It was an easy day, but frustrating in having to just wait around until the weather fined up. |
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It's frustrating because you do things in training, you work your hardest and give your all, and then you're overlooked. |
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Attempting to spiralize an eggplant for a spin on the eggplant Parmesan casserole turned frustrating, as the purple bulb became mush. |
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She knew that being a royal also-ran ultimately amounts to a frustrating non-life. |
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He is coping with local government bureaucracy and finds the system not very frustrating. |
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But one of the most scary and frustrating is wandering, and often ends with the person being institutionalised. |
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Sometimes, it seems insoluble and very frustrating for those of us who have to ask questions on both sides of the ledger. |
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So it's especially frustrating when your mysteriously marked-down new digs turn out to be haunted by vengeful spirits. |
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Jeff was leaning against the couch near my feet playing a video game that seemed to be frustrating him as David gabbed on his phone. |
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What makes it truly frustrating is that, somewhere in the stream of inconsequence and obstreperousness, there are usually a few nuggets of gold. |
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To contact the Metropolitan Police is a frustrating experience of long delays, indifference, obstructiveness and even downright hostility. |
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All young people can benefit from the guidance of a Capricorn, although most will find their lessons on the need for patience frustrating. |
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Citizenship and Democracy in a Global Era is a somewhat strange collection insofar that it is both useful and frustrating. |
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That is frustrating for the police, who waste so much time chasing shadows, and distressing for residents left feeling helpless. |
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And, unlike many, it is ready to use straight from the box, thus avoiding frustrating delays. |
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This was going to be one heck of a frustrating experience for the both of them. |
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It has become an area of manipulation rather than one of organised power and strength, which is frustrating. |
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That often frustrating and occasionally rewarding process taught us the many possible roles for physicists in fighting terrorism. |
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There were several instances where my voice commands went unanswered, which was particularly frustrating in the heat of battle. |
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The search for eight unsung Milnrow heroes of the Great War is proving frustrating for local historian Ralph Davidson. |
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But since existing political institutions are frustrating and stultifying, few people are willing to participate. |
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The stunt casting of some of the top actresses in French cinema is at once exhilarating and frustrating. |
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The take not used, the part not won, consigned him to a profitable but frustrating secondary status in the Hollywood hierarchy. |
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If you pick up an injury which almost costs you the whole season it is very frustrating. |
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These stories are overshadowed, though, by the disappointment and bitterness that lingers after frustrating political battles. |
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Repairing holey waders long has been one of those frustrating bits of business for waterfowlers. |
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The hours that followed were some of the most excruciatingly frustrating I have ever experienced. |
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The deck is stacked against private home ownership, thereby frustrating attainment of the traditional social policy objective. |
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The most frustrating aspect of glossopterid paleobiology is that no one is really certain what these plants looked like. |
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Maria Luisa has been a frustrating filly for punters to follow even though she has paid her way for her connections throughout the season. |
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With these frustrating issues behind them both drivers lapped competitively for the remainder of the race bringing the car home in 14th place. |
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There's nothing more frustrating for a do-it-yourself paperhanger than to run out of wallpaper just a few feet short of finishing a project. |
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Jenson, it must have been frustrating feeling you couldn't go any faster and he was closing on you relentlessly. |
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Criminal law is a subject of great complexity which students find both fascinating and frustrating. |
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This was an anomalous position in American law, and one that the fortunes of war and necessities of politics made frustrating. |
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There are, however, times when the balancing act of being both a college professor and a teacher of young children can get frustrating. |
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Negotiating with them proved to be persistently frustrating for the English. |
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I find it very frustrating because, speaking personally, I haven't got the faintest idea where my ideas come from, or how my imagination works. |
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Beyond that, it is a revolt against cross-party rule by political oligarchies, frustrating the known wishes of the population. |
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He lost engine power after lap 15 and it was a long slow frustrating race for the Aussie. |
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It is frustrating to witness the abnegation of human rights on such a foolish cause. |
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Often, persons with low frustration tolerance experience a strong impulse to escape from, or avoid frustrating situations. |
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The frustrating part has been their utter inability to communicate with anyone. |
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Frankly, it's frustrating for our journalists and columnists to have to find new ways to rehash the same material. |
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That's not the only thing frustrating me, though it all comes down to politics in the end, anyhow. |
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In the next three one-dayers I didn't play and it was like really frustrating for me. |
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That said, it can be frustrating working with conceited, egotistical players. |
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Some are in their complete entirety, and some are just the titles, which is most frustrating. |
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We know how frustrating it can be for business people to be passed from pillar to post when seeking information or support. |
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It's not the most predictable ending, and it's certainly a frustrating one, but it has far too much of the ring of truth about it. |
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For professionals accustomed to finding quick resolutions to pressing financial challenges, that can be frustrating. |
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It's frustrating for the audience, too, because his absent-mindedness prevents this seminar on the pharaohs making any progress. |
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It must have been extremely frustrating for the authors to have to include an errata slip correcting errors in two of the tables. |
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A big disappointment is the gear change, which is very frustrating for drivers who want snappy overtaking. |
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It's frustrating, especially when your mad dodges and leaps bring you into the path of an enemy you couldn't see. |
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She is glad that she aroused him sexually, and looks forward to frustrating him. |
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More frustrating is the pudginess of this argument that purports to be economics. |
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It is extremely frustrating to think you are winning an auction, only to find you have been gazumped in the last few minutes. |
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By 1999, they were all running up against frustrating limits in their particular fields. |
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We are all finding it maddening and frustrating but we are trying to get on with our lives as best we can, and it isn't easy. |
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Displaying cat-like reflexes, Beene proved she was as adept at frustrating the world's most prolific goal scorers as her more famous rival. |
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Her resistance to Dracula derives from frustrating experiences of powerlessness. |
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They claim they're protecting, you know, the case, which is extremely frustrating at times. |
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His political beliefs are covered in a piecemeal, scattershot fashion that will be frustrating to fans and foes alike. |
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However, back on the track the backmarkers were frustrating and I lost a lot of time. |
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On any given day, interaction with hairdressers, wait staff, bank tellers, and store clerks may be a challenging, if not frustrating experience. |
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Although it gets quite frustrating, players will quickly learn that a fair bit of each mapped area is not accessible. |
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His inability to speak was terribly frustrating for him, and it just plain broke my heart. |
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I think some actors probably find it frustrating, because he likes things clean as a whistle, unadorned, and unemotional, generally speaking. |
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You wonder how frustrating it must be, still scrabbling to plug holes in low budgets after years of eager critical acclaim? |
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She was so frustrating sometimes that he felt like throwing in the germ filled towel he called their friendship. |
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The study of dead civilizations is difficult, frustrating, and, ultimately, a thankless job whose results are invariably heaped with criticism. |
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It is becoming increasingly frustrating to witness teams forfeiting matches for one reason or the other. |
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Despite such frustrating responses, Harris evinces remarkably little bitterness. |
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In the end, the Irish troops found themselves utterly confused as they became pawns in a frustrating bureaucratic maze. |
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It's achingly frustrating for the count to keep losing his thread, his memory, his balance. |
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It was very frustrating, but eventually I learned about the engine falling off, so I chalked it up to mechanical failure. |
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That can make the historical study of empires frustrating, but is also part of what makes it ever-mobile and exciting. |
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She found the lack of a table very frustrating, and she eventually made her own one by lashing together a door frame and pieces of bamboo. |
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With her fingers inside the thumbless muffs, she couldn't work the snaps, and that was so frustrating! |
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Sometimes I find this preoccupation with what's happening now really frustrating. |
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The most frustrating part of the debate is the obvious self-serving of some of the people concerned. |
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Do you administer multiple distributions and find it frustrating that you can find packages for some distros and not others? |
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For most people this phase is the most frustrating aspect of dog ownership. |
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But it's so frustrating sometimes, 'cause she's got so much baggage that she's carrying around. |
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It is possible to adjust to a degree, but it gets frustrating failing to pull of a move at critical moments. |
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One of the reasons he was so hated was because he was frustrating what they wanted. |
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Maybe your boring office job is frustrating you to the point of complete despair. |
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As the process moves forward, there will no doubt be frustrating delays and difficult setbacks. |
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Of course, the failed indicator light was frustrating our efforts to read the indication. |
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Convoys of senior diplomats converged on the theatre for hours of frustrating and fruitless negotiations. |
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It's frustrating enough to encounter a big setback, so why torment the kids with snakes. |
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A simple chat with her could be downright frustrating when she didn't understand half of the euphemisms being used. |
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The tortuousness of the judiciary, however frustrating it is, does not mutate him from suspect to terrorist. |
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To many of the returnees, culture shock found in a corporate context is more frustrating than that in a societal context. |
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It's frustrating to watch him carry every scene while his co-stars get given so little. |
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Her attitude towards men and relationships was frustrating to say the least. |
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That's the frustrating thing, it's how patient I can be without making wholesale changes. |
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As my mother aged she grew more and more scattered and frustrating in a number of ways. |
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It is a frustrating and upsetting time with regular visits to the hospital for blood tests and transfusions. |
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Sometimes it's the little things that make the difference between satisfyingly usable and mind-bogglingly frustrating. |
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The 19-year-old, who was born in England but raised in Oz, has had a frustrating season after being sidelined with shin splints. |
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At the time, he found it frustrating that he could not figure out the right questions to ask. |
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The polyglot entries were random, frustrating, and beautiful, a carnival of ideas, pleas, boasts, and obsolete phone numbers. |
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However, nothing is more frustrating after so much effort than seeing misshapen or rotten fruits on the vines. |
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This quest can be extremely frustrating, as the right balance between tequila, triple sec, lime, salt and ice is hard to find. |
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Council, in their wisdom, said they needed more information, which was a little frustrating for us. |
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I can imagine how frustrating it must be for those who truly do take it seriously. |
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It was very frustrating, and I would be lying if I said the idea of cutting it all off never entered my mind. |
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During the last 14 months, my fiancee and I have found cord cutting to be surprisingly easy overall, though occasionally frustrating. |
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It is tough and frustrating when the rough is knee-high and the rain and the wind are coming in sidewards. |
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It was only a flesh wound, but a frustrating place to have a wound when her shoulder was in constant use. |
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It's very frustrating, because I get emotional invested in those two-dimensional characters. |
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It was so stupid, so frustrating, so embarrassingly moronic, that it made her want to tear her hair out. |
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Assembling your own furniture from flat-pack can be rewarding, but is often frustrating. |
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Trying to calculate the motivations of others is frustrating precisely because some statements or actions are motiveless. |
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It's frustrating because I think that people think that poor people are dumb or unaccomplished or something. |
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The 1990 undercount also proved frustrating for scholars who use demographic data to conduct their research. |
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I found the training very satisfying but the competition intensely frustrating because I knew I was always underperforming. |
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It is frustrating for patients when they pick up a phone and hear an engaged tone or when they have to wait in a queue. |
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As much as the vast majority of people adore their mums, mums are still one of the most frustrating and annoying creatures to walk this planet. |
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Not knowing which guest rooms are ready for check-in is frustrating, to be sure. |
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In truth, he often proved an irascible, frustrating curmudgeon at the tribunal but people loved him for it. |
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Dukinfield are workmanlike rather than spectacular and from the kick-off they displayed their intention of frustrating the home side. |
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It gets frustrating when your album falls victim to extreme contextualisation. |
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While Currie is extremely polite and diplomatic, it is clear he finds these frustrating and unhelpful. |
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During the earlier part of a band's career, this is a hard slog, with lots of frustrating phone calls and unreturned messages. |
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It may be equally frustrating to children who are eager to please, obtain approval, and gain parental acceptance. |
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It's frustrating, sure, but when you start from ground zero anything is an accomplishment, and anything is more than what you have. |
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The frustrating thing is, we were doing alright up until then and were making good use of our extra player. |
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Apnea of prematurity is one of the most common and frustrating conditions that nurses, physicians and neonates face in the intensive care unit. |
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It was almost as if the two month lay-off had been of benefit rather than a frustrating interruption to a burgeoning career. |
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I must admit I don't have a good solution for this situation and it's frustrating. |
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Such patients' insistence that the physician pursue somatic symptoms until a medical diagnosis is obtained can be significantly frustrating. |
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It's very frustrating being ridiculed or ignored when using my broken French in a social setting. |
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England was 80 for one when bad light finally halted a frustrating day's play with 30 overs still remaining. |
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It was a bit strange really, and very frustrating especially as we had a chance to get something from the game. |
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I find it frustrating having to constantly stop, help, then regather my thoughts to push on with the project I'm completing. |
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It's always frustrating to watch an artist with top-shelf talent reach that inadvertently satiated moment when there's really nothing important to say, nothing to add. |
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The frustrating thing here is the astonishment over it all, over the Iggy Azalea phenomenon. |
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Flippant to a frustrating degree, he give away precious little about the forces that drove him to become one of Ireland's most successful and wealthiest businessmen. |
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Just what I wanted to hear after a frustrating on-again, off-again few weeks before his last-minute decision to accede to our request for an interview. |
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I would be fibbing if I didn't say at times that was frustrating. |
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It must be both fascinating and frustrating to be a medical doctor and have to keep up with all the research and new evidence that may be against accepted practices. |
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Insomnia has to be the most frustrating thing in the whole world. |
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At the end of his frustrating book, I was left none the wiser. |
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh acknowledged that even a frustrating and deceitful dialogue is better than none. |
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As air travel becomes increasingly frustrating and dehumanizing, the dream of personal aerial transport tempts the imagination. |
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While This Far by Faith tells good stories, readers who wish to use the book for quick reference may find the book's loose organization a bit frustrating. |
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Yes, it's frustrating to have alerts sounded and then have nothing happen. |
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But she also recognizes that it places women who are told that they screened for HPV in a frustrating limbo. |
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It is a frustrating, expensive, and protracted bureaucratic procedure for the innocent landlord to enter an abandoned property and relet it without going through the tribunal. |
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My Beats experience has been just as frustrating as my previous forays into streaming and downloading. |
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Equally charming and frustrating, the singer also tends to skip around answers to some of the harder questions with riddling, sermon-like replies. |
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It was the latest in a long line of frustrating races for Coulthard. |
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There's no denying how frustrating staid, riskless costume dramas can be, where substance is replaced with big budgets, fancy costumes and schmaltz. |
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But sitting in a room with a guy and tape recorder asking those questions had to have been frustrating at the time, right? |
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The often glacial pace of change can prove particularly frustrating to former clerks who return as justices. |
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Thompson may be no worse than Hynes, but his first year has been frustrating for advocates who once had high hopes for his tenure. |
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It was a frustrating loss for the Eagles, who let a third quarter time lead evaporate and have now lost their opening two games by margins of less than two goals. |
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The problem of personal identity can be thorny and frustrating. |
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There are some really frustrating parts, not so much because it's hard or done poorly, but because they compare so mediocrely to the really good parts. |
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The open-ended nature of the story is in keeping with the character who has been presented to us but is a little on the frustrating side for anyone seeking tidy endings. |
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If, after your frustrating rush-hour road-rage journey to the gym, you're still a bit torpid, keep your wits by reminding yourself that it's all in your mind. |
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Their friends and family are beside themselves with worry and grief, and not having any power to do anything to ease the situation is incredibly frustrating. |
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This is fine for people who want to sell up and trade down in the market, but is frustrating for home owners who want to move up the housing ladder. |
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The trouble with waiting is that it's boring and frustrating. |
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Now, Will finds that frustrating, and we can truly understand that. |
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The frustrating thing is that Jew Boy is very much a book of two parts. |
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I think it's the lack of undo function that makes it so frustrating. |
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The experience seems to have unhinged him, since he bursts into the Hydrogen Cave ranting about a mysterious Referee X who is frustrating his attempts at publication. |
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And in its opener, little seemed to improve as it played out a dull, frustrating tie with an uninspiring Uruguay side. |
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Pass plays could be even more frustrating, since trying to accurately throw a piece of felt with the metal catapult was like trying to thread a needle from across the room. |
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Last week's last-gasp victory over Partick Thistle may have been a frustrating, bulldozing affair, but yesterday a lot of their play was a joy to behold. |
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Like my wife's slimming programme, this year's harvest is going in fits and starts, punctuated by incredibly hot days of activity and frustrating rest periods. |
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Smith's fearsomely focused narratives and majestically brutal accompaniment are alternately highlighted or hamstrung by perverse and frustrating production decisions. |
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If you view on a standard television or you can adjust your overscan this may not be an issue, but for those without the capability it will be frustrating. |
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The end result is a frustrating film that trades a strange-but-true history of government-sanctioned weirdness for a Hollywood ending dripping with an anti-war message. |
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It is only slightly frustrating occasionally that one is forced to read the surtitles and miss some of the subtler action but that is a minor scruple. |
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It's frustrating to see players get near the green in regulation, then start circling it to the right, clanking a bunch of chip shots off the hosel. |
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So not only was it frustrating enough having stupid idiots bashing into us, we got caught on the edge of a fight that broke out involving about 15 guys. |
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Running is frustrating because even though my fitness levels have risen beyond all my wildest imaginings, marathons are about so much more than just stamina. |
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It is frustrating to consider how powerful our back play might have been, had impecuniousness not obliged the club to dispense with the services of the two. |
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It is so frustrating that the bleached images of the alien world are so ruggedly handsome and so unjustified and impertinent to the plot at the same time. |
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Like others, I found the ending frustrating, but it came as a relief too. |
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She blames Common Core for frustrating students and teachers alike. |
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Of course, sexual intimacy and fidelity between the sexes can be frustrating and exhausting, and particularly in a society which is increasingly predicated on other values. |
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The owners of some 660 horses face a frustrating and expensive new year because Horse Racing Ireland is going to squeeze them until the pips squeak. |
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This is hard work and it's frustrating, because losing is the pits. |
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It becomes instructively frustrating to discover how many terms we take for granted in discussing ways of knowing, for which we have only visually oriented vocabulary. |
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It's frustrating for the police so many declined, but the process could only be voluntary and people have the civil right not to be fingerprinted. |
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I think if you understood the back story of my frustrating relationship with this overpriced garage you might appreciate why I flew off the handle. |
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And it was kind of funny, but it was really frustrating at the same time. |
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The most frustrating aspect of it all is that I have no choice. |
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Rain delays are hugely frustrating for players and fans alike. |
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We've run into a number of issues that are often cured in subsequent product generations, but that are very frustrating when initially encountered. |
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It's a tendency that is both endearing and mildly frustrating. |
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The first half was a frustrating and cagey affair in Malabo with both sides concious of the importance of the result. |
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The frequency of student errors was frustrating to the young teacher. |
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It wasn't anything major, but it was niggly and enough to stop me playing games which was very frustrating. |
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Strawberry Moon has proved a frustrating filly to follow but few would begrudge her victory in the Subscribe To Racing UK Maiden at Redcar. |
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Strawberry Moon has proved a frustrating filly to follow but few would begrudge her a victory in the Subscribe To Racing UK Maiden at Redcar. |
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It may be what helps him take the more frustrating moments in stride. |
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After lunch Hayden and Langer continued their solid batting, frustrating the England bowlers, with Langer reaching his 22nd Test century. |
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A series of administrative miscommunications led to the game's cancellation, frustrating Hernandez and Chatsworth coach Bill Coan. |
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Baffling and somewhat frustrating, this book shadow-boxes with its subject but never really penetrates the mask. |
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Yeah, it was a frustrating experience that the other movie got going. |
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Caley's frustrating day was summed up as Stuart Golabek sclaffed a chance from eight yards with a few minutes left. |
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That's a frustrating and enraging situation to find yourself in. |
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But it was more frustrating for me because it was the beginning of the season when you're raring to go. |
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The second-half saw the Bay continue to pass the ball well and frustrating Rafa as they battled to get back on level terms. |
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Frederick Henry now gave in and began to promote the peace progress, instead of frustrating it. |
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If Flappy Bird wasn't frustrating, Lollipop offers you a modified version of the game. |
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Is it frustrating that he hasn't had the recognition you feel he deserves? |
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John cut back on his hobby of photography because post processing was so time-consuming and frustrating. |
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Orthodox Quakers were less supportive of women than the Hicksite Quakers, frustrating Sarah's intention to be recognized as a minister. |
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Diatomic has hit the bar on his last three starts but can arrest his frustrating run in the ApolloBet Daily Racing Specials Handicap. |
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Admissions officers realize the waitlist is a frustrating place to be. |
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O'Neil has recovered from the frustrating dead leg which kept him out of the Reading clash. |
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To some it was a frustrating night of sloppy defending, poor use of substitutes and overelaborate tippy-tappy football. |
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He has osteitis pubis which is a frustrating one because it needs rest and then to see where you are. |
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Throw in some extremely unfair deaths and what should have been a stimulating escapade instead becomes an off-puttingly frustrating experience. |
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But, at it's core, this game suers from some seriously grating sound eects and a similarly frustrating playing experience. |
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Here the distrust of a spatial conceit of depth gets at the perspicaciously blunt intelligence of the book as a whole, but also gives a taste of its frustrating doubletalk. |
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In fact, there was no suggestion of that, although Wolves deployed men behind the ball to stifle the league leaders in a first-half that proved very frustrating for City. |
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Conventionally, users must dial ten or more digits when calling outside of their home area code, which can be frustrating and often results in misdialed calls. |
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In Germany also the kobolds are rather troublesome than otherwise, to the miners, taking pleasure in frustrating their objects, and rendering their toil unfruitful. |
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Homan said the revolving-door syndrome is particularly frustrating and she and others have been pushing for the repeat offenders to be prohibited from returning. |
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Under the new regime, his embassy in Spain dragged on, frustrating Guicciardini as he yearned to return to Florence and participate in its political life. |
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Nevertheless, in 1881, Thessaly and small parts of Epirus were ceded to Greece as part of the Treaty of Berlin, while frustrating Greek hopes of receiving Crete. |
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The single-finger hunt-and-peck typing is frustrating and slow. |
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But after a wholly frustrating and unmemorable 80 minutes, Huddersfield were left to reflect on a 22-14 defeat, which was really of their own making. |
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Erin Corrigan, manager of Clinical Nutrition at Miami Children's Hospital, explains how having a picky eater, although very frustrating, is not that uncommon. |
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Although at times my prac experiences were flustering and frustrating, I have gained many new insights into catering for the individual needs of children. |
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Baltic mythology has also received a great deal of scholarly attention, but has so far remained frustrating to researchers because the sources are so comparatively late. |
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On a PC, each heading opens a topic submenu, but these should be larger, since scrolling through dozens of choices in small windows is awkward and frustrating. |
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That's really frustrating when you have a chance for that glory, to win a game where somebody's luckier than a two-dicked dog, and you just can't do it. |
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I don't wholly blame the chaps for what was a fairly inept performance because the spoiling tactics of the Eyeties were frustrating, if not illegal. |
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Used a pointed tip today and learned why I kept pearling with my round tipped board. Round noses like to dig into the water, causing frustrating wipeouts. |
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Terry Gilliam's futuristic film Brazil was set in a technologically advanced society, yet the future it predicted was dystopic, convoluted and frustrating. |
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Luca Cumani's Bankable has had more seconds than is healthy this term and is looking to end a frustrating sequence of four runners-up finishes here. |
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