How To Use Notice In A Sentence
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If you unzip our sample document and load content.xml into a text editor, you should notice a few things.
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I've noticed a lot of people larding their speech with that phrase lately.
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Gideon could see the places where the silver was wearing off the cane and he noticed a good deal of clumsy darning on the inside of the cloak, as though the lining had come away from the backing several times.
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You notice that your breathing has speeded up a bit.
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As soon as everyone stopped laughing, they noticed a few baby cradles at the other side of the room.
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Even Peggy Noonan on MTP struggled this morning to describe as benignly as possible how McCain is noticeably putting a lot of energy into keeping a lid on his anger.
Obama Unleashes Wave Of Mailers Attacking McCain's Health Plan
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It was almost like my old dad was winking at me to help me notice him.
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That's when I noticed the little sticker on the window explaining the purpose of the ‘Child Safety Lock’.
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It found itself subjected to harsh rain it was ill equipped for, dissolving the sandstone facades of it's buildings slowly, even as the people chose not to lift their eyes and notice it.
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This seems like an unnecessary attention-seeking tactic, making sure we notice a particularly sleazy line.
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The interesting element of the game was that it required one to evaluate not films but people; that is, to sift through the prejudices of one’s movie-freak friends and the peccadilloes and quirks of the major reviewers, and by graphing, as it were, what each could be expected to overpraise, underpraise, revile, not notice, or deliberately ignore, one could acquire a very nice sense of the film.
Film flam
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Did you notice the Google text ads at the top of the guestlist page?
Scripting News for 12/28/2006 « Scripting News Annex
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One effortlessly got saturation coverage, the other struggled to get noticed, despite the mandatory presence of a celebrity, a suitably weighty one too.
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And while ferrous metals are certainly not out of the picture, even from a consumer's perspective, it's hard not to notice the increased use of aluminum and plastic.
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Minerva has noticed a growing enthusiasm for using infant bath seats in adult bathtubs.
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When he discovered, in 1954, that dimethylnitrosamine was hepatotoxic he noticed that the poisoned livers contained enlarged cells similar to those seen in veno-occlusive disease.
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The difference in turn-on time would generally not be noticeable for standard household incandescent bulbs, since they turn on very quickly.
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On Continental Europe no one ever pays a blind bit of notice to them.
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Of course people have noticed before that Matisse posed his models in flimsy, filmy harem pants on divans and cushions covered with flowered or striped stuffs against fabric screens and curtains.
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A notice posted on the chapel of Carrigtwohill, calling one of those meetings, warned such as absented themselves that they would be marked men, as there was famine in the parish, and they should have food or blood.
The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines
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Bond really has to work in this movie - he has to set up his cover well in advance and try not to be noticed.
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As she got up and moved to support him, she noticed some strange dark stains on his left shoulder, which had been hidden under the pelisse before.
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He noticed the Scotch on a tabouret and a cigar box near a chromium smoking stand.
What Would Philip Marlowe Do
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Indeed, "My mother said I could be no lad, till I was twentye, '* is a passage I notice in my Milton with a view to this; which see; and therein also of a shep - herdess" taking the tale.
The Rolliad, in Two Parts: Probationary Odes for the Laureatship; and Political Eclogues and ...
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Pass the rest of the notices round the table so that everyone can have a copy.
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His bankruptcy or winding-up usually abrogates the agreement, and may restore to the bank its right to combine the accounts without notice.
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I go back now and the dialect of the old residents is noticeably absent, replaced by the faux scouse of the Liverpudlian refugees.
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After many days I noticed my belly was becoming distended.
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The independent consultant with any hope of being self-supporting must have an organized library of information available at a moment's notice.
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The anarchs have status because they are noticed and respected for what little power they have achieved.
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As a postscript your readers may have noticed that this individual has been allowed to have two letters published in the same edition, although she describes herself differently in each letter.
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What else did Von Frisch notice about the wagging dance?
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I was too pleased with my own hard-won epiphany that the film's title is a palindrome to even notice that the credits had started rolling.
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A picket was organised last week after receivers Robson Rhodes refused to withdraw redundancy notices issued to 67 staff.
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Manzo noticed the neatly trimmed goatee and mustache combination that framed Rossiter's facial features and the chiseled jaw of a man who was in peak physical condition.
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She won't notice anything but what relates to herself.
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A watchdog has ruled that clamping cannot be allowed in areas where there is no obvious warning notice.
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I notice a tendency to overcall when guys use a mouth call.
Any tips for using a mouth call for turkies?
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As he fought to rip the net apart, Francis noticed, with horror, that their struggles were only pulling the net tighter, causing it to inject increasing amounts of tranquilizing drugs into their bodies.
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Nature notes Autumn colours are now becoming more noticeable, though large swathes of the countryside are still quite green.
Times, Sunday Times
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He noticed the curious stares of the regular patrons of the inn.
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Swindon Council may also serve a warning notice on riders causing a noise nuisance.
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In an almost unnoticeable state like light or air, it could hang like a painting, existing at the edge of perception.
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Now we had been taken notice of, put forward, and patronized, in undeniably genteel society.
Oldtown Folks
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The Rules do contain adequate provisions for appeal by the person upon whom a notice is served.
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Every few months they serve notices on the owners that they should make the building weatherproof and vandal proof.
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Andrew noticed the sudden change of direction, as the wave moved faster towards them.
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This in some degree corresponds with Captain Cook's record of the irregularity of his compass when he passed near this part of the coast, in consequence of which he called the peaked island to the westward of the cape, Magnetical Island: this irregularity, however, was not noticed by me in my observations near the same spot; and the difference observed by him may very probably have been occasioned by the ship's local attraction, which in those days was unknown.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
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In the case of periodic tenancies the legislature left landlords free to bring them to an end by the service and expiry of valid notices to quit.
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The velarium, or awning, is advertised in all the inscriptions yet found which give notice of public games.
Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
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In closing, I would like to reflect upon what I think was the most disturbing, and unnoticed, subtheme of Van Sant's film biography of Harvey Milk.
Archive 2009-01-01
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A famous art collector is walking through the city when he notices a mangy cat lapping milk from a saucer in the doorway of a store, and he does a double take.
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Once we got home, there was barely time to enjoy our presents. We had to go off to our grandparents' house for our annual Christmas dinner. As we drove down the highway through town, I noticed that the family was still there, standing outside the closed gas station.
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I noticed a tap for a local microbrew called Prohibition Ale, brewed by Speakeasy Brewery.
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What she did notice was how the avenues and streets became more organized and concentrated the closer they went to the center.
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It is quite impracticable for me to arrange an alternative source of payment at this notice.
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I am having this recurring nightmare that I will be stuck in traffic for so long that I will die and my body decompose beyond recognition before anyone notices.
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I'm used to Emily saying things like that, so I don't take any notice, just nod and pick up a bottle of peach nectar off the shelf, slosh it around, wrinkle my nose.
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Also, I have this weird need to be the bendiest and stretchiest in class, and to have the teachers notice and comment on said bendy-stretchiness, preferably where other people can hear.
Ampersand
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Then Vernage noticed Sergeant King staggering down the road in a desperate bid to flag down a car.
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However I did notice something, and it was something that both my wife and father both brought up, there was a strange effect that wasn't there at the World Première, something I described as a fogging or blurring during some scenes, particularly the action ones, which made it hard to follow the action.
Filmstalker: Avatar: An Xmas visit
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Please post this important message on your notice board so that all the students can read it.
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A notice in Nature the following year described his representation of the attitudes of human locomotion by means of sculpture.
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Some of you may be surprised to see Mr. Jerrold here in person-in as much as our notice card intimated that he had been "liquidated" - which process we have come to understand in recent years is somewhat of an ordeal.
The Present Condition of England
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Make fitness part of your routine and you won't notice it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Penis envy is right -- you notice how it's always guys like Sam and Randy leading the charge for this kind of thing?
OHSU biotech breakthrough -- worthless to Portland (Jack Bog's Blog)
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After a dozen golden oldies had been sung loudly if untunefully, it was noticed that a number of non-MEOSA guests had fled the premises.
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Be kind to the others, grab the fleck of riverweed, notice how beautifully your bug legs scull.
Archive 2009-12-01
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His boots creaked at every step, his starched uniform crackled and a sourish smell of sweat and leather became noticeable.
Autumn
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In the confusion that followed, she managed to slip away unnoticed.
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A staggering 77 percent said they were, proving that the Weekender is getting noticed on-line as well as on the news-stands.
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When you come back to your experiment, you'll notice that yeast cells do a really good job of creating carbon dioxide.
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Why the thell is their an interfaith sefer, that is just gay. anyways, just my opinion. notice how i’m not saying anyone deserves to die.
Yet another interfaith Seder… | Jewschool
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As she grows up and matures, you will notice many of these childhood traits develop into adult ones.
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I NOTICE that apart from the widespread complaint that the German pilotless planes seem so unnatural (a bomb dropped by a live airman is quite natural, apparently), some journalists are denouncing them as barbarous, inhumane, and an indiscriminate attack on civilians.
As I Please
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It was of course the law of the place that they were never to take no notice, as Mr. Buckton said, whom they served; but this also never prevented, certainly on the same gentleman's own part, what he was fond of describing as the underhand game.
In the Cage
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Lucky for you teens, Jessica hasn't been flashing any particularly noticeable jewelry on her fingers.
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Pete sounded muffled. and as he turned Marcus noticed that he too had a loose thread on his shirt.
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None rested quiet or mute for a second, except the one who kept close as his shadow to her father's side, and unwittingly was treated by him less like the other children, than like some stray spirit of another world, caught and held jealously, but without much outward notice, lest haply it might take alarm, and vanish back again unawares.
John Halifax, Gentleman
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The munchkin is a breed of cat known for its noticeably short legs.
Munchkin Cat Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models
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Film producers were the first to notice the rundown part of the city.
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The company said it will give a 180-day nonrenewal notice to about 8,000 Florida policyholders beginning in March, and expects to fully withdraw from the market by the second half of 2012.
Citing Sinkhole Claims, Mercury General Quits Florida Market
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I learned the word dépanneur 'convenience store'; I heard the affricated d and t; I did not notice the tense/lax vowels or the -tu questions; I did notice the contractions (chais &c) and a feature nobody mentioned in the comments, the raising of nasalized vowels: vent sounded almost like vin (with /æ/ as in hat), and vin had a high [e] and sounded diphthongized ([veiN]) -- in fact, one guy said matin so that it struck my ears as [matiN].
Languagehat.com: MONTREAL 2.
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The Democratic leadership in Congress, which was noticeably absent at the signing ceremony, fought the measure.
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An employer who wants to dismiss an employee must give proper notice.
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A notice was posted on the box office doors to announce the postponement ‘due to inclement weather’.
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I should have noticed that there had been no one around the lit fire, or there were no sentries or patrols whatsoever.
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You might have noticed by now that the keywords Mr. McWhorter has chosen to mark "language-ness" spell out the word "idiom"—which is apt, in that idioms are the parts of language that are the most ingrown, disheveled, intricate, oral and mixed.
Strange and Twisted Tongues
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At length one noticed the fact, and another; and then it became the general topic of conversation in the group upon the bridge, where Ethelberta, her hair getting frizzed and her cheeks carnationed by the wind, sat upon a camp-stool looking towards the prow.
The Hand of Ethelberta
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Otherwise, I would not have noticed as it now blends in nondescriptly, with the rest of the businesses.
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But the organist made his profession clear by explaining that the committee had just invited him to oblige the company with a solo on the piano, but that he had been hitting the champagne so hard that he doubted if he could tell the keys from the pedals, and he added that if they'd excuse him he would go to sleep, which he immediately did with his head on the shoulder of the lady recitationist, who tactfully tried not to notice that he was there.
Cinderella And Other Stories
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I've just noticed that the Cafe Car has a big jar of wooden - not plastic - coffee stirrers right there on the counter.
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I notice that it significantly underspent its budget last year, even without the increased funding it now has.
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Companies need to wake up and take notice of the public's increasing concern with the environment.
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As I'd grown older, I'd noticed that Florence had ceased to bowdlerize her storytelling.
TIME OF THE WOLF
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The runners have noticeably quickened their pace.
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You will notice on your right a handsome house on a large lake.
On the Trail of Merlin - a guide to the Celtic mystery tradition
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What selfish purpose is served by a crass attempt to hide something that stands no chance at all of escaping notice?
Times, Sunday Times
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The honest man was grown splenetic: disregarded by every body, he was become disregardful of himself: he hoped for a cure of his gloominess, from her cheerful vein; and seemed to think himself under obligation to one who had taken notice of him, when nobody else would.
Sir Charles Grandison
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What is so alarming about the commissioner's report is the revelation that so many relatively minor inroads on civil liberties have gone unremarked and unnoticed.
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Upon arrival we noticed very quickly we were not greeted with friendly faces.
Christianity Today
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I called him a few more times but he didn't take any notice, and I was starting to get hoha.
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Just then, Dallas noticed one of the luscious women walking towards him.
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A pressman from the paper noticed it and called the newsroom, but it was too late to pull the illustration.
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Notice concerning time limitation of providing foreign exchange settlement document for export business by export enterprises.
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That was all of the incident, but he heard Ruth muffle a dry sob in her throat, and noticed that she turned her face away to gaze out of the window.
Chapter 26
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For years, HPV testing was a relatively small, unnoticed component of the medical economy, struggling to find its place in medical diagnostics.
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A list of the names of subscribers and family successors is on display on the church notice board.
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Even more important, they might fail to notice a menace or threat which if not guarded against might harm or even destroy them, their regime, and possibly even the state as well.
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I was glad to notice a bust of Marie Antoinette in Mme. Campan's room.
Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun
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If you have ever looked at a network cable you will notice that the wires are arranged in pairs, and are twisted together.
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If the archival filing application is rejected, the reasons shall be stated in the written notice.
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I'm normally a light sleeper, so it was a surprise that the husband was the first to notice this.
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She noticed a soft nightdress, also pale blue, had replaced her torn gown.
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It was a good thing Mrs. Scott's mom was so involved with her son, or else she'd have noticed the horror-struck expression on my face.
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I couldn't help but notice his teeth were stained a faint yellow, probably from consumption of too many cigars.
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It cannot have gone unnoticed that our global power has waned in tandem with the waning of our pants.
Times, Sunday Times
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Notice also that the range, or spectrum, of visible light frequencies is only a very small part of the whole spectrum of radiant energy.
The Harper Dictionary of Science in Everyday Language
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As we were getting changed, I noticed some of my new team-mates were putting on what looked like cricket boxes.
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Something must first resemble what we expect it to look like before we take notice.
TUNNEL VISIONS: Journeys of an Underground Philosopher
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Many observers have noticed that negroes become several degrees lighter after syphilization; but no definite relation between syphilis and leukoderma has yet been demonstrated in this race.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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I tell you what though, brother,’ said Dennis, cocking his hat for the convenience of scratching his head, and looking gravely at Hugh, ‘it’s worthy of notice, as a proof of the amazing equalness and dignity of our law, that it don’t make no distinction between men and women.
Barnaby Rudge
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Not long after we left home we noticed a car following us with its lights turned off and so we cut across a park but about three men followed.
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You may have noticed, Mrs Jordan, that we are finally around to respecting your womanly judgment.
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You'll notice a new map of the US at the top of the right-hand column of this page.
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Despite noticeable speckles, nicks and the odd scratch, the first reel of the film looks quite good with excellent contrast and sharp images.
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I noticed he had the picture of us reframed and it was on his desk where it always had been.
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Shoppers discover this only when they read the notices inside the store.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then he noticed that sitting next to her was a man who seemed very uncomfortable, touching her arm trying to coax her down.
Christianity Today
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All this, it will be noticed, is a case of cell-multiplication, which differs from that which takes place in the unicellular organisms only in its being _invariably_ preceded (as far as we know) by karyokinesis, and in the resulting cells being all confined within a common envelope, and so in not being free to separate.
Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions
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The one concession to modernity is a notice at the bottom of the page which says that items in bold print are organic and certified by the Soil Association.
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I was ready to about-face and let him drag me home when I noticed an imposing shape in the distance.
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Take no notice of his threats they're sheer bravado.
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I was a little unnoticed "shaver" -- the errand boy of the house -- not quite ten years old.
My Own Life Story
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Up to 1956 there were doubts as to whether deposits for fixed periods and deposits repayable at a minimum notice could, thus, be garnished.
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You notice that your breathing has speeded up a bit.
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If you wink enough nobody will notice your answerless gestures, dog-gone-it!
Beat 360° 10/3/08
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Hence, the third proposal: Take records seriously and implement certification systems to formalize them, taking special notice of the promises you must make to succeed.
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I had never driven a 4X4 before but you don't notice any difference from a normal car except for the height.
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You may notice a discharge from your vagina.
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When you're on the mailing list, you'll receive advance notice of upcoming events.
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But the soldier, who, with proper military observance, continued to have his eye and attention fixed on the Emperor, as the prince whom he was bound to answer or to serve, saw none of the hints, which Achilles at length suffered to become so broad, that Zosimus and the Protospathaire exchanged expressive glances, as calling on each other to notice the by-play of the leader of the Varangians.
Count Robert of Paris
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Our fears seem less primeval when we notice that the island's warden, Adrian, is staring at the tide and looking concerned.
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I didn't notice and looked really trashy for weeks until a friend pointed it out.
Times, Sunday Times
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When the offending device had finally been removed, she didn't notice even then; her mind had been made as pure as the cubic room she was contained in.
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We have to invent a new method for sneaking prisoners out without being noticed by the guards.
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They were all in their street clothes, so I'd figured they'd vacated the locker room with the intention of going home… until they'd noticed the basketballs.
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You probably haven't noticed, but my surname bears a passing resemblance to a certain vulgarity.
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I felt this to have been a very dangerous proceeding, for if le bon Dieu had noticed Ghislaine's travesty, He might have made the wind turn, and she would then have remained a deviless and been forced to live in hell for all eternity.
A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
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He didn't seem to notice, let alone give a stuffing, that the rest of the political world had stopped, at least for a day.
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Perhaps they thought no one would notice - once you're into timespans that large, what's a year here or there?
Times, Sunday Times
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Notice that in this case we will have a violation of the doctrine of determinism, and indeed determinism might be expressed simply as the thesis that nothing ever occurs by mere hap.
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Wheat flour used as a starch thickener needs relatively long cooking to remove its raw taste; and even after cooking it has a noticeable flavour.
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However, I also noticed that Speedos and swimming briefs are extremely popular on the beaches of Europe.
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Combining them so they appear harmonious and have no noticeable push-pull effect is also quite an achievement.
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The dog trapped poorly, ran disappointingly, and when I met Marlyn with the dog at the trackside, I immediately noticed he was over duly distressed.
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After a while, you begin to notice geometric shapes in the forest, the way the trees have been lined up for felling.
Times, Sunday Times
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She pretended not to notice.
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But directly, as a Mississippi regiment passed by, he noticed at the head of one of the companies an old man, almost as old as himself, his clothes torn, and ragged from long marching; shoeless, his feet tied up in sack-cloth and his old slouch hat aflop over his ears.
The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills
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Further to this point, you may have noticed that we live in a world that is ever-increasingly disenchanted: quantified, privatised, desacralised and commodified.
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The notice will specify what steps the manufacturer must take.
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Many of these storms, if they occurred in uninhabited areas, would pass without any notice or impacts.
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These organisms are small and rarely noticed, much like relative nobody Preston.
The Sun
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Her eyes were red and swollen, something I hadn't noticed earlier because of the way her hair shielded her face.
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Michael was so wrapped up in not letting her see the pain in his eyes that he didn't notice the pain that flashed quickly across her own features at his words.
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And after outdrawing and killing one bad guy, Raylen is transferred from the sunny skies of Miami home of Burn Notice and Miami Vice to his former home in the backwoods of Kentucky.
A 'Justified' Outing For A Loose-Cannon Lawman
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Stepping outside, he noticed the rain had stopped, the sky had cleared, but the sun was setting.
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However, breaking the law often starts with unethical behaviour that has gone unnoticed.
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She noticed a diminutive figure standing at the entrance.
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However, to continue in this enviable position, he must be prepared at a moment's notice to go scabbing again.
THE SCAB
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The government has also noticed how quiet the protests have been against the antiterror law, which increased the power of law enforcers to act against potential terrorists.
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You file through the marina, a notice to the Customs Office or the local tax collection office for the area in which the marina is located, stating that said trailer shall not be taken out of the country while under the care of the marina.
Bringing Your Boat To Mexico
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It is also hugely noticeable what winning and success can do for peoples, races, nations.
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His doctor noticed immediately that Tom did look ill: his skin and the whites of his eyes had a yellowish hue this is called jaundice, and he had a swollen, distended abdomen.
DR. SANJIV CHOPRA’S LIVER BOOK
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They noticed fifty and twenty dollar bills floating in the water.
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You'll notice this on cranesbill geraniums, alchemilla, dicentra, nepeta, thalictrum and tradescantia, among others.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence? Jonathan Safran Foer
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I could fall face first into a herd of leprechauns and not notice.
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Let's write a notice of next Friday's meeting.
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Alert readers may have noticed the misprint in last week's column.
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Second, in view of the compliance costs estimated at £20,000, the notice was unreasonable.
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It is also a fact worthy of notice that, four thousand years later, men of other countries and of other languages have, by much study and a careful comparison of the symbols, been able to decipher with accuracy those hierographical representations. [
The Revelation Explained
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I know by now you've seen the notice by the guy claiming to "revoke" the GPL license on his code, because I'm getting email about it.
GNU GPL: It's Irrevocable
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Make sure the employee is given notice pay.
Times, Sunday Times
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I've got to go now'Il faut que j'y aille' is the most popular way to say 'I must go now' notice the use of the Subjunctif of Aller.
Souci - French Word-A-Day
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We hike back to the boat, snug our life jackets, and push off, the first set of waves and holes going by almost without my notice.
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Erin, the mousiest of the bridesmaids, elbowed Gladys when she noticed, only to find herself subtly rebuked with a withering glare from Cheryl, whose short brown hair and severe temperament remained unchanged for the happy occasion.
Crossed
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Good Mohammedans pray five times every day, and there is a church officer called a muezzin (mu-ez'-zin), who gives them notice of the hour for prayer.
Famous Men of the Middle Ages
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I was in a training course which was just about to start when I noticed that I had gotten an inordinate amount of hits this morning.
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Once finished, I noticed a rasbora on the carpet looking a little sere with a pillow feather stuck on its body.
"It's okay to eat fish 'cause they don't have any feelings..."
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However, the ratio of sandeels to gadids found in the Shag gizzards did not change over time, suggesting that diets and rates of otilith loss in gizzards were not noticeably different over the month.
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As Becky goes into the schoolhouse, she notices that the schoolmaster has left his desk key in the lock on the drawer.
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People should be able to see a noticeable improvement in the accuracy of forecasting.
Times, Sunday Times
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Though as I've noticed, doing auric repairs on someone even without their involvement will cause their physical body to repair itself to match the change in their energetic body.
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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted. Garrison Keillor
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While things are bad now, I've noticed that blue collar families that had jobs during the boom, but couldn't afford to get into one of the overprices houses are now snatching up foreclosures, fixing them up and living the dream.
Current.com top stories
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You might have noticed more and more people of all ages gliding down the streets on skateboards, sliding along walls and flicking and spinning their boards with various degrees of success.
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They pinned a notice to the door.
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There were lots of notices on the notice-board.
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But he went on going to see them, as though he did not notice their unamiability.
The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories