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  • But going back to the days when I was seeing these epics first time round, in the fleapits and bug-hutches of south-east Leeds - most of them converted music halls or disused chapels - we didn't give a hoot what the title of the film was.
  • Over 300 houses have also been built there and the airfield is not disused.
  • Donaldson is accused of luring his wife into the disused house on the caravan site at Crianlarich, where he had stored a box of large fireworks.
  • Through it runs a curious trackway, marked "disused" on the Highways and Byways in Surrey
  • The woman walked past the sailing club and onto the disused railway line, where she saw a man on a bicycle in front of her.
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  • The door of the barn looked between the end of the cottage and some disused piggeries through a five-barred gate upon the highroad. The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
  • Plans are also afoot to transform the disused salt mines of Saxony and Thuringia into depositories for toxic waste.
  • He also warned of the perils of disused quarries. The Sun
  • The Catacombs Project plans to refurbish the disused buildings under the church, which is a protected structure.
  • We wanted a studio or an old warehouse but when we found a disused hospital it was great.
  • It's a mixture of habitable buildings, several disused farms, cowsheds and what was probably once a pigsty.
  • It's a trend that has given a new lease of life to neglected race tracks and disused airfields up and down the country and boosted rural employment. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is a depopulated metropolis, with cheap rents and disused factories making for ample gallery space and throbbing, packed-to-thegills clubs. Times, Sunday Times
  • Since the economic downturn there has been an increase in the use of disused warehouses for production. The Sun
  • From here continue for another 1.5 km and you will see, en route, disused limekilns, the old pack horse bridge and remnants of the old charcoal burning sites all these feature are posted en route.
  • A flasher has indecently exposed himself to two teenage girls in Broadway as they cycled near a disused railway bridge.
  • Officials said the most likely source was a main at a disused factory. The Sun
  • Considering filly the infection of water to jet and the structure characteristic of oil wells be disused in shallow sea. Design linear shaped charge cutters of answer for the fact.
  • The Motive Power depot at Derby Road had been disused since 1966 when the last steam locomotives were withdrawn from service.
  • As they'd noted, this area had a somewhat disused look to it, for the floor was covered with a conglomeration of dirt, guano and silt interspersed with crumbling bits of masonry or fallen pillars.
  • Allegedly, on July 22 the man used sodium dichloroisocyanurate and sawdust to fumigate a disused air-raid shelter he planned to use for planting mushrooms.
  • The nuclear waste is encased in concrete before being sent for storage in disused mines.
  • Raytheon has developed a technology for safely detonating all the landmines in disused landmine fields -- they drop a shell containing many hundreds of steel arrows into the field, which sets off all the old mines: Boing Boing: November 27, 2005 - December 3, 2005 Archives
  • Community schemes enable voluntary groups to look after disused areas of Network Rail land, such as disused platforms, land adjoining stations, or areas underneath viaducts. EDP24 News
  • From old primary schools to disused blocks of flats and old hospitals, these properties are often in desirable city locations. The Sun
  • The disused school building could be a centre for the community to meet and for visitors to gather.
  • Council housing lists were long and slow-moving, and some desperate families squatted in disused Army huts in the hope of qualifying for a council house sooner.
  • Today, 1pm The rangers of Chatelherault Country Park in South Lanarkshire lead a day of exploration inside a disused coal bing in search of signs of mining life, wildlife and plant life.
  • Running along a disused railway line for 1.45 miles, it was originally designed to carry freight from the docks. The Sun
  • And they have just completed a deal to buy the disused Grand Hotel on the Marine Promenade to give that a facelift.
  • If she has got this wrong, it could prove so costly that she may need a disused mine to hide in. Times, Sunday Times
  • A fifth is planned for a disused printworks called the McCormick Building, which backs on to the Mas nightclub in Royal Exchange Square, in the centre of the city's shopping district.
  • It uses an Underground tunnel which had been disused for many years.
  • The transformation from a largely disused industrial wasteland is total, but the makeover is not quite complete. Times, Sunday Times
  • Our son found his way into a disused cesspit and then, going barefoot, picked up an infection, which required regular injections in his backside.
  • I actually found a disused military shelter left over from WWII near my house the other day.
  • From the outside it still looks a bit like the disused airfield it once was. Times, Sunday Times
  • They had pointed out that the disused railway yard chosen as the scene of the party was too small. Times, Sunday Times
  • The trail follows a disused railroad line along the edge of the valley.
  • Walkers will then turn right up the old disused famine road, across the spectacular and beautiful Lagan Hill.
  • We shot the second episode in an old disused ironworks at night, which was just horrible.
  • At least three cruise liners with hotel rooms will be anchored in disused docks on the Thames, alongside many smaller boats and barges offering accommodation. Times, Sunday Times
  • Firefighters were called out at 4.40 pm and a hosepipe was connected across the main road to a water main as firefighters succeeded in preventing the blaze from spreading to nearby disused buildings.
  • One MP out here with me at the UK-China Forum for the Future branded it "a cross between a stealth bomber and a disused skate park".
  • A group of local residents and business owners are calling on the council to urgently reopen a disused mill lade and culvert to its full capacity.
  • He had an arts scholarship and painted huge oil canvases in a disused squash court. Times, Sunday Times
  • I thought it best if we met in a disused warehouse. The Sun
  • Beside the cafe was a disused swimming pool. Broken Lives
  • A teenager died when he fell through the roof of a disused warehouse while playing with his friends.
  • Beside the cafe was a disused swimming pool. Broken Lives
  • The nuclear waste is encased in concrete before being sent for storage in disused mines.
  • OURNEYING toward the upper course of the Capilano River, about a mile citywards from the dam, you will pass a disused logger's shack. Legends of Vancouver
  • The works will include restoration of dry-stone walling; tree planting; building of stiles; regeneration of woodland and turning a disused quarry into an amenity area.
  • A man was electrocuted in an attempt to steal cable from a disused asylum, a coroner heard. Times, Sunday Times
  • I was forced to sleep rough that night in a disused warehouse.
  • It is two decades since Martin and Lizzie Graham, opera-loving entrepreneurs of the most down-to-earth yet dreamy variety, started staging opera in a disused cowshed. Die Walküre; Siegfried; BBC Proms 23, 26 & 27 – review
  • He had become trapped between a disused fishing boat and the dock wall. The Sun
  • Disused and neglected, the hall was invaded by squatters who occupied the building until it was gutted by a fire in 2002, which killed five people.
  • The disused school building could be a centre for the community to meet and for visitors to gather.
  • Three were killed in competitions or practices, four race fans died on the roads and one biker died in an accident at a disused airfield. The Sun
  • The trail follows a disused railroad line along the edge of the valley.
  • In the east of the island there are two ruined cottages, a disused graveyard and the site of a cross and oratory plus several drystone walled fields once used for tillage.
  • Initially he focused on small scale residential conversions but Kennedy's big breakthrough came with the purchase of a disused Baptist church in Edinburgh's Dublin Street.
  • At least three cruise liners with hotel rooms will be anchored in disused docks on the Thames, alongside many smaller boats and barges offering accommodation. Times, Sunday Times
  • After collecting the cash, the kidnapper made his escape down the disused railway line.
  • Luckily, it's just a one-mile walk from here along the disused trackbed. Times, Sunday Times
  • A little dumping was noted, apparently a bag of some sort of disused building material.
  • We walked past equipment from disused stone quarries along the way. Times, Sunday Times
  • A gutsy group of Ukrainians has made the world's first underground balloon ascent in a disused coal mine in Doneck.
  • It could have remained that way, disused and neglected, gathering dust and cobwebs.
  • The water and blackdamp came from disused workings adjoining the mine.
  • Oil wells that be disused in shallow sea are severe to affect sea-route. cannot cut off it effectively by dynamite commonly. and water affect jet a certain extent.
  • In accordance with the Report of the Public Service Commission (1886-7) the terms 'covenanted' and 'uncovenanted' have been disused. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
  • There were always stories about the Russian prisoners of war in the disused factory beyond the brewery. Bomber
  • They kept referring to the site as high unspoilt fell, ignoring that it is on the side of a disused quarry above a busy road. Times, Sunday Times
  • The cause of a blaze that destroyed a disused furniture warehouse yesterday afternoon was unknown. Times, Sunday Times
  • The transformation from disused docks into city-centre cultural venue took three years.
  • The path zigzagged through the now disused Caw Quarry, first past a stone hut and then past the opening of an old level.
  • We want to make sure that disused railways are protected from development which would make it harder to bring them back into use.
  • The cause of a blaze that destroyed a disused furniture warehouse yesterday afternoon was unknown. Times, Sunday Times
  • It may be disused fitness equipment, untouched kitchen gadgets or scores of unwanted CDs and books.
  • The transformation from disused docks into city-centre cultural venue took three years.
  • To maintain the differential, extra bands would need to be added at the top end of the scale, whilst lopping off those disused bands at the bottom, which is ludicrous.
  • Hidden away between a popular pub and a disused former bank it is an inauspicious, unimpressive building in the shadows of Aberdeen city centre.
  • The ‘right to humanitarian interference’ might be described as a sort of ‘return to sender’: the disused rights that had been sent to the rightless are sent back to the senders.
  • A man was electrocuted in an attempt to steal cable from a disused asylum, a coroner heard. Times, Sunday Times
  • The castle was then a disused, grade II listed building that had unsympathetically been turned into four holiday flats.
  • Derelict and disused buildings are favourite targets, as are billboards, road signs and bus stops.
  • That seemed a bit lacking in heft, so I bulked it out with a random handful of paper from a disused notebook, put our names on it, stapled the pile up, and turned it in.
  • They were all three with the round-up, and were making a circle through the Bad Lands; the wagons had camped on the eastern edge of these Bad Lands, where they merged into the prairie, at the head of an old disused road, which led about due east from the Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches
  • Over the years many local residents have been using the disused track for walks, exercising their horses and dogs, jogging or just to admire the natural beauty of the area.
  • Together with his co-founders, they received a grant to convert a disused swimming pool into a theatre.
  • No longer a place just for hiding disused tools and miscellaneous junk, it can be a standalone design feature or positioned to blend into your plot. Times, Sunday Times
  • Beneath the site there were some disused mine shafts leading to old coal workings which, unknown to the defendants, were connected to the plaintiff's mine.
  • The disused warehouse opened in 1985 and became a legendary venue. The Sun
  • A disused church hall next to Carshalton Library was gutted by fire in a suspected arson attack around 3.40 pm on Sunday.
  • From old primary schools to disused blocks of flats and old hospitals, these properties are often in desirable city locations. The Sun
  • He had an arts scholarship and painted huge oil canvases in a disused squash court. Times, Sunday Times
  • I knew there was a barn and a shed for silage; these must be to the other side of the house, with the farm's granary and the henyard, kailyard, and disused chapel. Sick Cycle Carousel
  • Residents and community groups are being asked to put forward suggestions for the future use of a disused Bradford church.
  • In modern cities, Plato's idea of banishing artists is almost achieved through economic means, with many forced to live and work in low-rent premises such as garrets, lofts, and disused warehouses.
  • You don't have to inhabit a disused paper mill or a converted printworks to love industrial style. Times, Sunday Times
  • I parted some grass and wondered why Cawthorne had bothered to run electric and telephone cables to a disused toilet for farmhands.
  • Ambitious plans to transform a disused piece of land in York into a fully-equipped community sports and recreation facility have moved a step closer to reality.
  • The disused temporary school building has already been brought from Bridlington to York, and leaders are preparing to bring in engineers and a crane to hoist the four-part structure into place.
  • There were scores of them yesterday, hanging around on the steps beside the takeaway, skulking outside Bow Church gates and lurking on the traffic island by the disused public conveniences.
  • So many need to be held onto that thousands are kept at a disused salt mine in Kent. Times, Sunday Times
  • Plans are also afoot to transform the disused salt mines of Saxony and Thuringia into depositories for toxic waste.
  • The works consist of building a new corridor linking the main building to the disused Telephone Exchange in the rear yard.
  • The disused railway station at Crouch End had a stagey eeriness, even on a bright hot day; and the abandoned play park was so dilapidated that you could almost sense the accident-claim lawyers lurking in the trees.
  • Sites investigated included a disused railway tunnel and bogland in Nad.
  • They and their disused railway lines remind us of wealth in the last century - but unemployment during the last 50 years.
  • Château, close to Ypres, and the Transport to a disused brickfield west of Vlamertinghe. The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
  • Running along a disused railway line for 1.45 miles, it was originally designed to carry freight from the docks. The Sun
  • You need nerves of steel and a large dose of blind faith to pull off a party in a disused, underground tube station.
  • They have been given a grant to convert the disused church into luxury flats.
  • Arriving in disused cellars, you find you are part of a team of eight survivors, on the run from a brutal alien invader. Times, Sunday Times
  • Carp is set to take over a disused part of the garden of Marden House and incorporate it into Castlefields Park.
  • They are also tied into contracts that stretch beyond 2012 for business parks, wind farms and the media city in Salford and are also responsible for dozens of contaminated industrial sites, such as disused coal fields, which cannot be sold unless they are first decommissioned. Government's 'bonfire of the quangos' plan will cost as much as it saves
  • The band's first gig was in a friend's bedroom and their next was in a disused warehouse in Glasgow.
  • He went ahead with storm preparations, elevating the bed on old boards which he lugged from a disused barn falling to decay on the opposite bank of the creek. CHAPTER IV
  • It's a mixture of habitable buildings, several disused farms, cowsheds and what was probably once a pigsty.
  • She told her that Edward had gone into the hay-loft, above the old, disused shippon. The Moorland Cottage
  • Grown on a disused china clay pit, the project has helped regenerate the area.
  • Threats of the same treatment prevented refractory congregations from using disused churches they had hired for private worship.
  • A disused Victorian toilet block has just gone up for sale.
  • A disused Victorian toilet block, with many of the original fixtures and fittings still in tact.
  • The developers envisage this site being developed for mixed use, while new buildings to be constructed on disused backland.
  • Home territory is the disused runway at the Dalton Barracks in Abingdon.
  • Last year the police inquiry into Suzy's disappearance was briefly reopened when they searched a disused Army camp near Worcester.
  • Swaythling Housing Society has submitted a planning application to the council to build 12 three-storey town houses, three two-storey homes and eight flats on a car park and disused shopping precinct adjacent to St Helier Place.
  • The 35-year-old father lay dead nearby at the bottom of a disused quarry. The Sun
  • They had pointed out that the disused railway yard chosen as the scene of the party was too small. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the far corner was a bed and, beside this, slumped like a disused doll, lay the witch.
  • The scenery couldn't match what had come earlier and, as the trail began to intertwine with a disused railway line, so the signs disappeared.
  • The Rajah is without authority, and even his name disused in the official instruments issued or taken by the manager. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12)
  • Yellow Mongoose dens are usually disused burrows left by other animals such as antbears or spring hares which the yellow mongoose then expand considerably.
  • The disused railway line makes the bog and surrounding areas easily accessible from both ends.
  • The flash, or lake, is the result of mining subsidence in 1924 and a disused railway still runs through the woodland.
  • He began to read a piece about the proposed transformation of a disused mill into a luxury hotel.
  • The cotton factory that once employed hundreds of workers closed years ago and lies abandoned with disused machinery rusting outside.
  • He had an arts scholarship and painted huge oil canvases in a disused squash court. Times, Sunday Times
  • The nuclear waste is encased in concrete before being sent for storage in disused mines.
  • The remnant of a long-disused church building, it was built out of solid stone with massive buttresses supporting long, high walls.
  • Now the intercourse with heaven, by angels, with which the patriarchs had been dignified, but which had been long disused, begins to be revived; for, when the First-begotten is to be brought into the world, the angels are ordered to attend his motions. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
  • The police arranged to rendezvous with their informant at a disused warehouse.
  • We were in the dish of a disused radio telescope. Times, Sunday Times
  • Travellers who were running a paving company from a disused pub car park turned it into an unsightly rubbish dump.
  • For a moment he'd been near to panic as he realized that the pumps were rusty, the filling station obviously disused.
  • Since the economic downturn there has been an increase in the use of disused warehouses for production. The Sun
  • His muscles felt cramped and disused, and his chest and rib-cage ached as if he'd been the loser in a fist fight.
  • We were in the dish of a disused radio telescope. Times, Sunday Times
  • The town is a favorite nesting-place for the leggy birds, who take up residence here on the old Roman aqueduct, disused minarets and any other safe perch, in the Summers.
  • They sought a disused building, which for about 1 million could be converted. Times, Sunday Times
  • Boggy bits slowed us for the first half mile, then we hit the pastures down by the river, connected with the embankment of the disused railway line and picked up speed.
  • Flames visible for miles tore through the roof of a disused school in Windhill, Shipley, last night, leaving the building a wreck.
  • Just off the muddy driveway were half a dozen disused poultry sheds crammed with items plucked from auctions around the country. The Times Literary Supplement
  • The prefabricated materials would then be transhipped to the United Kingdom, where they would be sent to assembly facilities in disused Lancashire cotton factories.
  • The drugs were found in a disused warehouse.
  • The arches of active and disused railway viaducts are filled with restaurants, car repair workshops, markets, and businesses of other kinds.
  • The land, off Newhill Road in Monk Bretton, Barnsley, is one of the worst areas in the country to be affected by methane gas - known by miners as firedamp - leaching through the ground from disused mine workings.
  • We were in the dish of a disused radio telescope. Times, Sunday Times
  • The ornate drawing room ceiling at now-disused Whinburn School is copied from a design at 17th-century East Riddlesden Hall, it has been revealed.
  • There are now plans to use the disused ringing chamber as a small museum of church archives.
  • These others of whom we have spoken, the yeoman who never aspired beyond the yeoman's position, are as ancient and as "worshipful" -- to use an old and disused term -- as they. The Toilers of the Field
  • A disused coal mine shaft was used for decades to dump hundreds of tons of industrial waste.
  • Eventually, he reached a beach and dragged himself through sand dunes until he reached a disused campsite.
  • Excavation work at the beginning of the project led to disused cellars, old water and gas pipes and old tramlines being unearthed.
  • At present one area is mostly wooded with some open space and a disused pond, the other has an old orchard in it.
  • It's such a depressing town - it's full of ugly, disused factories.
  • Yes, of course we should be building houses on disused brownfield sites where possible. Times, Sunday Times
  • Astor and five others had hired disused factory buildings for a night and laid on all-night musical events.
  • The aim is to bring scruffy, disused areas of land - including a disused tip, a former power station and a derelict canal - back into community use.
  • The clearing out of disused workshops laid bare thousands of Italianate glazed tiles.
  • Both authors raise the issue of restoring the long disused order of deaconesses.
  • The trail follows a disused railroad line along the edge of the valley.
  • A disused paddling pool in Sough Park, Earby, could be turned into a giant sandpit for children.
  • Mrs God would have been furious if she had found out that, after lunch, he was in the shed at the bottom of the garden tinkering with bits of disused jet aircraft.
  • Open for just over a year it occupies a disused warehouse in one of London's poorest boroughs, Hackney.
  • The July wind-up coincides with the launch by Eircell of the country's first controlled pilot project on the recycling of disused mobile phones, batteries and chargers.
  • Running along a disused railway line for 1.45 miles, it was originally designed to carry freight from the docks. The Sun
  • Luck was with them - they discovered 15,000 nineteenth-century moulds for jugs, bowls and storage jars in a disused storeroom.
  • Steve isn't making it as an actor, as they were led to believe, but works as a cleaner at the studios and lives in a bus with a flat tyre on a disused heliport outside the city.
  • Thanks to Mike Papageorge at AlternativeSource for passing along this piece of very cool news — the Brits are building an entire sustainable town on “the disused Oakington Barracks in Cambridgeshire”: Archive for » 2006 » March : Sustainablog
  • The pier, which has been disused for many years, was built during the herring fishing boom in the early 1900s.
  • A man was electrocuted in an attempt to steal cable from a disused asylum, a coroner heard. Times, Sunday Times
  • The cause of a blaze that destroyed a disused furniture warehouse yesterday afternoon was unknown. Times, Sunday Times
  • Demolition is planned for a disused printworks called the McCormick Building, which backs on to the Mas nightclub in Royal Exchange Square, in the centre of the city's shopping district.
  • He had become trapped between a disused fishing boat and the dock wall. The Sun
  • He gives examples of community-led projects that have revived decaying local assets such as disused railway stations and derelict churches. Public service cuts will come: but how and where?
  • After a quiet stretch, the road passes a disused quarry on the right and then reaches a farm and some cottages.
  • If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with bank notes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coal mines which are then filled up with town rubbish, and leave them to private enterprise on the well-tried principles of laissez faire to dig them up again … there need be no more unemployment and, with the help of the repercussions, the real income of the community and its capital wealth also would probably become a great deal greater than it actually is. Privatizing Keynes, Michael Munger | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with bank-notes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coal-mines which are then filled up to the surface with town rubbish, and leave it to private enterprise on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again (the right to do so being obtained, of course, by tendering for leases of the note-bearing territory), there need be no more unemployment and, with the help of the repercussions, the real income of the community, and its capital wealth also, would probably become a good deal greater than it actually is. Boing Boing: September 4, 2005 - September 10, 2005 Archives
  • After treatment there for gunshot wounds, he was whisked by the CIA to Thailand where he was housed in a small, disused warehouse on an active airbase.
  • A month back the route from Newport to Sandown was opened along a disused railway and as such it has no hills.
  • The room is about three paces long and two wide: broom closet or disused tool room.
  • This disused quarry is the deepest inland dive centre in the UK and will provide a unique backdrop for those all-important wedding pictures. The Sun
  • Since many of the traditional black-glazed roof tiles broke in the quake, contractors had to scour other disused Japanese buildings for replacements.
  • After the suspicious death of a miner at a disused colliery in Wales, the Doctor investigates the owner, Global Chemicals.
  • From the outside it still looks a bit like the disused airfield it once was. Times, Sunday Times

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