It was a long, low building with a bay window looking onto the front garden.It had been extended and altered many times during its long history.In the garden were rows of seats and tables beneath old trees, and a large but almost branchless tree stump carrying the pub's sign board.…
When it was initially proposed, critics of the Neogrammarians proposed an alternate position, summarized by the maxim "each word has its own history".Several types of change do in fact alter words in non-regular ways.Unless identified, they may hide or distort laws and cause false perceptions of relationship.…
This behavior is instinctive, built into the ants' behavior mechanisms.They cannot alter their plans or think of better ways to join leaves.They cannot teach or be taught to do so.…
But I have just learnt that I may live -- well, much longer than I expected.I am sure your good sense will tell you that this alters the case.…Cited from Back to Methuselah, by George Bernard Shaw
The following year leukocytes were first observed by Gabriel Andral, a French professor of medicine, and William Addison, a British physician, simultaneously.Both men believed that both red and white cells were altered in disease.With these discoveries, hematology, a new field of medicine, was established.…
He would change his style between songs and even during songs to alter the sound he produced.His fingering technique involved pressing down on the string hard and releasing it to produce a trebly, twangy sound.…
Team member Charles Wyckoff claimed that someone retouched the photo to superimpose the flipper, and that the original enhancement showed a much smaller flipper.No one is sure how the original came to be altered.On 8 August 1972, Rines' Raytheon DE-725C sonar unit, operating at a frequency of 200 kHz and anchored at a depth of, identified a moving target (or targets) estimated by echo strength to be in length.…
The main portion of the college is just to the north of the Fitzwilliam Museum, and its grounds run behind the museum.The buildings date from a wide variety of times, and have been much altered over the years.The college is reputed to have been at least partially destroyed by fire in 1420.…
In a few ships the design was altered long after the ship was launched and in service.In the Royal Navy, smaller two-deck 74- or 64-gun ships of the line that could not be used safely in fleet actions had their upper decks removed (or razeed), resulting in a very stout, single-gun-deck warship called a razee.…
But, let her be as commonplace as possible, she will represent Woman to the man who is in love with her, as surely as Beatrice represented it to Dante.Every woman, married or single, alters the opinion of some man about women.…Cited from Stray Thoughts for Girls, by Lucy H. M. Soulsby
However, the original content of nine episodes presented in this set were altered.In some cases, material that was originally broadcast in a particular episode was removed completely while material from other episodes was included.…
Well, you must see that alters the case if nothing else does.Cited from The Spinners, by Eden Phillpotts
Deleuze rejects this view as papering over the metaphysical flux, instead claiming that genuine thinking is a violent confrontation with reality, an involuntary rupture of established categories.Truth changes what we think; it alters what we think is possible.…
Notably, one of the largest changes has been the availability of contraception, which has changed the lives of countless humans.Even then, these changes only alter the details of the human condition.…
A limited edition version came packaged with a small collector's book and 26 tarot cards.The action-adventure game had an altered plot line and featured additional characters.Though well received, The Vision of Escaflowne was not as popular in Japan as producers hoped.…
This hardened edge is capable of being reground and sharpened many times, although the process will alter the shape of the blade.Altering the shape will allow more resistance when fighting in hand-to-hand combat.Almost all blades are decorated, although not all blades are decorated on the visible part of the blade.…
Through her life, she fought to alter the way in which city development was approached.By arguing that cities were living beings and ecosystems, she advocated ideas such as "mixed use" development and bottom-up planning.…
I was inclined to look upon you, Duncan -- you won't mind my telling you now -- as a bit of a deliberate interloper!But all the time you knew her first, and that alters everything.…Cited from No Hero, by E.W. Hornung
But it is presented as merely one among many, with strong points and blind spots just like all the rest.The result was to alter the nature of the New Age political project.If every political perspective had unique strengths and significant weaknesses, then it no longer made sense to try to convert everyone to the New Age political perspective, as had been attempted in the 1970s and 1980s.…
However the agreement did not alter either country's basic legal position.Paul Cellucci, the American ambassador to Canada, in 2005 suggested to Washington that it should recognize the straits as belonging to Canada.…
