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Tango


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The list is split between on and off-screen talent, including Sherlock producer Sue Vertue, the writer of Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley, Sally Wainwright, and Elisabeth Murdoch , founder of MasterChef producer Shine.
  • (2) As ever in children's books, when things get too complicated, animal characters can provide a useful way out, but even then, attempts to represent same-sex parenting can attract censure - as revealed by Justin Richardson's And Tango Makes Three , illustrated by Henry Cole.
  • (3) Andrew Eaton, film producer I was a considerable champion in the early 1970s of Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris.
  • (4) Reid recently starred with Derek Jacobi in Last Tango in Halifax.
  • (5) Her greatest acclaim as a screenwriter has come recently, for Last Tango in Halifax and, even more strikingly, Happy Valley , but she has dipped her pen into most of the defining soaps and kitchen-sink dramas of the British psyche, from The Archers to Coronation Street .
  • (6) Best of times Winning two Baftas for Last Tango in Halifax in 2013, although it made her wonder why it had taken so long.
  • (7) It’s got a bit of an odd time signature to it, it’s not as easy to singalong to as our own national anthem - maybe it’s hard to sing along to something like this when you have a tango rhythm in your bones like the South Americans do?
  • (8) Leading actor Winner: Ben Whishaw – Richard II (The Hollow Crown) Derek Jacobi – Last Tango In Halifax Sean Bean – Accused (Tracie's Story) Toby Jones – The Girl Leading actress Winner: Sheridan Smith – Mrs Biggs Anne Reid – Last Tango In Halifax Rebecca Hall – Parade's End Sienna Miller – The Girl Supporting actor Winner: Simon Russell Beale – Henry IV Part 2 (The Hollow Crown) Peter Capaldi – The Hour Stephen Graham – Accused (Tracie's Story) Harry Lloyd – The Fear Supporting actress Winner: Olivia Colman – Accused (Mo's Story) Anastasia Hille – The Fear Imelda Staunton – The Girl Sarah Lancashire – Last Tango In Halifax Performance in an entertainment programme Winner: Alan Carr for Alan Carr: Chatty Man Graham Norton for The Graham Norton Show Ant and Dec for I'm a Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here!
  • (9) Google's Project Tango, the company's attempt to give mobile devices the ability to understand the layout of the real world, will come to tablets as well as phones.
  • (10) Happy Valley review: understated, refreshing – and with bodies already piling up Read more This should come as no surprise given that Sally Wainwright , the show’s creator, has been responsible for what feels like every British hit save for Downton Abbey in the past few years: Last Tango in Halifax , which also played well in the US; and the crime drama Scott and Bailey .
  • (11) Other actors on the list include Sheridan Smith , soon to be seen playing Cilla Black in an ITV biopic, and Sarah Lancashire, who has featured in BBC1 dramas Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley.
  • (12) At the top of the scoreboard were actor Danny Mac and partner Oti Mabuse, who collected 38 points for their Argentine tango to Marvin Gaye’s I Heard It Through the Grapevine.
  • (13) All we are is the fugitives and refugees.” Against this backdrop, Portland has one of the world’s best bookshops, Powell’s City of Books , hosts a major tango festival and, for all its craft breweries, the wine scene is just as vibrant.
  • (14) I don’t.” If she’s been involved in a form of dramatic rebalancing, then perhaps her most striking success has been Last Tango in Halifax , which focused on one of television’s most neglected sectors of society: the retired.
  • (15) 7.49pm GMT "Did that terrifying Tango put the willies up you?
  • (16) Having made his name as a rock star in the 1970s and 80s, with hits such as Cat Scratch Fever and Wango Tango, Nugent is now known as much for his vehement advocacy of hunting and his defense of the second amendment as for his music.
  • (17) For his part, Nick Clegg is all dressed in blue and ready to tango.
  • (18) Tonight they’re dancing the Tango to Ne-Yo's 'Beautiful Monster'.
  • (19) She also had success with Last Tango in Halifax (series three is under way).
  • (20) He plays DI Lestrade in the BBC1 series Sherlock and is in the new BBC series of Last Tango In Halifax .

Tank


Definition:

  • (n.) A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight; also, a Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.
  • (n.) A large basin or cistern; an artificial receptacle for liquids.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is basically a large tank (the bigger the better) that collects rain from the house guttering and pumps it into the home, to be used for flushing the loo.
  • (2) Rather than being deterred, the Serbs drove forward with tanks, infantry and heavy artillery.
  • (3) My [other cousin] has got everything other than tanks at his farm," he said.
  • (4) Between having Lily and promoting Fish Tank, Jarvis has done a lot of growing up in the past year.
  • (5) The group was one of the few in Syria to have received anti-tank rockets and had regularly used them against Syrian armour.
  • (6) Finally, it examines Brancheau's death, which played out in front of a crowd, many of whom did not fully understand what was going on as the experienced trainer was dragged under water and flung around the tank.
  • (7) When estimates of milk loss were replaced by estimates based on bulk tank somatic cell counts, milk loss accounted for over 80% of the total cost of mastitis.
  • (8) To reduce the risks posed by the hazard, the report recommends that a management plan be created to determine the level of soil contamination and for managing excavated soil, and to decommission disused septic tanks to prevent the spread of contamination.
  • (9) Acholeplasma laidlawii was frequently isolated from samples both from cows and from farm bulk tanks during wet, rainy weather in the spring of 1978, apparently as contaminants only.
  • (10) In the words of the Brookings Institution think tank, victory by Trump, the quintessential New Yorker, “would not have been possible without the influence of rural areas and smaller metropolitan areas”.
  • (11) On 12 September 1980, the head of the military, Kenan Evren, sent tanks rolling through the streets of the Turkish capital and installed a ruthless military government.
  • (12) The waterborne origin of these infections highlights the importance of maintaining clean water supplies, especially where storage tanks are used.
  • (13) New analysis by the climate think tank Sandbag predicts that by 2020 the ETS could be so over-supplied with tradable permits that it will be almost completely irrelevant.
  • (14) As fighter jets screamed overhead and tanks churned up the sand, it looked and sounded like the violent protests sweeping the Middle East had spread to the wealthy emirate of Abu Dhabi.
  • (15) Aortic pressure and right-ventricular filling pressure could be adjusted independently of each other via two header tanks.
  • (16) Computer-processed signals were derived from 20 evenly spaced tank-surface electrodes, and a single, moving, equivalent cardiac dipole generator was optimally fitted to the recorded potentials for each 1-msec sampling interval.
  • (17) The group insists it is "an independent, non-partisan Scottish think-tank, research organisation and educational charity".
  • (18) In December he smashed apart the Roman forces in the north, assisted by his awesome elephants, the tanks of classical warfare.
  • (19) Besides other advantages, the set provides an ICP monitoring, a pump device and a protection of the air filter of the collecting tank for safer transport.
  • (20) I would like it to always look as fresh as the day I made it, so part of the contract is: if the glass breaks, we mend it; if the tank gets dirty, we clean it; if the shark rots, we find you a new shark."

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