A violinist himself, he got wonderful sounds from his strings, and he made sure that the winds and brass of the Philadelphia were as good as any. |
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More often than not, while the strings and winds benefit, the piano sounds as if it were bellowing forth from far away and under water. |
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However, we also are eager to add intermediate-level chamber music for any combination of strings, winds or voice without piano. |
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The vision and the plan must also be convincing to Congress, the one holding the purse strings for the government's role. |
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Outside the living room windows he built two wind harps, 12-foot-tall clusters of 32 strings. |
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The Champion 100m hurdler and 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games finalist has many strings to her bow. |
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The strings on the wind harp are tuned to the pentatonic, 5 note scale, commonly heard in oriental music. |
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Sam, who joined the Ulster Star as darts and football correspondent in 1958, devoted much of his life to darts, but had many strings to his bow. |
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The soprano introduces the first words of the text and the flute takes over in a long, beautiful quasi recitativo above the strings. |
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Gertrude has many strings to her bow, guardian angel, seasonal fairy, a confidant and occasionally freelancing for Hugh someone. |
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If I was going to do a record of piano music with strings, then I'd go to a big studio. |
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As a violinist she has many strings to her bow and qualifications to her name. |
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Today we find women in brass, percussion and woodwind sections, as well as the safe-havens of strings and harpdom. |
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The festivities were just starting, and the strings of violins could be heard even outside the party. |
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The bows of the cellos, violins and double-basses seem to caress your heart strings and not those of their instruments. |
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Secondly I have learnt that I am an unusual practitioner in a city context as I have many strings to my bow. |
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Cooper should know better, but the gutless wonder is having his puppet strings pulled by the cabinet. |
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The groups which performed include strings, woodwind and brass musicians and performances were also be given by some vocal soloists. |
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The categories of competition are woodwind, brass, strings, piano and vocal. |
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Elisabeth sings with the band as their guest but has many strings to her bow. |
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Pippa has many strings to her bow and with that comes a varied professional life. |
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Chevvy has many strings to her bow, although is mainly to be found behind the wheel of some large vehicle or other. |
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Professionally he had many strings to his bow, being a writer of prose and poetry, editor and lecturer. |
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Tracey Smith, our Marketing Manager, has many strings to her bow, Trust Membership being one of them. |
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During his long and busy life Mr Gill has had many strings to his bow, and the occupations of his leisure hours have been varied and interesting. |
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The bandura, Ukraine's national instrument, may have from twenty to sixty-five strings and is similar to a lute. |
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The Mariners and the Tigers scratch out their runs with bunts, strings of hits and a willingness to move the runners. |
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The acoustic guitar sounds a strangled folk tune and the scrape of the strings is sourced and dragged through the track. |
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She suddenly felt as if she were a marionette whose strings were pulled so taut that she was forced onto her toes, her head pulled back. |
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Reaching out, the fingers started waggling like a marionette having its strings being pulled. |
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For clarification, Teresa was explaining to the class that they were going to be like marionettes hanging by the strings. |
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And the motion of these characters is positively stilted and looks like marionettes on strings as they bob and nod about. |
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It also has a small number of strings and a sizable percussion section which includes marimbas, steel drums and an African drum called a Djembe. |
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I watched Daniil, as I was sitting down the table from him, as he strummed the balalaika's strings like stroking a lover's hand. |
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Larger bands have trumpets and strings as well as extensive percussion sections in which maracas, guiros, and bongos are primary instruments. |
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The elusive first movement is followed by a scherzo scored for wind instruments only, complemented by a slow movement for singing strings. |
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No tent poles, no tripping over strings, that is no arguments, no mud leaking into the Nylon House. |
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He examined strings made of the same material, having the same thickness, and under the same tension, but of different lengths. |
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In Italy the mandolinists play with straight wrists and the right forearm is in line with the strings. |
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In addition to playing the harmonica, he bends strings on acoustic slide guitar, banjo and an Indian instrument called the mohan veena. |
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The Montrealer's solo work is acoustic guitar-based with support from bass, drums, mandolin, strings and spare harmonies. |
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Musical backing is kept low key with touches of strings, brass and brooding electronica, never overshadowing Jane's fragile but emotive vocals. |
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It certainly doesn't need the distraction of echoing backing vocals and the saccharine strings that it has to fight against throughout. |
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But don't let them lurk deep in your soul's most secret crannies, malignly pulling strings and making you act out in absurd ways. |
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It made the heart strings go just watching her and seeing her smile back at me. |
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Nearly a century later this Tennesseean is still out there somewhere sawing on the strings, and most likely leading a vibrant and inspired life. |
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The combination of helping verbs with main verbs creates what are called verb phrases or verb strings. |
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A marionette danced on strings, a jester decking in bells and bright red and yellow. |
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The only other essential instrument is the tanpura, whose open strings are plucked continuously all evening, providing an organ-like background. |
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I love to tangle my hands up in the strings, let them go free, then tangle them up again. |
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The bassist's fingers at times became a blur as she plucked away at the strings like a madwoman. |
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On Stargazing, singers gently coo over leisurely breakbeats, spacey samples and woozy strings. |
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The strings are so old they sound like dusty clothes lines that are grossly out of tune. |
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The strings had snapped, the fingerboard was half off, the ornate bridge had shattered and the tailpiece had fallen off. |
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Tchaikovsky's strings were gut rather than metal and were played with little vibrato. |
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It's like a pear-shaped instrument, the body is covered in skin, and the strings are made of gut. |
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Overwound strings have a core of gut, silk, nylon, or wire wrapped in metal wire or ribbon. |
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Each contains 100 coasters, three 30-inch pennant strings, 36 party beads, and three wall tackers. |
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She focused intently at it and as she watched, Doremi could see the figure inside begin to move and pluck a melody on the strings of the lute. |
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Music for the lute was written in tablature, indicating which strings were to be stopped on which frets, with the rhythm noted above. |
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Remove the outside strings from the runner beans and finely shred the beans. |
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The strings players brought invigorating energy to the concluding Allegro assai. |
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The lanterns were loosely hanging on strings through the cherry trees, slowly swaying in the breeze. |
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The soundtrack offers a mix of orchestral arrangements, instrumental soloists and pop with a hint of strings. |
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He began to put away his cello, wiping large deposits of white powdery rosin from the strings and bow with a silky cloth. |
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With her shoes strings tied together and the soles slung over one shoulder, Haley wove through the crowds on her rollerblades. |
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I learned through gossip that she ruled her family with a rod of iron and she controlled the purse strings to her fortune. |
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Instead of taking charge of its own destiny, the borough remains tied to the county council's apron strings. |
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In many other cultures he'd be laughed at, and sent to a psychiatrist for being tied to his mother's apron strings. |
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At the end of the day, the interim council is still tied to the American apron strings. |
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Anyway, it can't be bad for a child not to be tied to it's mother's apron strings, even in infancy. |
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His mother may have passed to the great beyond, but through her writings he is still tied to her apron strings. |
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In other words, he was not one of those males who were tied to their mother's apron strings. |
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Plus she had no desire to become permanently tied to Marie 's apron strings, which she knew would be her inevitable fate. |
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Now it looks like an unwanted child still tied embarrassingly to the parent company's apron strings and destined for a future of neglect. |
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There's also space for keyboards, strings and other textures to dip in and out amongst the emotionally charged vocals and haunting guitar lines. |
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It is more baroque than the first in that for obbligato piano it substitutes real interchange between ripieno strings and concertino quartet. |
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Two flutes, mandolin, harp, and solo lower strings give an airy lightness to the sounds that accompany the two female dancers. |
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The track boasts dynamic strings, syncopated beats, and an irresistibly anthemic chorus. |
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The natural trumpets were brightly penetrating while the flutes and other woodwind resonated above the soft legato strings. |
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All sleepwear is to be flame retardant and should be safe with no strings or buttons that may be hazardous. |
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Well, in addition to scanning for offensive strings, some names contain reserved words, or keywords goes the theory. |
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I had totally forgotten about it, so have amused myself for a few minutes looking at the search strings. |
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Axillary amplexus typically results in long strings of eggs being laid in ponds or streams, which hatch into type IV tadpoles. |
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Horowitz designed an electric circuit in which appropriate resistors replaced the springs and devices known as Zener diodes replaced the strings. |
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Beyond these two core noisemakers is a symphony of slacker strings and second-line horns. |
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I sat there, currently in a very indifferent mood, braiding together plastic strings to make lariats or something like that. |
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It's been a bit quiet recently, and I got highly suspicious after Mike confessed to larding my logs with dummy search strings. |
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The little girls wore strings of lapis lazuli, and the little boys blue Chinese Wellies. |
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It's performed with an escalating physical remorselessness that often ends in bloodied knuckles and ruptured piano strings. |
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Several selections contain strings of double notes, primarily thirds and sixths. |
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The body is a harpsichord, and when its strings are too relaxed, or too tense, the man is sick. |
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Mat Maneri plays some lonesome violin, letting strings weep in blank, tragic beauty, plucking and wailing and sounding like a dying dog. |
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Moving from ghazals to gypsy and waltz to Latin music, it hopes to bring the whole spectrum of strings and non-strings under one roof. |
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One does not mind the ending, but one notices that when Taylor strings together abstract nouns, he is at his least compelling. |
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The strings attach themselves like barnacles to Fripp's guitar and refuse to be shaken loose. |
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Sorry, no Barlow knives, Black Diamond guitar strings or Dapper Dan hair pomade in stock, but we do carry a few other items of interest. |
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Where the two diagonal strings cross, drive a stake into the ground to mark the position of the center footing. |
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Now here is a brilliant group of musicians, each a virtuoso in his own right, with strings of academical achievement behind their music. |
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The orchestra is most likely to be double woodwind, horns and trumpets, harp, piano, percussion and strings. |
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The scoring is for a simple classical orchestra, strings, double woodwind, four horns and two trumpets. |
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Now that we are back in funds, loosening the purse strings again, you have more credibility if it is somebody else. |
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They're textbooks on how strings, horns, brass, rhythm and vocal should be laid down. |
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And the closing title track, where the Kronos strings weep sad harmonies, is a lament of utter anguish unlike anything else on the disc. |
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The strings are used only to accent the melody, and any misgivings are quickly redeemed by yet another amazing guitar solo. |
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I'm all sampling strings and accordions, almost to where it brings up visions of a pastoral French landscape. |
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I casually plucked a few strings on the harp then strolled over to the harpsichord. |
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Banks and other investors tend to loosen the purse strings when business owners throw some of their own money into the mix. |
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Materials for the Rebec would be much the same as for the harp or lyre, although the Rebec has only three strings. |
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On the modern harp, players pluck the strings near the middle with the pads of their fingers. |
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As if a film about three women has to have all the traditionally feminine sounds, and you can't get more feminine than strings, piano and harp. |
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Bassoonist John Clouser made the Lullaby a thing of beauty, accompanied by the three harps and muted strings. |
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Milking staff should look for clots, strings, wateriness or discolouration of milk. |
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Part of the myth is that it's easy, quick, fast money, but there are always strings attached. |
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Kennet District Council is already warning councillors that it will have to tighten the purse strings for the next financial year. |
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His mother was obliged to pull strings in order to get him a job interview. |
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As I pushed through the last strings of a job lot of whalebone corsets, I was finally able to come upon the books. |
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By learning the function of radicals of Chinese characters, students can learn new characters by groups and strings. |
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The children's tiny fingers are perfect for manipulating the weft items through the warp strings. |
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Why are kids up and down the country dumping their computer games in favour of tying knots in colourful plastic strings? |
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Whitelists, for example, search character strings to identify legitimate e-mail addresses. |
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Nail up a set of reference strings on the rafters that protrude the most into the attic. |
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Thanks to the boost in attendance, the ownership group loosened the purse strings and went after some free agents. |
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The sitar also has huge frets and loose strings that will bend four or five tones with a little pressure, aka whammy bar. |
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The Scottish Executive wants to set an example by tightening the purse strings and understanding some economics. |
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It's all heartening stuff for investors, even if fans of the Bhoys would prefer Desmond to loosen the purse strings and strengthen the squad. |
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All in all, a trip to Italy at anytime in your life will never be a no strings attached affair. |
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The keening sound of the upper strings provides a lasting memorial for those departed. |
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It remains to be seen whether consumers tighten the purse strings even further or continue to spend. |
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Mr Lillycrop, who has complete sympathy for under pressure dentists, pleaded with those who hold the purse strings, to deal with the problem. |
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If the strings were given anything to play besides extended whole notes, I didn't hear it. |
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Along a stretch of one road someone has draped strings of little lights in loops and whorls on a line of trees. |
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That means the status of strings in string theory in physics can become a philosophical topic by way of discussions of realism and nominalism. |
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Her fingers stilled on the keys as the piano strings stopped their vibrations and the lounge was silent again. |
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The rebab type usually had two strings, a skin belly, and narrow body, and is illustrated in 13th-century documents. |
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The BPO are clearly enjoying themselves with some players losing strings and the winds thoroughly in harmony. |
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Cautiously, Cassari folded her hands in her lap and shifted her eyes to the fiddler who merrily sawed away at the strings of the fiddle with his bow. |
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Paper flags of countries that have fought for freedom hang on strings from the ceiling like nationalist Christmas lights. |
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At times, he slapped the guitar box with two fingers or the heel of his hand as, in the same motion, he brushed the strings. |
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Her quicksilver changes of intent, complex multiple qualities, polyrhythms, and opposing body parts warred with Anderson's weeping strings to create a moving picture of grief. |
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Volume can be increased only by engaging more sets of strings and jacks. |
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The majority of this album is built up around similar ambiences as the trio elaborate poignant melodies and impressive arrangements, complete with guitars, strings and horns. |
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Later, McChrystal asked Metcalf for an orchestration, first for strings, and then for strings and harp, which is the version McChrystal played here. |
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He seems to be playing the ball in sheer delight at the things he can do with it, playing with a racket whose strings are one moment cobweb, the next piano-wire. |
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Modern farming generates a significant amount of waste such as fertiliser bags, silage wrapping, barrels, scrap metal fencing wire drums and strings from bales. |
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The man, in a veined body stocking, is a helpless victim, thrashing, lolling and collapsing like a mad puppet on twisted strings, to musical pings and wheezes. |
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National colourful costumes combine with the beat of percussion instruments and the plucked and bowed strings of India to bring the mini-fest to a kaleidoscopic end. |
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His command of six strings incorporates a hair-raising degree of proficiency and versatility, from tingling jangles to hypnotic jigs and ragged fragments of blues. |
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Levitt is clearly a whizz with numbers, great long strings of them, as he demonstrates during the book following this slightly jarring, self-deprecating introduction. |
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Wind shrieked through the rigging as the mast groaned under the strain of its huge triangular sail that drove the vessel before the wind, its rigging taught as harp strings. |
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The Aeolian Harp took its fundamental form from the traditional wind harp, an instrument that plays ethereal, random music as wind currents move over and vibrate its strings. |
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Another ballad adopts plucky strings, airy keyboard and light drums. |
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She stars as herself and delivers strings of self-deprecating wisecracks. |
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The last time the debt limit was raised, this past February, Boehner agreed in the end to do it with no strings attached. |
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The largest harpsichord in the collection is described as possessing five registers and four sets of strings, one of which was probably a sixteen-foot stop. |
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However, the slowness of the official channels, and Nicholas's desire to have all strings in his own hand, caused him to bypass the regular processes. |
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He is also reorienting acquisition policy toward individual works, as opposed to the absorption of entire collections, which typically arrive with strings attached. |
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She would need to retune some of the strings for Llyrana's tale, after all, and that she could only really do once it was in the hall and settled. |
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Sincerely, Andrew Before the Rolling Stones fan club strings me up for treason, let me be clear. |
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When the host is in a festive mood, entering customers are given strings of Mardi Gras beads. |
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The archlute and the chitarrone or theorbo had, in addition to the strings on the fingerboard, open bass strings on an extended neck with a second pegbox. |
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The songwriter's lyrics are peppered with references to vampires, premonitions, smoke and mirrors, no strings attached sexual romps and Elvis rising from the dead. |
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I thought of the liquid levels in the bottles as metaphors for the underground water table and the strings as the extended roots of plants finding water. |
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An instrument with strings sounded by a rosined wheel instead of a bow. |
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One of the strings on the lute is broken, a deliberate symbol of discord. |
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His distinctive voice resonates like polished grit over a combination of searing strings, Hawaiian lap steels, mellotrons and even enchanted lyres. |
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When the mood struck, Guy would pick the strings with his teeth, or slap a handkerchief against the guitar for effect. |
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The instrument itself was made of wood, with gut or horsehair strings. |
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This type of band takes its name from a family of lute-like stringed instruments called tamburitzas which come in different sizes, shapes and numbers of strings. |
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Through the ages, most bands have added strings to sweeten their sappy songs, but Gordon does the opposite by pumping rock to turbo-charge his strings. |
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This son has begun thrumming the strings of hereditary determinism, and is finding them holding taut. |
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Sympathetic strings are a characteristic feature of such instruments as the Hardanger fiddle, srag, sarod, sitar, viola d' amore, and sometimes the trumpet marine. |
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The problem extends far beyond the politicians who hold sway over the nation's purse strings. |
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Seems their parents, shell-shocked by their brokerage statements, have tightened the purse strings. |
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We changed the way we put them up and our lights are scaled back but unlike in previous years when we have had whole light strings stolen, not even a light has gone missing. |
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Another shovels strings of rubber bands into his mouth like spaghetti, provoking more caterwauling from the judges. |
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Set against a backdrop of strings, the mandolin sounds completely beautiful, providing an enticing blend of sadness and hope all at the same time. |
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And all these sepia-toned images are lent strength by the gentle poetry of the lyrics, and the light, front-porch swing of the acoustic guitars, banjos, mandolins and strings. |
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Information theory is a field of mathematics that scientists use to analyse strings of data, whether carried by DNA or radio waves or telephone wires. |
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It's based around the Zoom Air insole, which uses tensile strings encased in a heavy-gas filled capsule to deliver shock protection in an ultra-thin package. |
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Use an ice cream scoop to remove seeds and strings from a squash. |
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The strings of a four-string cello are usually tuned in fifths, but scordatura tunings were used in the baroque era, and so tuning in fifths cannot be taken for granted. |
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Now he straightened his embroidered jerkin and fluffed his lace cuffs with a fastidious air, and the strings of the balalaika on his back sang gently as he shrugged. |
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I dig out strings of beads so impertinently large that they could never have been spat from the mere entrails of an oyster. |
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Decorative touches such as vintage movie posters, a mini marquee, director's chairs, and overhead lanterns or strings of lights create the right mood. |
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Meanwhile, Iran is offering Iraq everything and anything they need to fight ISIS with no strings attached. |
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Or when Russell Simmons showed up early on and offered big money with strings attached. |
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He settled his shaky fingers on the guitar strings, strummed a chord, fell silent, sighed, then rallied. |
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Now in his sixth decade, Gwynne has many strings to his bow. |
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Badger Jenny is a busy Badger who has many strings to her bow. |
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The twist is, of course, that the amateurs hold the purse strings. |
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He looks as if he's fully aware that he has been holding the purse strings during a period of unprecedented revenue, unprecedented spending and unprecedented pork barrelling. |
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A west Wiltshire student has just been given the chance to hold the purse strings to a massive student budget, after she was voted onto the Students Union board at university. |
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We're asking the Prime Minister to loosen the purse strings and though we've said we don't want confrontation, we're heading towards strike action. |
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The concerto is scored for an ensemble consisting of two concertino violins and cello, ripieno strings and continuo. |
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He has the job not because of talent, but because his dad pulled strings with the boss. |
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The notion of syllable is challenged by languages that allow long strings of obstruents without any intervening vowel or sonorant. |
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The neighboring, but unrelated, Armenian language also allows for long consonant strings. |
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Lastly, the very short strings of the spinet resulted in a narrow range of harmonics and thus in poor tone quality. |
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The fact that half of the gaps are four millimetres instead of ten makes it possible to crowd more strings together into a smaller case. |
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The gap between the two strings of a pair is about four millimetres, and the wider gap between pairs is about ten. |
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The other major aspect of spinet design is that the strings are arranged in pairs. |
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The longest side is adjacent to and parallel with the bass strings, going from the right rear corner to a location on the player's left. |
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The playing of this Gaelic harp with wire strings died out in Scotland in the 18th century and in Ireland in the early 19th century. |
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Pa strings the lights while Janet takes the ornaments one by one from the cardboard egg-crates. |
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Steamers, ferries, and tugboats pulling strings of barges behind them created rush-hour traffic on a laneless thoroughfare. |
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By the early 12th century, the amount of banknotes issued in a single year amounted to an annual rate of 26 million strings of cash coins. |
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Merchants in China, if they became rich enough, found that their strings of coins were too heavy to carry around easily. |
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Prince Turveydrop then tinkled the strings of his kit with his fingers, and the young ladies stood up to dance. |
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The arms of Ireland since the sixteenth century have been a gold harp with silver strings on a blue field. |
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A fundamental operation on strings is string concatenation which we will denote by juxtaposition. |
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The incantated jute strings were put on to free the patient from the possession of the spirit causing the disease. |
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During the early 1970s, Robin Gibb played piano and violin occasionally, after which, he only played strings and keyboards privately. |
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Barry was often cited as having had a distinct style which concentrated on lush strings and extensive use of brass. |
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There were strings of mogra and marigolds hanging from the frame of the bed. |
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The coat of arms of Ireland features a gold harp with silver strings on a blue background, which dates from the 13th century. |
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The strings are fitted into a wooden frame with a flat sound box that is usually made of rosewood. |
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Standard Python strings are really bytestrings, and a Python character, being such a string of length 1, is really a byte. |
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Users can test to ensure that character encodings aren't being corrupted and that strings of code and interfaces are expanding properly. |
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With these long, floppy strings dispersed in a polymer, much lower loadings are needed to provide resistivities low enough to be useful. |
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Q WHY do many modern bass guitars have five strings, when before they only had four? |
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Their latest single, Anthropods, with its layers of soaring strings and guitars is a case in point. |
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Mr. Brown is touchy about accusations that he is a packaged candidate, and bristles at the suggestion that Mr. Caddell pulls his strings. |
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Among humpback whales, only males boom out long strings of repeating phrases of hums and whups and chirps. |
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In fact, Ilaiyaraaja was one of the first Indian film composers to blend Western classical music harmonies and strings with Indian film music. |
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The reader could too easily see the heavy-handed large-vocabularied author pulling at the strings. The emotion of the story rang false. |
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I could turn the nails and tune the strings like that, you see. |
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These experiments showed that a phase transition could generate linelike defects analogous to the cosmic strings of the Kibble mechanism. |
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The subfractals will consist of points associated with infinite strings from a subshift of finite type or sofic subshift on the symbolic space. |
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They were advertising free television sets, but there were a lot of strings attached. |
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The illuminati shadow group has been pulling strings from behind the scenes. |
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Digital strings representing the mineralized Hobbs Pipe sharp lithological contacts were made and snapped to the drillholes. |
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When you dismount during rain or snowfall, throw your stirrups over the saddle seat and tie them with the rear saddle tie strings. |
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If that is so, Gordon, you will be able to loosen the purse strings a little to find something extra for the firemen. |
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Clearly they need to loosen the purse strings to keep their huge support happy. |
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Thus, proof checking can be done electronically when the whole procedure is encoded as strings of binary digits. |
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Dozens of session players passed through, including Beck's father, David Campbell, who played viola and arranged some of the strings. |
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But they must have the trust to approach us with no strings attached. |
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Semilocal strings, however, can have ends, each of which is studded with a magnetic monopole. |
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Most of the arias follow the vocal section with a ritornello scored for two to five strings, occasionally in scordatura tunings. |
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Botswana cultural musical instruments are not confined only to the strings or drums. |
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Ideal for testing parallel strings, the BITE3 measures escape current so there is no need to sectionalize the strings. |
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And everyone has been led a merry dance by the nameless, faceless securocrats who pull the strings behind the scenes. |
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Originally, the Cuatro consisted of four steel strings, hence its name, but currently the Cuatro consists of five double steel strings. |
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Long strings of yellow dangled from Jorn's houndish snout, and his eyes were red. |
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Sacha composed a miniature for strings as a final project at the conservatory. |
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The Inca recorded information on assemblages of knotted strings, known as Quipu, although they can no longer be decoded. |
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Meanwhile, technology led to the use of synthetic strings that match the feel of gut yet with added durability. |
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Numerical information was stored in the knots of quipu strings, allowing for compact storage of large numbers. |
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Shields, sandals and drums were made using the skin, and the strings of musical instruments were from the tendons. |
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If your guitar plays well on fretted strings but annoys you on the open ones, the nut's probably worn out. |
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The rain prevented them from using their bows because the sinew strings become slack when wet, and rendered them virtually defenseless. |
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For the first 100 years of the modern game, rackets were made of wood and of standard size, and strings were of animal gut. |
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On some farms the milking herd is further divided into milking strings, which are groups of animals with different nutritional needs. |
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Reproductions of both fiddles have been made, though less is known of their design than the shawm since the neck and strings were missing. |
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He tailors a sterile tongue depressor for use as a guard to protect the IUD strings. |
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The strings of eggs absorb water and swell in size, and small tadpoles hatch out after two to three weeks. |
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Eggs are laid in gelatinous strings in the water and later hatch out into tadpoles. |
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The spawn of the two species also differs in that frogspawn is laid in clumps and toadspawn is laid in long strings. |
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There the worm clings to the gills while it metamorphoses into a plump, sinusoidal, wormlike body, with a coiled mass of egg strings at the rear. |
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Instead, the mouth is surrounded by cilia that pull strings of mucus containing food particles towards a series of grooves around the mouth. |
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The opening Sinfony is composed in E minor for strings, and is Handel's first use in oratorio of the French overture form. |
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When an accidental sharp or flat is required, the performer inserts a finger between two of the outer strings, and finds it in the middle row. |
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Hopefully, the possibilities afforded by escaping and unescaping strings are now becoming clear. |
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Keyboard instruments with strings included the harpsichord and the virginals. |
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As in the modern day, instruments may be classified as brass, strings, percussion, and woodwind. |
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Interplay between strings and wind in magnificent canzonas by composers such as the Gabrielis was rendered with delicacy and rhythmic poise. |
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He composed also a quartette for strings, a nonette, a symphony, and songs. |
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We'll drape strings of lights between the trees for the party. |
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This reduces the range of motion needed for shuffle bowings which alternate between pairs of strings. |
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Without a doubt, it will loosen the purse strings of nervous investors. |
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But would it help the movie if the studio loosened up the purse strings? |
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The 1980s saw an insurgence of electronic music mimicking strings with little or no use of traditional strings in music compositions. |
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The order at the end of such strings is subject to variation, but the latter version is unusual. |
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The hugely popular Motown recordings of the 1960s and 1970s relied heavily on strings as part of the trademark texture. |
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It had gut strings and semitone mechanisms like an orchestral pedal harp, and was invented by Dublin pedal harp maker John Egan. |
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The power structure of the family is being shared by wives and husbands, mothers and fathers. Both hold the purse strings. |
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The strings, usually played with the fingernails, produced a brilliant ringing sound. |
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Have they not all of lorddom at their heels, do they not hold the strings of Britain's purse? |
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The new instruments had gut strings, and their construction and playing style was based on the larger orchestral pedal harp. |
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Sheep intestine can be formed into sausage casings, and lamb intestine has been formed into surgical sutures, as well as strings for musical instruments and tennis rackets. |
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The design has a single casing of tubing strings enclosed and filled with an inert gas to allow for leak monitoring, corrosion prevention and heat transfer. |
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Rangers' director of football business Martin Bain admits the club will try and loosen the purse strings to enable McLeish to delve into the January transfer sales. |
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Disco was characterized by the use of real orchestral instruments, such as strings, which had largely been abandoned during the 1950s because of rock music. |
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The seven-member Bell Orchestre was indeed a miniorchestra, with strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion along with occasional guitar and analog electronic noise. |
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Red strings tied to some of the vessels led up to the ceiling and across the room to the mini-shrines called mandapams, each of which housed statues of gods. |
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While Granada, a love letter to the Spanish city of the same name, could have come straight from the score of a spaghetti western, all Spanish guitars and soaring strings. |
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Bright copper utensils, strings of onions, and gigantic sausages, wine-skins, chillies, and castanets hung with a miscellanea of all kinds from the roof and walls. |
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He has only kept quiet on the speculation linking him with the Leeds job because he wants the board to loosen the purse strings so he can purchase some new players. |
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They play their own instruments in unusual ways, bouncing the bows on the strings, drumming on the soundboxes, whipping their bows through the air for rhythmic whooshing. |
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This type of harp is also unique amongst single row triangular harps in that the first two strings tuned in the middle of the gamut were set to the same pitch. |
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It appears that Irish people loosen the purse strings as soon as they leave the country as the research shows they are less likely to spend as much on a holiday at home. |
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RotoSound on the A22 near Sevenoaks railway station makes guitar strings. |
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In some languages, for example, Chinese, there are no morphological processes, and all grammatical information is encoded syntactically by forming strings of single words. |
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He searched each species for strings of nucleotides that matched the modern lentivirus genome and found one lurking in the DNA of the tiny gray mouse lemur. |
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Bronze is also used for the windings of steel and nylon strings of various stringed instruments such as the double bass, piano, harpsichord, and the guitar. |
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Yet more brass and strings soulful brilliance from his album The Lady Killer that remains in the top 20 more than 10 months after it was released. |
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In America every December my mother had decorated our home with metal Stars of David she hung on strings in the doorways and lit the menorah as we gathered at the table. |
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He plays just about anything with strings including the traditional fiddle, Chinese erhu, Appalachian dulcimer, mandolin and six and twelve string acoustic guitars. |
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Expressions such as jump on the bandwagon, pull strings, and draw the line all represent their meaning independently in their verbs and objects, making them compositional. |
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