The company commander thought the new lieutenant and staff sergeant were scapegoats for superior officers in their chain of command. |
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The source of the oil is unknown and is thought to have possibly sprung from an old wreck lying on the seabed which has rusted away. |
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It is now thought by many experts that people experience the world differently according to whether they are right-handed or left-handed. |
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I asked him, not that I thought Matt was anywhere near that close to being the perfect male specimen. |
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Intimate behaviour between a couple was thought of as being light-minded and would be frowned upon by the elders. |
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I've thought that fire ants had killed off most of the lightning bugs like they have the horned toads. |
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Alas, a lightsabre is not included, nor the ability to chuck scenery at people by the power of thought alone. |
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In the 17th century, when the barn was just a barn, no right-minded person would have thought it sensible to actually live in it. |
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How odd, I thought, and went to look out the front to see if they were stopping at our apartment building. |
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The President's Council on Bioethics is generally thought to consist of a bevy of right-to-life right-wingers. |
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His rigidity of thought means that this level of teaching must be professionally informed, monitored, and developed on a continuum at all times. |
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Claudia and Alex are totally different from me and at first I thought I was expected to be like them. |
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I don't know why, but the thought of him helping her riled me up a little, but I tried to ignore my irrational feelings of jealousy. |
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Like most children of elderly parents, Mike hadn't much liked the thought of finding a care home for his mum. |
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But it is also very popular because it is thought to have aphrodisiac properties. |
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By this time, alarm bells are buzzing like crazy, and I start to resign myself to the thought that I'm not getting it back. |
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There was one day where he seemed like death warmed up a couple of weeks ago, and we thought the end was near. |
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We thought, if we could get just one wall, it was likely we'd be able to hold on to it. |
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At first she thought he would be a hindrance, but it turned out that he had been a pillar of support. |
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Dad thought himself a pinnacle of strength and a pillar of optimism to guide everyone through the dark times. |
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It is an amazing thing, a man you have thought might be dead suddenly speaking to you just like that. |
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Bren pulled Sarah's hair till I thought it was going to rip right off her head. |
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He started walking to the office, twisting the silver ring around his finger as he thought. |
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He decided he wouldn't tell anyone about the meeting last night at the central, in case people thought he was barking mad. |
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They feel like Gulliver, tied down with the guy-ropes of Lilliputian countries they thought were their friends. |
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Even in his last days he was fully conscious of his approaching end, and thought of the famous ringside battles at which he had officiated. |
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He protested vehemently that he could keep fighting, and many ringsiders thought he would have beaten Lewis if the fight continued. |
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Just as we thought they couldn't mess around with our phone numbers any more, they're ringing the changes again. |
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Son, if I wanted lemon or lime, I'd ask for lemon or limeade, but thank you for the thought. |
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They are thought to represent lysosomal globules, composed of apoptotic bodies phagocytosed by the tumor cells. |
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It is very difficult to find discussion of heresy or apostasy or even of dissent in Asian thought and literature. |
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These sentences are called synthetic and they express an a posteriori thought. |
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The thought of his roommate wearing such apparel sent blood rushing to his cheeks. |
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I always thought Lobsters were red but apparently they only go that colour when you boil them. |
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They thought He was a ghost, a phantasm, an apparition, a spirit, anything except their Master. |
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So precisely when the native nations were finished, they thought they were going to die, she appears and offers new life to them. |
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Ian thought he heard a murmur ripple through the crowd, and glanced quickly over his shoulder. |
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The next morning, I rose at what I thought was an early hour, nearly 5 o'clock, but Meredith was already up. |
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James's voice rose in pitch as he thought about how much money he would be wallowing in. |
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It used to be thought that wine drinkers in Britain loved the taste of oak, and that we believed it was a sign of quality. |
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And yet we thought that in some ways it was a fitting tribute to a man in his line of work. |
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You are more likely to have major breakthroughs when your line of thought isn't being interrupted. |
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At every point, I thought somebody was going to resolve the matter, but all the way along the line, whoever I went to just made it worse. |
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He assumed our conversation was simply banter and thought I had crossed a line. |
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The linguistic sign is neither conceptual nor phonic, neither thought nor sound. |
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It is also thought by some authorities that bottle-fed babies are more likely to develop defective appestats than those that are breast-fed. |
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New flavors such as blueberry also claim to reduce the risk of certain diseases, while fermented dairy drinks are thought to aid digestion. |
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The odd, unexpected rhyme can come like an oasis in a desert of disconnected thought and jarring line breaks. |
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I heartily recommend this book by the way, I thought it was going to be dry and dull but it's actually extremely readable and enjoyable. |
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So, if you thought history was a dry subject, you obviously haven't read a new book that basically makes history one big drinking game. |
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My friend thought the champagne was too dry so she wanted it mixed with orange juice. |
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I've always thought blogs were a load of applesauce, but I look forward to reading more of yours. |
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There is no want of effort and application but little thought is given to trying a spanner. |
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I thought to myself in my mind as I carefully applied the eyes liner to my bottom eye lashes. |
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And then I thought of that notion when it came to jobs, professorships, corporate board appointments. |
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I cannot say that this film was riveting or particularly thought provoking. |
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As with all thought provoking and multi-layered films, multiple viewing may be required for full appreciation. |
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I thought it was cool to wear roach clips in my hair when I was a kid, not realizing that they were used for smoking joints! |
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As a swarm of roadies toiled about with their pre-show set-up, a revolutionary thought crossed my mind. |
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I thought you were tossed around like a rag doll on final landing approach because you were flying too slow. |
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Unlike those who were angling for jobs or social approbation or credibility among the beltway elites, we just said what we thought. |
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The Festival Committee, however, thought it necessary to underline the visitors' right to roam. |
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The reader finds himself deprived of linking elements providing continuity of thought in a smooth development from one question to the next. |
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I thought it was an April Fool's joke, but when I rang the supervisor of the factory, I realised it was no joke. |
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But there's also this article, which is one of those that I might have thought would be an April Fool if it wasn't three days late. |
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I argue that an ethical critique is implicit in his objections to any attempt to speak a priori about language and thought. |
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Ask her if she ever thought it necessary to learn acting, and the answer is an apt no. |
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I know how much you like aptonyms, so I just thought I'd pass on that my company has a smart grid expert named Ken Van Meter. |
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I do, however, have visions of him rocking up on my doorstep and that thought mostly horrifies me. |
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The March before last I bought and planted two specimens of what I thought was an aquilegia I'd admired at the Chelsea Flower Show. |
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Though some members are Kurds, many are thought to be Arabs from around the Middle East. |
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My attention shifted to Jason, who was currently looking straight at his cousin, his dark eyes pensive, liquid pools of thought. |
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Jane thought, amazed, that there honestly wasn't one thing about rodeos she didn't find absolutely entertaining. |
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Bryan thought Sylvia's excuse for using roids, that he wanted to physically look better, was dumb. |
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It is only the major arcana and not terribly well thought through but it is still going on my collecting list. |
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During excavation, archaeologists found human remains thought to date back to ancient Roman times. |
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The first bird, archaeopteryx, is thought to have evolved about 147m years ago. |
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Anthologies are themselves a kind of literary criticism, a selection of work that shows the editor's taste and thought process. |
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From her novels, I thought she was considerably more theologically literate and orthodox. |
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As the end credits roll, he goes off on this tangent that at first I thought was serious, but quickly realized was an incredibly funny joke. |
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But in case you thought the local authority was rolling in money, then think again. |
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I didn't know that she specifically wanted a roll-on because I wouldn't have even thought application methods were an issue. |
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Others have told me that they thought I was making some sort of sexist statement by showing an entrapped female. |
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If the Romans thought their empire was universal, the appeal of the Roman Empire continues to be universal today. |
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Koalas are often thought of as cuddly little teddy bears by most people, and stuffed koalas are collectors items to arctophiles. |
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We can live without breathing for only a few minutes, yet we give it very little thought. |
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Some roadside Romeos thought it would be easier for them to approach the girls out in the open and they did. |
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If readers get one thought from this book, it is that you have to live your own life and make the choices that are right for you. |
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That was something I didn't think was even going to be animated, I might have thought of it as live action. |
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After all, the thought of murdering Claudius, vile and hated though he was, still repelled Hamlet. |
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He was so lively and full of energy that it dawned on us that he must have been in some sort of pain for a lot longer than we had thought. |
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She's very capable and, in fact, often is thought of by strangers as just an exceptional lively and uninhibited character. |
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The same line of thought was used to support an argument that two people could manually collect the information needed for purchasing. |
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Isis thought of how she would like to be able to quiet a whole room by just her presence. |
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He did, however, say that he thought that Behe's book was the best explanation of the argument from design that was available. |
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Just when we thought you couldn't screw-up chocolate, someone goes and adds things like ginkgo biloba and bilberry root. |
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The persecuted Arians thought of themselves as making a last brave stand against irrationalist mystery-mongers and their rigid orthodoxies. |
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It is thought the feral began its journey after finding its way on to a container ship which was loaded in Chicago. |
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The plot is thought to have involved the use of conventional explosives, probably to be loaded into cars and driven into crowded city centres. |
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He thought that no one would know that he killed her, that he took her life. |
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Quiet precision of thought and speech is individuality's prerequisite, its lifeblood, its hallmark. |
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Movement, sentience, and self-conscious thought are the basic capabilities of the human life form. |
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They thought socialism as an economic system was the necessary analog to democracy as a political system. |
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If your dog ever took a long walk off a short dock, chances are you've thought about the advantage of having your pooch in a life jacket. |
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He thought of the dead grass, the lifeless, deceased forests in which no creature lived. |
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It is thought they threw them a life ring, to which they were clinging when they were rescued. |
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It was total drama, and to make a long story short, for one of the few times in my life, I thought I was in love. |
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Having a medical scan may no longer be the life-saving process we once thought it was. |
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Who doesn't moisten at the thought of Dubya fingering the big red button lifestyler. |
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He had a life-threatening illness at 22, so he thought more carefully about what he wanted from life. |
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She was taken to hospital with hypothermia, with what were first thought to be life-threatening injuries. |
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I told her that one of my best friends at the time had a crush on her and she just laughed and thought it was ridiculous. |
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We thought it was ridiculous that someone so young who had just come out of basic training was sent there. |
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And it's funny because riffing on Virgil is exactly how I thought of it myself. |
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It had to overlap and go crazy on ligatures we had never thought possible, nor even desirable. |
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He had always been the light of my life and I thought he was so brave, moving away from everything he knew to make a fresh start. |
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These individuals are thought of as having rigged the system to gain control of the country's petroleum wealth. |
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So he stared, and thought, and fretted as she grew increasingly more antsy. |
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It sounded about right but I'd never really thought of him in that way before. |
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The right to privacy must be found to encompass the inner domain of thought. |
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He ruled with a rod of iron, but he was very fair, and would defend his workmen to the hilt if he thought they were in the right. |
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If you thought the British were a nation who never complained, Debbie Hurworth would soon be able to put you right. |
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Music is also thought to stimulate right-brain functioning, which is associated with imagination and feelings, especially feelings of sadness. |
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Bearing in mind he always thought orchestrally, we had to establish exactly the right fingering. |
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It is not thought anyone was in the building, which was once a ballroom and Corn Exchange. |
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Even a cursory look at the new science GCSE is enough to give anyone pause for thought. |
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He then thought he would do the responsible thing by trying to return the property to its rightful owner. |
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At first he'd thought the tab had had little effect other than to make him feel slightly light-headed as fell asleep. |
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I thought that was kind of a weird thing to ask of me, but I shrugged and nodded anyways. |
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I wish to advance some thought for those with early-onset Alzheimers Disease as my husband died of this, aged 62 years, after years of a living death. |
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He thought Redskins was funny, just as he thought the war paint and feather headdress he made the head coach wear were funny. |
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Throughout the years, I've had personal contact with some folks that were heavy dope smokers and I always thought they were just extra dumb or extra stupid. |
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Erial returned to the game long enough to move her rook into a position that severely threatened his queen, before continuing her train of thought. |
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We thought it would be a good idea to give you a broad overview of the many product lines out there with some background information and attributes of each product. |
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I thought I'd rooted out all the hidden food in our kitchen. |
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She thought she could smell liquor on his breath, and crossed her arms. |
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The early miniature pinscher was called the reh pinscher, so named because Germans thought the dog resembled the small, nimble, red roe deer that populated their forests. |
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The tread and riser of each step is proportionately different so that consecutive steps require slightly different muscular effort, which Steele thought would reduce fatigue. |
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I thought it was better odds than the lottery, but you live and learn. |
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First of all, progress toward righting one of the economy's biggest imbalances, excess production capacity caused by overinvestment, has been greater than first thought. |
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There are thought to be around 130 known listening stations worldwide. |
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The large communities of people of Cypriot, Italian, Polish, and Ukranian origin to be found in many British cities are rarely thought of as constituting ethnic minorities. |
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The genetic trawl will not be looking for physical characteristics, such as colouring or height, but at particular genes that were thought to be common in Vikings. |
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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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I had thought it would be tough to get Oliona to talk, that she would be shy about her life. |
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It is thought he went for the take-away after watching England qualify for next year's World Cup at a mate's house in fulham. |
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Those pioneer photographers thought that photography, through the interaction of sunlight on light-sensitive silver salts, might capture the Platonic essence of things. |
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Janis Joplin once said she thought of herself as the reincarnation of Smith. |
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It was the one luxury they enjoyed, and no matter how desperate they might be for money, they never entertained the thought of pawning their computer. |
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The others were standing around, drinks in hand, congratulating my cousin on his initiation, and asking us amused tones what we thought of the crazy rigmarole. |
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You ever think how Dr. Frankenstein thought when Frankenstein ripped his first person in half? |
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I thought his talents were being wasted in a freebie weekly that people stopped reading a couple decades ago. |
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Upshot was, one nasal spray, two weeks off nursery school, constant nose-blowing and operations may not be as essential to future happiness as was previously thought. |
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Even when she was ill and tired she could summon up enough strength and liveliness of manner to entertain the few visitors she thought worth receiving. |
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The upshot was that it was no longer to be thought of in terms of Crown immunity but whether the public interest overrode the ordinary rights of litigants. |
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I thought he was going to come into the food court, but he kept going straight, toward JCPenney. |
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It would be a time when free thought solved medical and social problems, ending oppression and deprivation. |
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From outside, and through the frosted windows of the lodge, I thought I heard rumbles and bright flashes. |
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I asked the students to consider the courtyard space, and stimulated thought about guard houses, archways, entrance ways, lower courtyards, moats and drawbridges. |
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It would be unfeasible, I thought, and not a little greedy, to cover a gruelling election campaign, only to face another three-week marathon in Athens. |
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Then it came, a big loud ring they thought would never come. |
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I thought again of little auks and the children who cried for them. |
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I don't really understand how Victory dropped the ball on this one, but I guess they needed to make a bit of money for once and thought it was time to bring in some ringers. |
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And then I thought, apropos of my last blog entry, about gender roles. |
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Beneath the ringing of the shot, he thought he heard someone scream. |
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When the doctors in his group get fitness band data, they have time to put some thought into what the information implies. |
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On our behalf, she has promised to give some thought to what to wear to Christmas parties, and it won't be that old staple, the little black dress. |
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It was a great fight and some ringsiders thought he did enough to win. |
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He is thought to have self-radicalized online, calling himself Abou Abdallah al-Faransi on social networks. |
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His eyes lit up with malicious intent, and his lipless jaws curved up into a hideous expression that James figured the horrible creature thought was a smile. |
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He and his party spent an Arctic winter in hope of rescue but they all died and the cause of death was thought to be the vitamin A in the animals' livers. |
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I thought we'd seen rock bottom with this film and its paltry sequel. |
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Bishops today are thought to be the successors of the Apostles. |
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Because this was such a long story, we thought we would have to actually go back into a flashback and act out the scenes. |
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I thought, since we already went through riot grrrl in the early '90s, that women playing in bands, especially punk bands, had a lot more freedom, but I was sadly deluded. |
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But then I thought about the feedback I get from fans, yes we do listen to you, and thought why not? |
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Paul thought he would give this roots business one more chance. |
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Barnacles are crustaceans like crabs and shrimps but, because of their appearance, until the 19th century they were thought to be molluscs like limpets and whelks. |
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The camel species that lives today in the Middle East and North Africa is the Arabian camel, which is thought to have been domesticated thousands of years ago. |
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This interpretation of Nietzsche is rigorously thought through. |
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A pretty smart rig-out, I thought, for a night out at the pub. |
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I'm trying to swim, and no one thought to toss me a life preserver. |
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On the other hand, if the text is a forgery, then it is a better forgery than previously thought. |
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A slow panic rose in his chest, shortening his breaths as he thought this. |
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In the 43-year history of Blue Peter, it is thought to be the first time racing has featured at such length. |
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I gag at the very thought of putting my schnoz near dairy items that might be on the turn. |
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The species remains critically endangered with possibly less than 100 eastern bongos thought to exist in the wild in a remote area of Kenya. |
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Subsequently, he explains views of various schools of thought in disagreed matter. |
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I actually thought the pistol was scandium and never thought to question it to this degree. |
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I asked if the panelists thought the focus would eventually shift back to snarky examinations of Bush's creative magniloquence. |
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One of its greatest strengths is the way it repeatedly manages to schematize large patterns of thought without oversimplifying them. |
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John's described as, not the bogey man but the guy you'd send in to kill the bogey man, which I thought was fun. |
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Kamran Rasheed said all blood cancer related malignancies are thought to be rising from various genetic disorders. |
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The deep water boulders and cobbles are thought to support diverse marine life including sea firs, anemones and sponges. |
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On Sunday, fishermen found a body, thought to be that of a child, off the coast of Makassar, a city in Southwestern Sulawesi. |
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Once I started it was a lot blowier than I thought and it was probably worth a second a lap. |
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His steamy bodice-ripper, Hard Grinding, has already featured on the soap and led to calls to bookshops from viewers who thought it was real. |
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But to bounce back with a performance this emphatic was probably not something we thought was on the cards. |
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In other words, the free thinker defending freedom of thought. |
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I thought all eight of us scrummaged well out there which is what you have got to do so it was really pleasing. |
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The audition audience erupted into laughter when the new judge thought a hopeful from Scotland was a Scouser. |
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Wright was more successful at penetrating the thought processes of Al Qaeda than he is at seriously grasping whatever Scientology has to offer. |
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Back in October, when everyone thought the club was on its knees, we've bounced back from that disappointment. |
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Talking to friends, everyone says I'm a good talker and a natural salesman so I thought about blagging. |
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What you thought was crazy and maladjusted is revealed as the most sane and creative. |
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I once gave a tramp what I thought was pounds 1 scrumpled up in a receipt and then realised it was actually a pounds 20 note. |
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I thought it was rubbish so I ripped it and scrumpled it and threw it in the bin. |
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Design for Manufacturability thought it had solved all its problems and was on top of the world. |
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Previously experts thought no animal alive could move more quickly than the mantis shrimp, which delivers a powerful kick. |
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Initially, it was thought that the Spanish government was genuinely interested in accommodating and manumitting runaway slaves. |
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Since I had been confused about the name of the flax brake, I thought I had already completed scutching so I skipped that part of the process. |
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What these military intellectuals may have learned, according to Linn, is dependent on to which school of thought they belonged. |
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He probably thought pasta was what you did when you walked by a girl, not as though big Mick walked past many, nor could he be relied upon to give a body swerve to a bar. |
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Police followed the car for what is thought to be a few minutes along the main A610 before the Nova hit a tree at the junction with Western Boulevard in Bobbers Mill. |
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Who but Mahler would have thought of opening with a horn call but transforming a romantic cliche into something fresh and disturbing by assigning it to a rasping tenor horn? |
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I never thought I'd have to read the words Ira Magaziner again. |
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Funnily enough some boffs in America have put some thought into how much it would actually cost to send your child to Hogwarts for the year, if said school really existed. |
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Sometimes when you're angry, it feels like you've been invaded by a Body Snatcher who has sucked every ounce of rational thought right out of you. |
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Lewis is to give a few examples of its contents, both to emphasize its importance as a key to Williams's thought and to highlight Lewis's selectiveness. |
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More specifically, the Magisterium abducts young children and literally kills their souls, thereby extinguishing the spirit of free thought and inquiry. |
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In short, they were majoritarians, not libertarians, and they turned to the Court only because they thought free speech served the interests of the majority at the time. |
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Myxomas are thought to derive from multipotential mesenchymal cells, and have a variable macroscopic appearance ranging from soft and friable to smooth and bosselated. |
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Many thought that Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was the ideal candidate, and that it was high time someone from the South, or the majority world, took the helm of the Bank. |
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Now all my books are getting a new lease of life, plus I have the opportunity to tell people what I have thought of each one by adding a review on the Bookcrossing website. |
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Fin whales and Sei whales are thought to breed here, although you're more likely to spot more modest Minke whales, bottlenose dolphins and harbour porpoises. |
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We had a pleasant time together chatting, and he promised to arrive early the next morning to take us to see a bonesetter, who he thought could help Judyth's knee. |
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