Cure a bad case of cabin fever by inviting friends over for an evening of cards or old-fashioned board games. |
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His healing hands were just the job to recharge ailing volunteers who slaved throughout the contest, often in bad weather conditions. |
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They were all miserable efforts, but at least the least bad one won through in the end. |
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He wasn't as bad as some of the keyboard warriors I'd read, but there was that gloat and strut. |
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The gentlemen's after cabin was now entirely filled, and the forward cabin was certainly in as bad a condition. |
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Her actions and movements sluggish and purposefully so, she has a bad feeling. |
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If jurors you think are sympathetic to you get on the jury and bad jurors for you get off, you're happy. |
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Not bad for an incidental photographer who took up photography mostly as a necessity rather than an avocation! |
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Actually he made just one bad move in the whole tournament and this wasn't exactly a short tourney. |
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We had some luck with bad views of a Blue-capped Kingfisher, but a pair of Rufous-headed tailorbirds was well seen. |
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Christine took the bad news well enough but the rest of the Top 9 contestants were devastated to see their fellow singer sent home. |
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It was a solace for me when everybody agreed that I do not look so bad after all. |
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Thoughts of Dara kept him awake most of the night, and if that wasn't bad enough, even his morning jog failed to invigorate him. |
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He clearly wasn't best thrilled with his job last week and it went from bad to worse for him today. |
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No detail is spared and the squeamish can count on skipping huge wodges of forensic jargon, which is no bad thing. |
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The former heavyweight champion has squandered nearly 300 million in ring earnings through lavish spending and bad advice. |
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Still, it is not necessarily a bad thing as long as it does not take away from who and what I am. |
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It was bad enough with people microwaving food right next to all the equipment I had to store securely. |
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That's not to say it's a bad idea, since the movie never ever pretends to have anything remotely to do with real life. |
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When bad weather stopped the jump, the parachute was kept in a store at the airfield that was locked overnight but was left open in the day. |
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There wasn't a single bad performance all night, not a single dropped note or missed key. |
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I have seen some really bad work in my life, and I made sure I talked with and researched each artist. |
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It is true that, in bad weather, radar beams can be reflected off waves, causing false echoes or making the screen unreadable. |
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The reason I had such bad withdrawal symptoms from bread must be because I was, well, addicted. |
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Like a prophylactic, it prevents certain bad things from happening while preserving most of the benefits of interaction. |
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It is far more realistic to turn your complaining inward, and pressure the bad apples in your group to stop pulling down the average. |
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But you can't weed out the bad apples by merely having a national I.D. card. |
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If the weather gets too bad he joggles in place or does a figure eight in his basement. |
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It's a difficult thing to talk about in a way, because human intervention and control over the world have quite a bad rap at the moment. |
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These are undoubtedly his most successful movies in a film career which contains a wide mix of the good, the bad and the mediocre. |
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Mr Rusnak admitted he made a series of bad investments on behalf of the bank and then tried to recover his losses without alerting bosses. |
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England are rather specialising in bad vibes, most notably against Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka, of all teams. |
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The people that populate this list have wormed their way into our bad books just by being themselves. |
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It was just reward for the Brazilian driver after bad luck in qualifying put him down the order on the grid. |
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An air of mystery surrounds plans being drawn up for a new road that will cut out the bad bends at the notorious Cononley Lane Ends. |
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The timing for this couldn't be worse because we've just had a very bad cold spell. |
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The problem with taking the ideologically pure position is that although what the state does will be bad it may not lead to collapse. |
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After a couple of bad recent league results, a win was needed to move away from the bottom end of the table. |
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One particularly bad day, the kitchen ran out of gloves while I was helping out with a rush on the salad station. |
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It was a small matter of lasering away the areas of bad cells that had been pinpointed. |
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And I'm not going to lose a lot of sleep thinking they got a bad rap for this woman's execution. |
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I don't know the reason why he has said all this but it puts him in a bad light. |
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The subsequent departure in the same direction of his backroom adjutants Jim and Kevin intensified the bad feeling. |
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I get good and bad reviews and I accept that, but this is really going for the jugular. |
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Again, being able to make a reasonable deposit will help convince them you are serious and not a bad risk. |
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Customers often allow themselves to be railroaded into making bad decisions by a salesperson's use of false dilemma. |
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Because of all this, Cruise repents and learns that fidelity to a loved one is not so bad after all. |
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There was a half-brother, too, a bad egg who was nevertheless well-off because of his father's fortunes. |
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Things went from bad to worse as Cristiano Ronaldo bagged two more goals for the away side. |
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I don't like to say that we had bad luck, but we didn't have enough luck today to win the race. |
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Different types of oranges have good years and bad years, L' Hoste says, adding that one banner crop is typically balanced by a sluggish one. |
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The sixth is a tough from the East who dresses up like a bad man and plays some low-down trick that gives the boys a bad name. |
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Air traffic controllers at Kerman airport said the pilot radioed about bad weather and strong winds before losing contact. |
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We're all thoroughly in agreement that these first-past-the-post elections are a bad thing. |
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I don't have a connection with any one club, which is not a bad thing because I don't have an axe to grind. |
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That's all I'm saying, is we have to start blaming the barrel and not simply saying there are a few bad apples who corrupted the barrel. |
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This means it is very bad for people with respiratory problems such as bronchitis and asthma. |
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Although admittedly not a car expert, I do know pouring cold water into the radiator of an overheating engine is a bad idea. |
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It wouldn't be so bad if i only had to work weekdays and have my weekends off. |
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Such an approach arguably can make for good social activism, but it begets bad theatre. |
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Everyone will have one person who's had a bad experience, or has an axe to grind or something. |
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The Surrealists loved bad movies, seeing them as subversive attacks on the tyranny of narrative form. |
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The recount of the events was bad enough but Trent's quotes were almost too much to take. |
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Stealing satellite television is a criminal act as bad as downloading music illegally or photocopying textbooks instead of buying them. |
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One in particular could have had a really bad outcome had it not been for a smoke alarm. |
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Saying that humans, being creatures of flesh, could not obey the law was to say, in effect, that God made a bad job of creating them. |
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At the most prosaic level, any journalist has experience of how bad some press officers can be. |
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She swam the few strokes to the edge and clambered out, in a very bad mood. |
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As a matter of fact, a Justice of the Peace hearing bad language in the streets could fine an offender on the spot. |
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Unfortunately, some other songs tend towards the kind of treacly lugubriousness that gives country music a bad name. |
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His bad rep would buy them all the free press they could want, and he had the acting chops to back it up. |
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Disappointingly, however, bad weather forced the cancellation of my whale-watching trip. |
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No matter how safe a driver you are, you can be taken out by someone else's bad driving. |
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The bad news is that there will inevitably be job losses in the hundreds, if not thousands, among the ranks of common bank workers. |
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They speak in an almost matter-of-fact way, recounting the catalogue of bad behaviour that has characterised the adolescent years for Alan. |
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They said I would be a bad influence on the other sand rakers from the 3rd grade. |
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Cops always complain about how the courts let the bad guys they work so hard to catch just walk away with a rap on the knuckles. |
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By this point we have the perfect marriage of reactionary politics with suitably bad art. |
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They appear to be the result of a terrifying experiment involving monkeys, The Libertines, The Fall and a bathtub full of bad homemade whizz. |
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He has kept his chin up throughout his treatment and this award would be something good after having such a bad year. |
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Woods has not written a bad book but, rather, it could have been a much better one. |
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Somehow that statistic came to be portrayed as a bad thing, when in fact it is a heartening trend. |
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But who are you to say that they wouldn't have the scars from living with a bad marriage, either? |
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After this White's position is very bad because his pieces are so poorly placed for the middle-game. |
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It is too bad that we often put readers, ordained and lay, in costumes that shackle the creative reading of texts. |
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A couple delayed their wedding when bad directions led the groom's parents astray. |
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I had a bad rep back home and he wanted me right under his nose where he could see me. |
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Early westerns, for example, put black hats on the bad guys and white hats on the good guys to prepare viewers for a picture's final shootout. |
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No matter what sort of threat a politician is, usurping free will is pretty bad juju, as least as far as I understand things. |
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Ferguson readily admits he has never been in as bad a situation as the one he is faced with now. |
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The Aussie admits that he left Essex on bad terms with several players, and they were surrounding him yesterday and willing him to fail. |
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He wondered how a player this bad could be given 3000 at bats in the major leagues. |
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They play every Sunday morning, rain or shine, often getting more people out playing when the weather's bad than good. |
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The only thing that makes his work more complicated is the bad traffic and cars driving along the railways. |
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He's got quite a bad drugs background, and it just goes to show that using heroin and crack cocaine is very expensive. |
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This would have a bad effect on society, as we don't want increased use of cocaine and heroin. |
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The times spent rattling around in hotel rooms isn't so bad as rattling around in my own home. |
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To replace the fine organ with an electronic keyboard is bad enough, but to move the altar and remove the pews is quite unthinkable. |
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In fact, many people eagerly follow the weather forecasts whenever bad weather is looming. |
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All I know is my head hurt real bad during that time and then it was gone after a while. |
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He played magnificently, but he made one bad decision to go for a field goal, had his effort blocked, and lost possession. |
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With all of this bad luck going on, you know your luck is going to change in Las Vegas. |
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They upped the tempo somewhat but were guilty of ballooning some bad balls wide of their intended mark. |
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The HF signal also jumps gaskets between pipe sections, bad telephone cable bonds, and small breaks in a cable's sheath. |
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Some of the bad ways to discuss problems are to awfulize, trivialize, work it up, or dump. |
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She said the town had developed a bad reputation as a result of problems arising from late night take-aways. |
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Some of my readers still want good guys and bad guys, white hats and black hats. |
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Norman Fowler, chairman of the Conservative Party, claimed that withdrawing the whip was a bad move because it made the rebels into martyrs. |
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The lines between good and bad cease to exist as the white hats do terrible things for the best of reasons. |
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I had had a bad relationship a year prior to going out with him and things were good between us, we seemed to click. |
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Whenever he does call you a bad name or threatens to whip you or anything else, tell your mom ASAP and have her talk to him and again. |
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The modern teenager gets a bad press and is associated in many minds with yobbery, drunkenness and aggression. |
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He pointed out that bad infrastructure in the region was among factors hampering trade relations. |
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Not that any political party cannot be expected to share the motherhood-and-apple-pie axiom that crime is a bad thing. |
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The pounding was so bad that my brother could hear my heart thumping as we lay in bed at night. |
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Still, aggressive masculine behaviour isn't the problem of a few bad apples. |
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He became agony uncle to thousands of boys who sought his advice on broken voices, bad breath, and the propriety of using tinted writing paper. |
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I was alerted to the fact that you had a bad experience while auditioning for another mainstream film. |
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It's bad enough for dancers to have hip replacements without the extra stress of strange side effects like squeaking. |
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Sandra is briefly seduced by superficial glitz before rediscovering friendship, real values and the need to take down some bad guys. |
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Classical literature is rich in lessons of character, but often gets a bad rap because of its archaic language and unfamiliar settings. |
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Francis came all the way back into the big bad city from the wilds of New Haven, so we were glad to see him. |
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Just as the garden weeds are more robust than the desired plants, bad information rears its ugly head more virulently than good information. |
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He fell in with a bad crowd, particularly at the end of the Soviet occupation. |
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As we weeded the lettuce patch one day recently, you took satisfaction in likening us to a pair of police getting rid of bad guys. |
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It would be bad if the integrity of the job queue is compromised, because a malicious user could remove other users' jobs. |
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No middle-class parents I have ever met actually believe that their kid's school is one of the bad ones. |
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Princes Street, just a short distance away, had to endure only a few tens of thousand shoppers due to the bad weather! |
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Yet, as it turns out, many of those foods have bad raps based on outdated and, sometimes, erroneous information. |
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After attaching all the color keyed cords to the proper spots, I was ready to test these bad boys out. |
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I have a friend who likes even my bad sermons, but not even he liked my sermon that day. |
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If the gala is cancelled because of bad weather the committee now stands to lose money, and it's not recoverable. |
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Don't let bad reviews get you down because not everyone is going to like your music! |
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In the song, Jones confesses that she's humiliated herself in a bad relationship, so by its conclusion I was expecting a great kiss-off. |
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Leighton Beach has fished well for garfish, herring and yellow-finned whiting and for anglers with limited mobility is not a bad spot to fish. |
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Individual technology stocks can nosedive up to 70 per cent in a bad week as we saw in the stockmarket meltdown that occurred in March. |
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This New York circus duo have been a hit off-Broadway with their brand of vaudeville, kitsch and bad behaviour. |
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I'd make snide remarks to him, snub him, give him disparaging looks and he usually responded by ignoring my bad behavior and avoiding me. |
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I think this is another paradigm of countries in transition, the bad roads left behind after being trammelled by the carts of history. |
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Eggs and fish often cause problems with bad smells, and fizzy drinks and beer produce excess wind and runny motions. |
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The average 90-shooter loses more strokes due to poor club and shot selection than to a bad swing or missed shot. |
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A new study shows air pollution in some national parks is so bad it rivals the smog in major cities. |
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They were first created by the North American Indians and were used to capture pleasant dreams and stop bad ones. |
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The record is a stunner, offering a glimpse at a once-famous composer who has unfairly suffered a bad rap. |
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His childhood is mainly marked by the fact that he suffered from very bad asthma, which still affects him, and so was kept off school a lot. |
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If a hat on the bed is bad luck, what about a black cat wearing a hat, on a bed? |
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Which was actually not a bad idea, since by the time I had done level 16, my eyes were going squiffy and I thought I could sleep some more. |
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The findings of the survey challenge the belief held by many teachers that parents are behind a child's bad behaviour. |
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These people have stuck by me through my highs and lows, my breakups and breakouts, my good hair days and bad hair days. |
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Once I did run a rather lukewarm review and I can tell you, I felt bad about it. |
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A bad idea does not become a stroke of genius just because you place it on the web. |
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Lawyers get a bad rep, but overcoming that reputation could prove to be good for business. |
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It's another example of hastily-drafted legal definitions being rushed through Parliament and resulting in bad law. |
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However, despite a balance that favors the orchestral winds, the sound is not bad at all. |
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The rebroadcasts on cable were bad quality, and a lot of print and sound damage was apparent. |
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It's unforgivably bad journalism, laughably poor sub-editing, and atrocious proof-reading. |
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I have seen the results of some good rebuild programs and, unfortunately, some bad ones. |
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John became involved in kick-boxing and self-defence as a result of a bad childhood experience. |
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If bad doctors bury their mistakes, then good archaeologists should rebury theirs. |
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Like all kickers, you have good days and bad days, and I have no hesitation in saying Saturday was obviously a good day, and I enjoyed it. |
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The Titans line up to kick off once again, but this time their kicker isn't wearing a jersey because he thinks it was bad luck last time around. |
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That's probably bad news for the industry, which has blamed its billion dollar losses partially on persistently low airfares. |
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But despite the pressure, the young Norwegian kept his head and battled through the bad times to realize his dream and win his first world title. |
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It is all done in the name of curbing the so-called bad actors, but it imposes costs on everyone. |
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He told her to return to his bedroom, that she was a bad girl, and that she could not return again. |
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His pride always was easily wounded, but being beaten by your kid brother of 3 years was almost as bad as it could get in Tatton's world. |
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Full of regret for past failures, the characters in the film live lives fraught with bad timing, missed chances and impossible attachments. |
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The type of treatment that is given depends on how often the asthma attacks occur and how bad the symptoms are. |
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If you know of someone who is thinking of purchasing a rabbit at Easter, let them know it's a bad idea. |
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Carter has a client that is looking to buy a club that is in bad shape physically and financially. |
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But even if there is no bad news awaiting you at the hotel reception desk, that feeling lasts only hours, a day or two at the most. |
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I wonder at my life, it seems ajar. Is it so bad to long for relationship? Will He grant me kindred heart fellowship? |
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Instead, 217 was not such a bad score on a pitch sprinkled with drizzle and well disposed to good seam bowling. |
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It's not so bad when the seat in front is up, but if they recline it then it presses rather painfully against my knees. |
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All buses are equipped with radios to ensure the immediate propagation of bad news. |
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About 80 percent of Taiwan thinks this job is low-class work and something only bad girls do. |
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Well, seminar after seminar makes the point that bad news doesn't get better with age. |
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In the days before the wireless, he was trained to bear news of imminent bad weather from island to island. |
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We hear a song from our past and are transported back to a memory from long ago, albeit a good or a bad one. |
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I suggest it's probably bad for your career to be too up-front about age because people are so stupid about it. |
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We all reckon the plan is to do a root canal on the bad tooth and remove the wisdom tooth. |
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At this moment in time we're not playing well, but we just have to stick together and come through this bad patch. |
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So a lot of people at risk here with these toxic loans which are really bad deals for consumers. |
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He's peddling relief for legions of businesspeople who are caught in a web of portable work, always-on technology, and bad habits. |
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His career began a downhill descent by showing up late for work, and when he did show, he arrived with a bad attitude. |
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In the practice of witchcraft, spirits are summoned and called to stay in a circle until needed to fight off bad spirits. |
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I woke up this morning straight from a bad dream, a nightmare, if you will. |
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Attired in bronze tights and leotards, with absurdly bad wigs on their heads, the seven dancers seem simultaneously naked and sexless. |
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So we see that most of these children and young men continue to have bad dreams and nightmares sometimes as often as two or three times a week. |
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For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. |
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Then there was the rap sheet of Stoudemire's mother, Carrie, which included arrests for passing bad checks, fraud and theft. |
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Once a region acquires a bad reputation it takes a generation to change it. |
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For the artistic bad boys of the 20th century, acquiring a reputation as a pornographer was a rebellion too far. |
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Joe, one of the bad guys, who was part of the low class of the gang, slides the wood board on the door like a window. |
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Official Surrealism includes acres upon acres of bad painting, yet its ideas could not be more important to the century. |
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The supporting band add lustre to the old arrangements, although most of them have very bad hair and play too many solos. |
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Poor Dolly is having a really bad moult, shedding great wads of fine grey hair. |
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I do feel that they are getting a bad deal in terms of coverage and I was glad that I was able to do a little bit to put that right. |
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The balance of time not spent battling the bad guy or training is fairly well spent building the relationships between the SWAT members. |
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However bad the odds against us seem, the odds against placing this bet at all are even higher. |
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Good karma, as any scholar of Buddhism will tell you, has to be balanced by an equal amount of bad karma. |
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For instance, policies of the balance of power might lead to assistance being given to regimes with bad human rights records. |
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But, on balance, the fact that people of money and influence value the countryside and want to live here, is no bad thing. |
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For a while, his brain was swollen so he hung his head like someone with a real bad headache. |
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Her decision not to testify had left a bad impression on the jurors, despite the judge specifically ordering them not to read anything into it. |
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The good characters are decidedly saintly, and the bad guys aren't really all that bad when push comes to shove. |
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Some shooters try to improve the ignition of their rifles by enlarging touch holes with a small drill, which is a bad idea. |
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Last year she started smelling pretty bad and acting up so Mum made her sleep outside in the wood shed during the summer. |
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Good, bad or just plain wrong, If I see a cover version of a song I know, I have to have it. |
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Let's go through the U.S. numbers, because the United States gets somewhat of a bad rap on this and yet, the numbers are considerable. |
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It is bad manners to push a new relationship on your friends and very bad manners to bad-mouth the aggrieved party. |
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If they were no-added-sugar celery flavoured rusks, then they'd probably be not bad for you at all. |
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If we are very forbearing, then something we would normally consider very painful will not appear so bad after all. |
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Not every bad thing that happens, not even every awful, horrific thing, is necessarily traumatic. |
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Last night's debate was not half bad for an idiot, but how can people even THINK to vote for him after seeing the first one. |
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We're talking massively complicated stuff that I wouldn't even fathom creating myself, and I'm not half bad with this stuff. |
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It's a shame to see it all play out in a movie that's mostly about making blandly obvious arguments about how bad and dishonourable racism is. |
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White and a pale sort of foamy green swirled together on the walls, and the doors were dark blue, ominous and foreboding pits that threatened to cave in before bad news. |
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As a result, legitimate art is doing a bad job of taking us outside our comfort zone. |
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Whenever something bad happens or is just sprung upon you, you always try to see that positive silver lining lurking beneath the surface somewhere. |
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And, I lay low on holidays since the bad guys tend to lob rockets to help us celebrate. |
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In reply he got the by now standard answer that there are crooks in all professions and the few bad apples must not be allowed to contaminate the image of the entire barrel. |
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We're human and out of any group of people there are bad apples. |
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A few more bad apples will be identified, they'll be suspended with pay and the allegations against them will be disposed of in some way or another. |
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He said the parents of girls who lived in her boarding house had been contacted at home and given the bad news before they returned to school earlier this week. |
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Frankly, I am at a loss to explain this astoundingly bad judgment. |
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Too bad it was the Marxist states that all withered away, so that people might enjoy enough freedom to make a little money and enjoy themselves a bit. |
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He was surprisingly lucid, claimed the pain wasn't bad at the moment, and was lamenting the fact that he must remain firmly ensconced in his recliner for the next few days. |
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And don't be shy about telling someone who has bad breath, noxious perfume or cigarette smells on them that you're in a delicate condition and need some fresh air. |
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When the cold sweat of the bad review dried, another feeling followed that was not at all unpleasant. |
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But I questioned how sharp this guy was with some of the unbelievably bad choices he makes that land him back on the wrong side of the tracks in young adulthood. |
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They all have a corkboard or a dry erase board that was reserved for bad ideas. |
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In England, for example, Cardinal Francis Aidan Gasquet, a great Benedictine historian, was both a bad workman and not entirely scrupulous about what he said. |
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So while many of us reach for our cup of joe and tune out the often conflicting caffeine news reports, it may not be a bad idea to keep listening. |
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Suppose the camera is tracking in, following a bad guy's footsteps. |
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Still, no matter how good or bad the report card, the vast majority of teenagers plan to honor their moms, and the other important women in their lives, this Mother's Day. |
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What he did in his speech last week was take the bad apple approach and say OK, what we're going to do is we're going to stiffen the penalties on the bad apples. |
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If one restaurant is doing badly it doesn't have access to the bank accounts of the other restaurants and thus there is no way for the bad apples to drag down the barrel. |
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In France, it's bad form to cut the point off a wedge of cheese. |
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And it's good to go while the getting is good, but Miss Wolff has bad news for her friends and fellow country fans, rockabilly retro-ists and would-be jivers. |
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The new normal is not going to be as good as conditions before the summer of 2008, but it might not be as bad as it has been in the first half of 2009, either. |
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At 3.30 I was still wide awake and feeling incredibly bad tempered. |
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They were like bad actors from a tacky soap opera, and they irritated me. |
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Or what if an ingredient in your beer or cocktail machines has gone bad without knowing it? |
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Amid the groves of academe, entrenched in the ivy covered tranquil buildings, there lurks more politics, latent hostility and simply bad manners than one can imagine. |
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Nor does he believe in the evil eye, bad omen, and that kind of stuff. |
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Put a bad weave on me, slap me in some bedazzled panties that are three sizes too small, and I could probably wander around and forget how to lip-sync, too. |
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This movie takes a very mature and sophisticated approach to a delicate subject, offering no explanation as to why bad things can happen to good people. |
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After a bad month and a Hail Mary VP pick, the markets may have good news for Mitt Romney. |
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Many women working in the City also say they are touched up by both colleagues, contacts or competitors at such events, and think objecting could be bad for business. |
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At the same time, his bad temper and lustfulness make him a mirror of his master, and this makes the mistaken identities of Act Two all the more realistic. |
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It has been an expensive, laborious and wearying exercise contacting policyholders worldwide and convincing sceptics that demutualisation isn't such a bad idea after all. |
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We could say we were approached by a local bad guy with a grenade in his hand. |
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Let's hope the clinic this afternoon will pass quickly, so that I can look to washing away the bad karma that has been following me with some irie spirit later. |
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I think they get a bad rap in history because they were the losers. |
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And then there was the crippling nerves that it would not be good, especially given the recent spate of really bad TV biopics. |
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Dyer on a bad day is still more profound, and more polished, than most writers at their effortful best. |
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Autocracy is just a Russian bad habit, like smoking three packs of cigarettes a day and drinking a liter of vodka. |
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If this is confirmed, it will be bad news for those who've been expecting that confirmation of past life on Mars would provide a burst of energy for the field of astrobiology. |
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It's nice to have that leeway, in case there are any bad days lurking. |
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Oppression, foreign occupation, and military dictatorships get a bad rap. |
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With the areas marked blue signifying the safe areas to train and red marking the no-go areas, the map looked like it had come down with a bad rash. |
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As bad as he felt, he didn't wish his misery on anyone else. |
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His account of the events in the run-up to Singapore's Separation from Malaysia and independence in 1965 stirred up bad blood across the Causeway. |
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Sorry Augustine, Aquinas, Dante, and Erasmus you must have been just a bad dream. |
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On behalf of all dog owners and all sensible, rational people who still have common sense in this country, we say that this is bad legislation and that we are against it. |
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Don't send a stud player to the bench because he had a few bad games. |
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A quick wipe over with some baby wipes and the scratches didn't look so bad anymore, and Yuri fixed the plastic back on so it's not as bad as it could've been. |
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There's a crunchy ration of grit tracked in to the hall and kitchen now, joining with the Dolly-fluff to show just how very bad I am at routine vacuuming. |
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Search engine marketing gets a bad rap for a ton of reasons. |
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The reality is that bad debt increases with the age of receivables. |
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Change the microbial population in your body from bad to good by eating a probiotic diet rich in fermented foods and beverages like kefir and cultured veggies. |
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That's the sort of bad karma that happens to people like that, kids. |
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As though that were not bad enough, we are now being told that our investment policy, which is momentous to any purposeful economic development, is all at sea. |
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I watched one bee make a bad landing, slip off, fall backwards, bounce off a branch in the stem of the flower, and land on her back on the ground. |
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I accept full responsibility for my reaction to a bad situation. |
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They say promises to begin the New Year afresh by giving up smoking or junk food are broken so quickly we become convinced that kicking a bad habit is beyond our control. |
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I still hold with the view that a bad choice is better than none, and my guess is most others, especially those who have lived under dictatorships would agree. |
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Recently I was party to the telephone conversation between a manager and his human-resources representative about the sacking of an employee for bad time-keeping. |
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She added that the surface around the grate had got so bad that the brackets holding the grate cover up were exposed and when pedestrians walked on the grate it wobbled. |
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Mixing with the fan base and common folk has its good and bad sides. |
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It must be hard for her to hurt her son, but the pain I have to suffer from my disease is pretty bad just now so please, God, excuse me for the odd word in vain. |
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The court might be reasoning that she still has some psychological hold over the young man, or that being with him is emotionally bad for her or for him. |
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Random reboots, unexplained lockups, corrupted displays and drives or other devices that mysteriously stop working all could be caused by a bad power supply. |
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The bad feelings are mainly about values, style and constancy more than policy. |
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I'll be watching the game tonight, I hope the bad weather keeps off. |
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In my view the bad cases are normally a very small proportion. |
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And though topical humor tends to be transitory, a really bad gag can take on a life of its own and curdle a political career. |
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Today's light heavyweight and middleweight divisions are in bad shape. |
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We live in a negative world where we are constantly bombarded with bad news, hurtful gossip and sometimes people we hold in high regard trying to keep us down all the time. |
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We'll ask Raymone if she thinks that Michael's getting a bad rap. |
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Perhaps this wouldn't be so bad should the revisability of logic and mathematics permit their ultimately admitting of a justification that didn't involve experience. |
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Unfortunately, by comparison with the other students, I was quite backward, and so bad at mathematics in particular that I was kept down an entire year. |
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The bad weather also blocked roads and grounded helicopters as troops raced against the approaching Himalayan winter to ferry aid to remote areas. |
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If communication breaks down, the project gets a bad rap, says Barker. |
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The Republican Party was in bad shape after the 1974 midterm elections. |
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I have kept him away from mirrors so he could not see how bad it was. |
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If it brings about democratic progress, why is it a bad thing for people to throw off the yoke of tyranny and decide that they want to control their own futures? |
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His condition became so bad he had to be kept alive on a ventilator. |
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Eight minutes later things went from bad to worse as a Town player was adjudged to have dragged down Neil Tolson as he was about to receive the ball. |
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