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  • But for the watermark, the thickness of the paper and the missing security thread, the note, reportedly obtained from a private bank, looked like genuine currency for all practical purposes.
  • Having a couple of chances and that luck is missing for me now. The Sun
  • Even while he was missing, those uncertain hours of anxious speculation and dismal journalism, she had assumed Maxwell would be found boomingly alive, having spent the whole time enjoying the amorous advances of a short-sighted minke whale. Country of the Blind
  • To explain this, they hypothesise that galaxies must contain a great deal of missing matter which cannot be detected.
  • He vented his frustration a couple of games into the second set, missing a volley and then belting the ball into the crowd.
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  • FEARS were growing for a missing schoolgirl after police found her phone dumped in a park. The Sun
  • All he was missing was the goals. The Sun
  • Sterling was darting around, looking for pockets of space, but missing a glorious chance from close range. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is something missing in my jewelry box!
  • With three players cup-tied, one suspended and another released this month, there will be four familiar names missing, and some unfamiliar ones on the bench.
  • ‘By ignoring ethical business practices, small businesses are missing a trick,’ he said.
  • A major study to test the viability of reinstating the missing rail link between Manchester and Derby is to start soon.
  • There was a Malay steward behind each chair, and over in the corner, silent but missing nothing, the squint-faced Jingo; even he had exchanged his loin-cloth for a silver sarong, with hornbill feathers in his hair and decorating the shaft of his sumpitan* (* Blowpipe.) standing handy against the wall. Flashman's Lady
  • Because of budget cuts, the Jersey Shore borough of Interlaken is dismissing its entire police force. Carl Gibson: Corporations Are Draining America's Vitality
  • He stated that his van was missing and it was found, smashed into another vehicle, up the street.
  • Sterling was darting around, looking for pockets of space, but missing a glorious chance from close range. Times, Sunday Times
  • The body of the missing woman was recovered by police frogmen from a lake near her home.
  • Henin derailed an all-Williams showdown by dismissing Serena in the quarterfinals for the third consecutive time at a Grand Slam. Russians, ex-champs spice women's semis
  • The only time I have done them is for older teenagers with congenitally missing back teeth (with the baby tooth still there at that age) whose only cosmetic option is the porcelain fused to metal crown (those run around $800 or more each) and usually necessitates a pulpal treatment as well due to the small tooth size, and these crowns having a questionable prognosis in baby teeth. White Crowns For Baby Teeth
  • It went missing three weeks ago but has only just been reported to police. The Sun
  • The missing man suddenly resurfaced in New York
  • Bars around the lions den were said to have been missing and a probe has begun. The Sun
  • We're missing you all muchly especially at this time of year.
  • His parents said something about you missing lectures, or delivering the wrong lectures, or giving quizzes instead of lectures. DOUBTING THOMAS
  • Photos Simon Baker/Reuters A woman, whose friend was missing in the fire-damaged CTV building looked on as firemen and search teams looked through the rubble for survivors in central Christchurch Wednesday. New Zealand Starts Christchurch Curfew
  • Now, two weeks after her visit to Paris Crater, missing Hannah already but knowing that the girl must be safe in the firmary, Ada found herself lost in thought during the carriole ride over the hills to home. Ilium
  • Historians must, as usual, do what they can with the materials which lie to hand rather than bewail the absence of that which is missing.
  • After initially dismissing the likelihood that consumers would "cut the cord" by turning off their pay-TV subscriptions, media executives are starting to acknowledge the need to sell smaller bundles of TV to lure younger, and more cost-conscious consumers. Cable-TV Honchos Cry Foul Over Soaring Cost of ESPN
  • The book has two pages missing / missing pages.
  • We got together by accident and there has always been something missing. The Sun
  • His father, David Ashworth, is wanted for questioning by murder squad detectives but yesterday he was still missing.
  • But she also had political motives for dismissing volunteers. Smithsonian Mag
  • I looked him up and down, taking in the unshaven cheeks, the missing button on his shirt, the ratty cuffs on his jeans. NO BODY
  • It will be a mortal blow if there is a single palm missing on Monte Chiaro or if a single stone has loosened from the town wall. The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel
  • Noel Celis/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Pictures of missing children lay at a soldiers foot during a retrieval operation in Iligan, southern Philippines Friday. Asia in Pictures
  • She soon began truanting and going missing for increasingly long periods of time.
  • She had given up all hope of tracing her missing daughter.
  • We did a quick count of the children and there were none missing.
  • We did have a few missing players, whereas we are at full strength this time. Times, Sunday Times
  • It looks like a mother uncrumpling papers in her son's backpack to find a missing assignment.
  • If it did, I would be justified in dismissing arguments against free trade on the grounds that many who make such arguments are at risk of losing their jobs or have actually lost their jobs. Getting Ricardo Wrong, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • The red (or Greene) flag of Catholicism that Anderson is missing in FO's work is probably "redemption" ... there is none. Signature Elements
  • The missing knowledge, they believe, is in the locker room, the dugout, the team bus, the psychology of the players and the relations among them.
  • The very idea of missing a payment fills me with terror. Times, Sunday Times
  • Cal drove to work, nearly missing the turn-off into the gym.
  • Newspaper editors are being urged not to intrude on/into the grief of the families of missing servicemen.
  • He was jeered for joking about missing jets, then goaded fans to boo louder. The Sun
  • It was discovered that the tapes were missing.
  • Five people died in the explosion and more than one thousand were injured. One person is still missing.
  • The blood tests which snared three drugs cheats at last month's Winter Olympics could be missing from the anti-doping programme throughout Britain this year, including the Commonwealth Games.
  • In short, these kind of hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune, who may be considered as thus playing tricks with us, and wantonly diverting herself at our expense. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
  • Colombian troops and US officials have mounted a search in the area to recover the missing Americans but the area is heavily mined and four Colombian soldiers are already reported to have been injured.
  • I find that a heated bedwarmer and a microwaveable teddy bear go a long way to replace a missing husband. Left Behind
  • Discussion covered procedures for avoiding accidental clashes, disclosing the location of mines, and exchanging information about those missing in action.
  • He means that death repeals the whole implied adventure of being missing, and a certain tantalising ambiguity enters the picture.
  • They raked through every possible place to find the missing girl.
  • The missing trio were interviewed by counterterrorism officers at the time. Times, Sunday Times
  • We searched all morning for the missing papers and finally discovered them in a drawer.
  • A grey and black tomcat went missing on Friday, February 28.
  • I also wonder about Depp and depth, or rather Depp and range, two elements consistently missing in his performances, bridled as they are by a post-Warholian lack of affect or commitment. Johnny Depp is back as a very different Hunter S Thompson
  • It looked like an open-and-shut case until the judge, suddenly and without explanation, announced that he was dismissing the allegations. Kill the Irishman
  • If properly timed, these throws can quickly get a ball to a baseman to make a play; if it isn't, however, the ball will most likely be overthrown, missing cutoff men entirely along with its target.
  • Time flies by and I remember I haven't seen you for ages.I send you a fine card with my missing and sincere blessing.
  • All the floorboards, bannisters and doors were missing, the electricity, gas and water pipes were all gone, the ceilings had collapsed and there were two gaping holes in the roof. Life in a Victorian terrace
  • Jeremy Irons provides the unlikely voice for Moe's well-traveled and irreplaceable bar rag, which goes missing on Fox's The Simpsons Sunday, 8/7c. Weekend TV in Review: Good Wife, Luck, Spartacus, Hallmark's Moon
  • He's as cuddlesome as a teddy bear, and not a brand new, freshly stuffed one from Build-a-Bear, a well-loved one, missing some stuffing, and maybe an eye, and a button on his overalls. Finding Amanda, losing Matthew Broderick
  • Criticizing them for being too reformist is just totally missing the point. Matthew Yglesias » Sherri Berman: Progressives Must Believe in Change
  • All the features missing in the original is still missing in the 2nd itineration so it’s not like Apple is making leaps and bounds here. Microsoft Exec: 6.9 million iPhone 3Gs? Pfft, so what? « Boy Genius Report
  • All that's missing is their floppy hair and dodgy waistcoats. The Sun
  • There is no rehearsal in the life , once missing , it will be lost forever.
  • Bal reached the middle of the bridge where the huge span was missing.
  • LONDON — Coast guards are hunting for a pair of missing American balloonists last detected piloting their craft over the Adriatic Sea in rough weather, officials said Wednesday. Richard Abruzzo And Carol Rymer Davis Missing In European Balloon Race
  • The port lifeboat was missing, its iron davits, twisted and wrenched, testifying to the mightiness of the blow that had been struck the old THE SEA FARMER
  • He's always missing when there's work to be done.
  • The policeman rolled the body over to look for the missing gun.
  • So far the search for the missing middle - aged woman has been fruitless.
  • No flower born in the summertime was missing from it, not even the flower of the broom, the violet, the periwinkle, or any yellow, indigo, or white flower.
  • Searchers have found three mountain climbers missing since Saturday.
  • They were mad about missing the train.
  • Missing from the AFB's list are premeal snacks for the noshing and grazing you'll do throughout the day—there are three National Football League games on Thursday, after all—and beverages, including wine and beer again, there's football to watch. By the Numbers: 2009 Thanksgiving meal cheaper than last year's
  • We're dealing with probably the biggest missing link in what we know about human evolution.
  • The accustomed double cat-shaped depression on the bedspread was missing. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
  • A lunch of Bangkok street food means the only thing missing from this otherwise authentic experience is the jet lag. Times, Sunday Times
  • They were reported missing last week after failing to return on their scheduled flight. Times, Sunday Times
  • There was a serving spoon missing when Nina put the silverware back in its box.
  • What we are missing are hard, indisputable facts. Times, Sunday Times
  • The bullet had gone through, gouging a ragged hole through the muscle, but missing the bone.
  • Five more went missing when their boat capsized in the icy waters as they searched for the original group.
  • Narrowly missing out on a Grammy award, Wait For Me doesn't sound too much like the blues I was brought up with.
  • ‘The lute has a broken string, there's a flute missing, and some of the instruments aren't set up correctly’.
  • I never found the missing piece.
  • We drank a toast to friends and family, here and far away, and I thought about the people I was missing the most.
  • Passion, uncommon in damp presbyterian climates, was missing. MAMBO
  • So, healthy children who regress into postvaccination autism are the ethical and scientific equivalent of "missing socks"? On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • So much the better! more room for others; and the missing guests, whose names will be made known on the morrow, will be convicted of a _servilism_ which will, we think, injure their influence with the population. The Deputy of Arcis
  • Then I get a window saying 'Proceed to the ACP', but when I hover my mouse over the link, I see that the 'adm' part is missing in the link. PhpBB.com
  • If you think this is no more than a VW Phaeton with twin turbos and a longer wheelbase, you're missing the point.
  • To a three-card set with two jokers you could add any two of the three missing suits, releasing one of the jokers and forming a closed four-card set.
  • Part of this form seems to be missing.
  • And when day-break dawned and the star of morn appeared in sheen and shone, he broke up the sitting and, dismissing the youths, donned his court-dress and leaving his house set out for the palace of the The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.
  • Missing commas and run-on sentences may not be a bad thing for teenagers engaged in writing-intensive online activity, says an English professor.
  • This gimmicky attempt to kindle some public warmth for the nation's art is missing the point.
  • The trio had been missing for three days after their small rowing boat capsized in rough seas. The Sun
  • There is no rehearsal in the life , once missing , it will be lost forever.
  • Page view page image: the famed hachured varieties of the Late Bonitians are both generally missing. The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito :
  • Without missing a beat, the taller man handed Dickie a beer (apparently it was not too early to drink), and began challenging his opponent to distinguish between the genuine ascetic and what he termed the conspicuously nonconsuming -poverty snob. Villa Incognito
  • Creates missing config entry. function set_config ($config_name, $config_value, $is_dynamic = false) global $db, $cache, $config; PhpBB.com
  • Don't let time dilute the wine of friendship.Don't let distance space out missing.Blessing you,forever!
  • He asks for aces and receives the good reply of two (just one missing ace). Times, Sunday Times
  • Thousnds of rivers separate us and thousands of mountains are boundless.l can only trust my missing to cloud, may you find a happy life and come back with a successful study earlier.
  • A fifty-pound chunk of steel was missing from the reactor, and the only thing holding the coolant in was the stainless cladding, which is paperthin, and which bulged out the hole like bubblegum. Think Progress » Jonah Goldberg: Concerns About Climate Change Are ‘Millenarian Battiness’
  • Nine teams of rescuers were trying to contact three miners missing underground after an earthquake killed five others in Europe's largest copper mine. Times, Sunday Times
  • ELIZA CARLSON, FRIEND OF DEBBIE HAWK: You know, the day that she went missing is only things that I know from my friends, but the things that I can tell you about Debbie is that, you know, she ` s just one of those people that, once you meet her, you ` re never going to forget her. CNN Transcript Jun 28, 2006
  • We are missing four or five important players injured. The Sun
  • His shirt gapes open with a button missing.
  • Unsurprisingly, I was missing a lot of important rehearsals in the process. No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Tale
  • Chai's dish of choice is far from traditional, but he insists that purists are missing out.
  • Thousnds of rivers separate us and thousands of mountains are boundless.l can only trust my missing to cloud, may you find a happy life and come back with a successful study earlier.
  • Yet when the war came she felt something was missing. Spitfire Women of World War II
  • Entering the neighborhood, Phipps had half expected to find the same pristine but characterless dwellings as in Darlington—square boxes that could have been drawn by a child but for the missing squiggle of crayoned smoke coming from their chimneys. Unearthly Asylum
  • Your piece last month on sporting insults was missing a memorable sledge from an Australia v Zimbabwe cricket match.
  • The trio had been missing for three days after their small rowing boat capsized in rough seas. The Sun
  • The ability of these cats to travel distances through habitat corridors could enable them to repopulate parts of Arizona and New Mexico, restoring a part of our wildlife heritage that has been missing from this region for over 50 years.
  • You are missing the fact that since intelligent cause is indistiguishable from lawlike cause, then when ID say "The best explanation is intelligent cause, rather than blind, lawlike cause …" it is nonsense. Aiguy's Computer
  • One other thing, noticeably missing from the list of nations signing the initiative are the UK and South Korea.
  • Not that its mysteries will readily reveal themselves: one finds oneself rereading passages to crack its subtle enigmas, tantalised by the missing puzzle piece that lies just beyond all that is visible.
  • This entire missing in action saga is an indictment of the conservatives insistance that "no governing is best governing. Bennett: Sanford needs to stop 'embarrassing himself'
  • One car ended up in a field after skidding off the road and up a bank, narrowly missing a tree and telegraph pole.
  • If you don't drink the occasional bottle of Californian wine, then you're missing out on some real treasures.
  • The Bear responds by gobbing at him, and missing.
  • If you weeped for the missing sunset,you would miall the shining stars.
  • He later discovered two travelling clocks and a signet ring, family heirlooms worth £700 and £200 in cash were missing.
  • In this enthymeme, the major premise of the complete syllogism is missing.
  • After missing a couple of early sighters, Carter kicked goals from all points of the compass.
  • Much more difficult for the North is to satisfy Japan's demand for detailed and reliable information on the fate of 10 other missing Japanese.
  • I purchased bracelets from the league at that time the war started and provided bracelets to others genuinely concerned about returning our soldiers that were missing or prisoners in Viet Nam. Letters and Notes
  • The only crumb of comfort is the knowledge the 20m deal signed with chief sponsors Nationwide last year will not be affected by missing out on qualification. The Sun
  • NANCY EUBANK, GREAT-GRANDMOTHER OF MISSING TRENTON: She ` s my granddaughter, Melinda is my granddaughter, Trenton is my great grandson. CNN Transcript Sep 8, 2006
  • It still has an elegant and fluid design, understated rather than flash, but sadly it is missing the distinctive boomerang-shaped rear lights.
  • This is another very interesting part of the biography that is missing from the first print run.
  • Among them is a single display of Babylonian cuneiform tablets that accounts for nine missing items.
  • Many Canadians will quickly dismiss Coulter as a goof, which is just as easy as her dismissing Canadians as a bunch of beer-guzzling hosers. London Free Press
  • I would like to begin by dismissing the assertion that the AVC is nothing but a gang of toughs who go about setting fire to kittens and extorting cash from other VUWSA funded activity groups.
  • I assure you that the missing direct reference was certainly not intentional, more an oversight.
  • Pillow and blanket, in size befitting that missing infant, made that black perambulator all the more confounding.
  • So, the cattle once more "bedded," and every spare hand left with them, as they are liable to run again, two of us start out to find if possible the missing men. Ranching, Sport and Travel
  • It provides a feeling of ownership and obligation that was missing before.
  • There was no doubting the style from the Minstermen, especially in the first half, but the substance was missing and after the brightest of openings there was no va-va-voom, no oomph, no spark.
  • Bars around the lions den were said to have been missing and a probe has begun. The Sun
  • Educators feared these young men were missing the AIDS prevention message.
  • As the show ended and fans filed to the exits only one thing was missing from this roots reverie - just a little more time.
  • It was only after firefighters had put out the blaze that they realised that the geese were missing. Times, Sunday Times
  • So the ransom is missing, he can't remember how he got shot and its Joe's job to try and help him recover his memory. An interview with Michael Robotham
  • In most cases our people will be able to help you to locate the missing article.
  • Some of the puzzle pieces are missing.
  • You do not know I am missing you.
  • A leading businessman has been reported missing from his home.
  • The bullet grazed the corner of the building, just missing my arm.
  • The cashier was stewing herself over the sum of 1, 000 which was missing.
  • Missing parts were not imitated but added in a modern way, often using the rubble bricks of destroyed buildings.
  • He added: 'If the stretcher bar was missing the rail would have been left flapping about. The Sun
  • That led to corporation chiefs setting up a new task force to scour the rest of Africa for missing episodes. The Sun
  • If little living things can thrive here in hot acid baths, perhaps the universe offers many more likely suspects for gumshoes working on the case of missing alien life.
  • It shows a huge disparity between the number missing and investigations undertaken. Times, Sunday Times
  • Speculation is rife about which minister deserves promotion to make up the missing third in the troika of Deputy Prime Ministers.
  • The Drumaness bowler scythed through the defence of Alan Millar with just the second delivery of his first over, dismissing the Bangor opener for 4 runs.
  • She's upset about missing the party.
  • It was a great pleasure working with you my dear, We really appreciate your help you have rendered us, We will be missing you so much, All the very best!
  • The police are very concerned for the welfare of the missing child.
  • All attempts to locate the missing climbers have failed.
  • You know the wheel that my hubcap went missing from the other week?
  • Finding the missing parts has been a lucky blending of good fortune and good detective work.
  • Records of food cooking temperatures were missing, inaccurate and even falsified.
  • Whole sections of records, equivalent to decades of time, may be missing due to miscreant scribes, fires in libraries, or national upheavals leading to disruptions in official diary keeping; these are like sections of cloth missing.
  • We found the missing piece of the jigsaw under the chair.
  • These have also been coded as zero to denote missing data, though strictly speaking their failure to reply is more indicative of the question not being applicable to them.
  • Rites of degradation involve dismissing or disempowering people.
  • Sweden, Norway, Finland and Germany planned to fly flags at half mast in respect for the dead and missing.
  • They have a very different attitude towards missing people.
  • I was also tempted to go out to my car and get my gloves but felt that the gloves were a minor and petty concern when there was a missing cat.
  • The search for the missing men was conducted in poor weather conditions.
  • But one big gong is still missing from their trophy cabinets. The Sun
  • In her search for her missing husband, the woman demonstrated loyalty to her husband; however, since her discovery of the body exposed her father's crime, she also acted unfilially.
  • At the same time we respectfully suggest that this enterprising young company is missing a trick. Times, Sunday Times
  • But my tool set for working on the car is a 384 piece box set and not a bag of multi-tools where parts of the screw driver are missing, the plier turns into a sloppy wire-cutter and what not! Mouse + phone? | Sync Blog
  • I'll be missing the last couple of hours because I'm an old fart and I need my sleep.
  • My grandma is making a hoo-ha over her missing white sari.
  • Staff first realised that he was missing on Thursday, when he was due to have his monthly medical examination. Times, Sunday Times
  • I doubt he would be woofing about him missing the shot because the bottom line is that the guy outplayed him to steal the ball in the first place.
  • She filed a missing persons report Tuesday and his body was found Wednesday under heavy peppertree brush 30-40 feet off Albatross Road. WBBH - News
  • Wayne's body has never been found, he is listed as missing in action, and presumed to be dead.
  • Missing Tasmanian bushwalker Phillip Michael Dewis found after police search A MAN missing in bushland in Tasmania has found his way back to search crews alive and well. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
  • The historical school mistaking what men have done for what men should do and, while often missing the full induction of the past, scornfully rejecting as empty apriorism deductive reasoning from the nature of man, presents a materialistic, evolutionary, and positivistic view of human society, which in no way appeals to sane reason. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
  • The spare tire obviously was missing before the vehicle was repainted sand yellow.
  • Police said her disappearance eight days ago was still a missing person's inquiry. The Sun
  • The roll-call of the missing presumed dead is the tragic emblem of such atrocities, and it is no surprise that the fate of one woman in particular has caused much comment.
  • He fled after three weeks, hating his lonely lodgings and missing all the fun of London. Times, Sunday Times
  • A few respondents thought they might be missing out on potentially interesting information.
  • They reported his disappearance to the missing persons bureau.

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