Even so, their intervention is a big a spanner in the Compaq takeover works. |
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She would be down there with her screwdriver and spanner trying to put the piano together. |
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They hover on the brink of existence in a flat-pack limbo until I can find my adjustable spanner. |
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Ted's spanner has fixed everything in this town, even record players which don't have any nuts or bolts! |
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He is friendly with them and once managed to mend a leaking pipe for them with his spanner. |
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I swear I saw this bloke banging one of the wheels of the undercarriage, with a massive adjustable spanner. |
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There is no want of effort and application but little thought is given to trying a spanner. |
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If there are any dripping taps then put that spanner that's been lying dormant in the toolbox to work. |
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Packing a small adjustable spanner and a set of Allen keys will make sure you can do those last-minute running repairs. |
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Someone is trying to throw a spanner in the works but we won't allow them to disrupt the rebuilding job we are doing here. |
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The plan goes smoothly, but femme fatale Sherry throws a spanner in the works by getting her henchmen to kill everybody. |
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Much as they are needed, even desperately needed, the cussed nature of populist politics may throw a spanner in the works. |
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Unless you have pretty particular interests you're probably not going to have much use for a magnifying glass, a spanner or a miniature jig-saw. |
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Called a bobbejaan spanner in this country, it's referred to as a monkey wrench in other parts of the English-speaking world. |
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Nuts were tightened up with a flogging spanner, the first blow hit the striking plate fair and square. |
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Taxi drivers at the mercy of drunken passengers on late-night runs sometimes admit to keeping a large spanner under their seat. |
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Nahawa was also there when our local neighbourhood mayor tried to throw a spanner in the works and steal land from us. |
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Hold the adjustment bolt in position with a flat spanner while tightening the lock nut. |
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Pressure adjustment is simple, and can be done by using the cover cap as the adjustment spanner. |
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The cabbie starts his rickety old taxi with a knock of a spanner. |
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They make satirical subverts instead of adverts and have turned so-called culture jamming, or putting a spanner in the spokes of the mainstream media, into a fine art. |
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A presetting device makes it is possible to change the tool with few turns of the spanner. |
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In the original design, Syaoran wore a cap, a different outfit and an enormous adjustable spanner. |
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Simple and quick replacement of the main brush using an integrated adjustable spanner. |
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Hold piston 301 with a 94 open-end spanner or an adjustable spanner and unscrew nut 309 with a 36 open-end spanner. |
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Comparing ordinary cant hooks with the log turner is the same as comparing the adjustable spanner with a reversible ratchet. |
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Hold the piston 301 with a 46 Open-end spanner or a monkey wrench and screw-up the nut 304 after mounting the seal 305 on to the rear face. |
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And every home handyman has learned too that if you don't want your nuts chewed when tightening or loosening them, there's nothing better than a set or ring spanner. |
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If the threaded sleeve is too tight, tap on the hook spanner with a plastic or rubber hammer. |
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Place the sickle spanner on the adjusting nut as shown in fig. 3 and turn this counterclockwise until the adjusting nut is unscrewed. |
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On the larger contactors, an adder deck is insufficient to accurately reflect the status of the wider spanner. |
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All of this may be a huge spanner in the works, because it all may be illegal. |
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With respect to the business objectives of these major conglomerates, this isn't a thorn in the foot or a spanner in the works. |
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Employment in the construction sector could be the next spanner in the works. |
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The flow rate in each probe is indicated by the top edge of the float and can be modified by turning a 9 mm spanner on the ball valve. |
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It is simple, rapid and you do not need any spanner to do this manipulation. |
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This can be done with the special spanner delivered with the machine in the tools box. |
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It is a different matter if such a small step forward puts a spanner in the works when it comes to reaching real solutions. |
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So we could all do without any last-minute hitches that could throw a spanner in the works just when we think everything is about to be signed and sealed. |
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The convention dictates that there must be a spanner in the works of an otherwise successful relationship, and Kissing Jessica Stein is no different. |
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He is the X factor, the spanner in the works to any carefully laid plan. |
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Max looked up from the spanner he was calibrating with a small tool. |
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The shop guys had screwed the lug nuts down so hard with their no-sweat pneumatic wrenches that my wimpy spanner and all my strength were useless. |
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Then a couple of boozed-up blokes who put the hard word on Jen decide to take you on despite a large spanner in your hand and things really kick off. |
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Why be a cog in the machine when you can be a spanner in the works? |
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Jack discarded a length of wood, two twists of wire, his two-up kip and a spanner. |
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So to speed up the installation process, like an IKEA customer, I armed myself with a screwdriver and an adjustable spanner, and in a few days I had put up the metal shelving needed by my service. |
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In various sizes and lengths, each polished chrome wrench has a ring spanner ratchet. |
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Adhering to the given torques requires the use of a torque spanner. |
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But Simon Cowell has thrown a spanner in the works by making a counteroffer. |
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All it takes is for a few members of a network to refuse to develop any further, and that will throw a spanner in the works for the other members. |
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Loosen the threaded sleeve with a hook spanner. |
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Use a 36 mm spanner to unscrew the pump unit as shown. |
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Moments later, he battered her 13 times with a footlong spanner as she bravely tried to fight him off. |
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When expressed at high levels in a plant infected with maize-streak virus, the modified protein outcompetes the normal version, throwing a spanner into the works of viral assembly. |
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Only use a hexagon spanner to tighten the sleeve nut. |
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The UCI rulebook is a somewhat impenetrable and daunting document but on issues of accepting anything but a bidon or spanner from another team, the rules are crystal clear. |
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Hold an adjustable spanner between the 1000 mm extrusion and the socket. |
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The rejection has thrown a spanner in Europe's administrative machinery and arguably weakened Europe's voice on the international stage at a moment of great tension and uncertainty. |
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To put more tension onto an element of rigging, stays or shrouds, secure the threaded eyelets of the cable with an adjustable spanner and rotate the barrel of the turnbuckle anti-clockwise. |
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And then, you see that it's like an adjustable spanner. |
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If we can throw a spanner in the works next week when we play them then it would be great on both fronts. |
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Is it Russia that has thrown a political spanner in our work to extend the United Nations Mission, or those who hastened to submit today's draft, with its politicized technical roll-over proposal, to the Council? |
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It could be argued that the applied torque with the adjustable spanner might differ between examiners, if they were not experienced in using the equipment. |
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The zip, the ball bearing, the gas stove and the adjustable spanner are all samples of Swedish inventions that have become indispensible in our everyday lives. |
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To unscrew the bell-shaped cover of a conventional tap, pad the jaws of a spanner or pipe wrench with a cloth to avoid damaging the surface of the tap. |
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The only tools they took to keep the car on the road were an adjustable spanner and a hammer along with a roll of gaffer tape and a tin of superglue. |
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