap?
McTeague
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In any event, when making a case against the indivisibility of Sinitic, it is not necessary to rebut each of these "common" features individually, since they are largely or wholly extralinguistic.
Language Log
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And I think the resort is about 25% overpriced, considering the worn-down state of the place and the fact you can get a two-night package at the definitely more upmarket Avillion in Port Dickson (also not really PD, but a dozen kilometres south) from about RM800 as well.
Vacations: Tiara Beach Resort — Fusion Despatches
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The largest of these primitive ‘trees’ were giant lycopods reaching upwards of 20 meters, but most of the plants grew to less than a meter above the ground.
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Stealing away, (whence, I suppose, the ironical phrase of trusty Trojan to this day,) like a thief — pretendedly indeed at the command of the gods; but could that be, when the errand he went upon was to rob other princes, not only of their dominions, but of their lives? —
Clarissa Harlowe
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The causes of asthma are not fully known but it is partly an allergic condition.
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I did not have intent to imply that homeschooling is like public school, but that public school directs what a child learns and when and unschooling does not.
What do we teach our kids? | Johnny B. Truant
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No, but they more or less remained together, I hate to use the word ideologically, but I guess for want of a better word, they seemed to always react, more or less, the same way to political situations and to political candidates 'platforms.
Oral History Interview with Lindy Boggs, January 31, 1974. Interview A-0082. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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But he likes the feeling of pride he gets when marshaling a bomber plane to the runway for a launch - no matter the weather.
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High-frequency waves broadcast by the radar bounce off a person, scanning the in-and-out movement of the chest and more subtle, but also detectable, motion of the heartbeat against the chest wall.
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Looking through the casement was the visage of the mariner, no longer stern, but moved with unutterable emotion, and tears, yes, tears trickling down his weather-beaten cheeks.
Edward Barnett; a Neglected Child of South Carolina, Who Rose to Be a Peer of Great Britain,—and the Stormy Life of His Grandfather, Captain Williams or, The Earle's Victims: with an Account of the Terrible End of the Proud Earl De Montford, the Lamen
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The strike had been planned as a 24-hour walkout but has been extended three times.
Times, Sunday Times
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In each case the company's contributions are deductible for tax, and income on the investments is free of tax.
Principles of Corporate Finance
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The chapel or church claims greater antiquity than any other in that part of the kingdom; but there is no appearance of this in the external aspect of the present edifice, unless it be in the two eastern windows, which remain unmodernized, and in the lower part of the steeple.
The Life of Charlotte Bronte
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It is not only our senses, but our very intuitive faculties that cease to provide us with the necessary adaptive knowledge.
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CANON LXXXI: We have said that a Bishop, or a Presbyter must not descend himself into public offices, but must attend to ecclesiastical needs.
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But if you want voluminous leaf production during summer, you may want to fertigate it occasionally.
Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway
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Enlarged heart, medically called cardiomegaly, is not a disease, but a symptom of another condition.
Foodconsumer.org
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For example, I see in yonder cupboard near which you are standing, several of what you call boxes (but like everything else in Flatland, they have no tops nor bottoms) full of money; I see also two tablets of accounts.
Flatland: a romance of many dimensions (Illustrated)
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There are but three ways of living: by working, by stealing, or by begging.
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But the world is not full of exclusively charming and likeable people.
The Sun
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He admitted killing her but denied murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility and loss of control.
Times, Sunday Times
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But even these alienated loners can benefit from this book: See the section on astral love.
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He hadn't got quite enough money, but his aunt agreed to make up the difference.
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'If he _has not fulfilled_ his promise to write,' but 'If he _did not write_ as he undertook to do' ([Greek: _egrapsen huposchomenos_]); nor 'If he _has commenced and finished_,' but 'If he _commenced and finished_' ([Greek: _arxamenos sunetelese_]).
A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot's Essays
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Somehow, they gathered themselves to beat Limerick in the first round of the qualifiers but the core discontent hadn't been addressed.
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The geography was utterly alien to Patrick, although his unfamiliarity with the picture could have been attributed to the gaps.
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Jim had hustled over quietly and begun to help out with the horseshoeing, expecting ridicule from the likes of Hugh Glass or old Zeke Williams, who had just arrived at the rendezvous, but, to his surprise, the fact that he was married to a woman of such pure fire produced the very opposite of the effect he had feared.
The Berrybender Narratives
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I clicked the 'Live Chat' button, and lo and behold, I was deposited in a chat room with what sounded suspiciously like a chatbot.
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Hassan in frequently going to sleep in one town, to awake in another far distant, but without the benighted Oriental's surprise at the transfer, the afrit who performed this prodigy being a steam-engine, and the magician it obeyed the human mind.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
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But more needs to be done with stories like this particular one, if you want to see your hard work come to fruition in ousting George W. Bush from the White House, along with any other of his cronies who have blood on their hands, from George W. Bush†™ s futile ‘War On Terror†™.
Think Progress » 60 Minutes: CIA Official Reveals Bush, Cheney, Rice Were Personally Told Iraq Had No WMD in Fall 2002
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But, outside the darker imaginings of the internet, it is hard to find such a person.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mediterranean to look out for a French and Spanish squadron, which had been on the coast of Portugal, but returned to Ferrol --- I received all your letters by the Turkish corvette, which is arrived at Messina.
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2
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But you don't need an elfin crop to work the look.
The Sun
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They dismiss concerns that some of the Africans who flocked to Libya under Mr. Gadhafi's policy of pan-Africanism might be subject to retribution.
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But people were not as nonchalant as they appeared.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘The best place to make mercerized fabrics is still Italy, but they are very expensive,’ says Kwok.
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But the consumer magazine also noted that people rated the no-frills carriers slightly worse than two years ago.
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But the demands of success hit them like a bolt of lightning.
The Sun
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Ideas for friends to run a restaurant seem like wishful thinking but they may just work.
The Sun
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But he knew he would be like a stranger to her, a strange man with a repellingly scarred face.
The Hidden Places
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But after three consecutive nights of camping out I'd had enough, especially since the last had been spent near Verdun in Le Foret du Mort Homme, which translates as Dead Man's Forest.
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But after three years of frantic knitting, they decided to end the challenge, despite reaching halfway.
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But amongst this chaos, Stewart has beamed down to promote Star Trek: Nemesis, the 10th instalment of the feature film series.
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The ordinary piki is shaped into loose rolls about 10 inches long and two inches in diameter, but the wedding piki is folded into flat pieces about 8 inches square.
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But the family have pulled together and, in spite of fits of irritability, are happy.
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But that day isn't going to be now, or any time in the next ten years, absent a major breakthrough.
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So the girl was out of bondage, but Cadwaladr, sick with humiliation and rage, must come under guard to be handed over for a price to the brother who discarded and misprized him.
His Disposition
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But that is much more easily done if Cassell can reassume his role as the offensive ignition.
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One consequence of epidemiological research into the contribution of lifestyle factors to cancer risk has been to blame the individual who develops cancer.
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If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit. Bill Clinton
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She had wiggled through a tot-sized aperture in the alcove, and toddled over to a display of butterfly nets four feet away.
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The services of the laboratory are offered gratuitously to any scientist or graduate student engaged in research which makes a significant contribution to progress in the fields of science.
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But the initial reason was unascertained and needed further investigation, particularly a toxicology report.
Times, Sunday Times
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He said the unsayable and the unthinkable but with a twinkle.
Times, Sunday Times
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It had begun the seventies with the declared intention of contributing 0.7 percent of the gross national product in official aid.
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But anywhere else, the general buzz of the atmosphere would have sustained the crowd.
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The defensive line is a strength, but the team would like more quarterback sacks from the left side.
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In Caudipteryx, four procumbent teeth are present in each premaxilla, but the rest of the skull is edentulous.
The war on parasites: an oviraptorosaur’s eye view
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Does smoking contribute to lung cancer?
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Knowledge is a Treasure, but Practice is the key to it.
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Tweed sports jackets are all the rage, and the best part is that you don't need to worry about matching patterns when it comes to blazers and button-down shirts.
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The exams are just around the corner and students are bogged down with preparation work for practicals and orals but the Transition year students found time to raise funds for those less fortunate.
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It took yards of line off a hard-set drag, and it all but pulled me off my ledge.
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And it is no longer the province of secularists and the left, but is increasingly fanned by religionists and the right.
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But Arthur's do-gooder streak didn't particularly please other Republicans, and he became one of the few Presidents to fail to win his own party's nomination for re-election.
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From there the year had its high points - two Masters Series titles in Miami and Rome helped with that - but the Grand Slam events continued to pose a problem.
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Taking up the whole stage included three guitarists, a bass player, one on drums, and a xylophonist, but this time no microphone in sight.
FasterLouder.com.au > Your Access All Areas pass to the latest in Australian rock music! News, Reviews, Photos, Forums and more
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The nerves are the terminal branches of the right and left vagi, the former being distributed upon the back, and the latter upon the front part of the organ.
XI. Splanchnology. 1F. The Stomach
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Service providers haven't completely snapped their wallets shut, but the emphasis for the near-term will be on controlled spending as they look for ways to grow revenues.
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Much derided, but with an unenviable job.
Times, Sunday Times
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No doubt all this is relatively important in its way, but I can't bring myself to get very interested in it.
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Responsive phylotypes were mostly proteobacteria in the subarctic and California HNLC areas, but no changes were noted in the subantarctic experiments.
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Numerous small contributions soon bulk up into a considerable sum.
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So the lands of the dismembered Yugoslav state became not only the scene of Europe's greatest resistance struggle, but also one of its bloodiest civil wars.
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You can be the centre of attention in a conversation but then the focus changes as new participants enter the dialogue.
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But of time and of becoming shall the best similes speak: a praise shall they be, and a justification of all perishableness!
Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
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But she insisted she was not tempted to follow in their footsteps.
The Sun
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Her partner deceives her, but she doesn't know it; her children fail, but she is told they succeed; she believes she has the admiration of others, but they laugh at her behind her back.
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Mickey-boy, 'if the Joy Lady is so anxious to get the baby, and sew its clothes herself, why I'll just let her,' so I did _let_ her, but it took some time to make them, so I had to wait to bring it 'til tonight.
Michael O'Halloran
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On Friday, we thought we'd try lunch at the Stag and Hounds in Binfield, but there wasn't a table free, so we'd headed back homewards and went to the poshest place in the village.
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But what of the emails, text messages and other private communications between government officials which aren't published online -- will Twitter and Facebook help "democratize" that information as well?
Is Social Media Helping or Hurting California Politics?
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The interesting element of the game was that it required one to evaluate not films but people; that is, to sift through the prejudices of one’s movie-freak friends and the peccadilloes and quirks of the major reviewers, and by graphing, as it were, what each could be expected to overpraise, underpraise, revile, not notice, or deliberately ignore, one could acquire a very nice sense of the film.
Film flam
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We are not going to talk about ifs and buts, like I say, just wait for the procedure to take its place and then at the end of that, if no one has made the decision for us, we'll have to make the decision.
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And some soil-based diseases not only cause physical symptoms, but create cognitive impairment too, crippling a child's long-term potential.
Blake Mycoskie: Today, TOMS Asks You to Go 'One Day Without Shoes'
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But Salmond appeared to concede that he had overreacted in his response to the PCC.
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I expected him to smile in response but he glowered at me.
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But her own life was often stranger than any action-packed fiction plot.
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Actually, I was thinking of M&P on top of the CP, as a cover for the paper, but since the water in CP would make it wet to pour on top of the paper, dunno.
Microsoft Soap - Set Up
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But the motive behind her achievement was not self-interest alone, nor the desire to carry aloft the banner of feminism.
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The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All of them, appropriately for a bank, contributed their pennyworth.
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She loved Ty, but she never got his organization and orderliness.
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Hundreds of the aircraft are on order, but loss of the Northwest batch is a serious setback.
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‘I'm sure the retained men are not valued as highly but they work 12 hours and then are on call - if those bleepers go then they have to race to the station, perhaps to save someone's life,’ he said.
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They point out that, for customers, obsoleting an investment is not an ‘escape’ but a ‘closed door.’
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Now, I can't help but wonder if these people have a quick look-see, utter ‘boring’ and move on, or whether they're actually reading anything I bother to blather on about in here.
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But either way, placater or elitist, he has headed us down an evil road by deepening a war we couldn ` t afford eight years ago when it started and certainly can ` t afford after the Bush-Cheney fiasco in Iraq.
The Student Operated Press
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For if I pray in an unknown tongue , my spirit prayer, but my understanding is unfruitful.
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Unlike anything else in his catalog, Aura is a ten-part suite composed by Danish flugelhornist Palle Mikkelbourg as a tribute.
Fulldls.com
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But she's no diva and enjoys her role in the band on equal footing with two men.
The Sun
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The poorer the soil and the older the lawn, the better will be the flower display, but most park lawns will contain self-heal, daisy, achillea, and cat's-ear.
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But proposed regulations may force people to take stock of their daily energy consumption and could make us think twice about our festive decor.
Times, Sunday Times
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But that previous column leads one to question whether a session bean is necessary at all, introducing the possibility of using entity beans and their Home methods instead of session beans.
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Such an approach not only allows the authors to discuss the work from many different angles, but allows them to do so without implying that the practical quandaries in The Angel of History can be reduced to a simple meaning.
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But the bears priced at the bottom level will not be vintage, and certainly will not be by any of these makers.
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Why such a paper has never been given to the world, I am much at a loss to saybut, perhaps, the autorial vanity has had more to do with the omission than any one other cause.
The Philosophy of Composition
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But our physiognomy is only a part of the equation.
Men's brains, women's brains
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If you're not just in love but willing to go through the highs and lows because of that love, then I want people to know they're not alone.
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RITA-award-winning author and WU contributor Barbara Samuel is auctioning off some critiques on eBay in order to raise money for the AVON breast cancer walk in late June.
Writer Unboxed » 2008 » June
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We have here no mythicized version of a real journey but a voyage of the imagination.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3
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They butchered the film, hacking and splicing it, grinding their heels into Sergio's soul.
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It was not a great botanic garden, but it was a lung in the midst of the crowded brick and stone of human habitation.
THY BROTHER DEATH
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Her chart-topping debut album, ‘Ashanti’, has sold 3.1 million copies.
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_The Terrace at Berne_ has been already dealt with, but that mood for epicede, which was so frequent in Mr Arnold, finds in the _Carnac_ stanzas adequate, and in _A Southern Night_ consummate, expression.
Matthew Arnold
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Often he found her quietly weeping, but they were never tears of accusation; only tears of regret.
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Memphis was 7-3 entering the week, but six of the victories were against teams from lesser conferences.
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You may not be able to hurry love, but it seems you can speed up divorce proceedings with the push of a button.
Times, Sunday Times
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Your daughter may indeed welcome your new friend but tread carefully.
The Sun
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And there's the very useful little beetle we call the ladybug, which is not a bug, but a beetle.
Little Busybodies The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, and Other Busybodies
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We were constantly rewarded with stunning scenic views and the satisfaction of navigating challenging terrain with ease, but we didn't get very far, as the crow flies.
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Every jag, every bump on the wall revealed a zone of darkness that was worth to explore, but every time, in the shadows, there was just the sides of the cave, continuing.
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The bowed zither may seem strange, but is exactly what it appears to be - a violin for zitherists.
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Thus, transitive verbs in idiomatic expressions frequently will not passivize (the cowboy kicked the bucket, but not * the bucket was kicked by the cowboy).
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 4
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We're negotiating and that was one of our negotiating points," he told the AP, "but collective bargaining is a negotiating process, and that was not something that Ted was authorized to say and he will be dealt with for that lapse in judgment.
Ted Leonsis fined $100,000 for comments on NBA salary cap
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The healthy but lazy who claim incapacity benefit are just as morally bankrupt as those benefiting from offshore tax havens.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fix will be quick but the damage will be long-lasting.
Times, Sunday Times
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But emotional ferment still seething from his betrayed boyhood keeps his body churning with unruly symptoms.
Times, Sunday Times
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by lawful/legal means. Lawful tends to be used in technical or literary contexts. The same is true of the opposites, unlawful and illegal, but illegal is used especially about criminal activities. Legal also means 'connected with the law':the US legal system.
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But while he speaks of war-time heroes and exploratory pioneers, he forgets about another interesting lifetime.
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But he railed against subsidies for ethanol producers and other provisions of the bill that he called unneeded, unnecessary, unwanted sweeteners ' ' to win votes for the package.
Tax-Cut Bill Draws Wide Support in Senate
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Searle wants to deny that collective intentions are analyzable in terms of singular intentions, but he also wants (and in my view with better reasons) to deny that there are collective spirits or other mysterious creations.
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But they may still serve a basis for some generalisation when the issue of ‘partnership’ is brought into question.
