| If I'd have known she was part of the screeching octet, I would have cleaned up a bit better. |
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| John of Gaunt entered five groups in this year's regional festival including its wind band, low brass ensemble and trombone octet. |
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| Tonight, Wakefield Jazz presents Sax Appeal, a long-established octet which features five saxophones, led by Derek Nash. |
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| Jamil Sheriff is the pianist with Joel's band and he will be taking his own octet to Leeds College of Music on Wednesday. |
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| If a single bond is made by sharing one electron from each atom, each oxygen then has seven electrons, one short of an octet. |
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| To complete an octet, each oxygen must share two electrons in a covalent bond. |
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| The octet will go on to perform the Dvorak anniversary concert at Castle Howard on Tuesday. |
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| Long at the vanguard of twenty-something folk angst, Scottish octet Belle and Sebastian have been keeping it quiet for the last year. |
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| As Above, So Below finds Julian in a calmer mood than the usual galloping momentum of his octet line-up. |
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| Mind Tricks, an octet of male dancers, consistently managed a successful balance between solo and group performance. |
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| The enterprising young Mr Sheriff has won Arts Council funding for the octet. |
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| Jamil's octet tour last year and his CD Daydreams received enthusiastic reviews. |
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| The string octet that accompanied him then had provided a safety net of sorts. |
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| In spite of his modest output, Louis Ferdinand is regarded as the first to compose for the piano septet and octet mediums. |
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| In addition, a quartet or octet of Orpheus members could appear at business conferences every so often to spread the gospel. |
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| Individual atoms are unstable unless they have an octet of electrons in their highest energy level. |
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| Arriaga was second fiddle in a string quartet at nine years of age, and two years later wrote an octet. |
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| Often the atoms comprising a complex molecule can be arranged in several ways and still satisfy the octet rule for each atom. |
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| In the 1970s, there was even a double bass octet specialising in new music. |
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| The noble gas atoms have a complete octet of electrons in the outermost shell. |
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| In my continuing education I learned that Mendelssohn orchestrated the scherzo of his octet. |
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| The Robinsons' octet of ancient urban cats were all too scared to do anything about the rats and slept all day in the cosy comfort of the Aga corner. |
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| The Petrarchan sonnet has an octet and a sestet, with a rhyme scheme of abba abba and cdcdcd. |
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| A typical reaction of such compounds is to accept an additional electron from an anion or to share electrons with an anion to gain a stable octet. |
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| Hypervalent compounds are very common and in general are no less stable than compounds that conform to the octet rule. |
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| The leftmost hexadecimal digit shall be the most significant semi octet of the first octet. |
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| Additionally the table is optimized for IP addresses which vary in the last octet. |
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| The octet for the measuring unit is not presently used and is always filled with the value zero. |
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| Those with less than an octet are often called electron deficient and are typical of certain elements with an odd number of electrons, such as boron and nitrogen. |
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| He also leads an octet and the South City Six Dixieland Jazz Band. |
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| Gaurav is an active member in the comedy octet, The Other Guys. |
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| I could only hope the squabbling octet did not end up at the same resort. |
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| But the next day and the day after that came and went, and after that it was uncertain whether the observatory octet had finished chiming beneath the liquid dome. |
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| A joint initiative with BBC Talent, the octet flew to the jungles of Borneo to undertake a project to save the life of endangered orang-utans in the area. |
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| Since 1993, when the octet formed as a side project, few bands have been doing the alternative thing, as influenced by Faith No More and Mr. Bungle. |
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| Here is the octet as it is called, the first eight lines of the sonnet. |
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| The octet rule is followed in so many compounds it is a useful guide. |
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| An atom will bond with another in order to satisfy the octet rule. |
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| This is done by breaking down each set of permissions to represent an octet. |
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| In organosulfur compounds of type SR4 and SR6, analogous to the well-known fluorosulfur compounds SF4 and SF6, the valence of sulfur has been expanded beyond the normal octet to a dectet or dodecet, respectively. |
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| The stabilities of organometallic compounds follow certain empirical rules, among which the 18-electron rule is the analogue of the octet rule of main-group compounds. |
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| Western notions of human rights are deemed out of place and unwanted, so the argument runs. The surviving octet of monarchies is strengthened by economic and strategic factors. |
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| Because of this fact, these types of compounds are relatively unstable, with the central atom seeking to return to the octet state by extruding one or more ligands. |
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| This star-studded octet will be at Warwick Arts Centre on Tuesday, in a major joint promotion between Birmingham Jazz and Jazz Coventry. |
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| The current octet tour features an ensemble that's perched midway in size between these latest recording formats. |
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| On Saturday, in the Championship programme's early kick off on a sunny south coast, two of the octet of hopefuls – Bournemouth and Middlesbrough – attempted to scalp each other. |
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| In the context of data rate units, one byte consists of 8 bits, and is synonymous with the unit octet. |
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