(1) Another source inside the centre, quoted earlier on the Detained Voices blog, said detainees had banged on their doors throughout the lockdown.
(2) If the Bicep2 result stands, the observation will be touted as evidence for cosmic inflation, the rapid expansion of the universe around a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the big bang.
(3) Witnesses reported hearing a loud bang coming from the area, which is also close to the Belfast city centre's prime retail centre and the city's courts, hours after a security alert was declared after 9pm.
(4) Like the school friend who pops up on Facebook after 30 years, Barbie is banging on the door to come back into my life.
(5) They were banging on their shields and chasing these people up Regent Street.
(7) These changes will not arrive with an astronomical bang, of course, but will appear with stealth.
(8) A few seconds later there was a bang from the side of the Peugeot, as a small bomb stuck on to the window detonated, killing one of the men inside.
(9) The ETU whistleblower who drew the whole matter to the ETU and Turc’s attention said he did so, in part, because he had “always had a concern [the union] didn’t get much bang for our buck”.
(10) "They are wrong, we are bang on track, everything is on track," Howell said.
(11) The answer is not to be found at either financial extreme, but bang in the economic centre, where elections are won and lost.
(12) And the characters' creation of an avatar of a dead person based on their writings, in Jonze's film, is an idea that he's been banging on about for years.
(13) The man behind the Cillit Bang kitchen cleaner has shattered British records for executive pay after taking home more then £90m in cash and shares in one year.
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(15) 5.38am BST Dodgers 2 - Cardinals 2, bottom of 11th Bang....just one bang.
(16) Julia Donaldson will be showcasing her latest book The Flying Bath as part of the children's programme, as the actor Mackenzie Crook launches his new title The Lost Journals of Benjamin Tooth, Frank Cottrell Boyce returns to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Rosen celebrates 25 years of We're Going on a Bear Hunt.
(17) The 6ft 5in striker Marc Janko bangs in the goals, often supplied by the all-Stuttgart right-sided combination of Florian Klein and Martin Harnik.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The trading floor of the London Stock Exchange as the Big Bang reforms took effect in 1986.
(19) He went with a bang not a whimper: two of his last contributions to the New Republic were a trenchant critique of the history of the six-day war by Michael Oren, now Israeli ambassador to Washington, and an evisceration of Koba the Dread, Martin Amis's purported book on Stalin.
(20) Most dogs give a series of increasingly serious warning signs before they lose their tempers: lick their lips, blink, turn their heads away, curl their lip, lower their ears, wrinkle their foreheads, and if the dog that's annoying them doesn't get the message, they may growl or bare their teeth, and if that's still not enough it will be head and chest forward, muscles flexed, and bang, you've had it.
Slammed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Slam
Example Sentences:
(1) To selectively stain polyanionic macromolecules of growth plate cartilage and to prevent artifacts induced by aqueous fixation, proximal tibial growth plates were excised from rats, slam-frozen, and freeze-substituted in 100% methanol containing the cationic dye Alcian blue.
(2) "More than most British players, I have been asked about it many times when I got close to winning grand slams before.
(3) At that point I was grabbed by the Belgian secret service and slammed against the glass.
(4) When he first became president, Republicans slammed him for being a socialist – an epithet, from their lips, of the worst kind.
(5) Seeb slams a copy of their licence application on the table – it's well over an inch thick.
(6) They've all had the courthouse doors slammed shut in the faces by courts that have accepted the US government's claims that its own secrecy powers and immunity rights bar any such justice.
(7) After a dramatic pause that would have done Harold Pinter proud, Andy Murray has appointed Ivan Lendl as his coach, a move he hopes will bring him his first grand slam victory in the Australian Open, which starts on 16 January.
(8) I’ve lost slam finals and stuff, which has been very tough.
(9) There are going to be downs and I'll lose close matches, but I hope I'll be in a position to play for grand slams in the future.
(10) The chancellor stressed that Britain’s relationship with the EU would remain unchanged for the time being – and ditched the idea, launched alongside his predecessor Alistair Darling during the campaign – that an emergency budget would be necessary within weeks, as Brexit slams the brakes on the economy.
(11) Six systems for defining and evaluating disease activity in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) (the Ropes system, the National Institutes of Health [NIH] system, the New York Hospital for Special Surgery system, the British Isles Lupus Assessment Group [BILAG] scale, the University of Toronto SLE Disease Activity Index [SLE-DAI], and the Systemic Lupus Activity Measure [SLAM]) were tested on 25 SLE patients who were selected to represent a range of disease activity.
(12) Given the paucity of British talent in the sport over recent decades, it is a tribute to Murray's remarkable consistency that in his last eight grand slam tournaments, he has reached three finals, four semi-finals and a quarter-final – not to mention overcoming Federer on Wimbledon's Centre Court to win a gold medal at the Olympics.
(13) Andy McDonald, the shadow transport secretary, said: “In opposition the Tories slammed the closure of lines over Christmas for engineering works, but now they’re in a position to do something about it they don’t seem to care.
(14) She has also slammed the “illogical and outright offensive” language used by those against same-sex marriage.
(15) The grand slam champions so far this year are myself and Li Na [in the Australian Open],” she said.
(16) People tend to forget he is playing in an era with 3 players who are likely to be remembered as three of the all-time greatest, so the fact that he is managing to win slams is fairly amazing, and something that won’t be properly appreciated until he retires.
(17) ‘Dysfunctional’ ABC management slammed Trevor Bormann, last year’s Walkley winner for Foreign Correspondent’s “Prisoner X” scoop, has dumped a bucket on ABC news management on the way out the door.
(18) This week people around the internet have taken to photoshopping WWE wrestler Randy Orton’s famous head slam move on to videos of people falling over.
(19) In fact, the whole thing could have been worse had it not been for Carlos Beltran stealing a grand slam away from David Ortiz in the second inning.
(20) Following narrow defeat at the All England Club, Murray provided a glorious coda in the early hours of Tuesday morning with a US Open victory in his fifth grand slam final.