"I'll give it to him in a plastic sheet so he can put it under the basket, " Hurley said.

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Then the action on the television screen would combine with what the children had drawn on the plastic sheet to create a narrative-in-motion.

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But it is possible to lay down a thin layer of silicon on a flexible plastic sheet, through a process called vacuum deposition.

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Mr Bayne denies attacking Ms Nelson with a knife, putting a plastic sheet over her head to restrict her breathing and then setting fire to her.

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They were given a storage room to sleep in -- there were no windows, no electricity and just a plastic sheet on the cold, damp cement floor.

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Mariela Lopez, the newborn who received the treatment in March, slept on the chilled blanket in her open-air incubator in the intensive care nursery wearing a white hat and covered with only a clear plastic sheet.

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The entire plastic back sheet comes off, and can flex a huge amount.

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On the Jukebox, Creative has tried to remedy the goof with a plastic instruction sheet stuck on the case telling users how to turn it on and off.

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Ms Shand told the court that Zoe had been lying there with a sheet of plastic over her face and only a murderer would take the dreadful step of setting her on fire.

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Winky Dink said he wanted the children to mail away for a "Magic Window, " which was actually a cheaply produced, thin sheet of plastic that adhered to the TV screen by static electricity.

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Now each layer of plastic is as thin as a sheet of copy paper, resulting in smooth printed prototypes.

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The MirageTable uses a 3D-video projector to beam images onto a sheet of curved white plastic placed in front of the user.

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The charge-sheet against the pint-sized piece of plastic is long.

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