To my left, rough sloping ground dropped away steeply to reveal a clearing several hundred yards below. |
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A slightly sloping gravel path approaches the cabin and is terraced in two places. |
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Another helps tame a sloping site by dividing it into usable stairstepping levels, complete with built-in planters and a barbecue area. |
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Interestingly the original plans show the buildings supported and made level by brick piles grounded in the sloping valley side. |
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Runway 14 began atop a steeply sloping terrace with an abrupt drop-off at the approach end, departure end and left side of the threshold. |
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The older picture showed an aluminium-hued casing with rounded corners and a screen bevel sloping away to the edge of the unit. |
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Its expansive mirrored surface is lined with rocky coastlines, mountainous and jagged in the north to gently sloping in the south. |
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Cod Beck carries on, squirting from beneath a sloping earthen dam, which had a few molehills, and then gurgling into a wooded ravine. |
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It was around twenty feet long and ten feet wide, with the sides sloping down to a little clear ground in the middle. |
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It was built on a sloping terrain between two seasonal storm-water channels with dams and channels to direct the water into huge reservoirs. |
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They occur mostly on low gently sloping and flat lands adjacent to morainal hills and they support the richest, tallest forests in the park. |
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A turn-out directs the water off the side of the skid road, whereas a sloping turn up sheds water at its base. |
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The penguins can be viewed, not just from a sloping arena but also from underwater viewing areas. |
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It's like a rickety house, with undulating floorboards and windows sloping down to one side. |
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He was sleek and lean, with a dancer's legs and long supple arms that looked even longer because of his sloping shoulders. |
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The first divers down found the ship lying unevenly and had great difficulty in moving across the steeply sloping decks. |
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The house is on seven acres, with the front grounds sloping down to the Owenmore River. |
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Shallow channels may form on some playas, particularly if the playa surface is sloping. |
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At least three people have slipped or fallen on a steeply sloping pavement in Tewkesbury High Street. |
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Everywhere we looked, we saw tall graceful coconut palms, evenly spaced, growing around tiny cottages with sloping roofs of red tiles. |
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In future more downward sloping tunnels will be designed into the mine to increase storage capacity. |
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The teen-agers rose to their feet and began to shamble towards Nick, sloping their shoulders as they came. |
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Again, sloping roofs are the in-thing now, but slopes are no good in a climate like that of Kerala as such roofs tend to develop a leak fast. |
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They simply cannot physically be as supple as a horse with a long, sloping front end. |
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Inside the church, the sloping floor of green Portland stone has had to be sealed more than once. |
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High up under the sloping roof, exercise rooms are located in a glass enclosed attic that overlooks the main hall. |
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Some of the most difficult courses require you to bump a chip shot up a sloping green with the utmost precision. |
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A powerful-looking sloping neckline is a strong indication of a well-built physique. |
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He is lying on a hill, sloping gently back to the factory town where he grew up. |
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The site would be entered through a grandiose arch, and each house would have a sloping green in front of it. |
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The new terminal has been designed on three levels, taking advantage of the sloping terrain. |
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Around the hall are galleries where minerals and fossils lie under sloping glass. |
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That sloping top tube extends the flowing lines to the rear triangle a treat. |
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Built on sloping ground, the two-storey houses are made of wood held together by wooden nails and wedges with no iron or steel used. |
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It is primarily restricted to flat or sloping grasslands, often along valley bottoms or areas adjacent to vernal pools. |
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He pointed toward a sleek two-masted brigantine anchored at the end of the long sloping street. |
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The most suitable land for vanilla is gently sloping with light friable soil. |
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A bridge spans the moat from the gently sloping walk to the house entrance. |
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If you are planning a sojourn on hilly terrain, sloping mountains or steep ghats, then this is the place. |
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Formations on sloping ground tended to stretch into oblong shapes with the longest dimension pointing downhill. |
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The elegant sloping roofline conjures a sleek, lightweight look as we follow it towards the rear hatch. |
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Here, steep sloping sides are carpeted with colourful soft corals, table corals, sponges and whip corals. |
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The sloping roof, however, could cut down on headroom for the tallest in the family. |
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The piece opened with an ensemble dance on a sloping lawn at the park's south end. |
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On a four-acre elevated site sloping to the road, the courtyard commands a fine view over farmland to the sea, less than two miles away. |
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Low retaining walls have been cemented onto the sloping rock surface to channel the water into a reservoir at the base of the outcrop. |
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The choice of a sloping tiled roof over a flat roof had more to do with the local climatic conditions than with style. |
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The return trip is all downhill on a sloping hillside of coastal scrub and chaparral. |
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One or more gently sloping erosional terraces occupy the hinterlands of many rock coasts. |
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His angular face, with its long, sloping, jaw line, narrow chin and hollow cheeks, suggests the fragility of china. |
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We struggled to fence a vegetable plot on a sloping, overgrown former chicken run. |
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The parados, to the rear, was a gently sloping ridge of debris left over from the digging of the trench. |
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On these gently sloping gravel hills, great wines of class and elegance are produced. |
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They are pencilled in, these particulars, in an old fashioned hand, sloping and graceful. |
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This is unlike the situation in perennial lakes where sedimentation also occurs on sloping margins, thus perpetuating variations in depth. |
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Steep sloping walls and cascading waterfalls of coral encrusted the features like a blanket of molten lava. |
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Think of North East, and the mind involuntarily conjures up images of lofty hills and sloping vales. |
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The steeply sloping reef was covered in a jumble of steel hawser, deck plates, twisted girder and hand-rail. |
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The betting ring is a concreted area beneath a roof that consists of sloping sheets of corrugated iron. |
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Both styles feature shallow and sloping tile roofs and one or more verandas and porches. |
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The foreheads were unusually low and sloping, with exceedingly prominent brows. |
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The tomb itself is almost like a miniature fortress, with sloping crenellated outer walls, complete with eyelets for archery. |
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He chose similar brick cladding, a symmetrical facade with French doors, front porches, and a sloping roof to comply with city guidelines. |
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These works portray a San Francisco of exaggerated hills, where buildings cling precariously to steeply sloping cliffs. |
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Entry to the basement-level parking garage is via a gently sloping ramp on the north side. |
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The seeds were in a row 40 mm from the base end of a sloping box held in racks contained in a plastic propagator. |
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They were constructed with sloping sides, flat bottomed and lined with puddled clay. |
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With their gently sloping sides, Sanxingdui's walls may instead have been dikes for flood control. |
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With his hands firmly gripping the high back of the pilot's seat, Howard stared transfixed out the sloping front window. |
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On sloping ground, soil can slip downwards at an imperceptibly slow rate by a process known as lateral creep. |
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On the winding cobblestone streets of Lijiang's old town, canals and streams gurgled beneath gently sloping foot bridges. |
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We flew a descending, slowing figure eight to an uphill sloping runway, with tall trees at the approach end and a dogleg to the right. |
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It was like an escarpment, sloping up gently on one side and dropping vertically to 90m on the other. |
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On the sloping driveway outside the house, my grandad had parked his red car. |
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The gorilla, one of nature's jerry-builders, constructs its sleeping headquarters on a sloping site. |
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A long dashboard reaches deep into the sloping windscreen with almost none of the bonnet visible as you peer over the dash. |
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The S80 has soft lines with a gently sloping hood, steeply raked windscreen, slightly bowed roofline and coupe-like rear window. |
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A gently sloping pathway to a lower garden area works as a wheelchair ramp, but it also makes a great road for Amrita's tricycle. |
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The topography of the county ranges from low rolling hills in the north to very flat terrain or gentle sloping ridges in the south. |
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Occasionally I glimpsed in the west a forested, razorback ridge sloping toward the equatorial lowlands below. |
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If I want to travel just a few hundred yards I have to negotiate sloping pavements and steep curbs in my chair. |
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The anterior is sloping, broad, without wings or ear, the rear wing in contrast gradually grading into the posterior margin. |
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So there are 452 airfields, varying from steeply sloping mountain airstrips to seven international airfields. |
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Elizabeth stood on the deck and looked out, beyond the nursery, across the flats, to the sloping hills, all treed and dotted with houses. |
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There, on a steeply sloping site, we saw animals ranging from fierce tigers and lions to some very cute red pandas. |
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But she also appreciates her surroundings and her community, and looks for her place among the sloping streets and workaday routines. |
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Short speeches, multiple refills and not much to eat saw me sloping off home with a headache as the group split up. |
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After this the path levels out for about 400m before sloping down to a small car park by the side of the road. |
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Mary walked up the sloping lawn of her back yard and met Todd standing by the stable. |
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Due to the fact that the main shaft was steeply sloping rather than vertical, the ropes were also rigged at an angle. |
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The Anna's Hummingbird is a medium-sized hummingbird with a relatively short, straight bill and a long sloping forehead. |
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Their sloping slate roofs peeked over Victorian chimneys almost smothered in the plumes of grey smoke which coiled ever upwards into the sky. |
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The manor house stood above and to the left of the ring road on a tree-lined ridge at the top of a steeply sloping hillside. |
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It is marked by sloping, carved gullies, quiet meadows and ponds, and narrow trails that wind between century-old linden and oak trees. |
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Shrugging me off, he ordered me to go stand by the massive pine topping the largest of the graveyard's sloping rises. |
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She points at a sloping rooftop, different from the flat and wide roofs of the local Arab dwellings. |
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The sky was a clear blue, the landscape sloping into a bed of bright pink and yellow roses. |
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The field is twenty acres, sloping gradually upward to the scrub locust trees along the fence line. |
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The sea caverns went on for many miles, gently sloping upward and finally ascending into an open air cave somewhere on the Alaskan coastline. |
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Keep going, however, and an ascent up sloping bedrock will be found at the end on the right. |
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Dig a v-shaped trench with a sloping side and a straight side and line it with sharp sand to help with drainage. |
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The house now has three bedrooms and a fourth in the attic with a sloping roof that is perfect for his grandchildren. |
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The area covers 1,200 hectares of land and consists of flat plains, foothills and a white sandy beach, sloping down towards a crystal blue sea. |
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But by description, the tsessebe is hartebeest in appearance and has a long face and sloping back similar to the hartebeest. |
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Adjacent fans may merge to form a broad sloping surface, known as a bajada, at the foot of a mountain range. |
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On sloping terrain, they can create level terraces to extend the cultivated area. |
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It is a diving duck and the male is a large, white bellied, grey-backed bird with a black chest, sloping forehead and ruddy chestnut head and neck. |
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Many thousands of years ago, glacial floods swept through the area and carved out the sloping sides of the current grounds. |
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The funicular cars waited at an impossible angle on the sloping track. |
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A faint track through the crowberry scrub led to a rightwards sloping ramp of black slabs which seemed to give way to a series of zig-zags amongst some large blocks. |
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The track became old stone jetty, sloping straight into the sea. |
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He also stood to work and so there are sloping desks at waist height. |
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Or have I been secretly sloping off down the pub every night? |
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The plan had been to execute a three-point turn, but at an early stage in the manoeuvre I made a misjudgement and reversed on to the sloping lawn in front of the hostel. |
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The vegetated area may be either a long, grassed, gently sloping channel or a broad, flat area with a slight slope away from the inlet surrounded by a berm or dike. |
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By Monday, the work resumes with the placement of culverts above and below the site to route ditchwater into the gently sloping forest cover below the road. |
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Seedlings were grown on wet sloping filter boards in an incubator. |
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That said, nearly all four-wheel-drive cars are equally capable of amazing their owners by getting stuck on little more than a mildly sloping croquet lawn. |
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Originally, a small patio and a sloping garden filled the yard. |
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They had distinctive cranial features that included prominent brow ridges, low, sloping foreheads, a chinless and heavy forward-jutting jaw, and extremely large front teeth. |
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The forehead and sincipital part of the head are low and sloping. |
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The sloping baseline indicates melancholy, disillusion, and loss of innocence. |
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She looked out over the blurred hedgerows to the long, sloping meadow. |
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The fact that the demand curve is downward sloping indicates that consumers are sensitive to prices offered by any one competing or monopoly operator. |
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With some few exceptions, the Pennsylvania axe generally has a slanted base, sloping towards the back, and complementing the slant at the top of the blade plate. |
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The castle stood on the point of a hill and sloping down on all sides were verdant hayfields, olive groves, vegetable gardens, fruit orchards, and vineyards. |
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Formed from a now dormant volcano, the island is incredibly beautiful with craggy peaks and lush vegetation sloping down to the clear waters of the Indian Ocean. |
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The path continues back to the southern end of the tarn where there is again a challenging gradient before you leave the gravel track and meet an expanse of sloping grass. |
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The site is well laid out with gentle sloping paths so you can walk from the lower locks to the upper canal very easily, and watch the Wheel in operation. |
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His pear-shaped head, with its thick nose, narrow-set and long-lashed eyes, sensuous mouth and double chin, blends into sloping shoulders and curved arms. |
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The structure is supported by tall posts rising from the sloping site. |
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You get inside, and you're in a murky labyrinth of dead ends and sloping walkways and spaces that might be rooms, but then again might just be spaces. |
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As we slowly navigate the rental van up a narrow sloping driveway, a half-dozen young teenage boys dart across our path, passing a basketball back and forth. |
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This form, upon which our modern atria are based, was enclosed on all sides by buildings with roofs sloping to a columned peristyle or walkway around a courtyard. |
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It enters the room at a 30-degree angle, its steps and risers mitered to dramatic points, its uprights perpendicular not to the floor but to its own sloping rails. |
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On a green field below the sloping campus, teams huddle and plot strategy as group leaders and refs get the games into place. |
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The winding, sloping roads had been a pleasure to navigate, the air perfumed with onions growing by the roadside. |
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The venue for the night concerts was a huge field with naturally sloping sides, and the stages were set against backdrops of tall rainforest trees. |
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The forequarters have flat, somewhat sloping shoulders and high withers. |
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This simple machine is really an inclined plane wrapped around a shaft, the way a sloping trail winds around a mountain. |
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The terrain consists of a plateau sloping from long sandy bays in the south to rugged cliffs in the north. |
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The forehead was fairly straight rather than sloping like in Neanderthals, and with only slight browridges. |
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The 1972 West German Code considers column miserection and misalignment, and gives potential offsets of sloping, kinked, and corkscrew forms. |
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In 1827 George had built the Experiment with sloping cylinders instead of the vertical ones on previous locomotives built in Newcastle. |
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The Cathedral Church of St Deiniol is a Grade I Listed building and is set in a sloping oval churchyard. |
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Where the sea meets higher parts of the sloping landscape, dramatic cliffs emerge very suddenly. |
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However, upon entering a shallow, gently sloping shelf, the surge cannot be disperse, but is driven ashore by the wind stresses of the hurricane. |
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It is a slender, powerfully built animal with a large, deeply descending ribcage, a sloping back and a heavily muscled neck. |
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In contrast, a weathered ridge is one with a rounded crest and with sides sloping at less than 40 degrees. |
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In fact, they form the coastline, either sloping steeply directly into the sea, or are separated from it by a relatively narrow coastal plain. |
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This system forms on uniformly sloping surfaces, for example, rivers flowing southeast from the Aberdare Mountains in Kenya. |
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The top of the fell resembles a truncated cone, cut off at an angle and sloping away to the south. |
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The back stop is infilled with earth, gravel and sand to form a sloping bank facing South. |
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He pushed across the counter a roneoed form with his particulars entered in a sloping hand. |
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It had low, sloping ceilings, 3ft-wide stone walls, blackened beams and the original metal meat hooks. |
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Access is limited and only possible down two steeply sloping concrete tracks. |
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The sloping hood allows the operator to visually check the surrounding area when working with the front loader, even with the bucket lowered. |
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The accident occurred when a garbage truck overturned after hit the barriers while it was moving down the sloping road. |
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The distribution of hydrologically effective incident rainfall on sloping ground. |
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Nowadays it's a lovely little place of pebble-covered cottages sloping up from the creekiest of harbours. |
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He's drawn Dwayne as a cave-man. A really derpy, ugly caveman, with a sloping forehead, a drooling mouth and Dwayne's buzz cut. |
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His shoulders are remarkably sloping, giving an appearance of great longitude to his neck. |
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Towards the end of the month, swallows and house martens congregate, and are often seen resting on the ridges or sloping roofs of buildings. |
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Physiographical Jharia Coalfield represents a low lying flat to gently sloping topographic surface roughly corresponding to the underlying bedding structure. |
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The flooded ria that forms the lower reaches of the Dart, with its deep water and steeply sloping valley sides, is a considerable barrier to crossing traffic. |
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One of the properties featured is Gurnard Pines Holiday Village, a selatering park near Cowes set in 55 acres of gently sloping grass and woodlands. |
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From the top the sample shows four stitch popcorns, five stitch bobbles, two rows of bells and a central leaf with leaves sloping to the left and right each side. |
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The south piers at Fife are sited on rock sloping into the sea, and the site was prepared by diamond drilling holes for explosive charges and blasting the rock. |
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While the wedge-shaped, sloping beltline demonstrates affinity with the C-Class, its strong upsweep to the rear is an entirely distinctive element. |
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Soils on the limestone uplands are fertile, but shallow clay mollisols or rendzinas, which are vulnerable to erosion where they occur on sloping terrain. |
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Just pick a straight stem about a foot long and make a sloping cut just above a mature leaf bud at the top and another just below a bud at the bottom. |
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Those on the first floor are entered behind a continuous walkway, often with a sloping shelf between the walkway and the railings overlooking the street. |
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There is no pavement for the foot-goer but the sharp, round stones sticking up from side to side, and sloping down to the sluiceway in the middle. |
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The field is located in a faulted block of Jurassic and older rocks beneath the Hampshire Basin, close to the steeply sloping monocline in the overlying chalk. |
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The City Living sofa in a rich plaid has a sloping, semiattached pillow back with rolled arms and turned front legs and more contemporary back legs. |
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The odour of the 'Madagascar chaplet-flower' came floating out, mingled with the fragrant scents of the marsdenias, and the sloping shelves were one mass of varied bloom. |
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The sloping plateau summit of Pendle Hill is formed from the Pendle Grit, a coarse Carboniferous age sandstone assigned to the Millstone Grit Group. |
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The broader landscape drained by the Ythan near the coast is a generally mild sloping farmland known as the Buchan plain, which is virtually devoid of trees. |
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A large portion of it might be seen long afterwards lying in the river in a sloping position, and not entirely disconnected from its original position at one end. |
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