(1) I just spent five days there, taking photos of the nature and listening rain drops on the leaves and drainpipe.
(2) Even so, the authors have decided not to hold an official launch in any of the crap 50, in case linguistic subtleties are lost on, say, Wolverhampton, where smells "permeate the town like the stench of a trapped animal slowly decaying in a drainpipe".
(3) If you haven't yet put water butts at the base of your drainpipes, why not?
(4) At a nearby house with yellow danger tape around it, the base of a drainpipe registered 22.1 microsieverts per hour.
(5) Bathwater and sludge in bathroom drainpipes may be an important habitat of Exophiala species.
(6) If your drainpipes that take rainwater off the roof of your home aren't connected to the sewerage system – and millions of properties aren't – you can apply for a rebate of between £17 and £50 a year.
(7) Staff at Hanson Academy turned away 152 pupils when they arrived for school on Tuesday morning, and a further 63 pupils were barred on Wednesday for a variety of breaches including the wrong trousers (drainpipes not allowed), the wrong shoes (trainers not allowed) and no tie.
(8) Samples of bathwater from 14 homes and 22 public bathhouses and sludge in drainpipes from 19 household bathrooms were plated out onto potato dextrose agar supplemented with chloramphenicol.
(9) Our practical experience ranges from coastal erosion and 18th century drainpipes being overwhelmed by heavier rainfall, through to book collections damaged by pests now surviving warmer winters."
(10) They were drainpipes, out of fashion, and I was the laughing stock of the school.
(11) The project was more or less complete – down to ornamental drainpipes and wooden-latticed balconies – when war broke out.
(12) Here’s the author William T Vollman on a visit in 2013: “Right by the pachinko parlour [the] scintillation counter read 4.2 microsieverts per hour — about 10 times the level of that mildly dangerous drainpipe in Hisanohama.
(13) With Friends, it strikes me as a case of ‘I’m a shareholder, get me out of here.’ “Both are up to their eyeballs in writing annuities, where new business is disappearing like a rat up a drainpipe.
(14) They lower her in and her two burly sons (in drainpipes and teddy-boy quiffs) shovel earth on top.
(15) De Halve Maan is in the final weeks of testing the beer pipeline: four separate polyethylene tubes that look like ordinary drainpipes.
(16) Buy pair of copper-coloured drainpipe jeans in Carnaby Street instead, but am made to return them because, apparently, they look "queer".
(17) The author of these words arrives in town in the late afternoon, driving a black Volvo 4X4, and dressed in togs that suggest the principal character from some noir thriller yet unmade, most of which match the colour of his car: a fedora hat, waistcoat, and daringly drainpipe trousers, set off with a white wing-collar shirt.
(18) Gaddafi was being pulled from a drainpipe just before Nasr fell.
(19) The reporting of MI6 help [for the 1996 plot], of Gaddafi being pulled out of a drainpipe and buggered with a bayonet - nobody cared,” she said.
Garland
Definition:
(n.) The crown of a king.
(n.) A wreath of chaplet made of branches, flowers, or feathers, and sometimes of precious stones, to be worn on the head like a crown; a coronal; a wreath.
(n.) The top; the thing most prized.
(n.) A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology.
(n.) A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provision in.
(n.) A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience in handling.
(v. t.) To deck with a garland.
Example Sentences:
(1) He can appoint Garland to the supreme court, and even push through the other 58 federal judicial nominees that are pending.
(2) A mass lesion with ring or garland-like enhancement surrounded by brain edema was shown on the CT scans.
(3) The most characteristic microscopic features of the ovarian metastases were garland and cribriform growth patterns, intraluminal "dirty" necrosis, segmental destruction of glands, and absence of squamous metaplasia.
(4) The "garland" subtype had significantly more proteinuria than both the "starry sky" (p = 0.04) and "mesangial" (p = 0.003) subtypes.
(5) The anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (Bland-White-Garland Syndrome) is a rare congenital malformation reported to occur in 0.25-0.5% of all congenital cardiac anomalies.
(6) Garland paid a terrible price for this success, as she became addicted to the pills given her to stay perkily awake, to get to sleep, to kill her appetite in order to slim.
(7) A native Chicagoan and Harvard graduate, Garland excelled in private law but chose to eschew fat salaries for the less lucrative but arguably more exciting world of public criminal prosecutions.
(8) Changes include (a) attenuation, (b) lytic attenuation, (c) garland-shaped widening of the GBM, (d) dome-shaped widening of the GBM, and (e) disruption of the GBM.
(9) "What I do is listen a lot during a session and try to pick up some little something from the musicians that might make the record more commercial" - a guitar lick by Hank Garland, perhaps, or a clipped piano figure from Floyd Cramer, whose Last Date (1960) was one of Atkins' early successes, along with Jim Reeves' He'll Have To Go (1959) and Skeeter Davis's The End of the World (1963).
(10) King's Theatre , to Wed LG End Of The Rainbow, Northampton End of the Rainbow Returning one last time to the venue where it first began, Peter Quilter's play about the acting and singing legend Judy Garland at the end of her life as she attempts to make one last comeback at London's Talk Of The Town in 1968, certainly deserves its encore.
(11) Garland is expected to go to Capitol Hill on Thursday to begin meeting with senators face-to-face.
(12) Histologically, JOF is unique in showing a loose-fibroblastic stroma that contains garland-like strands of osteoid with entrapped osteoblasts, the latter feature not being observed in other fibro-osseous lesions.
(13) More often than not in Perlman's career it has been swaddled, daubed, be-horned, encrusted and variously garlanded with the work of the great pioneering makeup technicians of the last 30 years, including Rick Baker, Dick Smith and Stan Winston (Perlman is, all else apart, a crucial figure in the history of movie makeup).
(14) 1997 Alex Garland, after the popular hit The Beach, managed to write The Tesseract but then hit a period of writer's block.
(15) However, a garland-shaped CT appearance, representing a subgroup of ring-shaped lesions, seems to be most typical for glioblastomas since it was observed in 19% of ring-shaped glioblastomas but in only one out of 172 metastases and in no case of an astrocytoma grade II or an abscess in our series.
(16) Only C16, C14 and C12 intermediates were detected in uncoupled mitochondria oxidizing [U-14C]hexadecanoyl-CoA in the presence of fluorocitrate and carnitine, providing evidence for some organization of the enzymes of beta-oxidation [Garland, Shepherd & Yates (1965) Biochem.
(17) After working in a second-rate singing act with her older sisters and changing her name from Frances Gumm to Judy Garland, she was taken to Hollywood at the age of 13 by her fiercely ambitious mother (whom she later called "the real Wicked Witch of the West").
(18) The brothers have now played together 54 times, winning 31, since Nottingham in 2006, when Andy retired injured when they were 0-4 down to Stan Wawrinka and Justin Gimelstob – but they have had more garlanded performances than that, pertinently in this competition four years ago against Luxembourg in Glasgow, when they thrilled the home crowd with a commanding three-set win.
(19) In both, Bo is wearing a multicoloured Hawaiian garland, which he was wearing on his introductory White House visit.
(20) Yes, seems to be the answer – just as Angelina Jolie has been thrilled to accept a staggering total of humanitarian awards , most inaugurated just for her, when those who toil at the coalface of the problems to which she gives attention between making movies will never be garlanded in a million years.