• Never knowingly understated, Branson marked the occasion by rappelling down the side of the glass building.

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  • "It was a nightmare scene, a big school bus on its side with shattered glass everywhere, " he said.

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  • Condensation streams down the side of my glass of iced kalamansi juice as we gaze at the ships on the distant horizon.

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  • An artificial rock-climbing wall covered one side of the glass-and-steel research center.

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  • After much talk of cows, we share a bottle of the local weissbier, drops of condensation running down the side of the glass.

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  • "We want to engage people who come by when the gallery is closed, who are on the wrong side of the glass, " Mr. Olivier said.

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  • The symptoms of bacterial meningitis are a very high temperature, stiff neck, and a blotchy red or purple rash which does not fade when the side of a glass is pressed against it.

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  • But galaxies are born or die (I forget which) suddenly, and what I could see through the curved side of that glass was unfolding in slow motion, each incomprehensible stage, every retraction and shudder drawn out as I watched.

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  • Several changes later, this is the building that stands on the eastern side of the great glass pyramid.

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  • Side walls are partly glass so managers can see each other.

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  • The full moon had shone through the glass onto her side of the bed.

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  • He set up pyramids of plates to crash when people passed them, and rigged a mirror in a hat shop so that, when each matron posed simperingly before it, the glass cracked from side to side.

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  • The other established approach is to take two wafers of silicon, coat each with a thin layer of glass on one side (which is done by baking them in oxygen), and then fuse them together to produce a silicon-glass-silicon sandwich.

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  • The wall of glass on one side of the library, combined with its geographic exposition and the density of students in the small facilities turned it into a sauna for half the day during the spring months (which were also the exam months, when the libraries were most in demand).

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  • The screen and bezel work well with each other (and the UI does require a touch of bezel to work well with all the swiping fingers from the side), although the glass does not reach right up to the top and bottom of the Z10, this is occupied by two strips of plastic.

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  • One side of the silicon can then be etched down to within a fraction of a hair's width of the glass layer, leaving the other side as a support.

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  • On the glass half-empty side, underemployment and long-term unemployment remain problems.

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  • Brother Gerasimi Otarashvili has a big chestnutcoloured beard, a black robe and a slightly incongruous mobile phone, which he puts to one side as he pours me a glass of the 2009 rkatsiteli.

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  • He mentioned that he is working on several stores that will look like the one on New York's Upper West Side, which has a tall glass entrance that stretches up to an all-glass ceiling.

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  • Although the holdings of what was once the most significant printer and publisher in 16th-century Europe were exceptional, it was the museum's deeply atmospheric rooms, side-lit through stacked leaded glass windows shielded by dark shutters, that I had come to see.

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  • Starting today, many recommended links will carry a small magnifying glass on the right hand side of the title.

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  • Located on a side street lined with hostess bars, Glass has blacked out windows and a formidable looking doorman at the entrance.

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  • You can also order your whiskey with a splash of water or water back , that is, a glass of water on the side.

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  • Kids' meals at Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants are automatically served with a side of fruit or vegetables and a glass of low-fat milk.

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  • The artist disliked the glass walls on the entire side of the house that the previous owner had installed, because he felt the light in Dali was too bright.

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  • The Shard has 11, 000 glass panels, with each side equalling a total area of 56, 000 sq m (603, 000 sq ft), meaning there was a genuine concern over a possible greenhouse effect.

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  • He was fitting a small panel at the bottom left-hand side, a pane of bruised blue glass that showed the broken and suffering about to be transformed by light, almost the last piece in the window, when he fell.

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  • The Samsung rep kindly jacked up the sound for us while we were there, and while it's tough to give it a full critique from a busy show floor, it certainly seemed loud enough, and gave the full surround system -- in a glass room just to the side of it -- a run for its money.

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  • Sliding glass doors lead out to a side deck and then up a set of stairs to a roof lounge with powder-coated aluminum railings and cedar decking.

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  • If I move my head a fraction to the left the drive elongates and the tops of the limes veer suddenly to the side, distorted by the imperfections of handmade glass.

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