The stones on the bottom of the brook were flat and greenish in the wan afternoon light. |
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At the top is the steering quadrant, while at the bottom the rudder lies flat against the seabed. |
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Whether you overslept or had a flat tire, airlines often will waive such fees for passengers who unintentionally miss flights. |
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A cool day and the distant ridge of the Ngong hills is pale against the washed-out sky, with a thin layer of cloud flat and hard over the city. |
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The cross country race features a tight and twisty, yet relatively flat course in the urban wastelands just south of Seatac Airport. |
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But as it moved south, a battery powering the train's automatic interconnecting doors went flat and the doors jammed shut. |
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The country is sufficiently fertile, covered with corn fields and orchards, and intersected by sudden acclivities with flat summits. |
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Idyllic washing lines are great but not always possible when you live in a flat or if the weather is not playing ball. |
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They talked over a cup of tea and a Jaffa cake in her flat near Billingham. |
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Without a studio audience to warm things up, Vaughan's attempts to jolly things along fall flat to the sounds of nervous giggles from the crew. |
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These fish live in the abyssal plains, flat expanses of the ocean floor at depths of 10,000 to 20,000 feet. |
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To the right of the living room was an out-shot of the flat which was originally the wash house. |
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Anyway, when we were sharing a flat in London I carried on driving him to clubs on a Friday night. |
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In the unfortunate event of a flat tire, having a jack and a spare tire can lead to a simple tire replacement. |
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I was the skinny, flat chested plain Jane that was the abnormal one in my family. |
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But could this invoking of the words of the Godfather of Soul be a belated effort to inflate these flat polling numbers? |
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Then when we arrive at his flat in Shepherd's Bush following the escape, perhaps there ought to be remnants of the ladder. |
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Anguilla is an arid, flat Caribbean island surrounded on all sides by seawater. |
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Luckily enough I have this dedicated flat that is just along from my house that I go to every day. |
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Every day, I drove from my flat in Mayfair to abbey Road in joyous expectation of what magic I would be participating in that day. |
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Crown emerges from the bedroom with a pair of flat black slacks, the cloudy detritus of afterbirth splayed across the seat. |
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At first, the idea was vague and formless, a brilliant abstraction about the surface area of a sphere, which is three times larger than the surface area of a flat chip. |
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In the early days, after meetings in McGuinness's flat on Waterloo Road, the band would reach into a jar of coins their manager kept on his sideboard for their bus fare home. |
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Decked out in stylish floor-to-ceiling wooden panels, the Zen-inspired bathroom has flat square washbasins with ultra-trendy taps that I for one couldn't fathom. |
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Steering was carried out from a position forward of this by a quartermaster manning the ship's wheel, which connected cables to the tiller flat below. |
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The wraiths and phantoms creep under your carpets and between the warp and weft of fabric, they lurk in wardrobes and lie flat under drawer-liners. |
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Under the seemingly flat ocean are deep-sea volcanoes, ridges, abyssal trenches and other features which in many cases dwarf their equivalents on land. |
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So he learns a siren song on the Hammond upright, woos wanton waitresses to his seaside flat and then tickles their ivories with the help of a love drug. |
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After the bombings, police raided the flat and found the bomb factory. |
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Easier to put them on staff and pay them a flat rate for doing all the CFO stuff. |
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By this means we are told that waists can be reduced, flat chests inflated, hips broadened and lungs strengthened, to say nothing of reducing weight. |
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He answered her in a voice that was flat and plain, like the voice that a carrot might have. |
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I catch up with Kent again as he takes a breather from the tour, back at his flat in St John's Wood, North-West London. |
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She summoned an ambulance to the flat in Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorset, but Miss Moss was pronounced dead at the scene. |
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Watts does a good, blushing sideways glance and has her flat upper class intonations off to a tee. |
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Often electronic signs have their flat surface at right angles to the main air flow, causing choked flow. |
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I was already sliding and too dedicated to change my line and just went flat out completely off the course. |
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Suppose that Professor Turk has won a prestigious grant and wants to impress his hearer with this fact, without saying flat out that he won it. |
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In shared-memory languages for parallel programming, the model is one of a global flat store equipped with various synchronization primitives. |
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A flat tax means scrapping all income tax bands and the various exemptions and loopholes and replacing them with a single low rate. |
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He put his palms flat on the ground, then grabbed the back of his knees, stretching his hammies for the millionth time that morning. |
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Barley and wheat were the most common agricultural products and were used for baking a certain flat type of bread as well as brewing beer. |
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They are raised hilllike areas rising above the surrounding flat marshlands. |
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I had a cheap flat in the bad part of town, and I could watch the working girls hooking from my bedroom window. |
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Before it became possible to produce glass with acceptably flat surfaces, bronze was a standard material for mirrors. |
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It is the flat plate which presses against and transmits lateral thrust of the plough bottom to the furrow wall. |
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Bertha's description of her as having flat red hair, a receding chin and long ear-rings was impressionistically accurate. |
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In Foss's opinion both sources are describing an area of flat ground north of Dadlington. |
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Sediment infilling, bathtub-like, of dammed intermontane basins formed flat high plains at each step. |
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She found Kali Boori lying flat in front of the goddess. The khichiri was being distributed to the devotees. |
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The new lane was flat and smooth, allowing cars and trucks to go faster and kick up dust. |
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The east of the region is characterised by wide, flat clay vales and chalk and limestone downland. |
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The Tyneside flat was the dominant housing form constructed at the time when the industrial centres on Tyneside were growing most rapidly. |
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In the west of Stockport it flows at the base of a cliff below the road called Brinksway before reaching flat country. |
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The lowland areas are typically traversed by ranges of low hills, frequently composed of chalk, and flat plains. |
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The basic frame could be adapted with modules to allow a baby to lie flat or a bubble windscreen to completely enclose the child. |
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A horizontally opposed engine, also called a flat or boxer engine, has two banks of cylinders on opposite sides of a centrally located crankcase. |
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An alternative manufacturing method is to use wound copper wire laid flat with a central conventional commutator, in a flower and petal shape. |
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The Sherman trap folds flat for storage and distribution and when deployed in the field captures the animal, without injury, for examination. |
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It was impossible to find a moment of privacy in a flat where we were living on top of one another all the time. |
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Originally air turbulence was kept to a minimum by keeping all signage flat to the tunnel walls. |
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His proposal was for a flat rate contribution rate for everyone and a flat rate benefit for everyone. |
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The Home Secretary had that very day signalled that the government planned a flat rate of child allowance. |
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But Beveridge alluding to the problem of an overall declining birth rate, argued that even the flat rate would be eugenic. |
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This ultramafic rock also forms a very infertile soil which covers the flat and marshy heaths of the interior of the peninsula. |
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The North Shropshire Plain is an extension of the flat and fertile Cheshire Plain. |
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The flat northern plain in the north and east has a similar climate to that of the rest of the West Midlands. |
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In the stretch around Milecastle 50TW, it was built on a flat base with three to four courses of turf blocks. |
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It is made from a flat sheet of suet pastry sprinkled with dried fruit, which is then rolled up into a circular pudding. |
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This article covers the other type of biscuit, which is typically hard, flat and unleavened. |
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The types of cloth wanted are principally flat crepe, marocain, georgettes, lingerie silk, crepe de Chine, and satin. |
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Some reports also say he died of a heart attack at the flat of a friend in London. |
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At the beginning of 1935 he had to move out of Warwick Mansions, and Mabel Fierz found him a flat in Parliament Hill. |
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In August, he moved into a flat in Kentish Town, which he shared with Michael Sayers and Rayner Heppenstall. |
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In May the Orwells took lease of a flat in London at Dorset Chambers, Chagford Street, Marylebone. |
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When sharing a flat with Orwell, Heppenstall came home late one night in an advanced stage of loud inebriation. |
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It is the tale of a man named Crucible who finds the Devil in his flat in a cloud of sulphurous smoke. |
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Rowling moved from her flat with the money from the Scholastic sale, into 19 Hazelbank Terrace in Edinburgh. |
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When your flat has been broken into, and you cannot afford a locksmith, it is the money. |
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By this time Gielgud was earning enough to leave the family home and take a small flat in the West End. |
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The idea is to hit the ball to best effect with the flat surface of the bat's blade. |
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An aspect of the modern British breeding establishment is that they breed not only for flat racing, but also for steeplechasing. |
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National Hunt is a winter sport and flat racing is a summer sport, but the seasons are very long and they overlap. |
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Faldo's attempts at humour in the opening ceremony seemed to fall flat with the audience. |
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Breeds that are used for flat racing include the Thoroughbred, Quarter Horse, Arabian, Paint, and Appaloosa. |
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In the United States, Thoroughbred flat races are run on surfaces of either dirt, synthetic or turf. |
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Besides Longchamp, France's other premier flat racecourses include Chantilly and Deauville. |
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Horse racing in Great Britain is predominantly thoroughbred flat and jumps racing. |
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National Hunt horses are often bred for jumping, while others are former flat horses. |
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Steeplechasing at Aintree was introduced in 1839, though flat racing had taken place there for many years prior to this. |
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Anegada is geologically distinct from the rest of the group and is a flat island composed of limestone and coral. |
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The centre of Cardiff is relatively flat and is bounded by hills on the outskirts to the east, north and west. |
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After a flat board, Wbridge5 misdefended to allow a second overtrick in three no-trump. |
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English Country Clothing is also very popular among rural folk, flat caps and brogue shoes also forming part of the country clothing. |
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The North Sea coast of England is mainly flat and sandy with many dunes and is similar to coastlines across the sea in the Netherlands. |
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Mull, Skye and Arran are noted for their mountainous terrain, whilst Tiree, Coll and most of the Shetland group are flat or low lying. |
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Areas in the south and east of the city tend to be flat and fertile with some housing estates and industrial areas reclaimed from marshland. |
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The flat roof was intended to be used as a viewing platform and some photographs show it being used in this way. |
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The terrain is flat and low, with most areas not exceeding 2 metres above sea level. |
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Every February, riders are racing on the roads across Qatar's flat land for six days. |
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Upper Class features a seat that converts into a fully flat bed and access to chauffeur drive. |
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She hated her flat hair and her muffin top that spilled ever so slightly from her jeans, and she had felt increasingly uninspired at work. |
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The couple returned to England, staying for a short while back in Heptonstall and then finding a small flat in Primrose Hill, London. |
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In the summer of 1962 Hughes began an affair with Assia Wevill who had been subletting the Primrose Hill flat with her husband. |
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Under a cloud of his affair, Hughes and Plath separated in the autumn of 1962 and she set up life in a new flat with the children. |
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Instead of the staved round back of the Greek bouzouki, Irish bouzoukis usually have a flat or lightly arched back. |
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The top is either flat or carved like that of an arch top guitar or mandolin, although some builders carve both the back and the top. |
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He and Ayers shared a flat for a time at the northern end of the Seven Sisters Road in London. |
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His wallpapers and textiles, featuring stylised bird and plant forms in bold outlines with flat colors, were used widely. |
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At Queen Square, the Morris family lived in a flat directly above the Firm's shop. |
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On arrival in California, Hockney changed from oil to acrylic paint, applying it as smooth flat and brilliant colour. |
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The Tanimbar Islands are dry and hilly, while the Aru Islands are flat and swampy. |
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The exhibited Serra sculptures were so large that the caretaker's flat adjoining the gallery was demolished to make room for them. |
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He stormed onto the set and pointed a gun at Connery, only to have Connery disarm him and knock him flat on his back. |
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Novice jumping races involve horses that are starting out a jumping career, including horses that previously were trained in flat racing. |
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It was a flat race, and it was contested over 3 miles on Cleeve Hill, which overlooks the present venue. |
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As he walked back to his flat after meekly apologising, he wondered why a severe pain in his napper could affect the lead in his pencil. |
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Though early navigators thought of the sea as a flat surface that could be used as a vertical datum, this is not actually the case. |
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However, he still believed that the Earth was a flat disk, as did many of his contemporaries. |
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Drenched were the cold fuchsias, round pearls of dew lay on the flat nasturtium leaves. |
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The local speciality of Aachen is an originally hard type of sweet bread, baked in large flat loaves, called Aachener Printen. |
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Their eroding effects have left the Finnish landscape mostly flat with few hills and fewer mountains. |
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The vast flat expanse of the Carse of Stirling follows including Flanders Moss. |
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They also walk with difficulty and this means that they have difficulty taking off from a flat area. |
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If these sites are not available northern gannets will nest in groups on islands or flat surfaces. |
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Different length leaves, but all lined up in a flat plane, is a useful way to quickly distinguish this species. |
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The replacement trainshed has a low, flat roof, making no attempt to match the airy style of London's major 19th century trainsheds. |
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In metallography, an alloy of interest is ground flat and polished to a mirror finish. |
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To the north lies the Central Belgian Plateau, which, like Flanders, is relatively flat and agriculturally fertile. |
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The preceding period is known as the Copper Age and is characterised by the production of flat axes, daggers, halberds and awls in copper. |
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One of the characteristic types of artifact of the Early Bronze Age in Ireland is the flat axe. |
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Wrexham is not built on a major river, but on a relatively flat plateau between the lower Dee Valley and easternmost mountains of North Wales. |
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The Scottish Greens took 6 seat and overtook the Liberal Democrats who remained flat on 5 seats. |
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The cornea, the outer covering of the eye, is relative flat and so of low refractive power. |
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Turning the shell over with the aperture flat on a surface and measuring vertically reveals the height of the snail. |
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In some of the poems which discuss her predicament openly, the writing goes flat and notebookish. |
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Chester Racecourse hosts several flat race meetings from the spring to the autumn. |
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Oh, not the middle of nowhere like the rest of Indiana, but a nowhere so flat and ugly you want to lie down in a ditch and never get up again. |
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Most early hypostyle mosques had flat roofs on prayer halls, which required the use of numerous columns and supports. |
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It is said the nut heads are flat-faced and bare on a flat surface, but the means by which loosening is prevented has not been indicated. |
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It is bordered by a low mountain range to the south and surrounded by flat farmland to the north and west. |
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In 1934 Janes, Thomas and Levy shared a flat at 5 Redcliffe Street, Earls Court and subsequently at Coleherne Road, Earls Court. |
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The leaves are flat and broad to cylindrical at the base and arise from the bulb. |
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When an accidental sharp or flat is required, the performer inserts a finger between two of the outer strings, and finds it in the middle row. |
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The style has also evolved from flat foot to dancing on the balls of the feet. |
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Seabed topography is flat where sedimentation is heavy and covers the tectonic features. |
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The cell itself consists of two halves, each containing an essentially flat plate, or valve and marginal connecting, or girdle band. |
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The anterior end of an otariid's frontal bones extends between the nasal bones, and the supraorbital foramen is large and flat horizontally. |
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They are made up of flat lava which flows at the top of extensive pillow lavas and palagonite. |
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The Sicilian coppola is a traditional kind of flat cap typically worn by men in Sicily. |
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One of the most famous of foods is pane carasau, the flat bread of Sardinia, famous for its thin crunchiness. |
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This flat bread is always made by hand as it gives a different flavor the more you work the dough. |
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This air base is in an area called Lajes, a broad, flat sea terrace that had been a large farm. |
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The traditional flat and dry crisp bread has developed into several contemporary variants. |
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Most of the sediment within a mudflat is within the intertidal zone, and thus the flat is submerged and exposed approximately twice daily. |
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The electric beeper horn now lies flat on the ground next to the fog signal building. |
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The mountains created by these tectonic processes have since been eroded to their bases, the region being largely flat today. |
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The ocean floor is not all flat but has submarine ridges and deep ocean trenches known as the hadal zone. |
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The ship was steered by a vertical flat blade with a short round handle, at right angles, mounted over the starboard side of the aft gunwale. |
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It is often considered in places with high population density and a scarcity of flat land. |
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A corner reflector consists of three flat surfaces meeting like the inside corner of a box. |
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Especially east of the Palace Pier, a flat sandy foreshore is exposed at low tide. |
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The eastern part of the state consists of the flat Red River Valley, the bottom of glacial Lake Agassiz. |
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Much of Norfolk's fairly flat and fertile land has been drained for use as arable land. |
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The fight is ended by the loser, who either lays his head and neck flat on the ground, or turns tail and is chased out of the territory. |
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Its molars have a flat chewing surface, but not to the same extent as the coyote, whose diet contains more vegetable matter. |
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The head is fairly large and distinct and its sides are almost flat and vertical. |
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The flowers open flat rather than concave as in the case of Primula veris, the Cowslip. |
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The nutlike seeds have straight embryos, flat cotyledons, and soft fleshy endosperm that is oily. |
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In Homer, the Earth was viewed as a flat disk afloat on the river of Oceanus and overlooked by a hemispherical sky with sun, moon, and stars. |
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The data showed the configuration of the seafloor where he saw that some undersea mountains had flat tops. |
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Columbus is often credited with refuting a prevalent belief in a flat Earth. |
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Oyster beds have an estimated 50 times the surface area of an equally sized flat bottom. |
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These both feed and drain the flat levels and moors of mid and west Somerset. |
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Winnipeg lies at the bottom of the Red River Valley, a flood plain with an extremely flat topography. |
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These low, flat lands support heathland and woodland habitats, a large area of which forms part of the New Forest. |
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In 2007, English Heritage opened a holiday flat inside the castle, in converted former staff quarters. |
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The flat is above the museum near the room in which the king was kept captive. |
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The harbour is very shallow in places and has extensive mud flat and salt marsh habitats, as well as muddy and sandy shores and seagrass meadows. |
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Most of these sports benefit from the harbour's generally flat water conditions. |
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This is what allows squirrels to climb tree trunks that are so large to be essentially flat from the perspective of such a small animal. |
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Boats with less rocker are easier to row and faster in flat or nearly flat water. |
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The blades can either be flat for general use, or spooned for faster propulsion. |
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Once Mitchell was out of Dartmoor, the Krays held him at a friend's flat in Barking Road, East Ham. |
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McVitie was lured to a basement flat in Evering Road, Stoke Newington on the pretence of a party. |
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Lamellar bone also requires a relatively flat surface to lay the collagen fibers in parallel or concentric layers. |
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Secondary ossification occurs after birth, and forms the epiphyses of long bones and the extremities of irregular and flat bones. |
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Many sites have large quantities of flat stones apparently used as flooring, with only a minority decorated. |
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The Free State is particularly flat because it lies centrally on the high plateau. |
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In addition, other forms evolve, such as small lamps with a flat base and larger lamps with a round base. |
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In the Urnfield period, inhumation and burial in single flat graves prevails, though some barrows exist. |
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Eventually peat builds up to a level where the land surface is too flat for ground or surface water to reach the centre of the wetland. |
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This means a quantity of runouts can be made in advance, allowing more time to flat ice and pipe the cake. |
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Such trilobate arrowheads are believed to be more accurate and have better penetrating power or capacity to injure than flat arrowheads. |
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The centre of the country is dominated by the predominantly flat Chao Phraya river valley, which runs into the Gulf of Thailand. |
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The flat surfaces of the fibrils reflect light at many angles, giving silk a natural sheen. |
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When threatened, the ostrich will either hide itself by lying flat against the ground, or run away. |
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The ossicones, which have lain flat while it was in the womb, become erect within a few days. |
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Thus, mariners sought to learn of protected bays or flat beaches, not only for safe harbour but also for coastal navigation. |
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Sal, Boa Vista and Maio have a flat landscape and arid climate, the remaining ones are generally rockier and have more vegetation. |
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With the flat basal region held horizontally, the spine extends posterodorsolaterally at an angle of 70 degrees to the horizontal. |
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The area is generally flat and the soils sandy, limiting their ability to retain water and support agriculture. |
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By replacing several taxes with one flat tax rate, it will also be easier for government auditors to spot embezzlement. |
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Flat feet may be important to the patrolman who must pound a beat, but in cities with patrol cars, should mild cases of flat feet disqualify? |
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Most of the islands comprise low, flat coral atolls, but some rise high above sea level. |
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Skin lesions matured slowly and by the seventh or eighth day they were flat and appeared to be buried in the skin. |
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The hemorrhages appear in the early eruptive period, and the rash is flat and does not progress beyond the vesicular stage. |
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Because of the flat terrain, there are areas where rivers pool due to shallow depressions. |
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The terrain is flat and the soil is composed entirely of recent sediments such as sand, silt, and clay. |
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The land is mostly flat and about half of the area is used for grazing cattle. |
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Most of the flat worms are predatory and some are relatively brightly marked. |
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The flat or rounded bottom made them maneuverable when dodging ice floes, but probably unstable in a severe storm. |
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The square sail and flat bottom meant that they would not sail well without a following wind. |
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Koninck's best works are panoramic views, as from a hill, over wide flat farmlands, with a huge sky. |
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Mountain ranges average 2,305 meters and flat areas lie at around 1,725 meters above mean sea level. |
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We have a gorgeous flat in Rathmines and his people send us pucks of money. |
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Early this season, Ross Lill got together with a plastics firm to produce a flat tray to replace the commonly used punnet. |
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It is flat in comparison to its island neighbours to the west, the Windward Islands. |
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Comparable to the flat character option, the reader could also view the character as a symbol. |
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He sold the Hampstead property and took a flat in Mount Street, Mayfair, where he lived during the working week. |
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He was encased in plaster and kept flat on his back for most of that period. |
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Similarly, the flat surface of an inclined plane and wedge are examples of the kinematic pair called a sliding joint. |
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The working face of each paddle can be flat or cylindrically curved and wears the card cloth. |
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Early fire fighting systems used sprinklers supplied by water captured on flat roofs in shallow tanks. |
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In a flat metal workpiece, the flatness is a descriptive attribute characterizing the extent of the geometric deviation from a reference plane. |
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In order to produce flat material, the material must be reduced by the same percentage across the width. |
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To help homogenize the steel, it was pounded into flat plates, which were stacked and forge welded together. |
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A workpiece may be bolted or screwed to a faceplate, a large, flat disk that mounts to the spindle. |
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A half center has a flat surface machined across a broad section of half of its diameter at the pointed end. |
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These were used in creating sound grooves on wax cylinders and then on flat recording discs. |
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In pocket milling the material inside an arbitrarily closed boundary on a flat surface of a work piece is removed to a fixed depth. |
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The most common use is to machine straight, flat surfaces, but with ingenuity and some accessories a wide range of work can be done. |
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At that time there were no milling, planing or shaping machines, and all flat surfaces were made by hand chipping, filing and scraping. |
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Also in 1817 he built a planing machine to allow the machining of flat surfaces. |
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Previous to this flat surfaces were laboriously made by hand with the fitter using hammers and chisels, files and scrapers to get a true surface. |
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Surface grinding'uses a rotating abrasive wheel to remove material, creating a flat surface. |
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The fishtail burner is a relative to the flat burner but it managed to create a brighter flame and conducted less heat. |
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The cut cylinder is then placed in an oven where the cylinder unrolls into a flat glass sheet. |
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The inclined section of the wall is known as the batter, and the flat part of the step is known as the bench or berm. |
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There will be no opportunity to drive an adit to a mine situated on a large flat plain, for instance. |
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Many of the canal sections fell into disrepair, and some parts were returned to flat fields. |
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Paddles are flat pieces of wood or graphite used for creating flat spots such as a bottom. |
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The original mills were connected, the gable roofs removed, and additional floors were added with flat roofs. |
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In fact, if your flat steel or wire heddles break, this is the only solution unless you have purchased fancy repair heddles. |
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During the Second World War an airfield, RAF Millom, was developed on flat coastal land at Haverigg. |
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Situated in one of the quieter areas of the Lakes, the High Street range has quite gentle slopes with a flat summit plateau. |
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The fell's flat summit was also used as a venue for summer fairs by the local population in the 18th and 19th centuries. |
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A wall follows the ridge over the flat summit, the highest point marked by an Ordnance Survey triangulation column which has been painted white. |
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This section is often termed the 'Central Ridge' and consists of flat topped peat covered hills. |
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The top is very flat and there are many cairns, including a pair of large windbreaks near the high point. |
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Two unnamed corries are cut into the eastern face and between them a flat topped promontory juts out with the highest point on its northern edge. |
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A limestone pavement is an area of almost bare, flat rock and is arguably the most fascinating feature of any area of carboniferous limestone. |
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The second type of gland found on butterwort leaves are sessile glands which lie flat on the leaf surface. |
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Often the portals are turned so that their flat sides face each other, rather than facing into the centre of the circle. |
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When broken, slate retains a natural appearance while remaining relatively flat and easy to stack. |
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These flat ends of the centra are especially good at supporting and distributing compressive forces. |
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Alternately, a reservoir can be built by excavating flat ground or constructing retaining walls and levees. |
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It is low and flat near the North Sea coast and increasingly mountainous toward the northwest. |
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The Cheshire Plain is a relatively flat expanse of lowland almost entirely within the county of Cheshire in North West England. |
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Both whitewater and flat water canoeing is possible on the Trent, with published guides and touring routes being listed for the river. |
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To the east of these edges is a broad band of relatively flat moorland known as the Eastern Moors. |
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Riced Potato. Have a flat dish and the colander hot. With a spoon, rub mashed potato through the colander on to the hot dish. |
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The leaves are coarse, green, taper to a point, long, flat and sometimes slightly hairy on top. |
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The lower reaches of the Dart, including the estuary are suitable for flat water touring. |
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The doorways are paved with naturally flat stones, and all face both downhill and away from the prevailing wind. |
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When you are on the weak side, sag off your opponent and form an imaginary flat triangle between you, your opponent, and the ball. |
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Use something flat, a rolling pin or the flat side of a meat mallet and place the chicken between sheets of saranwrap or parchment. |
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A scourer may be in the form of a mesh of wires, a flat piece of a rough fabric, or a pad with a soft sponge-like side and a more abrasive side. |
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Regardless of where the show flat is, developers have come up with techniques to make the flats look a lot larger than they actually are. |
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Look after Snicklefritz, there.' I nodded to her as yet flat belly, and waved as we got into the car. |
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Before we could lay the flooring we had to lay a subsurface under it to keep it flat and support it. |
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He did not himself care for the loose little talkings, half flat and half sharp, of men when they meet together in idleness. |
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Two large flat surfaces and twelve edge facets make each squame a fourteen-sided solid or tetrakaidecahedron. |
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After being thus secured the surface was beaten flat and, in the case of straw thatch was combed down with a thatcher's rake. |
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These animals are harnessed by a padded collar to a light flat sleigh, of skins stretched across a frame of thin wood, called a toboggan. |
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The flat abyssal plains of soft silt haven't managed to avoid cable troubles either. |
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James has a wife and family whom he keeps rigidly out of the way in Cambridge, from which he commutes to his untrendy flat in London's Barbican. |
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Pale yellow and greyish brown, the bare veld of late summer lay flat and listless under the drab sky. |
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Trumpkin went to a flat stone about the size of the top of a water butt, and stamped on it with his foot. |
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When your primer coat is dry, it's on to the wet-sanding to get that paint flat and silky smooth. |
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When she tries to wrangle a calf, she ends up flat on her face in the barnyard muck. |
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The prisoners gathered on a flat roof of abuilding behind a 20ft barbed wire fence. |
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The 23-year-old's flat has been flooded several times after a waste pipe was left unfixed. |
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We believe the combination of polysilicon active matrices and OLED technology could become the next generation of flat panel displays. |
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Wels catfish, which have no scales and a broad, flat head, grow up to 13ft long and can live for 30 years. |
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A battle of supremacy is brewing between New Zealand and Australia over who made the first flat white coffee. |
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I had the Veggie Works, with poached eggs, avocado, mushroom and tomato, accompanied by fresh juice and a perfect flat white coffee. |
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Using a golf bail sized ball of air-dry day, make a ball into an egg shape with a flat bottom and then pinch a nose and two ears. |
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Some fine laundries air-dry linens by stretching them flat and pinning them with stainless-steel pins onto huge muslin-covered drying tables. |
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Bicycle baskets with a flat side, which allows them to be hung on the wall, are ideal, as are traditional laundry airers. |
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This ingenious four-sided mesh bag stretched over a wire frame folds flat when not in use, making for easy storage. |
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About 6 inches in diameter, it belongs to the wolf eel pair in the den south of the flat window. |
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The two-bedroom flat in Hudson Gardens is in the perfect location for a busy woman about town. |
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Its services have included small workboats, large tugboats, launches, survey vessels, flat top pontoons and, more recently, multi-role vessels. |
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In the same cabin, the business class has flat beds with a 70-inch pitch. |
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The Studly slip-on flat with all-over studs is sure to grab anyone's attention from across the stage, a company statement said. |
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Of course, in flat knitting machine for knitting of shoulder, wriest, waist, etc. |
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The stones are flat tables on which printers do much of their work. |
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He was found dead in his Bellevue Hill flat with an empty vodka bottle and a scattering of amylobarbitone tablets. |
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A luxury waterfront flat believed to be owned by a Hells Angels bikie in Sydney was searched by police this afternoon. |
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