The Hawks are stuck in a rut of being bad enough to miss the play-offs but not bad enough to end up with a franchise player in the draft. |
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We are allowing you to miss the first hour of any of the full orchestra rehearsals if need be. |
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I forget, what were you doing last year that was so important as to miss the national remembrance in honour of the war dead? |
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Even if they do, I think it's going to miss all the ambiguities in something that might not necessarily conform to a radical agenda. |
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It is generally understood that if you start to miss services, your child will not get in. |
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He's showing no more interest than before, except for a spark of amusement on his face that's impossible for me to miss. |
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A friend told me recently that the best way to miss a tiny object in your line of flight is to aim right at it. |
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We aren't the first team to miss penalties and we won't be the last so I'm not going to blame the lads. |
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Not one to miss the opportunity, he grabbed honours by occupying a seat in the first row. |
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Never one to miss a business opportunity, Brahms also arranged the sonatas for viola, and I first heard them in this form. |
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If you can't bear to miss the football or that chick flick you've always wanted to see, go watch it round at a friend's house. |
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In fact, I have to confess that I came to miss the latter just a tad, living on my lonesome with only one other neighbor on the floor. |
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As a lawyer in Southern California with a mind that's sharp as a tack, it's not good to miss even one day of her blog. |
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But from the opening, mysterious, string glissandi, the orchestra seemed to miss the haunting atmospherics of Britten's score. |
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But some lummox has to miss the decisive penalty, and I'm saying it'll be him. |
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It is all too easy to focus in the minute details of operational tactics and to miss the broad sweep of strategy. |
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Never ones to miss a trick, record companies were quick to try and recreate the magic formula. |
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She crammed the wad under a glass terrarium with a large, green turtle in it, who strained his neck so as not to miss anything. |
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This is where the current public policies around work-life balance seem to miss the mark. |
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So its better to stay invested in the market so as not to miss out on a boom day. |
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It is very difficult to miss this flower with its very vibrant orange leaves and dangerous thorns. |
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I'm sure when the time comes I will be bawling my eyes out as I am going to miss our friends so much. |
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It's easy to miss the turn to a titch of a village that runs alongside the Ria Formosa. |
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Rupert leaps into the crowd, has a caper around the room and still manages not to miss a beat. |
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But to pigeonhole this great structure as an engineering tour de force would be to miss the point. |
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Not to mention I had to miss half of my afternoon classes just so that he could tow me around. |
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You seem to miss that the cornerstone of a sharing economy is capitalism, not socialism. |
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For some reason the attackers in the south appear to be very poor shots, and seem mostly to miss the target, failing to inflict any real damage. |
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Twice the big Englishman was presented with a gaping goal and the perfect ball but twice he somehow contrived to miss the target. |
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Much of the debate around online, even alternative online, media in Australia continues to miss the point. |
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He's expected to miss the rest of the playoffs due to arthroscopic surgery. |
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Sutton will be without their try-scoring machine, winger Will Newman, who is expected to miss the rest of the season with a knee injury. |
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The whole school would come out and participate in what was an excuse to miss class. |
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With the technology and experience at our disposal, it would be unforgivable to miss this historic opportunity. |
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I urge you to not to miss the chance to experience one of the world's premier guitarists up close at a local venue. |
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It's been hard to miss the various headlines about shortfalls in endowment mortgages over the last few days. |
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Whilst trying to get home yesterday we managed to miss the turn for the North Circular due to lack of clear signage. |
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Firefighters are a unique lot, all singing from the same song sheet, and I am definitely going to miss it. |
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I'm not going to miss the mud-slinging, slanderous, nasty ads on the radio. |
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Not like him to miss the chance of unholstering his weapon with my approval for a change. |
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Hard to miss, especially as they turned out in full dress uniform with plaids and feather bonnets on what turned out to be a warm day. |
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The one opportunity you don't want to miss out on is something unique to the island and truly special. |
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He is set to miss the rest of the season after sustaining a serious break to his right leg. |
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Amid all the election brouhaha over here, it's easy to miss Jennifer Lopez's bid for power stateside. |
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She was starting to miss just hearing her mother's nagging and her Dad's firm speaking voice. |
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For many pupils, the school's annual speech day is a chore they would do anything to miss. |
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No system is foolproof, but an all-party, non-partisan approach to appointments is too good an opportunity to miss. |
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The only way to miss the religious or nonsecular appearance of the monument would be to walk through the building with one's eyes closed. |
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We treat this as a matter of the utmost importance, since we have a comprehensive, strict and unbending set of standards to miss. |
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Lee is expected to miss about a month and will start the season in extended spring training. |
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Worse still, his new wife was a champion Nordic skier, and he didn't want to miss out on the fun. |
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The wind is picking up and blowing 15-20 knots north-easterly, which I hope is enough to miss the protruding land mass of Tenerife. |
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Trade in staple commodities was already thriving and British merchants tried not to miss this opportunity. |
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He was expected to miss camp time with a strained oblique muscle, which didn't help his chances of making the roster. |
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He was expected to miss at least one spring start with a strained oblique muscle, though the injury is not considered serious. |
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You don't want to miss stays and be stuck dead in the water as a frigate fires a full broadside at your small sloop. |
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A vessel is said to miss stays when she fails to get through the wind whilst going about and ends up hung in irons. |
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I'm not going to miss players barely running out fly balls and sitting out games over hangnails. |
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Other drivers started carpooling, or shifted their work hours to miss the morning and evening rush hours. |
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It's an attempt to miss the main news bulletin and headlines in the hope that the papers will have missed their deadlines as well. |
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Even when offered an open goal, they are both more likely to miss than score. |
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Parents cannot afford to miss out on good investment opportunities for their children. |
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You'd have to be a stubby short of a six pack to miss the show this weekend! |
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Already it is impossible to miss the planet, a yellow-orange disc in the south-eastern sky far outshining the brightest star, Sirius. |
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It should be the customer who dictates what happens, because if an important meeting overruns they don't want to miss their flight. |
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With three million advertising hoardings across the country bearing his image, the 33-year-old comic is a hard man to miss. |
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Swept along, we paddled furiously to miss the many boulders that appeared in front of us. |
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It would be hard to miss the international media coverage of the devastating floods that swamped Prague, where the national team were based. |
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He didn't want to miss a minute of his favorite team getting clobbered by the enemy. |
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However, the momentary setback of failing that exam delays Dan just enough to miss the plane. |
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Most of my driving is done locally, but it is easy for someone not familiar with a particular road to miss a sign. |
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He was obliged to miss the Singapore and Malaysian events due to domestic cup final commitments. |
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He swears disgustedly and turns inland, jaywalking across the bustling avenue, a gray-haired motorist squealing his brakes to miss him. |
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This was one appointment that a gold dealer and coffee planter from Kalpetta did not want to miss. |
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We have a play date with our youngest grandchild, and we don't want to miss it. |
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About a year ago I really started to miss being sexually intimate with a man. |
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These facts are easy to miss in the real world where we can blame space and geography for our involvement with others. |
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On the subject of Betty's harrowing death, again he seems to miss the point. |
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To argue that the world of 1919 was worse than that of 1914 is to miss the point. |
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It makes me edgy to miss runs and cheat on the training, but I can't run with a searing pain in my foot or when I'm coughing up a lung. |
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As good as our royal mail cope with postage I would hate to miss my deadline. |
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Postgame X-rays were negative, and the Pirates said Duke wasn't expected to miss more than one start. |
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It's a hard place to miss, especially with all the gawkers rubbernecking for any celebrities from the lower floors. |
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It seems stupid to me to miss an appointment with your probation officer if that's going to land you in jail. |
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It is, of course, possible simply to use the time for drinking and eating to prodigious degrees, but that is to miss the very point of it all? |
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This may be good news for some older employees but for others it will close the door to an opportunity they would not like to miss. |
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I always make a conscious and deliberate effort to cover these matters in each patient in order not to miss anything. |
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He immediately dematerializes, causing her punch to miss, and pulling her off balance. |
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Crossbills are closely related to goldfinches, and the curve of the upper beak seems easy to miss. |
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High-speed turns at any angle are tiring and the more pylons there are, the greater the chance to miss one. |
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In an elevated position above Rougemont Gardens public park, the castle is hard to miss. |
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Henry could afford to miss a few post European Premiership games, if Wenger had a player of Morientes' calibre to bring into the starting eleven. |
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The sound effects make you want to swerve head-on into the guard rails to miss whatever it is that you haven't seen. |
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She had thought she was going to miss out on seeing the Duke when he visited her school for a Guy Fawkes Night party. |
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It has been hard to miss NBC's promotions for Revelations, its six-part end-times miniseries that debuts tonight. |
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But amid the high dudgeon, it's easy to miss that essentially what he was making is an affirmative-action argument. |
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Liberal commenters seem to miss the irrelevance of class envy to the popular dislike of this tax. |
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When there was no word of us being evacuated, we thought that maybe the hurricane was going to miss us. |
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His trees and bushes effectively hide his house from view, but even so, it's pretty hard to miss. |
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It gives you a wee dunt to miss out, but you just have to pick yourself up and go out and play as well as you can. |
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But this is to miss the point by such a wide margin that it amounts to yet another deliberate deceit. |
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I love that you point out the silly typos I continue to miss even after many read-throughs. |
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I managed to spit out a stream of the sanguine liquid before dodging just in time to miss her foot. |
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I think that saying this system works if properly executed is to miss the point. |
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We don't want to miss the start, so we head to the gig, bags and all, leaving the baffled hotel staff in the dust. |
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Night skiing is an exhilarating experience you won't want to miss when fellow skiers gather to ski or board down the main run each night with flares in hand. |
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Even if the sentence is reduced on appeal, he still seems certain to miss the competition as his lawyers and those of his club continue to drag the process out. |
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We may be able to get transitions up and down fairly well, halt to walk, walk to trot etc, but what happens when we ask it to miss a gait, say halt to trot or walk to canter. |
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How can we be so far-sighted as to miss the obvious things right before us? |
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There was no way he wanted to miss the game, his friend managed to get them box seats for the basketball game, and Taylor was the last person who would want to miss that game. |
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In light of what just happened they decided to miss the next lesson. |
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Almost all the signatories to the treaty are going to miss their targets. |
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In fact, the tourists are flocking to Greece in even bigger numbers than ever for this time of the year, trying to miss the Olympic crush in August. |
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Yet to quote these entries out of context is to miss Derek's exhilarating sense of courage and stoicism when under the stress of physical and mental impairment. |
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Readers must be extremely attentive in order not to miss passing remarks which connect the seemingly over-detailed description with Hannigans main interest. |
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But this association between the moon and trippy mindlessness would have seemed to Lewis to miss at least half the picture. |
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You won't want to miss this bodybuilding and fitness extravaganza! |
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It was a close thing, but he managed to miss the vein by a hair. |
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You don't want to miss anything exciting, but can you run to the bathroom, then grab a drink and some munchies and get back to the TV before the commercials resume? |
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He was expected to miss the first two matches, against Sri Lanka on Thursday and India on Saturday, but it looks as though he may face an even longer lay-off. |
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That is, she began to miss counseling appointments at an agency that is licensed to provide mental health services as well as treatment for chemical dependency. |
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She used to miss the trash can when she disposed of her cat litter, leaving a mess on the porch. |
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Hard to miss, especially by night divers, whose lights catch the gleam from its huge opalescent eyes, is the ratfish, which cruises by on wing-like pectoral fins. |
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He is expected to miss the remainder of the British flat season. |
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In 2007, not to miss a part of the trade, Johnnes began moonlighting as a winemaker in both Oregon and Burgundy. |
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The effects of this strange publicity campaign were not difficult to miss. |
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On my second test, I had to swerve gracelessly to miss an old lady and ended up on the kerb with the front end of the car wedged under a rhododendron bush. |
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Time it right to miss the queues and just minutes after leaving terra firma you are 102 floors up in the open air with executive helicopters passing underneath you. |
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It was hard to miss the stash as the jury room is located just past the magnetometers through which everyone must pass. |
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Once you reach your resort, be sure not to miss the typical Cypriot meze. |
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Danny Farthing, who was making his Town comeback, looks likely to miss out with a dead leg, while Nick Richardson and Scott Bonsall are also doubtful. |
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The project is expected to miss its scheduled 2003 deadline. |
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The walking was a little strenuous, but it was just too beautiful to miss. |
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The appearance of an air-sea rescue helicopter above the building led to speculation he was not going to miss out on a rare good-news picture opportunity. |
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Rangers fans cannot be expected to miss something they have never had. |
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The Stainland bus is hourly and late trains caused us to miss it. |
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I have problems with my cognitive reasoning which means when I am tired and stressed I start to miss words out from everyday conversation but it does not mean I am stupid. |
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A careful introduction to the questions is needed, and respondents should be given the choice to miss them out altogether if they feel uncomfortable. |
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The presence of the dozen or so cardboard boxes was hard to miss. |
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In what proved to be the final frame, the Scot looked set to level proceedings with a break of 53 only to miss another yellow and then find himself snookered. |
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Knowing how hard it is to get auditions, especially with English National Opera, this chance to be coached by ENO professionals was too good to miss. |
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Naturally, most will want to witness this spectacle with an audience, so as not to miss the rice, toilet paper and lines being shouted out by various enthusiasts. |
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Such is the month of April, but be sure not to miss out between those squally showers of rain and sleet if a warmer spell arrives, no matter how brief. |
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I was awake then, but somehow managed to miss this earth-shattering event. |
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To brush this consideration aside as idealistic and impractical would be to miss the truth that there is, on occasion, nothing so practical as the right ideal. |
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Within a decade the slow-baked casserole and the homemade layer cake disappeared along with the starched party dress, and no one seemed to miss them. |
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Break district scores into elementary, middle and high school so for a district to miss AYP it must fall short at all three levels. |
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Never one to miss an opportunity to flaunt his wealth, Khashoggi let his yacht be used for the 1983 Bond film Never Say Never Again. |
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His illness caused him to miss the autumn term at Cambridge, though his health gradually began improving in 1962 and he returned that April. |
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He died of bone cancer during the opening week of Titanic, causing her to miss the film's Los Angeles premiere to attend his funeral in London. |
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Counter punchers usually wear their opponents down by causing them to miss their punches. |
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It is very rare for top clubs to miss the competition, although it can happen in exceptional circumstances. |
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The Chinese and Malays tend to miss off the 's' for plurals from words in English, making it sound quaint and unfinished. |
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I think he's going to miss out on the opportunity to date her if he doesn't hurry. |
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By February 2008, it became clear that Bale was to miss the rest of the season through injury. |
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Three weeks later she crashed again at the Giro de Trentino and had to miss 4 weeks of racing in July and August. |
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He then applied for the South Belfast Unionist candidature, and was unfortunate enough to miss the nomination by one vote. |
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The performance overran by ten minutes, which caused some people to miss their bus home. |
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She was far too quick-witted to miss the implications of what he was saying. |
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Barrett said even though he redshirted last season, he could apply for a medical redshirt if he needs to miss an additional season. |
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Great fun for nostalgia fans and those new to the show, this is one DVD not to miss, sucka. |
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Salvors began dismantling the ship on February 26, but bad weather caused them to miss their March 23 target to complete their work. |
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The referee said he pulled the Hearts player back but it was just a body-check and to miss the cup final because of that is so hard to take. |
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But third musketeer Chris Bosh refused to miss out on the action. |
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By volunteering to debone birds, Wilson had to miss part of a Reynolds family early Thanksgiving gathering organized by an u ncle. |
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The main point Noel seems to miss is that the organisation is called the British Broadcasting Corporation for a reason. |
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But browned-off Britons are refusing to miss out on the sun and airports have been packed with sunseekers getting away. |
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It was difficult for children and adults to travel by foot and BTW was easy to miss. |
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Partygoers won't want to miss the last chance of the year to party like a superstar at The Bank. |
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But they have nothing on the male pectoral sandpiper which avoids sleeping for weeks so as not to miss out on any mating opportunities. |
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If your name ended up in the frowny cloud, you had to miss part of your recess. |
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Now Casper may have to miss a planned fundraiser for the HACK horse sanctuary at which he was due to be one of the star turns. |
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During a hot start where the Texters played hard, their defense forced Rain or Shine to miss its first 21 three-point attempts. |
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Some of the criticisms of Spong seemed fair to me, but others seemed to miss his point. |
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Wearing a bright yellow blazer over a petrol blue waistcoat and trousers and a yellow tie Joey was hard to miss, and not in a good way. |
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Well, the cimbalom was already onstage so it would have been a shame to miss the chance. |
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By winding the mileage back, the clocker will cause conflict within the car and create the potential for it to miss early-warning alerts. |
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I was so sad that I had to miss it last year but it would have taken Darth Vader and all his Storm Troopers to stop me getting to this one. |
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One show that the kids won't want to miss is Dr Bunhead in Pyromania at the Usher Hall. |
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To come to a Gathering and not work, to be a Drainbow, is to miss the point of the Gathering. |
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And in the end, ill-discipline cost us and a guy like Felipe Contemporize wasn't going to miss penalties from those distances. |
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To view engagement unidimensionally is to miss the point of Clare Bradford's article on video games and player positioning. |
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Okay, the Portuguese preener has been known to miss the odd penalty when Chelsea fans are baying for his blood. |
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Never one to miss a trick, 22-year-old Louis Tomlinson, who is worth PS15million, was straight on to the firm, shamelessly blagging some freebies. |
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Khloe flew her personal trainer Gunnar Peterson from Los Angeles to Europe last week so she didn't have to miss a training session in the run-up to her sister Kim's wedding. |
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In my opinion the Civic sets a new standard for diesels in this class, so if you are in the market for a wellequipped family diesel, you would bemad to miss this one out. |
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Villa ballboy Joseph Bradley, aged 14, from Erdington, was recovering from an asthma attack so got to miss going into John Willmott School to see his football idols. |
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If Berrice was in the outer Hebrides, the crossing would have brought Pytheas to the vicinity of Trondheim, Norway, explaining how he managed to miss the Skagerrak. |
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The injury forced her to miss the 2007 World Championships in Stuttgart. |
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The Strider variants of the Red Storm architecture can only scale down to a teraflops or so, which left a big opening for OctigaBay to chase and Cray to miss. |
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The screensaver and video monitor messages however are impossible to miss. |
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This turned out to be the beginning of Turpin's problems, because he would begin to miss the sweet life that being a world boxing champion gave him. |
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Unlike blocking, causing an opponent to miss a punch disrupts his balance, this permits forward movement past the opponent's extended arm and keeps the hands free to counter. |
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McNeill, who missed out on selection for the Great Britain team at the Winter Olympics in Sochi by a whisker, had been set to miss the high-profile competition. |
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The chairman also doesn't want to miss this event and is keen to have one of those fresh kangarooburgers Paul has organized from the delicatessen shop down the street. |
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Hoopa has the Impractical ability, which forces the opponent to miss every other turn, and it can only be bypassed by Mold Breaker, Teravolt and Turboblaze. |
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With an 'always on' capability, Skype mobile on your 3G smartphone means you never have to miss a call or make an appointment to connect with Skype users around the world. |
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Some fans desperate not to miss the action have bought camper vans. |
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At breakfast, amid the gray suits in a midtown hotel, he's hard to miss in his velvety green dinner jacket, white ruffled shirt and black pony-tailed hair. |
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I'll pass on psychoanalyzing the marriage, but it's hard to miss the fact that at least half of the lyrics to Crows' 13 mostly somber tunes are about sadness and depression. |
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I'm here today to say that IBM is not going to miss this opportunity. |
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A bisque is permission from the Whips given to a member to miss a vote or debate in the House to attend to constituency business or other matters. |
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A combination of shyness, lack of business acumen, and a determination to stick to the DIY punk ethos of the time caused them to miss opportunities again and again. |
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Going to miss our Monday chats and our Wednesday trips to the towny. |
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Hipbone surgery forced Wall to miss a lot of golf last year so he's already held off the operation as he fights to earn back his full European Tour card. |
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