| In the middle of our interview he left the table to go and deal with a dead mouse from a mousetrap under his cooker! |
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| What we're saying is that we can deliver more performance and meet the price threshold by coming up with a better mousetrap. |
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| Whether or not one has built a better mousetrap means little if the new improved model cannot be tested. |
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| This morning I noticed the mousetrap had moved from its place behind the door to the other side of the room, under the vegetable rack. |
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| He had already wound the clock and set it for midnight, and he got the mousetrap set on the first try. |
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| If you invent a better mousetrap the world will beat a path to your door, so the saying goes. |
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| Anyone who wants to make a better mousetrap has to invent around existing mousetrap patents. |
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| I put a mousetrap in my purse to solve my problem with my sticky-fingered brother. |
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| A pest-control firm has launched a chocolate-scented mousetrap after university researchers found rodents preferred it to cheese. |
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| After phonecalls to many people, we discover one house which has a spare mousetrap. |
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| According to a report in New Scientist, a mousetrap has been developed by Rentokil that will text your mobile to tell you when it has successfully caught one. |
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| I work with students so they can make better mousetraps, and I write reviews and essays that theorize what an even better mousetrap might be. |
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| We can patent a better mousetrap, but can we patent a fellow creature, even if we have caused it to change genetically? |
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| Six months ago when we were saying we won't sell direct, we'll work with our dealers and figure out a better mousetrap, a lot of people were saying we're crazy. |
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| We heard discussion about baiting a mousetrap and catching a mouse in one's house, cabin, barn, or wherever. |
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| It was practised in the spirit of the saying that if you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door. |
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| The millimetre wave scanning is, without a doubt, not magic, but a much better mousetrap. |
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| Third, I would say that the millimetre wave scanner is a better mousetrap and should be rolled out across the country. |
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| I guess the reason I came up with this concept was to try to invent a better mousetrap. |
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| Under this legislation we could have one side, for example puppy mills which I think most Canadians would say is certainly not on, however we go to the other extreme which is a mousetrap. |
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| In fact, the medieval mousetrap, when it appears at all, in painting and archives, is a singular, almost fantastical and overelaborate device, like the death machine employed by the villain in a Bond film. |
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| Prisoners of this blow-out Titanic, everyone goes round in circles and gets lost, come to blows, fall, surprise each other, embrace? Christoph Marthaler sees the stage very much as a mousetrap. |
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson, a 19th-century American sage, is supposed to have said that if a man built a better mousetrap than his neighbour, the world would make a beaten path to his door. |
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| Some inherit their money, of course, but most build a better mousetrap, finance someone else's good idea or at least run a chain of hairdressers in a way that keeps customers coming back. |
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| People don't make a beaten path to the mousetrap maker's door unless they know he has made a better mousetrap and has a stock for sale at a price they can pay. |
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| Inspired by a gift of ineffective dog boots for her rambunctious Bassett hounds, Marianne set out to build a better mousetrap, or, in her case, a better dog boot! |
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| As in the case of the proverbial better mousetrap, the presumption was that if you offered something superior, the world would beat a path to your door in the woods, with only a little traffic direction from your sales force. |
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| While we can certainly build a better mousetrap, even a carefully designed mechanism will not necessarily deliver a crisp, clean, easy answer on whether a company is in or out of compliance on any particular standard. |
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| Amidst the organized institutional efforts to maintain the flow of innovation, however, there is still ample room for the would-be builders of a better mousetrap. |
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| When I found out that only 25 farmers took part in this pilot, I thought it was a good opportunity to phone them all personally to find out what exactly worked, what did not work, and build a better mousetrap for the future. |
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| There's always someone building a better mousetrap. |
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| The regulation contained, moreover, a mousetrap clause whereby the regulation would cease immediately in the event of the dispute with South Korea being resolved. |
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| It sees itself as part ethnographic museum and part research centre, and the interpreting booths are a lofty combination of henhouse and mousetrap. |
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| On the other side, it may be a mousetrap, rat poison or an agricultural issue like the branding of cattle, which is a standard practice in the industry. |
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| Of all the inventors to obtain patents, only a few have really built a better mousetrap. |
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| Three of the boxes contained booby prizes, such as an odd sock, a mousetrap or a bag of sweets. |
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| Perhaps the earliest patented mousetrap was a live capture device patented in 1870 by W K Bachman of South Carolina. |
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| A plumb-bob, a hunting bow, a shrimp de-veiner and a mousetrap are some of the more obscure items MoMA branded 'good design' over the years. |
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| From the patent description, it is clear that this is not the first mousetrap of this type, but the patent is for this simplified, easy to manufacture, design. |
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| I imagine it must be like a game of Mousetrap in there, all cogs and levers, ball bearings and little plastic men diving into baths. |
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