Would their children chalk it in doorways before they knew its meaning as a trademark? |
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Only a third of the economy has been denationalised, which is not considered enough by a long chalk. |
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Toussaint's most recent novel, Faire l' amour, is by a long chalk the darkest of his fictions to date. |
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That very successful implementation is going to be hardest of the criteria to fulfill, by a long chalk. |
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Also, the basalt, directly above the chalk, is locally capable of supporting all the calcicolous species that chalk can support. |
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Use a plumb bob and chalk to transfer each mark from the string to the ground, and drive a stake to mark the center of each post position. |
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Calcium is found in chalk, marble, and limestone, which are all forms of calcium carbonate. |
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The shells of marine creatures are made of calcium carbonate, the same substance as chalk, which is vulnerable to acidity. |
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They are not as hateful of chalk as are the callunas but they'll be even better where soil is lime-free. |
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Nelson, like the rest of his Shakers team-mates, was seething at the decision to chalk off his late header because of a debatable offside. |
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He picked up the nuances of usage of media such as charcoal, chalk, watercolour, oil, and acrylic. |
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In addition, the kit includes pigments and other substances needed to create real crayons, chalk, clay, paints and adhesive stickers. |
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Here on planet Earth white chalk on black slate provides plenty of contrast. |
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Nevertheless, it is via this slow accumulation of calcareous ooze on the deep ocean floor that geologists believe chalk beds originally formed. |
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Initial deposition above the Base-Chalk reflection is interpreted as formed by pelagic settling of chalk ooze under quiet, low-energy conditions. |
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Until the end of the 18th century, Great Bustards were widely distributed in England on open chalk downland, grassy heaths and agricultural land. |
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A cloth stretched over the board is given a coating of chalk powder mixed with a water-soluble adhesive. |
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The whole class stopped, their eyes on me, and the teacher turned away from the board and pointed a short stub of blackboard chalk at me. |
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Across the valley from Monkton Combe, high above Bath, you can see the famous Westbury White Horse, the chalk image of mysterious origin. |
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Winter sweet, Chimonanthus praecox, will grow quite happily on chalk or limestone soils and fill the garden with spicy winter fragrance. |
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While most people consider chalk to be white in colour, when weathered it can be grey and red. |
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Sprawled on the floor, her skin as white as chalk, her sightless eyes staring up the ceiling, was the body of an old lady. |
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This shrubby climber occurs in woods and hedgerows in chalk and limestone areas of Southern England. |
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As the androids began their attack, Ravena noticed that their eyes were as white as chalk. |
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Groundwater can react with chalk and limestone to produce carbon dioxide that displaces the normal air in a confined space. |
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It passes upwards into almost flat-lying white coccolith chalk with parallel lines of black flint nodules. |
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It grows on chalk or limestone soils, usually in sunny, open grassland but also on south-facing hedge-banks and woodland margins. |
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The unconformity surface is overlain by sandstone, reworked chalk or tuff, and represents submarine or subaerial erosion and missing section. |
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Calcium carbonate exists as whole mountain ranges of chalk, limestone, and marble. |
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Deposits of their skeletons produced much of the Mesozoic chalk and limestone. |
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Somehow I don't think those plush corporate boxes at Cardiff have a drawing board and chalk. |
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I knew white farmers whose idea of education for black children was a blackboard, a few sticks of chalk and a chair for an untrained teacher. |
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I walked up to the front of the room, where the chalk board was, and grabbed a piece of white chalk. |
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A large Fleur-de-lis is drawn with blue and white chalk on the parking lot. |
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Madeleine explained the classrooms in St Bede's sister school in Tanzania were very basic with blackboards, chalk and windows without glass. |
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Using white chalk, a geometric shape was lightly sketched, filling the paper to achieve balance. |
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I turned quickly and grabbed a piece of chalk off the black board on one of the walls. |
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Since I see it everywhere, I should take the hint and put it everywhere, hide it in messages, chalk it on walls etc. |
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She proceeds to chalk her slate with fresh attributes that represent all that Manderlay hopes to skewer. |
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After a pause to chalk his cue, Des sank his last spot and quickly dispatched the black. |
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Taking only a moment to chalk his cue, he got down on the table and potted the five. |
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Treats as different as chalk and cheese will feature on consecutive nights next week. |
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We didn't manage the lot, not by a long chalk, but we managed this distant outpost. |
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I may have disabilities and problems and troubles and stuff that holds me back, but I'm not done living! Not by a long chalk. |
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Horse racing is not perfect, not by a long chalk, but it has a future which can only get better. |
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But Kammy's not done it all, not by a long chalk, and he finds this irksome. |
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They are not the world's most emotional sporting enthusiasts, not by a long chalk, but even they can lose perspective. |
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Of course the easiest way to make your own batter's box template is to just chalk it out alongside a tape measure and a level. |
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After I chalk it out, I move it inside the house and sit down and look at it for a long time. |
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Now I'm inclined to chalk that up to sheer dumb luck, or more accurately, to contingency. |
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Let's all just chalk this up to poetic license and go with the Japan thing. |
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Though Mercatto can be unbelievably busy, I have never waited for a table and chalk it up to extremely efficient service. |
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If none of the scenarios and few of the characters seem particularly original, chalk it up to six-decade-old source material. |
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But the service certainly wasn't entirely bad, and I chalk the flaws up to the fact that the place is new. |
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The chalk cross was positioned on the chalkboard to help engineers locate the center of the picture. |
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More elaborate blackboard economics, aka simulation models, add numerical magnitudes to the chalk talk. |
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His handouts and chalk talks went into detail and complexity that went far beyond what I could use or grasp. |
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As a link pops up, he delivers a chalk talk on what this interactive approach could mean for building market share. |
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Next week in Colorado Springs, USA Basketball holds its first post-Games chalk talk. |
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He has noted many changes since he first took up the chalk and has presided over much in the way of change in the provision of education. |
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The publishers retain the courage to chalk out a new path in subsequent editions as well. |
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I chalk it up to a slip of the tongue, perhaps due to overeagerness on McClellan's part to make an interjection. |
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From as early as 1703, he was making charmingly colored chalk figure drawings in the style of Correggio. |
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Some time during the 19th century the chalk and dartboard replaced the cribbage board as the standard method of scoring a game of darts. |
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I re-installed the marker nail, and re-snapped the chalk lines that extend to the chimney corners. |
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Holmes affected to not know what I was talking about, and continued to read the Times while wheezing around the chalk sticking out of his hooter. |
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Others handout leaflets, talk to passers-by, and do chalk outlines of the bodies of the dead. |
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The shell lime is, of course, rich lime, and possessing no hydraulicity more than that from pure chalk. |
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The blue chalk lines used to indicate where the pavers are to be cut are visible here. |
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The meeting was held to chalk out measures for restoring peace on the campus. |
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Rarely, a person with iron-deficiency anemia may experience pica, a craving to eat nonfood items such as paint chips, chalk, or dirt. |
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Even rarer were certain organic dyes, such as indigo or purple, which had to be impregnated in chalk or the like to make them fast. |
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Trace the pattern outlines using wax chalk, a soap sliver, a felt-tip pen or an air-soluble marker that contrasts with the fabric backing. |
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The compo consisted of a mixture of chalk and resins and was pressed into a carved wood mold. |
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Each hollow is the partly infilled remains of an extraction pit or mine shaft cut through the chalk to reach seams of flint below. |
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Jake chuckled, it sounded like nails grating on a chalk board as he hopped up onto the stained mattress above Asia's head. |
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Another alternative to tailor's chalk or pencils is the water soluble marking pen. |
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This wheel is used for marking seam lines where tailor's chalk is not advisable or appropriate. |
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Scribbled in her untidy scrawl were the words I love Nate Litz written across her macadam driveway in a pale rose-colored chalk. |
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Trace the design and transfer it to the front and back of the legs of your chosen jeans using tailor's chalk. |
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You can also use tailor's chalk to chalk a line along the pattern edge where the pins are, but be sure to use a ruler. |
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But by the end of the first week, her skin and eyes were itchy from the fabric dust and tailor's chalk. |
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Our products include ordinary chalk for school, high grade no-dust chalk, sidewalk chalk, marking chalk, tailor's chalk and so on. |
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Place hanger, as shown, on the pocket and mark directly along the upper edge of the the hanger with tailor's chalk. |
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Triangular shaped tailor's chalk is perfect for marking around templates or for marking quilting lines. |
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The chalk carriage preferably includes tailor's chalk mounted in the chalk carriage for marking the garment. |
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Several powders use a base of asbestos, talc, chalk or silica, all of which are health hazards. |
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So for madness and mayhem, fun and fanfare, chalk it down, it's Hulla-baloo for Waterford. |
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The geology at Grimes Graves comprises a number of flint layers lying below sands and clays and interspersed between chalk. |
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Make a square about a meter wide in the center of the mat using chalk, tape or belts. |
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In the jungle, where space is fiercely guarded, lions and other predators chalk out their territory using scent marking. |
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The ethos and cultures of Tamilians and Telugus are as different as chalk and cheese. |
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They only had only sandstone and chalk in the area, but they imported metals to temper, smelt, and forge. |
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All kinds of manures have minerals in them and organic farmers also use other minerals like chalk or rock phosphate. |
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A nice touch is the addition of particle dust effects and chalk marks appearing occasionally on the otherwise immaculate green baize. |
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This is essentially the mound we see today made of chalk from the outer ditches and terracing of the adjacent slopes. |
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George on the camera is a genius and Frank on sound could make a chalk scratch on a blackboard sound like music. |
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The entire formation is between 12 and 20 m thick, and consists of light grey, marly chalk of varying percentages. |
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For many years, chalk played an important role in everyday railway operations in freight marshalling yards. |
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Sometimes I just chalk it down to one of those things and try and move on with my life. |
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He tried it in a local chalk pit where he usually rode and was pleased with it, though he found brake problems. |
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She took a piece of chalk, and drawing, freehand, she drew an almost perfect circle on the floor. |
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In the north-east is agricultural land on chalk or limestone well drained by rivers. |
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Medicines like silver nitrate, belladonna, chalk powder and peppermint water were used extensively. |
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Behind them, in chalk, is a train schedule, like a tote board at a racetrack. |
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Within a week, he said, there'll be a chalk line down the middle of the living room, with one of you on either side. |
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He then turned his paper over, before placing it on the canvas and applying powdered chalk to transfer the design to the surface beneath. |
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Plus, there are no irretrievable brushstrokes, and better yet no headaches from chalk dust or mineral spirits. |
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It occurs in a wide variety of mineral forms, including limestone, marble, travertine, and chalk. |
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Using your chalk line as a guide, spread the mortar with a notched trowel over a 2x5-foot section of the floor. |
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Remove the bricks and use a pointed trowel to apply mortar to the concrete base, but do not go beyond the chalk lines. |
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Sheldon lopes to one end of the blackboard, raises his chalk and, with a quick flourish, draws a circle. |
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The other was incredulous, and kept underlining his solution on the blackboard with heavy chalk lines. |
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The teacher was staring at her, tapping his miniature piece of chalk on the blackboard. |
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The walls were covered in blackboards with chalk markings that seemed to be in a language of numbers. |
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For right angle openings, use a drywall T-square or a chalk line to mark the board for cutting. |
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Broken pieces of sidewalk chalk can also be used to make unique textured works of art. |
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For the past 16 years, Fraser has been making sidewalk chalk art all over the city. |
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Lead white, yellow ochre and raw sienna were found throughout the painting, together with chalk. |
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Carry chalk in your pocket and mark sigils on the walls, or print them onto stickers and put them all over the place. |
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Of these natural hillocks, an illustration is found in the chalk monticle on which Corfe Castle is built. |
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Would you simply simmer with resentment, or would you chalk it up, perhaps, to the colleague's superior level of experience? |
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Twenty something pretty city traders in questionable chalk striped suit and check shirt combos. |
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In the movie, Baldwin, as a sales motivator, gives a chalk talk to a group of real estate salesmen on the techniques of making a sale. |
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After the war it was uncovered, however most of the glass had either washed away or sunk into the chalk below. |
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In one video work, he makes a blackboard of the sky and then, using a skywriter for chalk, draws a rough star in the air. |
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He began to write on the slate, the chalk moving up and down to form the letters of his answer. |
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The boy wonder of the 90s, he is set to chalk up his 600th career appearance if he starts against Liverpool. |
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He invented a method for producing sodium hydroxide from chalk, salt, sulfuric acid, and coal. |
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With a removable chalk pencil draw lines through the center of the fabric both lengthwise and breadthwise. |
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If you can reach the blackboard there is a wide range of coloured chalk, but no space to write. |
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Tailor's tacks, stickers, chalk or non-permanent markers are the best tools for marking. |
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He claimed that whatever musical advantages The Ten may have Letters and Colours are the better dancers, by a long chalk. |
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They know instinctively what to do and Kirwan clearly recognised that quality in Griffen who was my man of the match by a long chalk. |
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As well as being top scorers in the Bundesliga by a long chalk, their attackers have stood up in the Champions League. |
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My younger self constructed Lego spaceships, scribbled with chalk on stone steps, and nibbled sticky open-faced sandwiches with the crusts cut off. |
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Some of the plants that are typical of ancient chalk grassland include marjoram, wild thyme, salad burnet, rock rose, eyebright and squinancywort. |
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Other typical chalk grassland flowers include horseshoe vetch, squinancywort and the nationally rare field fleawort, together with wild candytuft and five species of orchid. |
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More than 2,000 years ago the Mayans used plumb bobs and chalk lines in building carved columns so finely that a row of hundreds of these would disappear behind the first one. |
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In a 2-hour, 3-shift operation, the chalk is crushed, dried in a stream of of hot air, pulverized in ball triturators and partially chemically refined. |
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So common have these birds become that it is rare to drive down the great chalk cutting where the motorway bisects the Chiltern ridge, and not see one. |
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The company bought the land last year and started work on the site by digging into the chalk, creating a white bank which has become a landmark in the town. |
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Second, it must not expect the public to distinguish between different types of nanotechnology, even if they are as different as chalk and cheese. |
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Her face was alight with anticipation as she set the chalk down, reached up, and began to unfasten the top golden button to her modest daisy dress. |
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Like Morecambe and Wise, Laurel and Hardy or even Starsky and Hutch, Sale's coaching duo of Jim Mallinder and Steve Diamond are as different as chalk and cheese. |
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Mix baby powder fifty-fifty with blue chalk in your chalk box. |
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Sanctions hit the economy and schools were left short of basic supplies such as chalk and blackboards, and poverty forced many children out of education. |
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As a temporary repair measure, English Heritage had the crater in the centre of the hill packed with polystyrene and capped with a layer of chalk. |
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He held your attention in the classroom and walked you through a multitude of chemical structures with only the chalk on the blackboards as his multimedia. |
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His presentation drawings, portraits, and character heads, usually made in charcoal or white chalk, were also in wide demand from discerning collectors. |
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I can't really explain why that is, so maybe we'll just have to chalk it down to the perplexing schematics of the plot and the strange blankness of most of the characters. |
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With white chalk, a recent innovation, he wrote an E on the slate. |
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Organizers say there will also be free-form recreational activities like hula hoops, sidewalk chalk art, street tennis, pickleball, jump rope and soccer games. |
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Drawing with sidewalk chalk on the wet pavement is also fun. |
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Our own Rx includes fat, colored chalk for drawing hopscotch boxes, plus Whiffle Ball and water balloons. |
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Artifacts discovered here included potsherds, some tuyeres, a clay smoking-pipe, oval-shaped pieces of chalk, shells of a variety of saltwater shellfish, and mammalian bones. |
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I got up and found a perfect piece of white chalk waiting for me. |
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It's not the greatest opera ever written, not by a long chalk. |
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Peggy took her place at the window back inside the recovery room and watched as the detectives took their pictures, and outlined the body with white chalk. |
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Again, I chalk this up to the low budget they must have had. |
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The technique, which he said he invented, is based on the process of statically applying ground pigment and chalk pastel to several underpaintings. |
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Lambert's chalk pastel illustrations with friendly rounded stylisations, and deep, tonally harmonious colours, share the suggestiveness and gentleness of Almond's text. |
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There is a monster snaking along the edges of this nation, creating a massive chalk outline that divides the good from the bad, the living from the unliving. |
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Once dry, use tailor's chalk to mark a circle for the opening and cut. |
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While the factory's existence is unmissable by its towering chimney that dominates the skyline, the location of its chalk quarry near the White Horse is rather more hidden. |
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These often show white underdrawing, probably white chalk, or outlines sketched in thin oil paint, either in white or a slightly darker shade of the ground colour. |
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As he reflected on this fact, he began to write the notes for the day and that he knew would just be a waste of chalk because no one would take the notes down. |
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Melt the soap flakes over a medium heat, stirring constantly, then add 75 grams precipitated chalk and more of the herbal liquid to form a soft, thick paste. |
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In the invention of Time, Luce and his partner, Briton Hadden, are chalk and cheese when they meet at Hotchkiss and Yale. |
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This exhibition features drawings in mixed media chalk, charcoal and graphite drawings on paper which have evolved from studies of the Achill landscape. |
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Fly fishers in the salt water environment need something entirely different to their freshwater counterpart on the chalk stream, as does the angler who fishes big reservoirs. |
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Give each student a sheet of the Manila paper and a piece of white chalk. |
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Portland cement is made by crushing, heating, and crushing again a mixture of rocks and soil-like substances, the main ones being types of limestone, chalk and clay. |
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And I know you just must be gutted that your charismatic guru, the voice and the face of so many shifts at the green baize is finally tossing in the chalk. |
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Again Dave explains that this is a fantastic place for wildlife and one of the few places in the country where you can see white chalk cliffs untouched by man. |
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Bricklaying tools include a hammer, mason's string, a few 10d nails, a trowel, a spirit level, a hand level, a piece of carpenters chalk and a broad-bladed cold chisel. |
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In addition, increase the amount of chalk and vitamin M in your diet. |
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The toughest, not the prettiest, though, not by a long chalk. |
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Beneath the skylarks and the scudding clouds, no more than a conversation between people and chalk grass, this was a war memorial I could understand. |
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One simple way to monitor leakage is to draw a chalk line in your sump to record its containment level and check it regularly for any unplanned loss. |
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The winner, by a long chalk, is that old stalwart The Sound of Music. |
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Under the glass was a 17 by 22 inch original chalk drawing depicting two Nordic warriors skiing down a mountain slope with battleaxes and spears in hand. |
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Then working outwards from the centre, the remaining collapse and infill material would be removed and all voids re-filled with properly compacted chalk. |
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It lies on a chalk knoll, its natural topography having been sculptured and modelled through successive phases of construction and reconstruction. |
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Moreover, through our cities and agriculture we are constantly varying the surface reflectivity of the Earth, as with the exposure of white chalk at Gravesend. |
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Ragamuff has been in smart form lately and Phillip Hobbs' gelding is fancied to chalk up a hat-trick of wins in the Lillo Lumb Challenge Cup Handicap Chase. |
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He portrays his wife with the lightest of touches, using red chalk, heightened with white in soft, feathery strokes which evince the profound French influence on his art. |
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You know what I mean, those blue cubes that you use to chalk up your cue when you're playing snooker or pool in an attempt to make it look like you know what you're doing. |
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But chalk it up also to the lies used to peddle the last war. |
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The 23-year-old Red Bull driver led from pole to chequered flag under the Yas Marina floodlights to chalk up his fifth win of the season. |
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To neaten the raw edges, mark a line close to the edge of each side at right angles to the seam lines using tailor's chalk and a steel edge. |
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Instead, create a perfectly straight vertical line using a plumb bob and chalk line. |
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Belarus also has deposits of clay, sand, chalk, dolomite, phosphorite, and rock and potassium salt. |
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If you suddenly get a pang of do-goodism feelings, chalk it up to the energy of the cosmos and do what your heart compels. |
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Secondary targets are the Cretaceous Shetland Group chalk and the Triassic Skagerrak Formation. |
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Turn it inside out, and use tailor's chalk to sketch a heart shape on the shirt's torso. |
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Put the jeans on and get a friend to mark with tailor's chalk where to cut them. |
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To create a mitered corner, use tailor's chalk and a ruler to draw lines on the border pieces from the inside corner to the outside corner. |
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A daydream could be interrupted by a piece of chalk or a wooden black board duster being stotted off your heed. |
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Then government policy changed so that subjects had to be taught separately with a chalk and talk approach. |
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Some changes to the face can be seen in black chalk pentiments at left, echoing the profile. |
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She picked up a smooth piece of tailor's chalk and set to writing notes to herself on the back of a satin offcut. |
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The travel bug has bitten all and agencies are working overtime to chalk out plans for its customers. |
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Use a grease pencil or piece of chalk to mark the tooth that you begin the process on. |
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Tape measure, tailor's chalk, scissors, pins and pinking shears. |
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In the meeting, the results of the Delhi Assembly elections will be introspected upon and will also chalk out our strategy for the 2014 general elections. |
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Planktic foraminifera of early Ypresian age do occur in Wenonah J-75, however, suggesting that the Acadia chalk may in fact be confined to the upper Ypresian. |
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NeoPaint's famous Stamp Pad, 3D objects and popular natural media tools including charcoal, crayon, chalk, ink, watercolor and oil paint, are all here in enhanced form. |
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All get sketch pads, colored chalk and puzzle books now, Hayhurst said. |
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To promote looking for textures beyond one art lesson, we make home rubbing kits filled with unwrapped crayons, graphite sticks, tailor's chalk and interesting papers. |
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