Flowerbeds where bees vie with hummingbirds for honey offer unmatched opportunity to observe sylphs. |
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Orange lion's tail and yellow Jerusalem sage vie for attention with pink lavatera and blue Cleveland sage in flower-filled beds. |
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Players can set up their own league or vie with competitors on the Internet. |
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One is spoilt for choice with cognacs such as Armagnac and Calvados, as well as various eaux de vie to digest a hearty meal. |
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On a nightly basis, vastly overpaid news anchors appear to vie with one another to see who can emerge the most jingoistic or lachrymose. |
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Many of them bring cheese, eggs, honey, nuts, terebinth seeds, terebinth soap, fruit and vegetables to sell, and vie for a pitch on the pavement. |
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In spring and summer, early and southern marsh orchids vie with marsh peas and bogbeans for the flower lover's attention. |
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The second part of the show will see the studio team go up against the top placed viewers as they vie for an overall jackpot prize. |
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Eight studs join the show halfway through to vie for the bodacious belle's affection. |
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She is a freewheeler and likes to have many males to court her and vie for her attention. |
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Redundant concrete gun emplacements vie with majestic mountains for the attention of tourist cameras. |
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In addition to global oversupply, a vicious price war is being played out as global giants vie for market share. |
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Strong-willed, sexually voracious Alys Robi in Ma vie en cinemascope incarnates the spirit of Quebec and its contradictions. |
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They vie for pavement space with old babushkas selling everything from flowers to cigarettes to kittens in socks, calendar style. |
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Of course, bidders also can vie for the wacky, from taxidermic bats to debris from shipwrecked luxury liners. |
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As various track and field events vie for attention, athletics meets can sometimes seem like a three-ring circus. |
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In 12 months' time, the event will be staged again, and four more hopefuls will vie for the title of hot new fashion star. |
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In 2004 pearlized finishes on rustic fabrics and metallic and shiny surface finishes will vie with embroidered fabric surfaces for attention. |
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This past Monday brought out a good field of competitors to vie for the bragging rights. |
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They are driven by a blind process of competition in which firms vie to grab a larger share of markets and profits than their rivals. |
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Oinomaos had invited suitors to vie for Hippodameia by competing with him in a chariot race. |
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Hellas is an intense little contest where two players vie to control ten cities in ancient Greece. |
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The competing nations will vie to win handball, volleyball, six-a-side soccer, touch football and biathlon. |
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Shortsighted tyrants, spineless power-mongers and heartless thugs vie egomaniacally, dangerously, for power. |
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La vie Nouvelle is one powerful and uncompromising film as it searches the dark world of perversity. |
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Cruise ships, freighters, pleasure craft, tug boats and bumboats vie for position on the river. |
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As Denton and Une vie mystique illustrate, Cisse works in a theatrical painterly style, juxtaposing seemingly disparate subjects and images. |
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Colleagues vie with each other for preferment, yet must closely collaborate to fend off competition from without. |
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There are half a dozen different eaux de vie, grappas, Calvados, Armagnacs, as well as a comprehensive beer and wine list. |
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He alone among the guests at a country inn does not vie for the affections of the proprietress Mirandolina, thus setting in motion her plan to humble him by seducing him. |
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The other contests the students had to vie in were designing a book cover, radio jockeying, poetry composition, hairstyle, make-up, modelling and recitation. |
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In product advertising, the manufacturers of hearing aids vie with one another, using high-tech superlatives to describe their miniature devices. |
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In the wild, killer whales vie for dominance but the subdominant animal then flees the scene and the conflict subsides. |
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Christie will vie with Romney for primary and caucus votes chiefly in the North and to some extent in the Midwest. |
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Afterward, window-shop along Third Street, where vintage boutiques vie for your attention. |
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Where others instil fear, we offer fresh prospects, and where others vie for power, we seek compromises. |
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The show is as much in the street than inside the buildings, that vie in imagination and excessiveness with each other. |
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The first two skaters in each heat to cross the finish line continue on to the next round until only 4 athletes are left to vie for medals. |
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Modern and customary law vie for jurisdiction over landownership, inheritance, marriage and the protection of women and children. |
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Qualifying action is currently underway as 32 men vie for one of eight spots in the main draw of the Rogers Cup presented by American Express. |
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He believes that once there is a critical mass of CG beef, processors will vie for the product. |
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As industries increasingly specialize to vie for market share, they are requiring their work force to become more highly skilled. |
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Biodiversity is therefore a key element in the constellation of subjects that vie for our attention today. |
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These parties-within-parties vie with one another for influence over the general party policy. |
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For the next month and a half, these players will surely feel at home as they vie for ranking points and trophies on their favourite surface. |
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Canada must innovate to stay competitive, as our country must vie with emerging countries such as China. |
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Business travelers vie to escape the megalopolis on weekends, leaving behind the pollution, traffic, street crime, and crush of its 16 million inhabitants. |
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Moody melodies vie for attention with swing, ballads and jazz. |
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Canadian soloist Sarah Brunin-Brouillette will take to the pool tomorrow to vie for a top spot in the solo preliminaries. |
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On any particular morning the bananas and satsumas in the fruit bowl will vie for my attention, and the rice and the pasta fight it out at dinner that evening. |
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Every year, the inhabitants vie with each other in ingenuity to decorate the front of their door by working the snow. |
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Some 75 public network radio stations vie with around 385 commercial stations. |
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Similarly, in La vie heureuse by the Compagnie Drift, a harmless whispering game develops into an absurd battle of insinuation. |
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Cortez then enters and the two men vie with each other in courtesy and nobility. |
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During the Antarctic spring adults congregate in nearshore colonies, where females give birth to a single pup and males vie for underwater mating territories. |
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Djokovic and Nadal could also vie for a spot in the final in what would be a star-studded semi. |
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But the two facets function differently and sometimes vie with one another. |
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Top-of-the-range Mercedes vie with Rolls-Royces, Ferraris and Bentleys for parking space. |
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A collection composed of parts in which the timekeeping demands vie with the sophistication of their design. |
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On page after page, acerbic observations vie for attention with apodictic verdicts. |
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Candidates have been omnipotent as they vie for a place in the electorate's heart, or alternatively annoy a lot of people by plastering campus with publicity. |
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Flower growers in California have to vie with Costa Rican, Ecuadorian, and Chilean imports, flown up the same day from thousands of miles away. |
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At Tumacacori, a museum and the ruins of the church vie for attention. |
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Its various branches may vie with each other, but they find political compromises. |
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The traffic dodges a cow, while street vendors vie with modern shops in this busy Mumbai, India, intersection. |
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On-line UGC sites like YouTube and Zip.tv vie with commercial TV for precious seconds of viewers' lives. |
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Economic interests vie with support for Tibetans' and other Chinese people's political and democratic rights. |
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Nearly 160 objects are on vie w, including furniture, metalwork, works on paper, photographs, architectural fragments, interior fittings, and textiles. |
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So tourist receipts have made considerable gains and currently vie with transfers made by Moroccans living abroad. |
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Funerals vie with baptisms, as though two sides of the same rite. |
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Quite why the Mercury Music Prize bigwigs don't allow the nominees to vie for the title through the medium of a mudwrestle, is anybody's guess. |
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In a world where competing lectionaries vie for our attention, this project is a welcome break from that trend. |
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Stranitalia le vie del mondo This is a project that's carried out in co-operation with some associations that are based on the territory of Milano area. |
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This year Nielsen intends on becoming a bondable company, which will allow him to vie for municipal contracts. |
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Ce film retrace la vie de ce non-voyant qui a reussi, grace a son talent, a illuminer les planches. |
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De meme, Galocoma a affirme que la situation dans son etat est stable et que les citoyens exercent leur vie normale. |
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Martin Yelle a signe son indult de secularisation en mars 2012, mettant fin a son engagement comme frere apres 22 ans de vie religieuse. |
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Sa mort laisse un grand vide dans la vie du General au crepuscule de sa carriere. |
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To reduce poverty and undernourishment significantly, it is therefore necessary to protect all the peasant farmers from having to vie against more competitive farmers. |
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Down the road, works by more than seventy-five internartists artists — from the boldfaced Marina Abramović to the brilliant French newcomer Camille Henrot — vie for attention in a group show at the Rockaway Beach Surf Club. |
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Yet as long as the war continues, it is impossible to implement this plan as the various armed actors vie for territorial control, each extorting money from civilians caught in the midst of the violence. |
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The word whiskey, after all, evolved from the Gaelic word usquebaugh, which means water of life, exactly like eau de vie in French and aquavit in Scandinavian languages. |
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Two roosters vie for Ms. Michel's back lot. |
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Skillseeker and Modern Apprenticeship programmes vie for supremacy in the school-leaver training stakes. |
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Bold-face restaurateurs vie with unspoiled nature. |
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I think they vie with Australia for great breakfasts. |
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The novel's darker themes vie with a gauzy sentiment. |
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Completed pieces vie with works-in-progress for shelf space. |
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Instead, the regulation of corporate fraud and insider trading is left to ineffective provincial securities commissions, each seeming to vie with the others for the title of the weakest sheriff in town. |
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Regional and local authorities do not need to vie with each other in offering concessionary terms to foreign investors because the great European market is one of the most attractive industrial locations in the world! |
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The geniuses of the automobile world vie with one another to produce marvellous pieces of mechanism that will travel still faster with comparative safety. |
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A member of the Group drew attention to the widely held view that the principle of geographical distribution might vie with that of competence and merit. |
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This is evident in the technologically sophisticated consumer electronics sector, where market leaders vie with each other to lure customers to choose their latest mobile phone or television set. |
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For the regions are now the leading territorial units at which level knowledge is transferred and local innovation systems are built and which vie with each other to attract investment. |
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Hosting the tournament is a major honour for any country, and nations from every corner of the globe vie with each other every four years for the right to stage the most prestigious single-sport event all. |
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Cachalongs, onyx, fire opals, pink opals, white pearls, blue sapphires or turquoises vie with each other to find their place on the majestic cover. |
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Amateur cooks will vie for best appetizers. |
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The enthusiasm generated by this effort has made the event an annual one, adding an industrial challenge, as waterfront industries vie for a trophy for doing the best job of cleaning up their industrial property. |
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The Prescription Drug Program, psychiatric services, regional development, Crown land management, and hundreds of other diverse programs vie for the limited public resources available. |
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The incumbent President Kikwete is expected to vie for another five-year term, and with a weak opposition, the ruling party has high prospects of winning. |
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Her reading during the program Pourquoi pas dimanche? left the hosts in the studio in Montréal open-mouthed and led the producer of the program C'est la vie to do an interview with her later that week. |
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Passe un certain degre de coriacite ou de misere, la vie parfois se reveille et cicatrise tout. |
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Emmanuel Schmitt, takes the stage for a singular performance to read us extracts from Ma vie avec Mozart, his autobiographical story of a man who fell in love with the music of the Austrian composer. |
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This is a sugar glider, the cute little possum that may soon vie for the crown of Britain's top pet. |
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He explicitly expresses his opinion on the phenomenon of the folk festival, seeing in it the antithesis of the urban theatre, which in his vie only produces passivity, false admiration and inequality. |
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The government's pursuit of tax competitiveness, where countries vie with each other to offer lower corporate tax rates, puts Christensen's hackles right up. |
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Stronger alcohols include the chouchen, a sort of mead made with wild honey, and an apple eau de vie called lambig. |
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By the end of the century, it was ready to vie with Moscow for supremacy in Russia. |
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Through the chaos triggered by Hamlet's staging of it, Guildenstern helps Rosencrantz vie with Hamlet to make Ophelia his bride. |
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The relations between Cuban and Colombian organized crime remained strong until the 1970s, when Colombian cartels began to vie for power. |
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In this period, local military leaders used by the Zhou began to assert their power and vie for hegemony. |
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Nor was he set over us to vie wisdom with his Parliament, but to be guided by them. |
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Mirren will vie for best actress with Mulligan, Geneva Carr, Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss and British actor Ruth Wilson for her role in Constellations. |
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Mais il est a preciser que ces evenements auraient pu nous couter la vie de nos patients. |
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Universe Muscleminia Bodybuilding Contest to be held in June this year wherein musclemen from around the world vie for the top honor. |
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Phormium, Cordyline, Musa basjoo and Colocasia varieties as well as more familiar types such as Begonia vie for attention. |
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The student participants will vie for various awards, including Best Designer, Best Pattern Maker, and Golden Needle Award. |
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If two bidders vie for the same suffix, Haight said, ICANN will see if they can first make a deal, than conduct an auction. |
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From March through December this year, 44 pro suffers will vie for the top spot in the Association of Surfing Professionals Men's World Championship Tour. |
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Abu Dhabi-based bar Investments in cooperation with Virgin Galactic calls on all emiratis to vie for an out-of the world opportunity to travel into space. |
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Several big granite faces in the Arctic region vie for the title of 'highest vertical drop on Earth', but reliable measurements are not always available. |
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For more information on the Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest, or to view the recipes that will vie for prizes at this year's competition, go to BakeOff. |
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The event, to take place in participating stores across the country on September 20, will have contestants vie to be the quickest to lick away an Oreo ice cream cone. |
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Our mind doth likewise take revenge of it, they lie, they cog, and deceive one another a vie. |
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