| He lived by a gentlemen's agreement to ignore what was base or rude. |
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| The base of a plough body is called the frog and the soil wearing parts are bolted to it. |
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| Its massive central mountain, surmounted by many peaks, occupies a considerable area on the floor, and exhibits a digitated outline at the base. |
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| It was at one time attached to a thin rod or stick based on the hollow socket at its base. |
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| William then moved to Hastings, a few miles to the east, where he built a castle as a base of operations. |
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| Harold's sons were meanwhile raiding the southwest of England from a base in Ireland. |
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| After looting and burning the city Richard established his base there, but this created tension between Richard and Philip Augustus. |
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| The base electrolytic solution is continuosly agitated so that particles to be inglobated are distributed uniformly. |
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| Moreover, the family of Edward IV, and the Edwardian loyalists, were naturally opposed to him, essentially dividing his Yorkist power base. |
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| At William Hastings' urging, Richard assumed his role and left his base in Yorkshire for London. |
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| The base of the skull also presented another fatal wound in which a bladed weapon had been thrust into it, leaving behind a jagged hole. |
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| Her policy there was to grant land to her courtiers and prevent the rebels from giving Spain a base from which to attack England. |
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| Besides traditional forms of media, Virginia is the home base for telecommunication companies such as Voxant and XO Communications. |
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| Knowing of Raleigh's plans to use Roanoke as a base for privateering, they were hoping to destroy it. |
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| These Dutch constructed public works became the material base of the colonial and postcolonial Indonesian state. |
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| Reaching into the Niger valley, Senegal became the primary French base in West Africa and a model colony. |
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| The shipyard, which became the naval base of Yokosuka, was designed by the French engineer Leonce Verny. |
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| Raleigh and Elizabeth sought both immediate riches and a base for privateers to raid the Spanish treasure fleets. |
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| If the base be an irregular polygon of any number of sides, the prism is then called an irregular prism. |
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| In the remains of his English realm Charles attempted to recover a stable base of support by consolidating the Midlands. |
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| By the end of August disease and a shortage of supplies had reduced his army, and he had to order a retreat towards his base at Dunbar. |
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| However, the new Lord Protector had no power base in either Parliament or the New Model Army. |
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| Gibraltar became a critical naval base and allowed Britain to control the Atlantic entry and exit point to the Mediterranean. |
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| In December 1941, Japan launched, in quick succession, attacks on British Malaya, the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, and Hong Kong. |
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| Manchester was the regional base for BBC One North West Region programmes before it relocated to MediaCityUK in nearby Salford Quays. |
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| Harris, the base of the experimental Stan's Cafe theatre company, located within a working metal fabricators' factory. |
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| It is the largest base for Flybe, Europe's largest regional airline, and a major base for Ryanair, Monarch Airlines and Thomson Airways. |
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| The city also hosts major campuses of the University of Law and BPP University, as well as the Open University's West Midlands regional base. |
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| In a strategic move, Wellesley planned to move his supply base from Lisbon to Santander. |
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| Nelson's mission to Corsica took on added significance, as it could provide the British a naval base close to the French coast. |
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| He stressed its mountainous frontiers and advocated Lisbon as the main base because the Royal Navy could help to defend it. |
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| But it's still essential for the production of plastics, synthetics, food base, and keroids. |
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| The shortstop fielded the grounder and threw to first base for the putout. |
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| Stone sidewalks, little more than a ledge in width, ran along the base of the mean and monotonous adobe houses. |
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| The flaming base of the opposite mountain, all luridly aflare in the windy dusk. |
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| Asci floating freely in the centrum upon maturation, with a bristle-like appendage at the base, 8-spored, with numerous ascoconidia when mature. |
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| The Ambassador's bangalo stood at the base of a mountain covered with jungle, of which he had a portion cleared to provide a promenade. |
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| In a game between Los Angeles and host Cincinnati, the Dodgers second baseman is called out at first base on a bang-bang play. |
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| Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants. |
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| If thou livest in paine and sorrow, thy base courage is the cause of it, To die there wanteth but will. |
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| The SI unit of velocity is metres per second, derived from the base units of time and distance. |
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| When upgrading her computer she bought a new base unit but kept the screen, keyboard and mouse. |
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| Some solitary corals, such as Cycloseris, were present at the base of the bommie. |
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| The Ninety-fourth Congress would be emphatically Democratic, and Ford's base of support on Capitol Hill would be narrower and weaker. |
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| The dorsal interossei are sometimes found to originate more proximal at the base of the metacarpals or even at the carpalia. |
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| Vietnamese Air Force continued to carpet bomb any base areas that we found to be lucrative targets at the time. |
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| Perhaps the Purple Emperor is feasting, as Morris says, upon a mass of putrid carrion at the base of an oak tree. |
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| Townsend was five hundred miles from his base, outnumbered, cumbered with sick and wounded. He faced disaster. |
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| Datums are another important map aspect related to projection. A datum provides a base reference for measuring locations on Earth's surface. |
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| A dihexagonal pyramid is composed of two hexagonal pyramids placed base to base. |
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| The buccal wall is near its base surrounded by a vestigial ectocingulid, which ends mesially in a tiny tuberculid. |
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| A bottle cabinet is a base cabinet with pullout trays that are eggcrated to hold bottles. |
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| Sluggish are the spirits and base the lot of the men I am ordained to lead through a dull life to a fameless grave. |
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| We were discussing a new base for our office, but moving to Antarctica seemed too far out. |
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| Thus the base of the effective reservoir is placed at 1500m depth, the actual location of the deepest major feed zone. |
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| The hairs guide the pollinating insect to the base of the petal, where there is a purplish nectary covered by a flap of tissue. |
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| The description corresponding to the foretype, except for the entirely dark yellow spines, which are sometimes brown at the base. |
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| The base area is adorned with an immense gelande jump, off which qualified skiers regularly catch 200 feet of air. |
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| After a very ginger landing, everyone aboard was able to see up close how lucky they had been to reach base. |
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| A strong acid is also a substance whose conjugate base is quite happy with the excess electrons it got from that bond. |
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| Expanding on the Norman base there was also castles, palaces, great houses, universities and parish churches. |
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| For this faring is base but necessary for my strategies, I fully admit it! But depravities deprive the heartless, not the heartworthy. |
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| Between 1960 and 1991, the Holy Loch was a base for the US fleet of Polaris ballistic missile submarines. |
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| By 1651 the Royalist governor, Sir John Grenville, was using the islands as a base for privateering raids on Commonwealth and Dutch shipping. |
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| It suffered especially from Viking raids, and was often used as a winter base by Viking raiders when they were unable to reach Normandy. |
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| Under Henry VIII, who developed the Royal Navy and its Portsmouth base, the island was fortified at Yarmouth, Cowes, East Cowes, and Sandown. |
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| The selfish, base, covetous, father-in-law was not at all desirous to have a highborn beggar and the posterity of a highborn beggar to maintain. |
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| York was the base for Royalists, and from there they captured Leeds and Wakefield only to have them recaptured a few months later. |
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| During the Second World War, Yorkshire became an important base for RAF Bomber Command and brought the county into the cutting edge of the war. |
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| Yorkshire pudding is the base for toad in the hole, a dish containing sausage. |
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| In the American Revolutionary War, starting in 1775, the British made Halifax, Nova Scotia, their major base for naval action. |
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| Honey fungus is most obvious when, in autumn, clumps of honey-coloured, pale-stemmed toadstools appear at the base of a tree. |
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| Although the surface is cold, the base of an ice sheet is generally warmer due to geothermal heat. |
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| During the 1920 restoration William Hawley, who had excavated nearby Old Sarum, excavated the base of six stones and the outer ditch. |
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| This includes production of silver, iron, copper and other base metals from their ores. |
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| The required temperature varies over a very large range, both in absolute terms and in terms of the melting point of the base metal. |
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| The ambitious Octavian built a power base of patronage and then launched a campaign against Mark Antony. |
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| The spaceship's hyperdrive failed, leaving them stranded years from any repair base. |
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| Emperor Septimius Severus visited Eboracum in 208 and made it his base for campaigning in Scotland. |
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| Edward I further stimulated the city's economy by using the city as a base for his war in Scotland. |
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| His refusal to participate in the war increased his popularity among his people, and strengthened his power base in the West. |
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| Theodosius's financial position must have been difficult, since he had to pay for expensive campaigning from a reduced tax base. |
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| In the beginning of the 900's, Vikings had established an encampment and base in the lower parts of the Seine river around Rouen. |
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| Stem fragile, dry, juiceless, base fibrillose, scarcely rooting. |
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| One adenoid cystic carcinoma of trachea displayed as polypiform mass and protruded into endolumen with a wide base, homogeneous density, and fairly smooth and regular margin. |
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| This brute factness of science ought not to obscure the decisive fact that Kant provided an idealist reconstruction of this scientific realist base. |
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| Grand Master Ferdinand von Hompesch zu Bolheim surrendered after token resistance, and Bonaparte captured an important naval base with the loss of only three men. |
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| In light of all of this anticontinuum theorizing, was no part of Rich's model worth preserving because of the potential for homophobic mishandling found at its base? |
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| While the great critics drew their authority from the breadth of their reading, New Criterion critics often base their authority on an a priori rejection of the contemporary. |
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| Vespasian took a force westwards subduing tribes and capturing oppida as he went, going at least as far as Exeter which would appear to have become an early base for Leg. |
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| Kingston upon Hull is Yorkshire's largest port and has a large manufacturing base, its fishing industry has however declined somewhat in recent years. |
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| For the first time, finocchio, or Florence fennel, has performed for me as it should and has swollen out into bulbous protrusions at the base of its leaf stalks. |
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| The queen's charter also said that Raleigh was supposed to establish a base from which to send privateers on raids against the treasure fleets of Spain. |
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| Gibraltar, which is still a British overseas territory, became a major naval base and allowed Great Britain to control the strait connecting the Atlantic to the Mediterranean. |
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| Japanese forces also achieved naval victories in the South China Sea, Java Sea and Indian Ocean, and bombed the Allied naval base at Darwin, Australia. |
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| Some Britons The competing idea among Unionists was that it was impossible to give Ireland independence or it would be used as a base for Continental powers to attack Britain. |
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| The simple, handleless cups of phase 1 are more spreading, less convex-sided and have a smaller, higher base. There are deep and medium varieties. |
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| The three bravesome guys were searching for clues in the empty base. |
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| Pierzynski took two steps across home plate toward the hometeam dugout, then dropped his bat and ran toward first base while the Angels stood by and watched. |
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| This city would serve as his base for the remainder of the war. |
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| From a base of territory in eastern Scotland north of the River Forth and south of the River Oykel, the kingdom acquired control of the lands lying to the north and south. |
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| Sweden, which had already agreed to lease Swedish Pomerania as a military base for British troops against France, entered the coalition on 9 August. |
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| A subset of a metric space is clopen iff it is both closed and open. A metric space is called zero-dimensional iff there is a base for the open sets consisting of clopen sets. |
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| First, a single large ganglion near the base of each arm colabeled. |
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| Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand. |
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| The soil above the base of a reinforced concrete cantilever or counterfort wall is included as part of the weight of the wall in stability calculations. |
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| The rich coastal plain continued to be the base for the large estates, ruled by their thegns, some of whom had their boundaries confirmed by charters. |
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| Although not entirely without ability, Richard had no power base in either Parliament or the Army, and was forced to resign in May 1659, ending the Protectorate. |
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| Building a fan base is crucial to the career development of a pop musician. |
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| Smelting makes use of heat and a chemical reducing agent to decompose the ore, driving off other elements as gases or slag and leaving just the metal base behind. |
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| By the end of March 1944, the Allies had completed both of these objectives, and had also neutralised the major Japanese base at Truk in the Caroline Islands. |
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| Saint Augustine quickly became a strategic defensive base for the Spanish ships full of gold and silver being sent to Spain from its New World dominions. |
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