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| But alas in practice they are usually so huge that you inevitably strain a minor muscle or two moving your arm to look at the data. |
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| It was not, alas, unique, unequalled, unsurpassed, or uncommon for all that. |
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| No doubt some of us are full bottle on revisionist history since the fall of the wall but not, alas, me. |
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| The linklog site itself, sideblog.com, may well be about to vanish, since it seems to have expired on May 30 and languishes unrenewed, alas. |
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| I heard the roar of the crowd, I could smell the greasepaint, but alas, it was not to be, for me. |
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| We looked in vain expecting the area to miraculously improve but alas, no such luck. |
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| She became the most passionate wife that a man could hope that she might be, but alas. |
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| Searching through my photo archives, I was sure I had a blurred shot of it somewhere, alas no. |
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| Why Watson bulked out his modest little story to such extravagant length, alas, we shall never know. |
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| I have searched the shelves for either packet or tinned pumpkin soup but alas there is none! |
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| I caught my arms around a low wall that separated the two sections of the path, but alas! |
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| Oh my god, I nearly pushed her out of the way to get at him, but alas, he only had eyes for her. |
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| But alas, females enjoy friendly male companionship and figure the news can wait. |
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| A pert, young blonde came in to put us through our mathematical paces but alas, she came bearing fractions. |
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| Norwich came as close as that to a draw, but alas, they are still to win a Premiership game this season. |
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| The carrick bend, alas, is also known as the sailor's knot, which is not fair. |
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| But alas, in today's cashless society, we had a mere 45 cents between us, 10 of which I'd found in Harry's kennel, of all places. |
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| But what happens in the dating world, alas, is something more diabolical and complex. |
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| It is not, alas, possible to convince oneself that the kitten got there entirely of its own free will. |
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| But alas, frequent highs have the baneful effect of immunizing me from working harder on longer writing projects that I have taken on. |
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| But, alas, like all conjured foes, the biblical piety contained in his book is a mere phantom of the real thing. |
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| It would have been for naught, alas, as later in the day Wright passed a second physical done by Dr. Jim Andrews. |
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| Among the many reasons for writing letters are communicating good news and, alas, bad news. |
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| We managed, somehow, to keep our jobs, but alas, people on high had noticed and we were soon split up. |
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| Having enquired at all car rental information desks at Dublin airport, the answer was alas the same. |
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| But, alas, such a clear and distinct view of mental intentionality still eludes philosophers of mind. |
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| Here, alas, an ink-stained wretch fell behind in his polysyllabic note-taking. |
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| But alas, my prediction was awry and Scunthorpe now bear a seemingly unassailable seven-point lead going into Christmas. |
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| Although it feels like it has been going on for decades, alas, it's still a necessary discussion, and I've been meaning to enter the fray. |
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| But, alas, you simply can't beat casino games with pre-established odds against you. |
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| My hands grew back, but alas all of my fingers are webbed together with revolting flaps of skin, and I am typing with my tongue. |
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| I know a girl who was married to a very good-looking man, who, alas, was a womaniser. |
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| However, rape, sexual violation, and incest are not crimes that are now quaintly foreign or out of date in Aotearoa today, alas. |
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| There comes a point, alas, when a baby bird, trying its wings, finds it has planed down off the roof, and can't get back up again. |
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| I kinda like the look of the new 5296 with the sword hands and plain dial, but alas, no half-hunter case. |
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| These were very unusual as they were all white in colour, but alas the mother of the litter died and Jimmy is looking for a foster mother. |
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| As for the hired morning suit complete with cravat and matching buttonhole, alas, there was nothing I could have done about that. |
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| You are so right, alas, there is more and more and no shortage of begrudgery and petty selfishness in Ballina. |
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| Everything has to be absolutely above-board, so emulators and even abandonware are out of the question, alas. |
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| But alas, the June day teemed with rain and the street parties had to retreat indoors. |
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| The wicked world pursue their evil cause boldly, but alas! the people of God shame their honourable cause and profession by their cowardice. |
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| The vice president, alas, will no doubt sound just as schoolmarmish when getting in his licks as when he's disgorging numbers. |
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| It is all very well for Tariq Ali to gibe at India's neo-liberal economics, but this, alas, is the only show in town. |
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| In this country the status of the wine waiter is, alas, not as it is on the continent. |
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| Ms Hardy, the first woman to occupy the editor's bed of nails, falls, alas, into the latter category. |
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| There is not, alas, any great technical explanation forthcoming as just to why such a small man should belt the ball such a long distance. |
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| It seems he made it through the breakers to within several yards of the beach when, alas, courage failed him. |
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| It's not the genuine Round Table of legend, alas, just an 18-foot oak reconstruction ordered by one of the Plantagenet King Edwards. |
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| Five of you managed to guess two numbers correctly, but alas nobody got three or more right. |
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| But, alas, its not and the Left cares more about emasculating the military then doing anything to support them. |
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| We'd originally drawn your attention to the gig in our feature last week but, alas, the event is no more. |
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| I actually went and bought skates for my roller-sweetie, but alas some movers decided to steal our skates during one of our moves. |
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| I don't have the space here to, er, dilate on the issue but in my view real women are, alas, a dying breed. |
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| I woke Madam Mina, and again tried to hypnotize her, but alas, it was unavailing and too late. |
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| I was going to take loads of photos but alas, my camera battery packed up. |
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| It is, alas, an all-too-familiar scene on the streets of Rochdale as car crime soars and thieves think nothing of ending a night's joyride by destroying the vehicle. |
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| It has been pouring down nearly all day. we did some vital shopping this morning and this afternoon we were going to have a wonder into town but alas we were rained off. |
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| But self-doubt, while a healthy quality for human beings to have, is alas not a plus for politicians. |
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| But alas, a snub is yet another of the many indignities Valerie Cherish shall endure. |
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| But alas, while the recurring SNL sketch had its moments, the big-screen version fell short. |
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| People, alas, continue to cite it as if it had some validity in either fact or theory. |
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| Shopping, alas, is likely always to lag behind the entertainment industry. |
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| But, alas, Philadelphia received the honor and President Gerald Ford did the deed. |
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| Clarence Thomas had 48 votes against him, a fact that does not, alas, detract a whit from his votes and opinions. |
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| Such intemperate exchanges will hardly count as edifying but they may, alas, be unavoidable. |
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| France, alas, also fails to live up to its reputation for libertinage. |
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| He wore a sparkly jacket that was terrifying to behold, but was alas not festooned with electric lights. |
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| I went to stock up on some loo paper and alas, there was none available. |
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| This, alas, was the point when Fifty shades of Grey had somehow storyline-mashed with Gone Girl. |
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| But alas, Hanks, a two-time Best Actor Oscar winner and five-time Oscar nominee, was completely shut out by the Academy. |
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| Whether the idea of fairness can attract a voting majority is, alas, an iffy proposition. |
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| But alas, the mercenariness prevalent in our game will ensure that the high turnover of personnel at the Jags will rise exponentially with the club's success. |
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| There was no sign of snow as the crowds went home after midnight Mass but alas and surprise in the morning the parish had its first white Christmas for years. |
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| Most cooks these days do not, alas, truss their own roasts or carefully make cheesecloth bags to hold their soup herbs. |
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| This is just as true among linguists, alas, as it is among literary types. |
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| I do realize this response makes me seem two-thirds boring and one-third yuppie, proportions that are, alas, accurate. |
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| But alas, we learn that Rose is only courting the black man to make her mother angry, because she is a petulant teen. |
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| Pardon the mixed metaphor, but as those of us who rode the roller coaster from start to finish know, this isn't, alas, a team that's mastered the art of the cakewalk. |
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| It may sound like one of those late night SBS Swedish movies, nudge nudge wink wink, but alas, of all the films bearing this name, this is the bottom of the barrel. |
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| The Nuer have suffered greatly from the genocidal conflict in southern Sudan, which alas is different from the recently-reported genocidal conflict in western Sudan. |
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| But, alas, I was sad to be stuck once again in horrific traffic. |
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| But on this occasion he was, alas, second to the parking meter. |
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| What is peculiar, but alas, all too typical of most, not all, of the people who comment here is their capacity to rabbit on about inessentials and ignore this basic problem. |
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| Four powerful floodlights may look quite pretty dancing in the distance 200 yards away but alas they're virtually invisible directly above your head. |
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| But, alas, it seems the glory days of the heist are well and truly over. |
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| This, alas, meant a long walk to the lounge and dining cars. |
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| The pixyish Ms. Ogier, alas, looks ready to hide under the nearest buttercup. |
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| Since then, alas, he has shown himself to be diffident, patrician and out of touch with people's everyday concerns. |
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| But moving day, alas, draws on apace, as doth the evil hour when I'll have to take the shears to my sprawling collection in earnest. |
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| This agency, alas, is but another part of the empire-building that Brussels so readily takes upon itself. |
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| With the fullness of time, alas, comes the scrawniness of neck, and vampires hate when that happens. |
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| Not so, alas, for the 20th-century art market, which can be a seething snake pit. |
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| But still, alas, there were no old funkmobiles, no surf wagons, with or without sleeping quarters. |
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| Unluckily, despite his emigration to France, he could not escape death in Auschwitz, alas. |
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| The only means of transport are bicycle, no pollution to CO², but alas refuses of all kinds strewed the ground between houses. |
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| It exhibits some objects of Buddhism art of which very beautiful paintings, alas in the half-light and of course with no-camera. |
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| These days, alas, they would probably not build the shrine: the Taliban tend to consider Sufism idolatrous. |
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| Grabbing Grameen The power of tribes ReprintsDivine inspiration, alas, has given way to legal tribulation. |
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| Remain a beacon of peace and quiet in the stormy sea that our world, alas, has all too often become. |
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| We gave a timely warning of the grievous consequences, and we have, alas, been proved most tragically right. |
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| Some alas get papers accepted and then don't turn up, just to have the CV hit. |
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| It has to be said, for all these reasons, that the road Turkey must travel before it joins Europe is still, alas, a long one. |
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| Each year brings a new batch of promises that we cannot alas all bring to fruition. |
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| The history of mankind has, alas, been marked by conflicts since the origins of time. |
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| For many years now, alas, large parts of the West African coast are not safe for shipping because of the increasing number of acts of piracy. |
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| We are, alas, still a long way from being able to boast of a strong scientific community in every country of the world. |
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| The Rongé catalogue does not mention alas the prices, but there is not a doubt that he was not to be very high. |
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| They are, alas, meeting with the same stubborn resistance as Cliff. |
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| The manoeuvre saw him finally in the clear and he finished like the proverbial express train, but alas it was all too late, and he had to settle for fourth place. |
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| In deed the whole tribe pined for his return, but alas, he never did. |
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| But alas, I admit to suffering from the irrational FOMO syndrome. |
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| I was sure that theme nights had some built-in stipulation enforcing dressing up, but alas I have to say I was related to everyone who made an effort. |
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| Director Rob Herriot, alas, never passed up a chance to have a sight gag take the focus away from the main action and the music. |
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| In a perfect world all energy would be directed in the intended direction, but, alas, the world isn't perfect, so a small amount of energy is also so radiated to the side and even to the back. |
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| The whole scenario is depressing enough already: here we are, sitting in a warm room and endlessly talking, not only with each other but often, alas, at odds with each other. |
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| But, alas, the story has been written, and Great Danes do not live forever. |
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| And announcing victory in a fight you're running away from is hollow, even by Congressional standards. But hollowness, alas, is Mrs Bachmann's legacy. |
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| Wodehouse was not, alas, a very good letter writer. |
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| They need to be allayed, because it is only through constitutional and uniform regulations and measures, which the Nice summit did not, alas, produce, that we can tackle these kinds of crimes. |
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| I really wish I could embed this here, but alas, not all things work out. |
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| Mr Blunkett did not go out of his way to quell this suggestion by saying cheerfully to a conference of querulous teachers last weekend that he was, alas, taking his leave of them. |
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| However, We are fully aware, alas, that in some nations amid which atheistic Communism is rampant, these methods of telecommunication are directed in the schools to root out all religious ideas from the mind. |
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| But no one could take from her the crown of a film queen of the Old Continent, alas that was probably an insufficient compensation for a personality, passionately looking for love, loyalty and spiritual harmony. |
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| Others, alas, had an instinct towards artificiality in their very blood, and became adepts in counterfeiting at the first glimpse of it. |
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| Few governments, alas, are as far-sighted. |
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| These actors, alas, are at the service of a submoronic script and special effects that look like a video game writ large. |
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| Monarch butterflies love it but, alas, you won't get them visiting in this country. |
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| What we were looking for in small town Canada and particularly in northern Ontario was an opportunity to restructure in these new circumstances, but alas, the money was not there. |
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| And, alas, two weeks after I had berated the JW Anderson sales assistant for not stocking a blue and white striped menswear shirt I wanted badly on its womenswear rails. |
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| Modern zoology, alas, has punctured many of these myths. |
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| Truth, alas, is the first casualty in war, but if we really covet peace, we must use the weapons of the press, the radio and the cinema to educate man to understand and appreciate his fellow-men. |
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| I thought that the Commission was somewhat timid in what they said about that, but alas, Parliament argues yet further timidity and talks down all the references in the White Paper to regional involvement with the Commission. |
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| This merely triggered a lot of mumbling and coughing, alas. |
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| But alas all good plans can go down the drain. |
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| It must also mean opening up our borders to share with border Member States the responsibility of dealing with asylum seekers and others who make it often perilously, but alas illegally, to EU territory. |
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| For the diners, the effects of the chicken cacciatore, alas, were cacatory. |
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| Not everyone, alas, is cut out for the unshorn life, however principled. |
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| But declaring China a market economy for the purposes of subsidies, and a non-market economy for the purposes of anti-dumping, is against WTO rules. Nobody in Congress, alas, seems to care about breaking WTO rules. |
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| Such accounting tricks, alas, are common in Japan. |
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| But, alas, they just didn't have any policies at the moment. |
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| Of Nestlé's 481 factories worldwide, 49 are in extremely water-stressed regions where water conservation and re-use is the only option. Such farsightedness is, alas, only a drop in the bucket. |
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| How often, alas! did her eyes say unto me that they loved! and yet I, not looking for such a matter, had not my conceit open to understand them. |
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| If we ever misstate the facts it is, alas, because sometimes we mismean the proposition that we utter. |
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| There are, alas, no indications so far as to how the European Union and the Member States propose to develop a joint strategy to alleviate this crisis and bring it to an end. |
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| It's crying out for a crisp rewrite from the Bard himself but alas, poor yawners, all we get is Fakespeare. |
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| I appreciated the realtime updates but alas, calculation is not possible. |
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| The function of the copula in Torchia's title is, alas, more disjunctive than associative. |
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| As one swallow doesn't make a summer, one oystercatcher, alas, doesn't make a run of springers. |
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| Then, alas for Judt's Middle East future, his fellow kibbutzniks learned the appalling news that he planned to study history at Cambridge. |
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| My efforts to reach Robbins to hear his explanation were unavailing, alas. |
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| Nowadays, alas, the word 'art' seems to be applied to all kinds of crackbrained schemes. |
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| As much as we favour a convention against reproductive cloning, from the four years of discussion of the issue in the Sixth Committee, we have, alas, concluded that the issue is not ripe for speedy codification. |
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| It is indeed very nice, but alas, it does not work. |
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| It was also the nub of the controversy between Le Sillon and Pius X in the early 1900s, alas not discussed in the book. |
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| Even the media is not spared, as we have alas seen more and more often. |
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| Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! For in one hour is she made desolate. |
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| It also can't be an accident that the show often includes an unfortunate person who learns during his moment in the spotlight that his treasured 18th-century powder horn is, alas, a worthless fake. |
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| I can do no other than bid them welcome to a world that has, alas, become no more pleasant for being multipolar and for being home to burgeoning new powers on a global and regional scale. |
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| He tries hard to tell a good joke but, alas, he does not do it well. |
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| Marc, alas, pines for a dashing ne'er-do-well neighbor named David. |
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| It's a breath of old times, alas! all forgotten in these fly-away days. |
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| We have researched cryosolic soils of alas ecosystems of interfluves of Lena and Amga and interfluve of Tiung and Tiukyan rivers in left-bank part of Vilyuy River. |
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| The scare quotes, alas, are necessary, for much of what is meant to have the effect of education winds up being decidedly uneducational, or educational in the wrong way. |
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| Alas the surge was short lived as West regathered and countered the Eagle attack. |
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| Alas it is inevitable if I am going to do edgier stuff and also if I am going to keep the shows looser with more ad-libs and so on. |
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| Alas my kink is hard to indulge, yet everywhere there is torment. |
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| Alas and alack, the report hasn't seemed to capture anyone's imagination, if the Sun's letters page is any indication, and maybe that shouldn't come as a surprise. |
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| Alas this transformation by itself increases traversal length of the circuit because these new glider guns are much larger. |
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| Alas I sit home and let thy dogs eat part with me, and wear clothes that have worn out their prenticeship a year and half sithence. |
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| A note of admiration is placed after an interjection, and such words as express wonder, as Alas! O times! O manners! |
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| Alas that distant event isn't within my recollection anymore. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| Hardly a spot of the annexed provinces but is stamped with indelible and, alas! |
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| But, alas, at last there came to him a note from his friend Sir Nicholas, informing him that the deanship was disposed of. |
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| Her glory has passed, her Nobile are ruined and her labour enemies are, alas! |
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| Frequently a milk train was the only means of reaching our destination, and, alas! |
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| Alas a dirty word, alas a dirty third alas a dirty third, alas a dirty bird. |
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| The portrait accompanying the volume gave us, alas, but the scantest satisfaction. |
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| She sat rocking herself to and fro in her sorrow, while the old woman threw the fern seed, picked, alas! |
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| Gleason found in converse with her so much that reminded him of the mother he had lost, alas! |
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| The police traced Skoropadski to Riga, but they have failed to arrest him, and he has, alas! |
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| Fine fighters hemi Nape and his boys, were and well they bore themselves, but alas! |
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| Only one other person knew that I was skinless, and she, alas, was skinless too. |
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| O attendants mine, in what moans of bitter lamentation do I dwell, in the songs of a songless strain unfit for the lyre, alas! |
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| We found they knew, alas, too much about the misuse of everything growing in the field! |
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| But in a horse-chariot they brought me to the sands of Aulis, a bride, alas! |
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| Our Lady Bountiful had come in to pay for the chair and see the boy, but alas! |
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| The fervour of his words was nonsensical, but his intention, alas, was becoming clear. |
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| Through the illuminated windows the Tzigane music poured forth its waves of sensuous melodyand alas! |
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| I want to see as much as I can of you to-day, because to-night there is the bump Supper, and to-morrow morning, alas! |
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| Would they effect a lodgement, or be hurled back baffled and raging and impotent, as, alas! |
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| If Santa Claus comes it will probably be with a Mauser, and for some, alas! |
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| But alas, it was only their idiosyncrasies which used to make any impression upon us. |
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| No,I must play a humble third or even fourth on your list where Royalty is concerned,my princedom is alas! |
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| But they that fought for England, Following a falling star, Alas, alas for England They have their graves afar. |
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| Once he had had great expectations, but alas!dad had just come a cropper. |
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| With the foils I But, alas and alack, you care not for tales of that sort. |
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| But alas and alackaday for the instability of youthful affection! |
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| If he be proved culpable in this most melancholy business, and, alas! |
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| Alack and alas that ever I should have been fool enough to trust him! |
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| The yield of the argentiferous and cupriferous ores, proved, alas! |
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| The ashdown Forest course lies in that most delightful but alas! |
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| He soon showed by knocking a two bagger, but, alas for what followed. |
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| Then I undertook the bust of my young sister Rgina, who had, alas! |
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| He calendared no less than 57,000 documents at the Abbey, but alas! |
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| I clomb the heights of my grief, and looked around, but alas! |
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| Alas, alas, and I thought myself a torrent that could never be dammed! |
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| But alas for the luckless Linlay, the Delsarte of his day, poor man! |
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| This dingle Peninsula is explored by very few, unexplored by me, alas! |
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| No one thought of impeding the vile ravisher in his course, for, alas! |
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| It is chivalrous, but not, alas, inflammable in support of innocence. |
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| At last we reach a tree partly unoccupied, but it is leafless, alas! |
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| I pitched it pretty middlin' high, I fetched a lusty tone, But oh, alas! |
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| For, alas, neither is the townhall itself without misgivings. |
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| Brandy, alas, always made him quarrelsome and undependable of mood. |
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| But alas, the weather will not permit of our visiting Vaucluse. |
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| To me she will never seem young again, only well-preserved, alas! |
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| This brought him pelf, but, alas for his greed, the pelf came slowly. |
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| But, alas, quantum consciousness has about as much substance as the aether from which it is composed. |
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| They would have liked to follow it up, but, alas, they had no time for adventures just then. |
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| Joan Smith by email We used to see police with speed guns in that area, alas no more. |
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| I admire your heroism and self-devotion with all my heart, but alas! |
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| Joy there was, but, alas, how much mitigated was its fervency! |
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| What the execution of the inquisitor's office meant, is, alas! |
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| But he was too acute a lover to misinterpret what he knew, alas! |
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| But, alas for Zora, nothing more was seen of Prince Reginald. |
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| I had hoped that we should be sent back to the rancheria, but alas! |
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| But unhappily, nature made a mistake in our conformation, and, alas! |
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| Ever and anon a bright, but, alas, deceptive idea would dart you through. |
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| Occasionally throughout the next 45 minutes, they crossed and uncrossed themselves but alas they never moved from the horizontal to the perpendicular. |
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| But, alas, it was again the case of the honest merchant, who finds that the genuine and unadulterated article is driven to the wall by the artistic counterfeit. |
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| But alas, the final week of that pleasant vacation was spoiled for Anne, by one of those impish happenings which are like a dream turned upside down. |
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| My resolution, sir, is unchangeable, but you have only to search for yourself and you will find, alas, but too many objects upon whom to exercise your benevolence. |
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| But, alas, vain regret would not erase the calamity that had befallen. |
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| Spiritually, I have been nourished by Anglican liturgy, particularly the Book of Common Prayer, which, alas, Anglicans have almost completely abandoned. |
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| Tonight's installment, alas, returns to its caster-oil preachifying. |
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| How unlike alas the hangdog look of a republican official, who, as the servant of the people, feels himself less than the least, and below the lowest of his masters. |
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| The eight are Kim Kardashian, Jennifer Lopez, Madonna, Miley Cyrus, Victoria Beckham, Selina Gomez, Zayn Malik and Alas. |
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| Alas Uruguay received its Air Operators Certificate from the Uruguayan civil aviation authority in late October. |
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| Alas for a man who, being with her, must spend his time in chiding! |
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| Alas I your so called purity Is merely immaturity, And woman's nature plays its part Sincerely but in woman's art. |
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| Alas for my poor sword which lies at the bottom of the Garonne! |
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| Alas for the corps de ballet and the gravity of the audience! |
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