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Another type of light bulb you may come across is the tungsten halogen bulb.
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They also come across a cryptogram, which is rather difficult to solve, but which eventually they manage to decypher, and which leads them to the treasure hoarded by the pirate, who by that time has met his end. Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess
DESPITE his great attacking prowess and capacity to find the net fairly on a regular basis, he does not come across as a penalty taker. The Sun
Sure, even the most ornery fusspot will come across something he likes when perusing the coverage, but for the most part the stuff that emerges seems to fall under one of three categories: Archive 2010-09-01

There's the chance you might also come across a statue of Queen Victoria, but you'll find few dedications to any other women.
We were looking for a duplex or a triplex, but triplexes are really hard to come across.
I know some of this opinion may come across as very strong, but it is something I feel so strongly about and it is something which I carry around with me everyday of my life.
I can never be sure whether I come across as witty or buffoonish at work.
Some hostellers and I are sitting on the grass under the Eiffel Tower sharing stories about the Parisians we've come across.
`If you don't come across with the pearls, all three of you go into the water hole. THREE IN ONE
Robbie does come across as the smuggest ass on the planet. Robbie Williams | My[confined]Space
Twice I had come across wild mountain cats, narrowly escaping death.
If the characters intermittently come across as embodiments of ideas and author mouthpieces, the performances go far towards humanizing them.
So not only have I finally come across a few Kiwis after all this time here, but they are also surfers!
Repenting there would come across as a cynical cultural cliché, suggesting he expects women to forgive him because he's genuflected to TV's high priestess. Tiger Woods should chat with David Letterman; Corso mum on Heisman
In our research we have come across a number of people suffering side effects from using the regular powders available. The Residue Report - an action plan for safer food
The non-verbal cues given during a face-to-face meeting will not come across in an electronic survey.
He had made the contacts and come across venues and ideas while working as a chaperone and knew what he wanted to offer clients. Times, Sunday Times
Imagine: you come across an article on the Web purporting to be journalism or contain elements of journalism. ErrorPedia « Snarkmarket
So it's funny to be very habituated to watching regular wildebeests which are kind of gruff and intense looking and tough, and then come across the back wildebeests and watch them stotting around the landscape like, in comparison to the regular model gnu, dancers in a Baz Luhrmann production. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
But about as isolationistic a group as I've ever come across. The Boar's Head Tavern
I trael back and forth with my washtub base with no problems, and a guitar is all right too, but if you have that van full of amps and speakers I think you are going to have to talk pretty fast and probably have to come across with some loot, and if they think you are coming across for professional reasons, they aren't likely to let you do it on a tourist visa. Bands traveling to mexico......
His gifts were all products from his establishment, to wit: six boxes of jujubes, a whole jar of racahout, three cakes of marshmallow paste, and six sticks of sugar-candy into the bargain that he had come across in a cupboard. Madame Bovary
NARRATOR: Camouflaged by thousands of truckloads of legal commerce, multiton shipments of drugs come across the border with ease and efficiency. CNN Transcript Mar 25, 2009
There's no reason why, Hugh, and don't take this personally, [but] there's no reason why this, for this, necessarily, to come across as [though you and I are] old, long-lost buddies. TEDBUNDY
Our basic rule is, that you cannot have colour on colour or metal upon metal, therefore, almost all arms you will come across will be made up of charges that are either metal on colour or colour on metal.
Nearly half of those who have tried an online dating service (44%) have come across an online profile of someone they know, such as an ex-boyfriend or girlfriend, when they were surfing through profiles.
Crunching such a delectable treat as a Pitmaston Pineapple, an old "sweetmeat" -- or small, sweet apple -- is the most enjoyable exercise I've come across, and I'm ready to plant a whole orchard of my own, if I can find a place to put it. Chicago Reader
They would then have to try and piece together how the tune may have sounded, based on the chords and on other bits of sheet music which they might have come across while clearing out dusty attics.
After all, I appeared to be a bookworm sort of fellow trying to come across as tough.
And, if you come across a paper towel dispenser with a lever, use your elbow instead of your hands - and don't touch the sinks, door handles or toilets after you've dried.
I think we all have come across religious tracts in our lives - little pamphlets that are often handed out by evangelists on street corners, that we in turn throw away.
I have come across soap felting, however, I have read some articles where the dye from the felt caused staining on the skin. Sampler Soaps = Perfect Gifts
I don't want to come across as a complete wowser, but with growing numbers of road deaths, especially amongst young, male drivers, is this advertising approach really that socially acceptable?
One time I come across one of numerous hawksbill turtles feeding undisturbed on the reef.
One day I open an envelope and discover the most articulate Tonelli I have ever come across in my life.
In rubber bridge one does not often come across complicated systems and partnership agreements.
In the old dockyard quarter of La Boca, US tourists posed for photos with tango artistes beside the most evil-smelling, polluted river I've ever come across.
The researchers described the technical evolution of the malware program as disturbing: Only rarely do we come across crimeware that has been continually stealing and collecting personal information and payment card data, and compromising bank accounts as far back as 2006. A Huge Cache of Stolen Financial Data - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
Character design is elegant, and this extends to the enemies you come across. The Sun
There are some people who I have come across in life, I had started to dislike them first time I met and that dislikeness just grow day by day for no apparent reason. Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
When all is said and done, they come across as a rock 'n' roll Motown wall of sound.
Comic roles are skilfully handled by Massenet and come across well: Polish contralto Ewa Podles mustered grim regal splendour as the stepmother, with Madeleine Pierard and Kai Rüütel – both Jette Parker Young Artists – lively as the indistinguishably stupid sisters. Cendrillon; Rinaldo – review
He was perhaps the crookedest lawyer I had ever come across; it still smarted that eighteen months before I had been forced to abandon a case against him through the ruthless machinations of his patron, Richard Rich. Excerpt: Revelation by C.J. Sansom
Despite the occasional jab at bigots, however, the movie does not really come across as a political statement.
I've yet to come across a single person who disagrees with that point of view. Times, Sunday Times
You come across as confident without seeming conceited. The Sun
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Discard the gristle where you come across it. Times, Sunday Times
They are also blissfully unaware that, to serious thinkers, they come across as the kids we hated in high school.
She does sometimes come across as a bit bossy and up herself. The Sun
You literally need to battle your way through the crowd and when you come across someone who is just dandering (walking slowly) you just want to push them.
But you will come across that if you do any literary study of the Bible in English literature and the European context and that sort of thing.
Watching thousands of these beaked, black-and-white sea birds as they convoy together and travel across blinding white landscapes might come across as a boring, repetitive sight.
On her pilgrimage to see the pope before entering the convent, she had come across a number of mediocre clerics and thereafter dedicated herself to praying for their improvement.
But looking through the list, I come across names whose inclusion defies any reasonable justification.
If you want to play this game until you come across some hard evidence, that's up to you.
It took three men to stop his progress, and as the ball was switched to the right by Erwin, Andrew Edgar had come across from the left to create the extra man and score.
When sober he can come across as an extremely pleasant and charming young man.
I don't come across as insensitive to people 's situations. Christianity Today
By pure accident he had come across the very man who could solve the mystery.
I may come across as confident, but cruel jibes left my self-esteem in tatters. The Sun
Sometimes I come across as pretty monotone and humorless, which isn't an accurate reflection of my personality -- at least not all the time. Archive 2006-05-01
These seem like odd responses since she doesn't come across as materialistic, but perhaps that's why.
But those in control, although they want to come across as one of the common people, aren't prepared to give up their handle on power.
Now, there are some interesting restrictions on English reduplication, but the plain fact of it is incontestable (at least in every North American dialect I've ever come across).
Again, bogs are not infrequently come across -- _across_, by the way, is hardly the word to use. A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition
Along the coast just now you may come across parties of little terns, chattering, hovering and diving for fish. Times, Sunday Times
After an extensive search extending over two or three days I usually come across him in a far-flung corner of the store, trying to root out an obscure type of soy sauce.
Colors come across full and balanced, with blues and greens balancing nicely.
I actually enjoyed Robert Wade's disinterment of 'proletarianization'- a word one doesn't come across much anymore.
What does come across is the great affection for this man and his dogged pursuit of excess. Times, Sunday Times
Our consultant scientist-a man well hardened to criminal inventions!-declares it quite the strangest thing he has come across.
His gifts were all products from his establishment, to wit: six boxes of jujubes, a whole jar of racahout, three cakes of marsh-mallow paste, and six sticks of sugar-candy, into the bargain, that he had come across in a cupboard. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life
That's partly because the party's candidates have come across as vacillating on military issues and lenient on social concerns like crime and federal ‘giveaways’ to the poor.
On the rare occasion that I come across mechanicals, I find myself marveling at the intricacies; the tools and immediate product of paste-up seem undeniably beautiful and real to me.
Why don't you come across to our house this evening?
You come across as a subliterate Republican nitwit. Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Obama Attacks Hillary As Calculating And Divisive
To some it will come across as childish and silly but it had me in stitches. The Sun
The danger being that while the audience accepts when is on stage, his offensiveness is a parody of other people's prejudices (made more piquant by our worry that, at some level, we battle with equally unattractive knee-jerk reactions), that comic tension doesn't always come across in interviews. Ricky Gervais in His Most 'Postmodern' Interview Ever
It's kept up in an old barn that was redone so as to come across as a school.
In my search across the internet, I have yet to come across anyone who fly fishes for squawfish.
The few lives that I had come across were miserable ones, pitiable creatures who had no hope left to live on with.
The brain is a phenomenal organ, but it can play tricks on us, and clinicians sometimes come across rare and exceedingly strange brain conditions. Times, Sunday Times
What does come across is the great affection for this man and his dogged pursuit of excess. Times, Sunday Times
The documents issuing from Rome and diocesan offices come across as totally abstract and divorced from real life.
As a result, our songs tend to come across as sounding looser than they actually are.
At the far northern end of the beach we come across a dead fulmar and marvel at the size and ferocity of its beak. Wildwood
You come across as effortlessly affable and friendly at all times. The Sun
Also, if we have to actually deploy, unless you “book on” you are not strictly acting in the course of your legal duty (the assumption is there is you come across something). The Truth Behind The £100 Phonecalls « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
I've just come across a vanity publishing firm called Blogbinders, which turns blog content into bound volumes.
They come across as quite brash at first, but I soon realised they were vulnerable young men with their hearts set on high-flying football careers.
Miss Waine, who has been in the job for a year, said she had come across cruelty cases before but never one involving such a young puppy.
Often, their very human needs come across as clunky impediments to economic progress.
While putting on his boots he had come across something rather splendid. Times, Sunday Times
Her lyrics are rich with this unresolved duality, as is her music: cabaret-style waltzes come across as both coquettish and menacing, and her slower songs can be both cavernous and hopeful.
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You come across so smartly and can impress the toughest boss or a group of experts. The Sun
Maybe we come across as a bit arrogant. Times, Sunday Times
Saturn merges with the moon in your talk chart and though you come across as calm and friendly, people take what you say seriously. The Sun
If you introduce a pre-show element, be sure it relates to the show and doesn't come across as a cheap marketing gimmick.
Healthy, fit, tanned, good with their hands - a hot-blooded Viking could come across and pluck me from the office any day.
But this is the shadiest manoeuvre I've come across in a month of Sundays! ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
You open another and come across a giant animatronic cat, trying to catch an equally outsized mouse.
That may come across as cold and passionless but that's only because I don't agree with most political philosophies or politicians.
On an otherwise peaceful day, the three come across a mysterious Kirumin compact in an attic. Anime Preview: Fall 2009 « Undercover
If you come across a flasher, report it to the police.
They are a genial, amiable lot, and they come across as personable and excruciatingly ethical in the course of the series.
I know I commit howlers of my own from time to time; this is not so much criticism as observation and a reminder to myself of the need constantly to re-examine news items I come across.
If you want to come across as unbiased and open-minded, I suggest you try a little harder to express it with your choice of words.
While many say that water boatmen do not bite and are often confused with the backswimmer, I am sure that the insects in the pool were water boatmen, so I would urge some care in handling them if you come across them and want to take a closer look. Sierra Sun - Top Stories
As his recorded legacy is rather sparse for a man of his large talents, I was elated to come across these two reissues.
He is wrong on every count and his paper is among the worst examples of pseudo-science I have ever come across.
The refugees come across the border in vast numbers .
He was one of the most tenacious individuals I'd ever come across.
You might, perhaps, come across the term galley proofs. How to read a publishing contract (6)
In some countries they are a staple like beans or potatoes, but in this country, we most frequently come across them in their disguised form in a bowl of hummus.
I have never come across the arguments he puts forward around the ways he says Feminists would challenge the wages men and women get for doing a cantine job. 2009 August « My Political Ramblings…
It isn't that the crew members come across as being insincere.
The scenes are spliced in throughout the presentation, so you will not come across many entirely new scenes, though a few do exist, but not of great length.
Fifty-eight percent of the teachers interviewed in the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) questionnaire had come across plagiarism among their pupils.
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Never before had he come across a woman that was so similar to himself, so conniving, and ruthless in the attainment of her goals.
You come across as effortlessly affable and friendly at all times. The Sun
Ed is, in all seriousness, one of the most thoughtful and considerate people I've ever come across.
As if that were not enough to ensure the longevity of refreshingly ordinary words like clockwise, further along the avenues of science we come across the adjectives dextrorotatory or dextrorotatary, dextrogyrous, dextrogyrate and dextrogyre. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3
It's the ocassional books that we come across that we just don't care for (for whatever reasons) that makes me wonder what it is that makes us pick them up in the first place .. the great cover? the blubs? an amazon review? something makes us think we will like it and then it disappoints! but we love most of your books so I guess we can't complain lol The Helmet of Horror by Victor Pelevin
He could come across as a rather enigmatic figure. Times, Sunday Times
I have just come across yet another site that faithfully provides us with Pokorny's work, rather overconfidently named Linguistics Research Center, a site coming from the University of Texas. Pokorny lives again
Between Loch Pattack and the peat hag-ridden moor, you will normally come across some white horses, garrons, that add to the dream-like quality of the place.
You come across as a really great guy with a good sense of humour. Times, Sunday Times
Rubbish is something we tut-tut at when we come across sweet wrappers, fertiliser bags or even a discarded fridge stuck in a roadside ditch.
He doesn't come across as the thug he's perceived to be.
Of course, pitches don't come across the plate labeled ‘ball’ and ‘strike’—most of them are borderline.
If, however, not a soul has come across your plum paste, your Himalayan red rice or your Chilean boletes, you win.
The problem is that all kind of good musical and lyrical themes come across as thrown together, rather than making coherent sense. Times, Sunday Times
You come across as cold and stand-offish. The Sun
They come across as the people at a party who are standing in the corner and are just dying to have a dance, only they need one or two more drinks to get the courage.
Her character didn't come across as compassionate and concerned, except in how it directly influenced her.
The material in this book constitutes the best combination of theology and devotional reading that I have come across for a long time.
Previously she had come across as a driven, almost obsessed athlete, ever pushed by her father to strive for perfection.
I'm hoping we might come across some interesting finds like coins but we haven't discovered anything like that yet.
I have come across several sources noting that Lucas Cranach, the Elder was responsible for the woodcuts in the Passional Christi und Antichristi.
Gardaí say they are the best note forgeries they have come across.
When did you last come across a wind on the British mainland strong enough to blow over a piano? Times, Sunday Times
Such consistent regulations as “i before e except after c” and “if this is the beginning of the sentence, then there needs to be a capital letter” represent the rules that you invoke when you come across a pattern, such as a word containing the consecutive letters “e” and “i.” A Mind at a Time
The biggest surprise is how undated these songs come across, especially considering dance music's typically rapid sell-by date.
The Evening Press reported how a van driver had come across the woman slumped in an armchair at the side of the road near shops.
Have a sift through and leave a comment to tell me what you think, particularly if you come across any bugs of any sort.
Thus at this season a man may travel for days through regions where antelope are most plentiful during the hot months and never see one; but if he does come across any they will be apt to be in great numbers, most probably along the edge of the Bad Lands, where the ground is rolling rather than broken, but where there is some shelter from the furious winter gales. VI. A Trip on the Prairie
So this indicates to me that when we come across a wombat with mange we must look at why it has the mange.
So hats off to the band for going ahead with the film - particularly as they come across not as the fearsome rock warriors of popular image but a bunch of self-regarding, touchy-feely sissies.
Most feminists I had come across, especially the ones close to my age (20s) are pro-porn (or at least, "pro free speech" to the point of being indifferent to porn) and are condescending to those of us who are against pornography - * especially* when someone, like me, is against porn because of her emotions and gut and has no educated, rational, research-backed reasons to give. Women's Space
During the summer months you could expect to come across bass and sand eels.
At work, you come across as confident without seeming conceited. The Sun
Bayesian formalisms were not well-known, but were well-known enough for those interested to come across them, and they offered a good alternative to connectionism. New ideas
What made me laugh the most though was that despite talking for so long, you had come across as a reasonable and balanced individual (always a bonus when being a Tory!) but you then blew your cover in the final seconds with your misadvised attempt at humour: 'women know your place!' When will I learn ....
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I have spent eight years as a school governor and have yet to come across parents who waltz back into school to compare tans. The Sun
Yet, the argument does not come across as ideologically motivated or doctrinaire.
I was holding the needle above her thigh, when 351 suddenly I remembered where I'd come across ` subcutaneous '. SUMMER OF SECRETS
We come across bright ideas in books, like over-length lines passed through pulleys under floats and the excess taken up by counter-balancing weights.
Doubling back about a quarter of a mile before Calato you come across Lindos through a narrow gulley of rock. May « 2010 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
Just before we found him we'd come across a fresh kill, a young springbok captured during the night.
The robber told the woman to come across with her purse.
At every point we would come across a boat vendor selling some eatables, they would purchase something for me to eat.
But I guess I hate to come across to people as a wuss.
I was inspired by the many debossed letterpressed cards I've come across that to me have a quiet snow-like feel to them.
Mr. Gugle's letter of apology does not come across as contrite, it's more like he seeks to self rationalize his untruthfulness. Heroes or Villains?
These days it's home to a wine museum, but don't be surprised if you come across the odd life-sized model of a suitably forlorn prisoner languishing in a corner.
David U.: Reading about the Steinem thing, it really does come across as rose-tinted-glasses fangirlism, doesn't it? ComicsAlliance.com
During the debate against Hillary Rodham Clinton, even though he did come across and he did elocute that he was denouncing what the man had said. CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2008
The transparent attempts to come across as wise and selfless only increase my distaste for this woman.
In my research I have come across a scattering of three-finger banjo pickers who precede him, and they seem to have connections to the three-finger guitar pickers.
I hope that I didn't come across as hostile or anything.
The papers were stored away in a secret place, and there they will probably remain until they are come across by someone who realized their importance.
I've come across such a picture in the tenth-century Irish tale Adamnan's Vision, in a curious scene that captures the sociability of the beatific vision.
The simple truth is, most people I've come across HAVEN'T accepted me or my beliefs.
I forgot to mention that Joy is one of the best blog writers I've come across.
You come across as confident without seeming conceited. The Sun
Perhaps I shall come across him in France.
Rehearse in advance what you want to say, ensuring that you don't come across as a whinger. Times, Sunday Times
Most admit that Gorman is a nice enough fellow, very intelligent, and in person doesn't come across as the the type of stuck-up jerk who gets crazy when you call him Jim instead of James. Charles Gasparino: Does Morgan Stanley's James "Don't Call Me Jim" Gorman Have What it Takes?
And the word Carenage itself, which you come across all over the islands, refers to the old place where ships would be careened (weights were attached to the masts to expose the hull so it could be cleaned).
For some of them, it was the first time they had ever come across people from different cultures.
To some it will come across as childish and silly but it had me in stitches. The Sun
Undoubtably you will come across Koopas making a getaway on a skateboard, bike, balloon, or whatever.
We did a lot of set-piece work, but later on we did come across Panzer and Tiger tanks.
On a completely unrelated note, I was watching a little bit of RoboCop on cable TV last night...this is one of those movies that, even though I already own the Criterion edition DVD he said snobbily, I always feel compelled to watch at least a little bit of it whenever I come across it on TV. Archive 2004-07-25
While one can find superficial resemblances of idiom, in particular a fondness for fourths, and a seriousness of attitude, the music doesn't really come across as derivative - that is, without a reason of its own for being.
Perhaps I shall come across him in France.
It's true that blogs can be a useful tool for exploring and expressing ideas, and that they come across as relatively dynamic in today's circumstances.
Salmon parr in the wild will naturally come across patches of substrate of similar color to the marble chips used in this experiment.
In the East African wetlands, you are definitely bound to come across one or two species of ibises.
The papers were stored away in a secret place, and there they will probably remain until they are come across by someone who realized their importance.
This leaves us with the realists, who come across as sensible, pragmatic moderates.
Come across to my office this afternoon.
But surrounded as they are by works they collected and commissioned, both nawab and expatriate come across as actively engaged with and curious about each other's cultures. Where East Met West To Wondrous Effect
He supplies almost no autobiographical material and tries to come across as just a regular guy.

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