How To Use Detached In A Sentence
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The house was a semi-detached with a couple of children playing in the front lawn and his son was just arriving home from his days work.
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One of our current projects is to convert a couple of bungalows in south London into a five-bedroom detached property.
Times, Sunday Times
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This done the tournette is set into motion, and when the film is equalized, which is done in a moment, the plate is detached, placed on a leveled stand and slowly dried with the spirit lamp.
Photographic Reproduction Processes
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One might be optimistic and say that, given it's their job to judge a book by the words on the page rather than by the stushie surrounding it, one can expect them to be more concentrated in the category of detached shruggers; one can expect a higher standard of scrutiny, surely.
Hype Hype Hoorah!
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The detached house is still the dream.
Times, Sunday Times
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But you don't pay the bill for your semi-detached on your Barclaycard.
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Each casemate mounted a three-gun battery of either 100mm or 150mm, and the southern side received additional cover from a detached fort mounting three 100mm gun turrets.
Steel Victory
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Anyone who has once taken up the WORD can never again evade it; a writer is not the detached judge of his compatriots and contemporaries, he is an accomplice to all the evil committed in his native land or by his countrymen.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn - Nobel Lecture
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The two unsold detached villas have asking prices of 19,350 and 19,651 yuan a square metre.
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Contemporary drawings show that the cookhouse was badly cracked as was the barracks and one of the caponiers had completely detached itself.
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Going into a somewhat different trajectory, specifically to continue a line of speculation from a previous post on an African bridge house: can someone be fundamentally altered — like the corn they're cultivating to produce cancer cures — while living quasi-permanently in flourescent-lit dampness and hermetic seclusion, detached from the vagaries of weather, time and natural pollination, amidst pure geology?
Cave Pharming
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Try to take a more detached view .
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For a young family with relatively low borrowings, this could mean moving straight from a small urban townhouse to a detached four-bedroom with three acres.
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The big detached houses a few streets inland on Victoria Road go for about a million.
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The four bed detached two storey house enjoys many extras and has a walled garden to the front and rear.
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In some cases a scleral buckle, a tiny synthetic band, is attached to the outside of the eyeball to gently push the wall of the eye against the detached retina.
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The region leads the way in both detached and semi-detached houses.
Times, Sunday Times
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January 29th, 2010 at 9: 17 pm if the stickiest and least ameliorable environmental problems are jet air transportation, animal-based agriculture, and large detached single-family residences with large yards, then perhaps we should talk about “limits to jet air transportation, animal-based agriculture, and large detached single-family residences with large yards.”
Matthew Yglesias » The Limits to Growth
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The shadows warped and distorted as a humanoid shape detached itself.
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The region leads the way in both detached and semi-detached houses.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first release comprises four-bedroom detached, five-bedroom detached and five-bedroom split-level houses.
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The Lusitu community police post project, estimated to cost a total of US $110,000 will have an office block, two semi-detached houses, a communication must, a soakaway and a septic tank.
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If you have a semi-detached or terraced house, you will need a party wall specialist surveyor to check the work is done correctly.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Christian could not be tolerant or detached for the Christian could not remain indifferent to something which inevitably meant the loss of his soul and perdition for others.
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But you don't pay the bill for your semi-detached on your Barclaycard.
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She said: 'He said he was detached from things.
The Sun
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The bride wore a duchess satin gown - by Christiana Cature - with a detached train and bow detail, and a two-tier veil.
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We detached with difficulty a fragment of cyanite from a block of splintered and milky quartz, which was isolated on the shore.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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Detached translations also exist in Italian, Flemish, and Bohemian.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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Three leaves were detached from the plant and cut along the mid vein into two halves.
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Woodview, a four-bedroom detached house, is situated on a third of an acre and covers an area of 2,150 square feet.
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The young are in debt mortgaged up to the hilt, and the middle-aged are in clover, sitting on a semi-detached gold mine.
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Detached action along with the fruits of this action is consecrated to God and this forms the basis of karma yoga.
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It was originally part of a large detached property which had been converted into one semi and two flats.
Times, Sunday Times
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She had felt detached from all the open grieving and eulogizing and commiserating as though she had been watching events unfold from the director's chair behind the camera.
The Painter's Wife, a short story
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Sand is commonly met with at the depth of three or four fathoms, and beneath this a stratum of napal or steatite, which is considered as a sign that the metal is near; but the least fallible mark is a red stone, called batu kawi, lying in detached pieces.
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
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The mechanism has needed little repair in 220 years - except for a notable occasion 30 years ago when time stood still after the bob on the end of the pendulum became detached and dropped into the pit.
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‘The city is much the same as many others in my time,’ she said looking at a perfumery shop window, the expression of her eyes were not so detached from reality as before.
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Between twelve and one that Sunday night Katharine lay in bed, not asleep, but in that twilight region where a detached and humorous view of our own lot is possible; or if we must be serious, our seriousness is tempered by the swift oncome of slumber and oblivion.
Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf
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With this clue we recognise that the big pink splodge that occupies the rest of the paper must be Venus - Twombly's inept attempt to paint a recumbent nude; if, however, we read the breasts as heads, the splodge could equally well be interpreted as the lovers sexually engaged, the detached penis now a superfluous synecdochism.
Evening Standard - Home
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Adrenalin had burst into her system and yet she found herself detached -- both on the horse and yet looking on, too.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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Sounds much bigger than a three-bedroom semi-detached, doesn't it?
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My findings turned out to be less positive than I expected, and it's an indicator of how much more detached I feel from my job these days than I used to that this doesn't bother me unduly.
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Upon a wooden rest or chevalet the cylinder was now laid and detached from the pipe by placing a bit of cold steel against the part of the glass that still clung to the blow-pipe.
The Story of Glass
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A regimental musician who had become detached from his unit, he followed in the wake of the attack as a spectator.
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Those same statistics also show that terrace builds have been declining and it is detached and semi-detached houses that are on the up.
Times, Sunday Times
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Five destroyers were detached to carry out a bombardment of the port.
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A crest much above this level effectively converts a reef to a detached breakwater, introducing the potential for the formation of harmful tombolos and disruption to longshore processes.
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These ligaments can be sprained, disrupted, detached, or separated, depending on the severity of the injury.
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I even saw myself, detachedly, falling down unconscious, nerveless.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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Firefighters had to force an entry through a side door of the semi-detached house in Chorley Old Road, Johnson Fold.
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 The flame arrester screen can become detached from its mounting ring, preventing the throttle valve from returning to the idle position when the throttle lever is released, causing the rider to lose control of the ATV.
Product Recalls For The Week of July 3-10, 2010 | myFiveBest
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Nearly 40 new homes will be incorporated into a modern development consisting of semi-detached houses, mews houses and bungalows.
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From the lapse of time, and the action of the vapours, the inside walls are detached, and have covered the basin with great blocks of lithoid lavas.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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Yet if anywhere in England should feel ripe for semi-detached regional devolution it would be us in the northeast.
Times, Sunday Times
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We parbuckled him out by means of the Alpine rope, which was quickly detached from the sledge,
South with Scott
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Planners have approved the building of 27 new homes to replace four detached houses in an exclusive leafy enclave.
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She tries to remain emotionally detached from her patients.
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Prothero's genius had liberated itself for the time being in his last poem; it was detached from him; it wandered free, like a blessed spirit invisible, while Prothero's brain agonized and journalized as Laura said.
The Creators A Comedy
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However, she caught in post-modernism, she can not be detached from it and can not be rational criticism.
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There is also a single detached garage with up-and-over door.
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There is 'good' coping (problem-focused, rational, seeking support) and 'bad' coping (avoidant, emotional, detached).
Times, Sunday Times
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If you're able to stay emotionally detached from your investments, this can be a good strategy to follow.
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The square was then modified so that an element could be detached, marched to be adjacent to the enemy, and the enemy flanked.
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He stares detachedly into the middle distance, towards nothing in particular.
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But doesn't the combination of an Oxford academic workload and a Blue Boat training regime leave him socially detached from anyone outside the tiny rowing bubble?
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It is a detached bungalow on a leafy lane in an affluent area.
The Sun
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Why are the custodians so detached from the true meaning of the Olympics?
Times, Sunday Times
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The postmaster pursued the car but the trailer detached itself from the car in the chase.
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Red House today stands secluded behind a pleasantly weathered red-brick wall surrounded by a forest of bungalows and semi-detached houses.
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When all support is disrupted or detached, the distal clavicle loses all ligamentous connection, allowing it to rise superiorly.
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This four bedroom detached bungalow is located in a mature and highly regarded residential area of the town.
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Through such experiences and spectacles, the modern, detached, moderate rationality of the narrator, and often the hero, is linked to a restored sensorial excitement, as the novel connects the reader vicariously to a passional self momentarily free from habitual restraint (although in practice, still carefully insulated from any action that would seriously offend conventional proprieties).
Walter Scott, Politeness, and Patriotism
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A detached property with an acre can hit 800,000.
Times, Sunday Times
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My post was on a circular prefecture, in some degree detached from the body of the hill, the brow of which continued in a straight line, uninterrupted by this projecture, which was somewhat higher than the continued summit of the ridge.
Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
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The offending fire alarm was now completely detached from the wall.
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It does not rise before us in detached and disconnected proportions, like that of spiritual loveliness, but in crowds, and in solitude, and in all the throngful varieties of thought and feeling and action, the symmetrical whole, the beautiful perfection comes up in the vision of memory, and stands, like
Tales and Sketches Part 3, from Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches
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The coupon is not valid if detached.
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Note that my concept of God here is a completely detached and uninvolved entity, which, if there was a god, is the only form I could see it taking.
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Here, the author is conscious of balancing between the anti-Spartan bias current in the speeches of contemporary Athenian rhetors and the detached tenor in the writings of democracy's elite critics.
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One of the panels had become detached from the main structure.
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The white, almost gleaming walls of the semi-detached houses spelt wealth and comfort.
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It's an odd, detached thing to do.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nearly 40 new homes will be incorporated into a modern development consisting of semi-detached houses, mews houses and bungalows.
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There's a fishpond, a swimming pool and a one-bedroom, one-bathroom detached guest house.
Home With Presley Ties Asks Nearly $7 Million
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Their dream was of an improved quality of life, centred on a detached four-bedroom house with a swimming pool within walking distance of the beach.
Times, Sunday Times
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He stares detachedly into the middle distance, towards nothing in particular.
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For musical purposes a wide variety of different bowing gestures are used, such as martelé (hammered bowing with a sudden release) and spiccato (rapid detached notes with the bow bouncing off the strings).
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This rather undermines his credibility as a detached observer.
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Goethe viewed the debate rather detachedly, he was, during his lifetime, fast becoming the German Klas - siker or at least one of the two great Klassiker.
CLASSICISM IN LITERATURE
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The large semi-detached is to undergo major alterations and a makeover so that youngsters can have somewhere to meet apart from street corners.
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I just know that when my money and my capacity to earn have just about sputtered out, I will be hobbling on my lame grasshopper legs to Cooper, begging for a corner in his semi-detached utility room/laundry shed where I can lay me doon and die.
The bums haven’t lost. | clusterflock
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Many of the semi-detached houses to the north-east of the town centre were built for Vickers' workforce.
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Walpole's more aristocratically-detached contemplation of Gothic paraphernalia is precisely what gave rise to the unprecedented amount of Gothic romances in the
Haunted Britain in the 1970s
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Ashford Court is a development of semi-detached houses in Grange near Douglas.
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Other epodes take up motifs from other contemporary genres (elegy in 11 and 15, pastoral in 2) but with significant alterations of tone: Horace ironically breaks the high emotional level of the models with a detached and distant closure.
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This is a truly delightful detached home in an excellent location.
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The house is a four-bedroom semi-detached built in the 1960s.
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One shadow detached itself from the floor and seemed to become solid.
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Latin casa, cassa, cassina; the Italian cassina, A small detached house in the fields, often whitewashed and of mean appearance.
Travels through France and Italy
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It towered incongruously high above modest semi-detached roofs, built on a peculiar design which blended elements of many different ages and cultures in a bizarre heterogeneous mix.
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The five riders were picked up by a chase group which detached itself from the sluggish peloton.
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Due for completion in February, Ridgewood is situated at Forrest Road in Swords and has a mix of two-bedroom townhouses, four-bedroom semis and four-bedroom detached houses.
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Conservatives tend to see this as detached from the deep theological wells of the tradition.
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She realized how detached he and his friends were from the realities of making a living.
DANSVILLE
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It is debatable whether he ever envisaged trailer operation in its accepted sense, with trailers being detached at off-peak times.
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I state this so that you will recognise that when we sat down with one of those Euro 2000 wallcharts we approached our customary major tournament forecasting exercise with nothing but detached interest and honest endeavour.
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He depressurized the walkway, and then detached it from the transport.
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The site was previously occupied by a vacant detached bungalow.
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Though we were planning our response to the death of friends and the widowing of their wives, our conversation was clinical and detached.
Riding Rockets
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[The women] had detached the two ashplants from their baggage and were making good use of them as aids to the ascent of the hill.
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Successes by these Celtic troops against the Romans were usually gained in surprise attacks, in ambushes, and when overwhelming detached units by sheer numbers.
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She is thought to have lived with her grandson in her suburban semi-detached home.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Alaska spoonworm is said to have a proboscis that is not easily detached.
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For a young family with relatively low borrowings, this could mean moving straight from a small urban townhouse to a detached four-bedroom with three acres.
Times, Sunday Times
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One leaf disc with known area was detached from each leaf, avoiding major veins and the midrib.
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Whatever this TDY -- temporary detached duty -- assignment was, it was for real.
CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
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Halifax says that the rise reflects the fact that detached houses are increasingly the aspiration of homeowners.
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The Association has recently purchased a large, detached house in a residential area of Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.
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But instead of settling down in a nice semi-detached with Mrs Che, he got bored with the office job, and went jaunting around South America with his biggest gun.
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That the ideal in scientific inquiry would posit the existence of a disinterested, detached, neutral observer is itself reflective of the androcentric nature of knowledge creation.
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There are also several fully serviced glasshouses, a detached play shed and a double detached garage.
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The semi-detached bungalows have their own private garden and side entrance.
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The general detached a large force to surround the airport.
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He seemed detached, almost bored, but perfectly friendly.
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The masses have all sold out for a four bed detached house and a beamer on the drive, everybody ` s too frightened to say or do anything, for fear of losing the aforementioned lifestyle, and ending up on a sink estate, (thats whats Jeremy Kyle and Trish are there for, Your worst nightmare!)
ACPO blames front-line cops for doing their job SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Anthony was one of four men hurt when the high-rise window-cleaning cradle became detached.
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But the demons are also object correlatives for the characters' emotions - emotions that could seem all too trivial to a detached observer.
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At first, we had to rent accommodation; a neat semi-detached with attached garage.
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No decision has yet been taken about what will replace the properties, but it is understood that detached housing is the most likely option.
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Planning consultant Peter Torrible, acting for Barratt and Wilcon, said the South Milford development would be a mix of detached, semi-detached and terraced houses, and apartments.
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Officers seized computers from the semi-detached property.
Times, Sunday Times
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January 29th, 2010 at 9: 17 pm if the stickiest and least ameliorable environmental problems are jet air transportation, animal-based agriculture, and large detached single-family residences with large yards, then perhaps we should talk about “limits to jet air transportation, animal-based agriculture, and large detached single-family residences with large yards.”
Matthew Yglesias » The Limits to Growth
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A detached property with an acre can hit 800,000.
Times, Sunday Times
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The assassin sat looking at the police officers detachedly.
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A figure in white detached itself from the shadows.
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Their representatives gave warning that the couple were unlikely to leave their four-bedroom detached house.
Times, Sunday Times
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Again, we find no reason to suppose that metaphysical issues can be cleanly detached from epistemological concerns.
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It is therefore easier to accept a certain amount of ‘collateral damage’ if we are emotionally detached from the lives of those involved.
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"For the first 24 hours I was emotionally detached from everything going on.
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the detached shutter fell on him
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The six semi-detached houses and two bungalows are rented and the tenants all have a connection with Bromham.
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A new development of 36 detached and semi-detached houses and bungalows is now on the market in Blackrock, Co Louth.
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I agree with Robert Campbell and Archon Fung that Americans have not significantly become detached social solitaries, ‘bowling alone,’ as Robert Putnam concluded.
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The five-bedroom homes are spacious detached villas.
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What he called his workshop was a conversion of the roof space over the detached garage.
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Does he think she's as eager to get back to his semi-detached as he?
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I was cold, disengaged and detached.
Times, Sunday Times
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Each season it looks lost and each season something stirs inside a dressing room largely detached from the burning desire of the heartbeat of the club's support.
Times, Sunday Times
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Included in the sale is an adjoining site at 1 Abbeylane, with lapsed planning permission for a detached four-bedroom residence.
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All seven live together in a Birmingham semi-detached and life goes on…
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I might consider myself a spiritual person - if someone could offer me a coherent definition of the term - but I'm basically an atheist, and feel wholly detached from all this heated baloney.
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David Lloyd, erstwhile coach of England, was never a natural establishment man, so it is with a detached vista that he has watched events of note unfold at Lord's.
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The top copy is detached and sent to the firm's local tax inspector.
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The house is a four-bedroom semi-detached built in the 1960s.
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Sounds much bigger than a three-bedroom semi-detached, doesn't it?
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There is no detached Cartesian 'cogito' from which we look out upon the world.
Speedlinking 6/5/07
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The label became detached from your parcel.
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The family have now moved from their detached home in Primrose Avenue, Macclesfield to a secluded farm in Powys.
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Six of the houses would be affordable low-cost homes, with the remainder a mix of two and four-bedroom houses and semi-detached and terraced housing.
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I am becoming much more detached emotionally from my fat which I can only see as healthy really, if it doesn’t mean anything it’s not hard to say goodbye and get rid is it?
I did it!
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As Brynor neared, he glanced at each of us in turn with the casual, detached disinterest of a scientist examining a particularly repulsive insect.
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I'm a spirit with preternatural flesh . Detached. Unchangeable . Empty.
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Residents living in a smart area of Salisbury are preparing to do battle a second time to save two large detached family homes which are under threat of demolition.
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a detached garage
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Likewise, detached roots of untransformed M. sativa (Aragón) plants were able to propagate in vitro.
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The circumstantially imposed corrections refer to the discursive move toward offering impartial, even detached, moral judgment.
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She gaped as Jesse all but detached his jaw and inhaled half the burger in one bite.
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I watched with detached disinterest as Sean and Amber presented themselves to the audience and received their medallions from the organizers.
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The flexor-pronator mass origin was detached from the medial epicondyle, and submuscular ulnar nerve transposition was performed.
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A detached stone cottage to the north of the region will start at about £160,000.
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The non-judgemental attitude of the android is perfect for telling the story while remaining detached from any ethical dilemmas, and the mixture of high tech gadgets and a familiar English backdrop makes a pleasing combination.
Scheherazade Magazine #28 | SciFi UK Review
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Last January you would have been looking at £130,000 for a three bedroomed semi-detached in town.
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It is the linchpin in the effort to give legitimacy to the post-Cold War settlement, while ensuring that it does not become detached either from power or compelling national interests.
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Rattles develop and pieces of trim become detached.
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Not surprisingly, the vast majority of the population here lives in single-family detached housing; relatively few people are in high-rise apartment buildings or condos.
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Outside, there is one attached single garage and one detached single garage, two store rooms, a piggery which is currently used as storage, a courtyard with parking for multiple cars and about ¾ acre of garden.
IcNewcastle
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A new development of 36 detached and semi-detached houses and bungalows is now on the market in Blackrock, Co Louth.
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The family moved opposite to me in a modest semi-detached, and they soon became the closest thing to celebrity in our neck of the woods.
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So look for a detached home without a stove or open fires.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them - you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely. Mitch Albom
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Still smiling, still watching her, Guido reached unhurriedly behind him and detached a stem of bright red geranium.
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His upper jaw was detached.
Times, Sunday Times
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Originally a three-bedroom semi-detached, the house became a two-bed.
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Nirvana never sounded as detached as the Pixies, or as fluid, or as fun.
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The quarry produces stones of considerable size which are easily detached, the strata being regularly disposed one above the other.
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It is one thing for detached scholars to set these high expectations.
Divergent Realities: the Emotional Lives of Mothers, Fathers, and Adolescents
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The passive voice gives a sense of detached and objective authority that, in contrast to the imperative mode, is expressive of neutrality.
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When it was returned to me after the second renewal, the center two pages had become detached from the staples holding the book together when it was in the possession of the immigration office.
FM 3 Renwal
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The properties here are substantial detached houses along a wide tree-lined road.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tall shrubs, hedges, or vine-covered fences make a detached patio private.
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This might mean that your retina - the light-sensitive film on the back of your eye - has become detached.
The Sun
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The uptake of council house purchase does not reflect the working out of a detached attitude to home ownership.
Home-ownership - differentiation and fragmentation
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I have a five-bedroom detached property in Bromley.
Times, Sunday Times
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It’s vital — both as a matter of perception and reality — that those institutions remain apolitical, separate and detached from partisan wars.
Making History by Shaming SCOTUS? (TWICE UPDATED) « Gerry Canavan
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These women, who at first appear to work at a distance from the harvest scene in the background, are actually detached from it.
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I guess I must have hummed along or waved my flask to the old familiar march, for presently the villain Augustus (a frightful handle to fix on a decent enough urchin, but no work of mine) detached himself from the waterweed and came to stand snottering before me with his head on one side, thoughtful-like.
THE NUMBERS
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When songwriting, he feels he undergoes some sort of chemical change which makes him detached and unresponsive once outside the office.
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Whereas the caged specimens evoke a comfortably detached curiosity, the uncaged native provokes a fear that demands surveillance.
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Minakakis' passionate, incendiary delivery provided tangible pathos to the band's awe-inspiring but detached musicianship.