(1) Darling's pledge to cap VAT at 17.5% and lower bingo taxes were overshadowed by a surprise national insurance hike and a squeeze on public sector workers.
(2) These are likely to include its 20% stake in online bingo business Cashcade and the German price comparison firm Verivox.
(3) "Our longer-term strategic objective is to become the market leader in online poker, casino, sports and bingo."
(4) 11.30am: Those playing "Leveson bingo" with Robert Jay QC 's florid language might like to note that he has so far used the word "adventitious" .
(5) In fact, her pithy insults are deployed so regularly that colleagues on the spending watchdog have come up with the idea of playing “Margaret Hodge bingo”, scoring points when one of her putdowns pops out.
(6) Woking also built a series of combined heat and power (CHP) stations - one of which powers council buildings, some sheltered housing and the bulk of the town centre, including the civic offices, a leisure complex, a hotel, bingo hall and exhibition centre.
(7) The broad relationships are explored between the genetic and the phenotypic structures of the bingo-gamma model (ie, the shortest waiting time among competing, independent, multiple-hit systems).
(8) Duties • From next year's budget, bingo duty to be cut from 22% to 20%.
(9) 1.42am BST Some have bingo, others have drinking games; here at the Guardian we have something much more cerebral to pass the time.
(10) If Barnes once called the contest "posh bingo", this year looks a lot less adventitious.
(11) Photograph: Fox Searchlight This article was amended on 28 February 2014 to credit the online magazine Slate with the Wes Anderson Bingo game.
(12) A real corker of a package if you are a bingo-playing pensioner who likes a tot of the hard stuff and has a few quid in the bank.
(13) Which, in worker-oppression bingo, sounds like a full house.
(14) The magic of reading a whole book in one sitting because I couldn’t tear my child away from the kids’ club (“Cinderella is coming later and we’re going to play bingo with Donald”).
(15) Governmental figures from 1989 show that in the Autonomic Region of Andalucia, with a population of 7 million inhabitants, more than three hundred billion pesetas (approximately UK pounds 1,500 million) were spent during 1988 gambling in casinos, slot machines and at bingo.
(16) ‘Or,’ he continues, ‘I will press the baby to bring the head up.’ He firmly kneads the pregnant belly, slowly encouraging the foetus until: ‘Bingo.
(17) The other four – the aerobics class, warehouse workers in De Piero's constituency, a bingo club of mostly former miners in Derbyshire, and golfers in Yorkshire – were "iconic" groups.
(18) Hip Hop Karaoke every Thursday at The Social, London and at Shipping Forecast, Liverpool, 20 February; Limelight, Belfast, 8 March, hiphopkaraoke.co.uk Rebel Bingo Facebook Twitter Pinterest Once called The Underground Rebel Bingo Club, the riotous night of number yelling and covering yourself in daubers has had to drop the “underground” part of its name, presumably because it’s gone stratospheric.
(19) However, we’re not convinced the painting featured on our bingo card is by Eric, since he is better known for his intricate illustrations (see: The Royal Tenenbaums, Fantastic Mr Fox).
(20) Also you should have included "pesky" and "dirt dog" here to win "Talking About Pedroia" bingo.
Tile
Definition:
(v. t.) To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated; as, to tile a Masonic lodge.
(n.) A plate, or thin piece, of baked clay, used for covering the roofs of buildings, for floors, for drains, and often for ornamental mantel works.
(n.) A small slab of marble or other material used for flooring.
(n.) A plate of metal used for roofing.
(n.) A small, flat piece of dried earth or earthenware, used to cover vessels in which metals are fused.
(n.) A draintile.
(n.) A stiff hat.
(v. t.) To cover with tiles; as, to tile a house.
(v. t.) Fig.: To cover, as if with tiles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Inside, the tiles and the stained glass are said to be perfection, matched against murals that depict the inventions of the industrial revolution and the signing of the Magna Carta.
(2) The risk of getting malaria was greater for inhabitants of the poorest type of house construction (incomplete, mud, or cadjan (palm) walls, and cadjan thatched roofs) compared to houses with complete brick and plaster walls and tiled roofs.
(3) The artist covered every inch of the steps in front of his house in tiles, ceramics and mirrors – originally in the green, yellow, blue and white of the Brazilian flag, later adding tiles in other colours brought by visitors.
(4) The infected cells treated by this method showed light green fluorescence of the protoplasm, with a dark nucleus, while the intact cells had tile-red cytoplasm.
(5) The results of these experiments demonstrated a significant superiority of this modification over the conventional techniques, particularly over the tile technique used generally in this country.
(6) The rustic rooms have clay tiles and wooden furniture, and the walls are brightened up with local fabrics.
(7) The algorithm presented has been developed to choose the tiling which minimizes the estimated error when the tile approximation of the surface is used in subsequent quantitative algorithm such as the calculation of surface area.
(8) When General Electric jobs left Schenectady so did a way of life Read more Patrignani proudly chats me through the bewildering array of silicone-based products Momentive makes and that end up in everything from lipstick, car parts and the adhesives that are used in stamps and bandages to airplane seats and the glue that held the tiles on the space shuttle.
(9) Any of the original N2 fields or composites of M adjacent tiles can be recalled to the video display for analysis.
(10) "There's so much graphic detail in some of the tiles that they seem to speak with a modern voice," adds Roberts.
(11) Tritium retention noted in graphite tiles underscores the significance of material selection in present and future 3H-fueled fusion devices.
(12) The efficacy of defibrillation using the damped sine and constant-tile (60%) truncated exponential waveforms was determined in each of nine dogs.
(13) The Glasgow Boys went after this mood with a will and set up temporary homes among the red-tiled roofs of the rural east – Cockburnspath was by no means their only base – to prospect for scenes that would do justice to an imagination fired by their heroes Corot , Millet and Bastien-Lepage.
(14) The genius of The Great British Bake Off Read more Viewers have seen contestants throw pots blindfolded, and create objects ranging from bone china chandeliers to decorated tiles and bathroom sinks.
(15) The tiles, I am told, are also Italian, the chandeliers Czech, the fridge American, the stove German.
(16) Ceramic samples such as tiles and bricks were collected from locations between 523 and 2,453 m from the hypocenter in Hiroshima and from between 731 and 1,565 m in Nagasaki.
(17) At that time X----- itself was untouched by shot and shell, the old houses in the square with their quaint red-tiled roofs, irregular as peaks of a sierra, and their higgledy-piggledy doors and windows, were as yet intact.
(18) Centro Cerámica Triana Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy Housed in an old ceramics factory built on the site of a 16th-century one, inevitably plonked on a Roman one, this museum (€2pp, Calle Antillano Campos 14) could do more to trumpet the industry that spawned Triana, created the look and feel of Seville, and inspired Lisbon’s artisans to have a go at the whole tile thing.
(19) Pictures showed a large group of people lying on polished tiled flooring, most of them near to a wall and surrounded by rubble and other debris.
(20) 120 Grosvenor Street, 0161 273 1552, sandbarmanchester.co.uk Marble Arch The Marble Arch pub, Manchester It's 125 years old but this handsome Victorian boozer – all glazed tile work and vintage detail – has never been busier.