(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.
Leader
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor.
(n.) One who goes first.
(n.) One having authority to direct; a chief; a commander.
(n.) A performer who leads a band or choir in music; also, in an orchestra, the principal violinist; the one who plays at the head of the first violins.
(n.) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
(n.) The principal wheel in any kind of machinery.
(n.) A horse placed in advance of others; one of the forward pair of horses.
(n.) A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground; a conductor.
(n.) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc. ; also, a line of gut, to which the snell of a fly hook is attached.
(n.) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
(n.) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article.
(n.) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
(n.) a row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.
Example Sentences:
(1) In attacking the motion to freeze the licence fee during today's Parliamentary debate the culture secretary, Andy Burnham, criticised the Tory leader.
(2) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
(3) On 9 January 2002, a few hours after Blair became the first western leader to visit Afghanistan's new post-Taliban leader, Hamid Karzai, an aircraft carrying the first group of MI5 interrogators touched down at Bagram airfield, 32 miles north of Kabul.
(4) The criticism over the downgrading of the leader of the Lords was led by Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, a former Scotland secretary, who is a respected figure on the right.
(5) David Cameron last night hit out at his fellow world leaders after the G8 dropped the promise to meet the historic aid commitments made at Gleneagles in 2005 from this year's summit communique.
(6) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
(7) Fatah leader Yahya Rabah said the organisation would celebrate "with our brothers in Hamas", the Ma'an news agency reported.
(8) We have examined the in vitro membrane assembly characteristics of a variety of leader peptidase mutants and found that domains required for insertion in vivo are also necessary for insertion in vitro.
(9) Meanwhile Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, waiting anxiously for news of the scale of the Labour advance in his first nationwide electoral test, will urge the electorate not to be duped by the promise of a coalition mark 2, predicting sham concessions by the Conservatives .
(10) For this to work, its leaders had to be able to at least influence the behaviour and tactics of the militant operators on the ground.
(11) Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Friday pleaded for foreign help to preserve the territorial integrity of the former French colony, a major gold and cotton producer.
(12) In a poll before the debate, 48% predicted that Merkel, who will become Europe's longest serving leader if re-elected on 22 September, would emerge as the winner of the US-style debate, while 26% favoured Steinbruck, a former finance minister who is known for his quick-wit and rhetorical skills, but sometimes comes across as arrogant.
(13) Leaders of Tory local government are preparing radical proposals for minimum 10% cuts in public spending in the search for savings.
(14) He is a leader and helps manage the defence, while Pablo Armero can be a bit of a loose cannon but he is certainly a talented player.
(15) Gove said in the interview that he did not want to be Tory leader, claiming that he lacked the "extra spark of charisma and star quality" possessed by others.
(16) But to treat a mistake as an automatic disqualification for advancement – even as heinous a mistake as presiding over a botched operation that resulted in the killing of an innocent man – could be depriving organisations, and the country, of leaders who have been tested and will not make the same mistake again.
(17) "It's a very open question as to whether this will come," said a diplomat in Brussels, adding that Cameron could find himself in the lonely position of being the sole national leader urging a renegotiation.
(18) The nucleoprotein gene is located proximal to the 3' end of the genome and is preceeded by a putative leader sequence.
(19) The PUP leader told the ABC his announcement would have international significance.
(20) The prime minister insisted, however, that he and other world leaders were not being stubborn over demands that the Syrian leader, President Bashar al-Assad, step down at the end of the peace process.