They may, however, be put off by homographs and polysemous words, such as the various uses of bank and crane. |
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One seemed to live and dream, aircraft and to this day I automatically crane skywards at the sound of a piston engine. |
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Under this method the head of the crane is raised by means of a hydraulic ram so as to create a gap between the head of the crane and the mast. |
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The crane lifted a large bottom-dump concrete bucket filled with granular infill material. |
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Is it your sense that these feathered dinosaurs are more closely related, to say the crane or the Dodo bird? |
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A rigger tells the crane operator where to put the hook, when to lift, what to do. |
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First, the crane operator lowers the lifting beam with the rigging attached, and the riggers connect the cables to the lifting inserts. |
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Traffic crews then had to block all but one lane of the bridge while the crane righted the container. |
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The Neuson's crane is centred to the right of the operator, and rotates independently from the carrier a full 90 degrees to either side. |
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When the collection lorry arrives a crane picks up the bins and empties them into the relevant compartments. |
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Villagers cheered as the building was lowered by crane off a flatbed lorry. |
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The sighting of the black neck crane and several other rare and common birds in the area kept my spirit and interest buoyant. |
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Once he had separated the piece enough to get a chain around it, then a crawler crane came into play. |
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Traffic tailed back along a main route into York after a huge crane got stuck at a busy junction today. |
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The crane driver fled the scene after the accident and is wanted for questioning. |
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The skies are quiet except for the occasional sandhill crane and its raucous cries. |
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I don't know if we're going to do the Rivers and Wildlife Celebration but we will get out for some sandhill crane and snow goose action. |
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Some species pair for life, the most celebrated example being the tall stately sarus crane, which graces the green fields of North India. |
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A bridge crane runs along the building's central axis, resembling the steel structure that supports it. |
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It is likely the tower will be dismantled piece by piece using a large crane and a scaffold to support the remaining structure. |
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Though they came close when they stole a crane and deposited a Volkswagen Beetle in the Guest room by dint of tearing a huge hole in the roof. |
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The whooping crane, named for its loud and penetrating mating call, is one of America's best known and rarest endangered species. |
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The crane jib came to rest on the pontoon narrowly missing a civilian shipwright working beside Young Endeavour. |
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A skip being lowered from a crane was seen to come close to the group of men laying tiles. |
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The holes for the raised circular crane posts can be cut with a standard hole punch. |
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Soon, the car was attached by its back bumper to the miniature crane in the bed of the truck. |
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The wreck lay intact on its port side, its masts and crane jibs spreading themselves across the sand and gravel seabed. |
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Then I can just manoeuvre over to my local neighbourhood crane, knock the bomb off, land up-right and go on my merry way. |
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But the crane can also be read, and was meant to be read, as a Parisienne tittuping along the streets in search of adventure. |
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The immediate area around the crane is still cordoned off for safety reasons, due to the risk of parts of the broken jib falling. |
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The wing was lifted into place by a specially made crane from Valencia, which has a capacity of 2,400 tons. |
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The graceful black-necked crane was designated a top-priority species to protect. |
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There appeared to be some trackwork going on, as there was a crane sitting next to the tracks. |
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I received a sample of millipedes and crane fly larvae from a seedling corn field. |
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The one crane I saw in the streets of Baghdad was hoisting an advertising billboard. |
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The giant bagel weighed 394 kilograms, measured 1.8 metres in diameter and required a small crane to hoist it out of its custom-built oven. |
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Weighing two-and-a-half tonnes, it was hoisted over the house by crane and then the builder put the roof on. |
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In yesterday's windy conditions, the front jib of the crane dangled at the former gasometer site, the damaged part swaying towards buildings. |
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Finally, after setting down a bundle of rebar, the crane operator did not raise the jib line all the way back to the top. |
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The driver, who left the scene after the accident, jumped from the cab just seconds before the jib of the crane plunged down onto the seashore. |
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It will be 60 minutes long and will essentially feature characters suspended by a mobile from a crane. |
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A spectacular example is the incense burner in the shape of a beautifully modeled floating crane. |
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Although it is rumoured that mosquito hawks eat mosquitoes, that is not the case with crane flies. |
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They had been crafted from the ulnae of the red-crowned crane and had between five and eight finger-holes. |
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Overhead power cables broke the fall of the crane as the jib of the machine tore a gaping hole in the roof of the single storey premises. |
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On Saturday, workers used a crane with a sling to lift the damaged airliner off the city street and into a hangar for further inspections. |
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Each mold filled with a predetermined amount of concrete is slung up fore and aft by the ceiling traveling crane. |
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The jib or projecting arm of a crane probably derives from gibbet, and gibe and gybe are often written jibe. |
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A major section of the crane snapped off at a Dallinger Ltd construction site at the old Gasworks site on the Sunday morning. |
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Wal was still doing his paper crane origami and Reese never stopped on teasing me. |
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The 7-ton crane can handle 600 pounds at full extension of the jib boom at 82 feet, or 2500 pounds at 60 feet. |
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As they were going along they found the feathers of different kinds of birds, such as the crane, shitepoke, duck, etc., which they collected. |
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Many dances mimic the movements and behaviors of animals such as the brolga crane of the northern wetlands. |
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I mean, hey, at least my car is parked within spitting distance of the crane. |
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Various crane flies, spiders, springtails and other species have life cycles of 3 to 5 years. |
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Applications include valve nuts, cam bearings, impellers, hangers in pickling baths, agitators, crane gears and connecting rods. |
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The stately crane, one of the 200 or so remaining in the wild, slowly beat against the north wind, moving up the narrow strip of land. |
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Rescue workers were still searching for victims while the Fire Department sought to stabilize buildings damaged by the broken crane. |
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The massive stanchions that had supported the crane gantry rails in the past now support the new steel-framed structures. |
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The driver backed his lorry down our narrow, double parked road and used a hand crane to drop the bags into a tight space in the front garden. |
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The crane has light to dark blue-gray plumage and a crimson cap at the back of its crown. |
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Their father worked in construction as a crane operator, oiler and mechanic. |
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Because whooping crane pairs usually only hatch one chick a year, there's only a four per cent growth every year in the population, Johns said. |
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Watched by a crowd of onlookers three firefighters went into the water and used a canal side crane to hoist the shivering animal out. |
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Paratroopers who parachuted in will be lifted by crane back to their helicopters. |
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A crane had run into the back of her car, crushing the roof and boot and caving in the rear windscreen. |
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Two species are native to North America, the whooping crane and the sandhill crane. |
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Recovery operations are carried out using two Rotzler hydraulic winches and a hydraulically operated crane. |
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Four people suffered minor injures when a crane toppled on to the flight deck of aircraft carrier HMS Invincible. |
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The power is in an isolator at the bottom of the crane and that is padlocked. |
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The pair at the rear of the pivot joint immediately underneath the crane base is the most used. |
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On the water's edge just a few metres away an elegant white crane admires its reflection in the water. |
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Bettridge served in the army as a colour sergeant before leaving six years ago to work as a crane driver. |
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A huge 60ft crane will be used to hoist a new fantail on to the back of historic Shipley Windmill. |
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The crane was not thoroughly examined prior to assembly as required by the applicable regulations. |
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Ed has an all-purpose 75-foot boat with twin diesel engines and a five-ton crane amidships. |
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The erection crew rented a 365-ton crane used to hoist the truss and steel I-beams into place. |
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By the 15th century the quay was outfitted with a crane and a public latrine. |
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The roots of his biliousness can be traced to his upbringing as the eldest of four sons to Jim and Eileen, an Irish crane driver and his wife, in north London. |
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The delicate procedure saw a crane winch the wooden frame on top of the building before workmen set about ensuring every beam was in the right place. |
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I watched the crane operator take a swing with the wrecking ball. |
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Over a ton of weight was then lifted gingerly out of the soil by a crane. |
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The new tank, which was lowered into place by a huge crane, will help prevent flood water overflow and untreated sewage gushing into the River Blackwater. |
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Once the braces are secure and the panel is plumb, the crane slackens the cables, and the riggers disconnect the lifting hardware from the panels. |
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A rigger can knock a crane over as fast as a crane operator. |
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It contains historic wetlands that could be restored to provide important habitat for sandhill crane nesting and foraging as well as Oregon spotted frog breeding habitat. |
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Four of the prisoners came down of their own accord on Tuesday night, followed shortly afterwards by two men brought down in a crane by negotiators. |
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Whooping crane young are fed dragonfly larvae, insects and tadpoles. |
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The vessel is equipped with 2 moon pools, 1,000 sq meters clear deck space, a 250T heave compensated crane equipped for deepwater lowering in water depths to 10,000 ft. |
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It was in the middle of the night, like two in the morning, and I was so nauseous and they brought me down in the crane. |
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A police officer escaped a bizarre accident with only minor injuries on Monday when a Port Authority crane overturned and smashed the boat he was in. |
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The site is fenced and locked and the crane has a fence around the bottom. |
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Once orbiting the Earth the crew delicately manoeuvred a 100 ft movable crane tipped with lasers and a camera to inspect the wings and nose for damage. |
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Once staff were sure she was unconscious a cherry picker crane took her to the ground and she was carried to her cage, where she died within about five minutes. |
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Above the bow, to the port side of the wreck, debris from the deck includes a pair of mooring bollards and a small crane that would have been used to service the anchors. |
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But Mrs. crane insists that she has pledged her heart to one dude and one dude only. |
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I took a ride on the cherry picker, a crane that lifted me high enough to see most of the county and, frighteningly, Lindy's blouse in the crowd below me. |
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Running around this landscape of giant heathers, you will also see ostriches, bonteboks, baboons and, if you are lucky, a fly-past from a blue crane. |
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I made it physical, and the actors were really hanging from a crane 100 feet above the ground. |
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The research crane was referring to has linked older fathers to schizophrenia and autism in children. |
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Masts which are only slightly over the minimum bridge clearance might conceivably be arranged with removable upper sections which could be unstepped with the aid of a crane. |
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The arrow indicates the band corresponding to the crane sex-linked DNA fragment, which has a size of 421 bp in whooping crane and hooded crane and 424 bp in sandhill crane. |
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A large solitary crane takes off to the left, subtly guiding the eye towards the missing leaf of the double door or shutter where the seascape doubtless continued. |
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She has been holding on to my chunni just as I have instructed her and as we settle down, I crane my neck to see if I can spot the Pakistani woman across the divide. |
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On the OREGON II, neuston nets are deployed off the starboard side of the forward deck with the forward crane which rests in a cradle during the tow. |
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This is a crane that's been designed by Chris Mitchell, what he calls an access dinghy system, and this is the crane that he uses off the pontoons, yes. |
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As the crane operator hoisted a bucketload of concrete, swung it over the roof, and boomed out toward the empty forms, the crane lost stability, tipping toward the victim. |
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For somebody who has grown up with the stench of oil dripping from filthy laundry, surrounded by roustabouts and crane operators, I've spent surprisingly little time on rigs. |
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It is understood the tower crane at the centre of Tuesday night's drama will be decommissioned when crane work finishes within the next two weeks. |
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Anybody who knows Jake's career knows that he pinnacled the liberal-media ladder a decade ago and then bounded to the top of a tower crane that's beyond politics. |
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The emus are four months old and the sarus crane is six months old. |
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The jet ski and the tender are located on the flying bridge where a hydraulic crane lifts and lowers them into and out of the water. |
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Accordingly, during 1972 the union embarked upon a concerted campaign to enforce the use of two dogmen on each crane. |
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He was responsible for the development of the hydraulic crane and many military armaments. |
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There are recipes for preparing many different types of animals, including whale, crane, curlew, heron, seal and porpoise. |
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I have just met on the grand staircase five peacocks, two guinea hens, and an Egyptian crane. |
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He was arrested and the tree was repaired by tree surgeons who removed gouged sections from the trunk while the tree was suspended from a crane. |
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Much of the original internal structure remained, including the cavernous main turbine hall, which retained the overhead travelling crane. |
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Modern turbines usually have a small onboard crane for hoisting maintenance tools and minor components. |
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If the turbine has a difficult access road, a containerized crane can be lifted up by the internal crane to provide heavier lifting. |
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It is usually suspended from a crane on land or from a small pontoon or barge. |
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A helicopter used to carry loads connected to long cables or slings is called an aerial crane. |
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A steam crane, station improvements, and extensive track modernisation were all on the list of work to be done. |
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An electric overhead crane replaced 36 day laborers for moving heavy loads across the factory. |
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The assemblies pass by on a conveyor, or if they are heavy, hung from an overhead crane or monorail. |
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Meanwhile the steam crane would have already have upended the wheels and axle with the wheel to be retyred at the lowest point. |
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We're not making progress because we're two-blocked by the crane that has the road shut down. |
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They were on a night shift and incendiary bombs were dropping but they managed to get the train under a water crane. |
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The whooping crane is a hallmark example of the power of conservation partnerships. |
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Cowen's job was to move railcars along the pier, where the crane lowered containers onto them. |
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The crane operates at the facility's rail head which is handling more than 200,000 tonnes a year. |
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And with the 42 remaining tenants rehoused elsewhere, work will begin in earnest once a crane arrives in the coming days. |
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The 32-year-old jumped from a crane at Dubai Autodrome to raise awareness of breast cancer. |
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Ralf Heinen Manager of Ventotec GmbH said, In further progress former crane pads will be dismantled and renatured. |
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It was from Emirati Ayesha Al Marzooqi for the job of a large STS crane operator. |
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The 23 carillon bells that need retuning will be removed from the Hoover Tower by crane and be sent to the Dutch bellfounder Royal Eijsbouts. |
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There were no safety catches on the hook of the crane which would have prevented the steel frame slipping. |
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The former received a pounds 2,000 prize for the most innovative use of safety glass for his crane design, beating students from five countries. |
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The Frenchman hit a recovery crane deployed in a sand trap to remove a car from an earlier accident. |
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To mark the announcement at their T Wrexham headquarters a Santa plunged from a giant crane on a bungee rope. |
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In a related development, JAL has decided to discontinue use of its five-decade-old red crane logo on the tail fins of airliners in late May. |
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Lesser horseshoe bats mainly eat small flying insects such as midges but they also take crane flies, moths and caddis flies. |
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Because topless cranes have no cathead at the top, it's easier to overlap them and overall crane working heights don't need to be so high. |
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The toybox feature opens up a mini game when triggered, where players use the crane to pick toys at an arcade to reveal a prize. |
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Deeply troublingly, the monster crane, explains Amir, should have stopped operation in such conditions. |
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A 67m-tall crane, known as the Glasgow Nibbler, was brought in to help demolish them. |
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They are also sometimes referred to as 'daddylong-legs', although that epithet really belongs to crane flies, which are also prominent in autumn. |
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The last few years have been bad for wildlife, with low numbers of moths, spiders and crane flies. |
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A merchant, a may-pole, a man or a mackerel, A crab or a crevis, a crane or a cockerel? |
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In summer 2015, Liebherr delivered its first mobile harbour crane to the Port of Paramaribo which allows for more flexibility in cargo handling. |
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This is a project run by the whooping crane Eastern Partnership. |
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Port of Hanko counterbalanced crane mechanical and electrical overhaul and modernization of the automation system. |
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The delivery will include nine ship sets of the award winning dual draglink crane, making eighteen cranes in total. |
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Though chicken was the meat of choice, mainstay potages were studded with beef, pork, swan, stork, peacock, crane, and even whale. |
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Some extinguishing species like white-headed duck, houbara bustard and Siberian crane also travel on this route, he said. |
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New ashing out pits will be provided and a travelling crane will enable Garratt boilers to be removed for maintenance in the erecting shop. |
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At Excon 2015 in Bengaluru, Liebherr is presenting the 85 EC-B 5i Flat-Top crane. |
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Liebherr's EC-B flat-top tower crane range has received its Hong Kong debut. |
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The vehicle's wheels being caught in a guardrail kept it from plummeting to the ground, with fire crews having to use a crane to remove the truck from its precarious perch. |
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To see Nina herself Nick had to crane round the big white bonce of Norman Kent, who was as sensitive to music as he was to conservatives, and kept shifting in his seat. |
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Also known as crane flies, their larvae, called leatherjackets, feed through autumn, winter and spring on decaying plant material and plant roots just below the soil surface. |
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The crane flies have emerged early from their underground lairs due to the mild weather and will be heading indoors at night when the temperatures plunge. |
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The crane is used to launch, recover and handle offboard vehicles. |
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In addition to the crane conversions, Techservices will also install more than 13 kilometres of steelwork and conductor rails during the threeyear project. |
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Al Hajri told Gulf News that he was circumambulating the cube-shaped Kaaba with his friend Ali when the crane suddenly fell on the Grand Mosque's roof. |
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It's possible to move partially filled cabinets without the crane if the cabinets don't have false bottoms and if the bottom drawers sit flat on the floor. |
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The 180-tonne capacity crawler crane is being used to lift sections of the Izmit Bay Bridge 64m above the Sea of Marmara, 50km southeast of Istanbul. |
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The group also carries out crane refurbishments, and supplies components for port cranes, as well as container safety cages and terminal trailers. |
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The hotel is noted for its service-the origami crane on your bed, the comfortable cotton kimonos, and the almost military salutes of the bellhops. |
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Its test facility has a dedicated area for lineshaft and submersible pumps, along with a test loop for the API process pumps and a crane capacity of 10 tonnes. |
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So they made me a banksman in which I controlled the crane driver. |
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For more information on this new program for crane renters, leasers or operators, please contact the program administrator, Insurance Innovators, Inc. |
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Management interconnected asynchronous electric overhead crane to move the bridge without interaction wheel flanges and rails, Zaporozhye National Technical University. |
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White captures the intense eye of a vulture, the arched neck of a whooping crane and the wobbly knees of a newborn bison with great dignity and grace. |
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So much so that people fly to foreign destinations to track down rare species and drive to locations where they are likely to spot a whooping crane or vermillion flycatcher. |
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Monopiles up to 11 m diameter at 2,000 tonnes can be made, but the largest so far are 1,300 tonnes which is below the 1,500 tonnes limit of some crane vessels. |
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Steel GBS are predominantly used when there is no or limited availability of crane barges to install a conventional fixed offshore platform, for example in the Caspian Sea. |
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A number of very large crane vessels were built in the 1970s which allow very large single modules weighing up to 14,000 tonnes to be fabricated and then lifted into place. |
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However, large heavy components like generator, gearbox, blades and so on are rarely replaced and a heavy lift external crane is needed in those cases. |
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On 22 November 1965, during construction of an extension to the Department of Electronic Engineering in Dean Street, a crane collapsed on the building. |
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Controversially, Hamilton became the first and only driver to have his car recovered by a crane and put back on the track during a Formula One race. |
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In March 2007, another four members of Greenpeace made their way to the Palace's roof by means of a nearby crane, which was being used for repairs to Westminster Bridge. |
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