These writers interpret bits of disconnected data to reassert the old dichotomies of men versus women, of biology versus culture. |
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The front feet are the true crubeens, which have succulent bits of meat concealed around the bones. |
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These bits can be collected by responsible field walking and all the information that goes with such finds can be recorded before it is lost. |
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The resulting stills were then splashed all over the front of the Screws of the World with all the naughty bits artfully pixelated out. |
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Within a minute, a large basin of orange congee with a crab's shell and bits of claw peeking from under was placed on my table. |
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These bits are interlaced with the usual interview cuts from Lawrence, director David Raynr, and the production team. |
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It was, needless to say, one of the first albums I ripped, and I listen to bits of it at least once a week. |
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Not only were they entertaining, the stories were interspersed with bits showing the camaraderie of explorers. |
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His dad brought him into the office and he'd been saving bits of his pocket money to donate to the appeal. |
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Their hearts and applause went out to the manager, to the flash-jacks of bits of Broadway successes of the past. |
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As expected, these systems involve using bits co-opted from other pathways originally having different functions. |
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Lets opens a cupboard door, taking out the ironing board, iron, bits of food processor, and other miscellaneous things. |
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He had dark blonde hair that was flecked with bits of red, giving it a strawberry blonde appearance. |
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We gave her little bits of polony, which she took gently piece by piece, her little tail wagging. |
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Jim's jaw muscle flexed and he continued to unwrap the shirt bits from Blair's arm. |
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With a paring knife, cut out the tough core and any bits of hard matter surrounding it. |
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She uses stitching, wool and gold leaf but in this demonstration used the seeds from a pomegranate with bits of coloured paper. |
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In fact some of the scariest bits of this film are when we see these greenish critters flittering into the shadows. |
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Insects and worms hitchhike the ocean on bits of flotsam, coming ashore wherever the winds and currents take them. |
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Mel was clambering down a gentle slope, loosening bits of rocks and soil, towards what he supposed was the Cobalt River. |
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Emotionally I feel like I am still in a snow storm with very little vision other than fragmented bits flurrying around my head. |
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It's an upright stick with a couple of bits of wood fixed to the top to make a cross. |
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A couple of rusty old bits of farm machinery lay slowly dissolving beneath the sky. |
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I'm back in for two days to finish off a couple of bits for the last project I was working on. |
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There are a couple of bits of the evidence that show they prepared them all in advance. |
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I've had two full games for the reserves and a couple of bits here and there. |
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Various measurable bits in the universe have vastly different potentials to have a causal impact. |
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There was a large scrape from the middle of his forearm to his elbow, bits of dirt with the blood. |
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One of the best bits was coming upon a crabeater seal sitting on an iceberg. |
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With a rotary engine, the crankshaft is fixed, while the cylinders, crankcase and all the other bits rotate around it. |
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It has been assumed that she constructed the novel in the same way as Frankenstein constructed his monster, with bits culled from many sources. |
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Instead of freezing their bits off in our chilly climes, they've opted to frazzle them Down Under, where I'm sure they'll be very happy. |
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These works are delicate and loose, with washy grounds and linear accents, bits of cross-hatching and curving organic shapes. |
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He dug his small hands into the rock and dirt, watching bits crumble off and fall into the void of absolute nothingness below him. |
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I liked it very much, with its rich texture and flavorful bite, all fluffy batter, cheese bits and crunchy pieces of bacon. |
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A seasoned seafood eater, I am a dab hand with the claw crushers and it wasn't long before bits of shell were flying all over the restaurant. |
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But I'm still not eating the crusty bits of bread, even if you held me down and force fed me. |
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Their multiple reflections presented a cubistic fragmentation of the sky, the skylight lattice and bits of the adjacent building. |
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The fumes of the soup went into my mouth, and I was able to taste bits and pieces of it, and I liked what I did taste. |
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You could also use other shapes that will trap bits of corn and tomato, such as shells or fusilli. |
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She still wore a bright red kerchief, and there were little bits of fabric fuzz clinging to her hair. |
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The best bits were the preamble and the question and answer session after the main performance. |
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I wear Japanese clothing as ritual garb, and am working on incorporating bits of the Japanese language into ritual chants. |
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It gives you a visual gauge on your cycle breathing, with a few bits and pieces. |
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This is a typical fisherman's pub, full of brass bits and pieces and old pictures of puffers. |
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Marmalade is made from citrus fruits, jam from fruit pulp and jelly from fruit juice with no bits in. |
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Still other chelicerates are tiny organisms which feed on detritus, the bits of decaying matter that accumulate on and below the ground. |
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Among the various bits and pieces we see in this corner are plaster casts of the heads and tiny wings of two putti or cupids. |
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When he did paint actual places he had no difficulty in ruthlessly leaving out bits he didn't want. |
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Add to that the fact that he never washed up and left bits of old takeaways lying around and you can get a good idea of how grimy this place was! |
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All of a sudden there is a yelp from the table in the far corner and a woman spits out two small gristly bits of meat. |
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During the course of your fishing session your line will pick up small bits of grit, sand and algae. |
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The sauce was thick, almost like a gravy, and bits of squid and various other fruits of the sea could be discerned in it. |
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We decided to have bits of running commentary and you often hear the baby gurgling in the background. |
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I think I'm fascinated by all the food bits in my kitchen the way new parents are fascinated by all the gurgles and faces on their wee ones. |
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Bits of Luna had been ground underneath my fingernails, while sap, with its embedded bits of bark and duff, speckled my arms and hands and feet. |
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He also has one of the funniest bits in the movie as part of the elaborate diversion the gang plans as part of the initial heist. |
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Till today he never talks about my work except to offer bits of useful criticism. |
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There's the point that's broken and the bits of the brain that you've overdeveloped by using them to compensate. |
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Some installers are adding broken glass, bits of metal, and other exotic materials to the mix, and diamond polishing afterwards. |
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The comedy has some funny bits but relies on too many eye-rolling cliches for laughs. |
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Of the three other bits used, all are currently legal for dressage and eventing competitions. |
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Undoubtedly you will be treated to some gems, some brilliant bits of repartee, the occasional burst of intellectual fireworks. |
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A bonus of tight winter underwear is that it acts as a sort of girdle to hold in the saggy bits of fat, giving you a slimmer silhouette. |
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The Jimmy Young prog pre-dated the radio phone-in, so listeners' comments were still written on bits of paper and handed to the presenter. |
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On one occasion he was discovered by the night watchman surrounded by neat piles of bits and pieces of a film projector. |
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The other side however is broken in about 4 parts and jagged bits of bone are sticking out. |
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Quantum teleportation is the transferring of tiny units of computer information, called quantum bits or qubits, from one location to another. |
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The water clock, built in 1870, is one of only two of its kind in the country but is currently in bits in Padiham Town Hall. |
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They have also been observed feeding on bits of skin from living a dead whales which earned them the nickname of whalebird. |
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But what of the worst bits, the bits that make you cringe when you hear them? |
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The rice stored in their school for the noon meal scheme was found to be adulterated with fine iron particles, urea, bits of mortar and what not. |
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The embedding of bits in valid blocks in a particular text line is done in a column-wise raster order. |
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We were told to use small bits of fiber such as rayon or cotton, card wads or powdery filler such as Cream of Wheat. |
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It includes whole scenes, footage, music and assorted bits and pieces left out of the original. |
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Among other things, going from 32 to 128 bits will entail renumbering a large number of addresses already in use. |
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However, it reads like nothing so much as a visit to the bits and pieces of interview notes reposing in the author's research archives. |
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Cruised the aisles picking up recipe bits and bobs, then zizzed home to tidy the flat and start cooking. |
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An AND gate, for instance, receives two input bits and produces one output. |
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The risottos change daily, and the one I sampled was well made and tastefully dotted with bits of fresh zucchini and shrimp. |
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We ate small bits of malt loaf that I had chopped up and drank another energy drink. |
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A group of eight bits makes up a byte, which can represent many types of information, such as a letter of the alphabet or decimal character. |
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Its curved bill bits perfectly into a snail shell, allowing the limpkin to deftly extract the mollusk. |
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The better linishers have interchangeable bits for specific tasks, and are quite amazing machines. |
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It's made of flat rice noodles and a creamy coconut broth, shot through with bits of lobster and galangal flowers. |
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However, current research shows that bits of hair are only present in around half the sinuses in this area of skin. |
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It came with BASIC, but you could get a cheap assembler anywhere and start exploring exactly which bits did what. |
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The asteroids are most likely leftover sloar system bits and stuff captured by the sun and major planets. |
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A few bits of bone and tatters of cloth were all that remained of Orhandia. |
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The key to filling in the tax return is to have all the right bits and pieces to hand. |
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I thought it was fantastic and spent much of the last half hour in bits crying. |
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I'll leave it there for now, because I'm in bits tonight, on and off, off and on. |
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She and her little piece of flotsam were going to be smashed to bits on the rocks! |
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The family-run store in Texas that's been mixing drill bits and Limoges boxes for more than 60 years. |
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If you've ever drilled a hole through a relatively thick piece of steel, you know that drill bits tend to wander quickly. |
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Diamond drilling bits were used in prospecting, and thermal ore processing allowed winter panning in placer mines. |
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Already, in the 1940s, a scattering of articles began to appear in professional journals, providing us with bits and pieces of our history. |
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She seems very similar to me in character so it amuses me to see bits of me in her like my scattiness. |
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The bits no-one wanted, or which were too big and heavy to cart away would lay there to sink into the vegetation and decay slowly over the years. |
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Yes there will be little bits of ups and downs as corporate America back-pedals on IT budgets. |
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What scholars have been able to come up with is based on bits and pieces of his work. |
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That could cause bits of information to disappear or become scrambled in transmission, and render the chip useless. |
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Her scrapes were starting to sting, and they had bits of dirt and gravel sticking to them. |
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She liked the odd bits and ends she could find in markets or garage sales because it was more unique than store-bought jewelry. |
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The model with its precarious bits of balsa wood just as it was, glued down, was kept for more than a year. |
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In a fit of pique, I made some P-plates from bits of paper by drawing a big P and colouring in around it with a texta. |
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The barbecue sauce was a sweet, tomato-based mesquite glaze, and the greens were classic French haricots verts, salted with bits of cured bacon. |
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It thrashed through the shops, turning them into matchwood and bits of toys and upturned fridges. |
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The money goes into the mechanicals, the fundamentals, the bits that really matter. |
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They keep all the bits in working order, not just ticking over in a repetitious way. |
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A whole cheese costs less than lots of tiddly bits but looks vastly more interesting. |
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Despite the forced change to his hunting habits, Bill doesn't begrudge the summer people their little bits of Nova Scotian paradise. |
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I don't have enough Bellini in my life. I think my problem with bel canto is that the beautiful bits are very beautiful. |
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Because I lived in the countryside, and there were virtually no toyshops, I would make my own out of bits of wood. |
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Sometimes, though, a simple operation can help, shaving off the bits of bone that have overgrown. |
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Like a sculptor shaving off bits of marble to shape a statue, organisms use cell death to shape developing organs, including the brain. |
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As ever, I wanted some tunes to take away, apart from bits of airs of contemporary style. |
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Your typical bad comedy is a mess, a sloppy mishmash of junk with maybe a few funny bits here and there. |
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Eric did the funny bits and Previn, vamped in a de rigueur monkey suit and swishing a baton, looked on aghast. |
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Specify the number of most significant bits to output in the number of bits parameter. |
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There were about a dozen unclosed and unopened tags, as well as various bits of dysfunctional detritus lying about. |
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The mud dauber wasp is named for the way the females construct nests from bits of mud. |
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Simmer for five minutes before skimming off any scummy bits gathered on the surface. |
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The path is flat but below the spring line, so there are boggy bits for muddy boots, wet zone rushes and grasses and little ponds. |
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That said, the sound is embellished time and again with steel pan percussion and various bits of machinery that go boing. |
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Clearly a sauce had been made, and then bits of fish just chucked in with a few gratings of some worryingly unidentifiable vegetable. |
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The few bits of action before the climactic showdown are quick and uninvolving. |
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Carefully I looked at his messy untidy desk, and tried to unravel bits of paper around to see if I could find anything. |
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There are several patents which disclose loose jointed bridle bits and bridoons of various constructions. |
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All bridoon bits shown above are permitted either as a snaffle or as part of a double bridle. |
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He manages to steal the film, even next to various scenery-chewers' bits of bravado. |
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The gut sections revealed not only bits of wood but also numerous protists and bacteria, including large spirochetes. |
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So, all my knowledge of art came from scavenged bits and pieces in the late hours of the morning. |
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Looking down, I see scraps of wreckage, the crankshaft of a steam engine, odd bits of metal and a winch, but too deep for this late in the dive. |
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It was almost romantic here, with only bits of bird song and twigs crunching underfoot to break the hush. |
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I found a really nice picture of my face during a rehearsal of Swan Lake, when we were wearing our headpieces and bits of our costume. |
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Using a wooden spoon or heatproof spatula, scrape off any mushroom bits that have stuck. |
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The four women in the canoe had bright handkerchiefs over their hair, they wore bits of faded blue osnaburg. |
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Taken out of context, the bits and pieces that I have quoted seem slight and inconsequential. |
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I was highlighting sections as I went along and thought I might as well post the bits that I found worthy of the highlighter. |
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Perhaps she was overcompensating for the lies, but he seemed to have a way of drawing out certain bits of information. |
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Add the cider vinegar and boil to reduce to a dessertspoonful, scraping up the bits and bobs stuck to the ≥ bottom of the pan as you do so. |
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During that time, I've seen numerous threat briefings that attempted to extrapolate possible terrorist strategies out of the most obscure bits of intelligence. |
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We have to give more effective and more coordinated aid, gathering together all the scattered bits and pieces. |
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Their 9-year-old daughter Tessa wanders the industrial area, looking for bits and pieces to occupy her mind, skipping school whenever she can. |
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Some of the stainless-steel trim bits now feature a darker finish, and the taillamps have lightly tinted lenses. |
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It's a mass of illegible writing by the end with bits underlined and circled and asterisked. |
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Any bits of thread or fabric in the hook can lead to the sewing machine not functioning properly. |
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It pinned up a wall chart to show how all the different bits of the organisation had miraculously merged. |
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When none of the two LEDs are lit, the Finalizer Express simply copies the Status bits of the selected Digital Input. |
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The random bits were made by combining three sources of electronic white noise with the output from the best of the latest crop of deterministic random number generators. |
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The real question is not the number of bits per second but rather the number of packets per second and the complexity of the ruleset. |
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The only magnets powerful enough to scrub data from a drive platter are laboratory degaussers or those used by government agencies to wipe bits off media. |
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Sunlight may rev up a few asteroids enough to fling off bits and change their shapes. |
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During this period he also worked for a time as gagman for Hal Roach Studios, providing comic bits for the likes of Laurel and Hardy. |
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They not only report the most threatening bits of news, but also sensationalize it, making it worse than it is. |
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A defrauder needs but a few bits of personal information to abscond with your identity. |
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Now, confronted with these bits of pasta, unshapely, shoddy-looking — malfatti, in Italian — he had a dish: malfatti al maialino. |
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The diameter and the lenght of the bits allow you to capture and remove the fragments within the tooth socket. |
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I really enjoyed this project as it gave me more information about what I had only heard in bits and pieces from my mother. |
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Therefore the entire human consciousness needs to move forward but not in bits and pieces. |
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Genetic risk information may be communicated all at one time or in bits and pieces. |
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The revolution that is needed in South African football will come in bits and pieces. |
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Smarter drill bits that encase sensors capable of measuring conditions in the surrounding rock could act as the eyes and ears for the driller. |
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I had just managed to gouge out the especially rare bits from the whole poached salmon at the buffet. |
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A tastily scented blend with a slight hint of citrus. Enlivened by green tea, bits of oranges and essences of blood orange. |
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How I love thee, Louise Body, ever since you first brought out your birdy numbers in pea green with bits of glitter way back in the day. |
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Some digital cameras can produce image files with a depth of 16 bits per color channel. |
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He writes in a snappy narrative style with lots of conversational bits that keep the reading interesting. |
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The cast delight in childish imaginativeness, utilising bits and bobs you might find beachcombing, or stashed in Granny's cupboard. |
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Eating is an extremely social affair in Languedoc, meals can last for hours as bits of news and gossip are exchanged around the table. |
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But they all contain bits of both and, overall, the record seems to come from an earlier, unspecifiable 20th-century moment. |
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The user bits are encoded in the SMPTE data stream in addition to the actual time code. |
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Only a few badly worn mundane pottery shards and a few bits of Angkorian sandstone were found there. |
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Stir in chicken broth and deglaze using a wooden spoon to scrape up bits off bottom of skillet. |
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Pour red wine into hot skillet and scrape up any brown bits from bottom of pan. |
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Add wine to pan and with a wooden spoon scrape up all the brown bits that are left behind. |
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Using a wooden spoon, scrape up and stir in any brown bits from pan bottom. |
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We owe this tool to pgl.yoyo.org, a Czech website, which offers other interesting bits of coding. |
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They allow you to gather and keep all those bits and bobs that are lying about and you don't know what to do with in one place. |
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An additional shelf for instance for potted plants or for bits and bobs is useful in any home. |
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I had hardly begun preparing it when she was calling and asking me if it was all right to rephrase bits of the dialogue. |
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Schmidt will have targeted the Wales game during the first week of camp before the tournament, working on bits and pieces. |
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The author also has a penchant for producing endless bits of academic research out of his magician's hat as if trying to outdo Malcolm Gladwell. |
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Other entertaining bits of contemporary doggerel do feature, but Morris isn't here for close reading. |
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Picture half a Golden Gate Bridge but instead of connecting two bits of land together, it connects one bit of land to water and your boat. |
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This type of bridle with two bits also affords the rider more control when riding with one hand. |
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A molecule of DNA is retorted as follows: The two bits are drawn aside by a rupture of the connections between nitrogenized bases. |
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Although you can make a fire by banging two bits of flint together, evolution has given us the lighter. |
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By prioritizing tasks or bits of information for your own use, you can share this evaluation with others. |
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To do this, you need to know its main parameters: encoding type, number of channels, sample rate, bits per sample. |
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Everyone sings the bits they know with gusto and extreme raucousness. |
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When grilled, the fat keeps the meat moist and sometimes bits and pieces of them becomes crunchy, thus adding texture and smokiness to the meat. |
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The number of bits in the output word is equal to the resolution of the analogue-to-digital converter. |
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When this subsided, scattered patches of scummy oil and small bits of debris resembling splintered wood appeared. |
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The result: FEIN HM ULTRA-core drill bits last longer than traditional TCT core drill bits. |
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If I watch a play I'm always rewriting bits of it, so it's something of a busman's holiday. |
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Others say he is craftily pressing ahead with bits of a liberal agenda but keeping the left and the street quiet with social measures. |
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Optical fiber also provides enormous bandwidth with a single fiber capable of transmitting trillions of bits per second. |
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Dad used to tell Olivia that a merman artisan had made them, out of bits of sea glass from Atlantis. |
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Some of the funniest bits in the play occurred when Kanye acknowledges its own low-class, low-budget nature. |
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The best bits in both constitutions are their preambles, in ringing declaratory prose. |
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After applying the wavelet transform, entropy coding is applied to minimize the number of bits used. |
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They were not talking about yielding, surrendering huge bits of territory and then being given back reserves. |
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Prevent foreign objects such as paper clips and bits of paper from falling into your projector. |
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In value terms consumption was volatile, but expressed in bits it had been growing constantly. |
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Cookies are small bits of data that we send to your computer to track visitor activity on our site. |
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My 1985 computer boasted 310 kb of storage and communicated at a screaming 300 bits per second. |
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Moore collected baseball-size gelatinous animals called salps and found their translucent tissues clogged with bits of monofilament fishing line and nurdles. |
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It is rich with bits of fruit and can be enjoyed with breakfast on a slice or bread, for a real English breakfast. |
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Who knew our most obscure bits of punctuation also had such obscurely lovely names? |
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There's nothing wrong with giving some tracks away or bits of stuff that's fine. |
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Such a decision could lead to lots of bits of paper having to be retyped. |
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Movie adaptations of comic books are always a let-down and trailers these days are front-loaded with all the best bits to lure gullible moviegoers to the multiplexes. |
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I remember waiting in the queue for the payphone at uni which was separated from the corridor by a few bits of hardboard. |
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Locked inside this menagerie of failed comic bits are attempts at real anger, sadness, pathos, broad sight gags and genuine rock and roll metal moves. |
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Magnetic vortices moving back and forth inside depressions on a superconducting surface could serve as single-particle bits for a nanoscale computer. |
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They work both as monuments to the cause and as exemplary bits of urbanism, incorporated into public spaces that they solemnize without subduing. |
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I saw bits and pieces of it breaking apart and falling faster. |
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Both bits of Cyprus would, in theory, be able to join the EU in the next round of its enlargement. In this section Slavic disunion? |
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And then you start tearing it apart in bits and pieces and start writing notes to yourself, remember in scene so and so you're going to do so and so, so set it up now. |
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With the teenagers of the family I got along using bits of English, bits of German. |
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The process of involution is never complete, and the bits of thymus tissue that remain are probably sufficient to maintain its function. |
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One was beating the drum, and the other wore a rearing gold-foil cobra on his head, from which hung many garlands made of bits of cloth, gathered to look like flowers. |
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If you can find one, I suggest you get a loriner to come and assess you and your pony. These are specialists in bits and they really know what they are doing. |
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When a car has a steel fuel tank, as yours does, it will eventually start to rust and small bits of rusty metal and flaked paint will collect at the lowest point in the tank. |
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I will never forget its purple penumbra of sunset, its gigantic icebergs which you can walk to and chip bits off to make your tea. |
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They also know which bits of the brain deal with vision, locomotion, language, memory and suchlike. |
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Modern life, argues Mr Thompson, is overwhelming the clever bits and overstimulating the more primitive functions that encourage overindulgence. |
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Make meat more appealing by cutting it into small bits and serving it in soups, stews, tomato sauce or meatloaf. |
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It turns out in the end that Mohammad works for the camp site and just has a couple of bits of canvas he's trying to flog. |
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Conventional base stations, he points out, have hundreds of coaxial cables connecting the bits of various signal-processing circuitry. |
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As Wal-Mart begins to saturate the bits of America that like it, it is having to turn more of its attention to those which do not. |
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The boot, with a 500-litre capacity, is a double-decker with a false floor, which can be folded, concertina style, to reveal a handy hideaway for valuable bits and pieces. |
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Early next morning we took the inner tubes and tyre to the garage to remove some bits of metal that had become embedded, and to patch the tyre again. |
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By this time, we've learned that a willed insensibility was one of Brahms's characteristic traits, one which he used to fend off bits of the world he didn't like. |
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I wanted to know more about meteorites and the clues to the deeper layers of our own planet offered by the bits that they carry from the core of shattered planetoids. |
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As the different colored bits scroll by on the hard drive platter, you need to quickly read them in the correct order before you suffer a buffer underflow. |
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Since no one can cover all the facts about anything in such little bits of time, information must be delivered in generalities shorn of details. |
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Education should not be about ensuring that every individual can plod through an officially approved list of tasks, for the sake of multiple bits of paper. |
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We venture intrepidly among all manner of beautiful lacy bits and pieces, most of which I doubt would withstand more than one wash without disintegrating. |
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Nonetheless, in the end he gives bits of his shadow to people who are in mourning. |
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The tiles, which had at one point been white with black speckles, were now dark, creamy beige with black speckles, and had bits and pieces broken off along the seams. |
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Small bits of dark brown hair poked out from underneath his hat. |
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I don't see her having the patience to stand on a traffic island for 15 minutes, waiting for bits of astronomical ironware to get their act together. |
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Bloom says we ought to think of truth as resembling a scientific hypothesis that helps us hold together our bits of knowledge. |
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During the previous three years, little bits and pieces of the characters were fleshed out and expanded beyond simple, one-dimensional characters. |
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Thaipusam is famously the festival of ritual piercing, as Vels are pushed into the fleshy bits of the body by devotees seemingly oblivious to pain. |
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It's made up of all sorts of bits and pieces that no one would otherwise touch, but he's packaged it well and dressed it up with his trademark buffoonery. |
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The week before pay day is the time I'm most likely to be cooking up casseroles from unidentifiable bits of meat from the freezer, and staying in to do the ironing. |
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He speaks about five languages fluently and a lot more in bits and pieces. |
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While she was fluttering around her office, giving me my schedule and a school map, she shouted out little bits of advice and suggestions for classes. |
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He claimed to have chipped bits off the very outcrop of the California Rand, without finding it worth while to bring away, but none of these things put him out of countenance. |
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The typical image that this process invokes is that of a magma chamber with bits and pieces of the enclosing country rock or wall rock floating in the magma. |
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There are also animal images, such as a large ducklike sculpture fashioned from a trestle, some pipes and tubing, a piece of carpet and a few bits of wood. |
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Little bits of barbecue had escaped their white-bread trappings, and scattered here and there were errant bits of coleslaw, but I could forgive a little sloppiness. |
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And once heated through if not eaten, can I leave uneaten bits in the fridge for the day? |
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I was trowelling down through stiff clay which is quite hard on the wrist and suddenly the soil gave way to reveal a hard surface made up of tiny bits of red tile. |
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The author's researches have quarried further bits of biographical data and sometimes helpful sidelights and background information on various situations and personalities. |
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We built go-carts out of wooden crates and bits of scrap metal. |
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My desk is now clear of cake crumbs, chocolate wrappers, crisp packets, coffee stains and assorted bits of paper that might or might not have had something to do with my job. |
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Unfortunately, their consorts are interchangeable bits of crumpet fit only for the all-too-frequent rolls in the hay that come to seem perfunctory, even mechanical. |
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Instead, each partner orders bits and bobs, typically from compatriots, hoping that everything will dovetail nicely in Cadarache. |
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Influenced by electro-clash, disco and garage, Simon and Felix have taken the best bits of the music scene at the moment and funked them up as far as they can go. |
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Stephanie took a pair of small nail scissors from her handbag and slowly chopped the gold card into pieces then she ceremonially tossed the bits into a nearby rubbish bin. |
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He was so quick and prolific, coming up with so many lines and bits even though there was no way we could use them all. |
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Determining to be funny at all times on screen, Lloyd surrounded himself with a crack team of gagmen, who came up with endless comic bits of business for his new character. |
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One of the more fascinating bits of the book has to do with the proliferation of exchanges on which stocks can be traded. |
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He also advised sifting the seedling soil mixture because they will tend to attach to large bits of bark for the moisture and it is very easy to damage tem when transplanting. |
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When the propeller blade had split in the air, several splinters of wood had flown off, but Bennett, nothing daunted, shaped new bits out of a packing case to fill the gaps. |
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Within an hour the gentle slope has careened skyward, and with each step loose bits of scree tumble down on those unfortunate enough to be bringing up the rear. |
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Although you are still intact, many of your dreams and plans for the future, as well as your day-to-day existence, may suddenly be unrecognizable bits and pieces. |
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I soon find small bits of engine, though no sign of the propshaft. |
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He gave a speech on his new charity work, and it was one of those smooth unctuous bits of California blarney no one could make with a straight face today. |
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Among the general detritus and debris, half-finished homework, mugs of undrunk tea, schoolbooks, and bits of model aircraft and bizarre gadgets lay in untended heaps. |
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There's no patina, faux or otherwise, just creamy walls texturized with bits of straw, gray backlit banquettes, bare wood tables more Ikea than antique. |
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He brought that intellect to bear on the chaotic bits and pieces of Animal House. |
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He grins, and there are bits of gristle and meat stuck in his teeth. |
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There was a guy who used to carry his bicycle up to the third floor and pick all the bits of grit out of the tyres and chuck them down the stairs. |
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Boggy bits slowed us for the first half mile, then we hit the pastures down by the river, connected with the embankment of the disused railway line and picked up speed. |
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The Ford lurched left, sending the truck into a roll that left a cloud of smashed metal and bits of those that had been riding in the bed into the air. |
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If you use an ultrashort pulse of laser light instead of white light, the pulse will also break up, shedding smaller bits called precursors as it goes. |
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There, a waterfall gurgled and bubbled happily down to a rushing stream, seemingly enlaced with bits of gold, that in turn flowed around bends all the way out of the cave. |
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As it blazed, she threw in bits of toenail, fingernail and hair, which she cut off in front of a watching audience. |
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He used to walk up our terrace and throw threepenny bits to the children. |
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They were setting it firmly into the hole, with bits of wood strongly hammered in on every side so the cross might stand more solidly and not fall. |
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Even random bits of doggerel cannot escape incorporation into the design. |
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Is it deliverable to, in effect, say to the rest of the EU: we want to do all the bits that we like but can you keep all the stuff that we think is not good for the economy? |
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The number of data bits per character cannot be changed. |
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A seven-year-old boy, named Quang, secretly brought him bits of paper, taken from old calendars, which then took back home so that his brothers and sisters could copy the Bishop's messages and circulate them. |
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Peel the potato and chop into chunks the same size as the pumpkin flesh, clean the leeks and chop the white bits into rondels. |
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Drill bits should have reliefground cutting edges and a small twist angle. |
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He felt that the apparent attraction of tiny bits of paper to a piece of glass that has been rubbed with cloth results from an ethereal effluvium that streams out of the glass and carries the bits of paper back with it. |
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The Viking Bits family of drill bits is designed based on knowledge of lithology and drilling experience in Russia. |
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An outsider should not expect to extract useful bits of knowledge from a hunter or elder because such local knowledge is part of a larger system of knowledge, practice and belief. |
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Arriving this week at a high school in his New York district, which runs from Harlem through Upper Manhattan to bits of the Bronx, he gazed about with a look of toothy delight, spiced with wide-eyed amazement. |
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Clegg's warm-up act was Lib Dem president Sal Brinton, who reinforced the sense that this election is becoming a comically unedifying turf war over meaningless bits of vocabulary. |
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The ablution basin, decorated with zelliges, mosaics formed with little bits of enamelled terracotta, murmurs in its white marble central courtyard. |
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I've done bits of Pinter before, but to be part of this two-hander is great for an actor. |
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The other is not a single photosensitive chip, but a set of them. The spectacles let light into the eye as normal, so that unaffected bits of the retina can continue to do their job. |
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