(1) Born in 1943, I have no memory of him – he was simply a photo on a mantelpiece as I grew up, the only one of my relatives whose face has remained always unchanged for me.
(2) Although, of course, there is no other ending: that is why it's still on the mantelpiece.
(3) On the way out of his office, I look at the pictures on his mantelpiece – mum, dad, sister, maternal grandfather, and a woman holding a baby on her knee.
(4) The physical evidence of how much has changed since those days is 34cm tall, gold-plated and stands on the mantelpiece of Reznor's house in Beverly Hills.
(5) His paintings are on the wall, there are photographs of him and his siblings on the mantelpiece, literature about the case is stacked in piles.
(6) Then there is a lemon that was kept on the living room mantelpiece – for 40 years.
(7) Inside, on the mantelpiece, sits a brown envelope addressed to a nearby town.
(8) The first assignment invited you to share your images of mantelpieces – and we had some great submissions.
(9) He looks, at 77, like a Woody Allen action doll, so tiny and iconic you have to sit on your hands so as not to pick him up and put him on the mantelpiece.
(10) Has a window sill or a shelf become your mantelpiece?
(11) Share your favourite mantelpiece pictures by clicking the blue button on this page or downloading the phone app.
(12) It's not OK." Graef is clearly proud of his accomplishments (his mantelpiece is strewn with bronze Bafta statuettes) but the work he is most proud of is a recent series about Great Ormond Street children's hospital that followed medics as they made difficult, life-altering decisions.
(13) If there were awards for understatement, Tony's assertion would probably win Absolute yet another statuette to join the dozens already perched atop the boardroom mantelpiece.
(14) Has your mantelpiece become a place for collecting 'stuff'?
(15) Adding to the maintenance burden, the building is festooned with gargoyles and grotesques staring from the walls, including monkeys playing lutes and banging drums and a gentleman with a severe Victorian moustache, incongruously dressed in a loincloth, holding up the mantelpiece.
(16) Looking to explain their allure to the modern bookshop browser, one finds it, on the one hand, in that eternal aristocratic poise: a visitor to Chatsworth once remarked that the most stylish thing he had seen there was a signed photograph of John F Kennedy and his wife going yellow on the corner of the mantelpiece - the Devonshires were so unimpressed by this gift from the most powerful man in the world that they couldn't be bothered to frame it.
(17) She loves children, and various family photographs keep Elvis company on the mantelpiece.
(18) Designed more for mantelpieces and office shelves than imaginative playscapes, they range from Frank Lloyd Wright’s conveniently blocky Fallingwater to the arcing sails of the Sydney Opera House – which is formed almost entirely of bespoke components that can only be used in one way, taking most of the fun out of building it.
(19) But the plaque has pride of place on our mantelpiece!"
(20) A picture of a 19th-century gentleman with a magnificent beard hangs above the mantelpiece; I mistake him for Charles Darwin but am told he is the geologist and explorer, John Strong Newberry.
Shelf
Definition:
(v. i.) A flat tablet or ledge of any material set horizontally at a distance from the floor, to hold objects of use or ornament.
(v. i.) A sand bank in the sea, or a rock, or ledge of rocks, rendering the water shallow, and dangerous to ships.
(v. i.) A stratum lying in a very even manner; a flat, projecting layer of rock.
(v. i.) A piece of timber running the whole length of a vessel inside the timberheads.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since he was created, he has appeared at several robotic fairs across China, but spends most of his time in deep meditation on an office shelf in Longquan.
(2) Matches on the NDCD tape could be found for 80% of the items in the shelf stock sample and 69.5% of the items in the tape supplied by the wholesaler.
(3) The development of the hydrogelic occlusive device called the P-block is described including developmental steps of the design of the device as well as the experience gained concerning the hydrogel of the device, shelf life, animal and human toxicology, insertion techniques, analgesia, check-up for retention in situ, actual efficacy of the method, mode of action of the device, complication rates, patient acceptance, continuation rates, possible reversibility and future perspectives of the method.
(4) Formulation often has a dramatic effect on degradation of proteins during the freeze-drying process as well as impacting on the "shelf-life" stability of the freeze-dried product.
(5) The determination of potency or shelf life, impurity limit testing, and study of reaction mechanisms are considered as different aspects of drug stability.
(6) Patterns of HA distribution in anterior, posterior and presumptive soft palate were examined in the secondary palatal shelves of CD-1 mouse fetuses that were 30, 24 and 18 h prior to, and at the time of, shelf reorientation.
(7) Another pint of Guinness That evening we set out again, this time to O'Donoghue's in Fanore, a blue-painted stone pub set on the thin shelf of land between the sea and the great limestone mountain that is called the Burren.
(8) The absence of membrane proteins and chemical stability of SFH and phospholipids promises long shelf-life.
(9) So, they start to create these almost fictitious things they can sell, whether it’s a prime shelf [at the height a shopper is most likely to see] or a gondola end [the promotional buckets often found at the top of the aisle].
(10) Midline epithelial cells cease DNA synthesis 24-36 h before shelf elevation and contact, become active in the synthesis of cell surface glycoproteins, and subsequently manifest morphological signs of necrosis.
(11) It has been suggested that head posture changes, tongue movements and jaw opening reflexes are required to enable palatal shelf elevation to occur in normal cranio-facial development.
(12) Allografts are often freeze dried to increase shelf storage time and sterilized with ethylene oxide.
(13) The shelf procedure provides a buttress of bone for later reconstructive surgery such as cup or total hip arthroplasty.
(14) When tested in another task (recovering food pellets from a horizontal shelf accessible through a narrow slit below the ceiling of the test box) same rats displayed identical (45%) and opposite (15%) preference or were ambidextrous (40%).
(15) In one case this was a dense shelf-like mass of echoes extending downward from the basal portion of the interventricular septum toward the mid-portion of the anterior mitral leaflet with corresponding systolic anterior motion of the mitral leaflet.
(16) Eight brands of composite resin, including paste-paste, powder-liquid and light-activated systems, as well as three glass ionomer cements were evaluated over a period of twelve months with respect to shelf-life and suitability for use in a tropical environment.
(17) They know that you're just going to buy everything from Amazon now, so they've all cut their losses and stacked every shelf with a trillion different 50 Shades Of Grey knock-offs called things like Disciplined With Buttplugs and 20 Carat Strumpet.
(18) The shelf life of the solid phase presensitized with monoclonal antibodies was 4 mth at -15 degrees C. DEN prototype viruses were still identified after storage at -15 degrees C for 1 yr or at room temperature for 1 mth.
(19) There are now standard off-the-shelf products that provide the kind of digital production tools that simply didn't exist five years ago.
(20) It is concluded that the shelf life of iced whole cod can be predicted using this model but not that of vacuum-packed fillets because of the greater variability of bacterial activity in packaged fish.