Sentences with phrase «as holes in»

Originally dugouts were small one - room dwellings that started as holes in the ground, dug up from shafts in the search for opal.

Trip - and - fall accidents caused by dangerous conditions such as holes in a walking area or defective stairways

As the holes in the ring were not much bigger than the ball this must have been a very rare event and most games were likely won on points.

Minor problems such as holes in drywall or cracked window glass are not an issue, but more serious matters such as frayed wiring, a leaky roof, excessive moisture, asbestos insulation, signs of decay or contaminated soil can cause a home to be rejected if corrections are not made.

Players can see real time damage to the aircraft such as holes in the wings and trail lines during dog fights.

Ankle straps are clearly different lengths as far as the holes in them but not badly enough to return them.

In their investigation, the researchers spotted defects such as holes in the electrode with up to 100 microns (0.1 millimetre) diameter.

Anti-poaching patrols use these tools to monitor poachers, such as holes in the fence or other places they might enter the park so as to pre-empt or even catch them, says Liebenberg.

Also alarming was the number of violations under the classification of «pests,» which are given for conditions that are conducive to pest and vermin infestations, such as holes in walls, gaps between walls and ceilings, and accumulation of dried food waste behind equipment.

Measuring approximately 3 «Öì feet in length, a wink up from this distance is almost, but not quite, as rare as a hole in one in golf.

You can almost think of the Schwarzschild singularity as a hole in the fabric of space - time.

Professor John Dearing says: «You could think of our «safe operating space» as the hole in a doughnut, with everything operating in the middle maintaining a relatively healthy balance.

Generally when something like this happens a line as a hole in it.

The pressure created in the closed ear from the growing abscess (an abscess is a localized collection of pus surrounded by inflamed tissue) may cause a break on the outside of the ear that is seen as a hole in the side of the head, or it may create a large swelling or lump on one or both sides of the head.

The National Park includes Green Patch Beach and other notable beauty spots such as Hole in the Wall, Bristol Point and Scottish Rocks.

Ito has had solo and two - person exhibitions at galleries such as The Hole in New York, Steve Turner Contemporary in Los Angeles, Tomorrow Gallery in Toronto, and IMO Gallery in Copenhagen.

The nostalgia I still feel for its exuberance lives on inside me as a hole in my heart.

Whether we have to deal with a GASPEC (for natural gas trade) or a UPEC (for Uranium) is anyone's guess, but we have been taught that we neither have all the world's fuels nor can remain economically and enviornmentally healthy at today's high rates of consumption, as the hole in the Gulf taught us.

A hole in frequency is the same as a hole in space.

These conditions may be obvious, such as ice or snow on a sidewalk, or hidden, such as a hole in a lawn that may be obscured by grass.

These injuries could be caused by icy or slippery conditions, inadequate security lighting, dog bites, unmarked or hidden hazards such as a hole in the ground, as well as unexpected steps up or down that aren't marked and concrete bumpers in the parking lot that aren't visible due to poor lighting.

HUD has reassured NAR that appraiser liability would be limited only to failure to identify obvious defects, such as a hole in the roof.

It may not be as cute as the hole in the wall, but it was a functional, non-permanent solution.

Not exact matches

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To find out, Mitra punched a hole in the wall of his office, which was located on the edge of one of the city's slums, and installed a computer and a touch - pad mouse, as well as a video camera so he could observe.

It's the first day in Tokyo that finally feels like spring, cherry blossoms in bloom, but he has holed up here in the café because it's roughly equidistant from the offices of his various lawyers, as well as the bankruptcy trustee, whom he meets with regularly out of a sense of «duty» to his former customers.

As a startup executive with an engineering background, I know firsthand what it's like to have holes in my knowledge base.

But the company's ace in the hole, as Shannon and J.J. see it, is a proprietary material called Technical Cashmere — which blends the fine wool with natural and synthetic fibres to give it the durability and practicality to be washed and worn often.

Y Combinator itself has put out a list of types of startups it would like to see apply to the program (many of them stunningly ambitious), my Inc.com colleague Bill Murphy, Jr. has even uncovered a truly monster list of 1,001 business ideas (though many of them, such as a toothbrush holder with actually big enough holes, are probably not going to make you billions), and I've personally rounded up even smaller business ideas that you can start without so much as a spare $ 100 in the bank.

So for the next two years, in nine out of 10 instances, coins were being stolen as soon as they came in, says Chainalysis» Gronager, who is also a creditor: «It meant that you had a hole in the bottom of the well, and someone was just draining money.»

And that should have given it the world - topping medal haul — just as the Canadian Olympic Committee predicted — had two other countries not punctured holes in the best - known and, till now, highly reliable medal - forecasting model.

Why Satan would ever see him as a danger remains a gaping hole in «Ghost Rider»'s logic.

Everything with mass in the universe theoretically creates them — you and me included — but only highly cataclysmic events, such as exploding stars, colliding black holes, or the Big Bang, can generate waves that are powerful enough for LIGO to detect.

True or not (and many advocates for women in tech spending their lives battling these stereotypes), in our unpolitically correct moments most of us would admit that we hold an image of programmers as shy but brilliant types who don't mind being holed away with their computers for hours or days on end.

Then, when you're trying to problem solve or come up with new ideas, instead of having to physically go to the local watering hole, you should be able to get yourself in the same mindset as your audience and make these changes on your own.

Priszm lost $ 30.7 million in the past two years, and is in the hole $ 1.5 million so far this year as same - store sales declined every quarter.

Aspiring young airplane builders experiment with various tools and grips, punching holes in grey sheets of metal as the class learns how to prepare sections of fuselage for assembly.

Now, dining with 780 people could not only put a hole in your pocket, but it could tear a hole in some of your personal relationships as well.

They strive to be «square pegs in the round holes» as Steve Jobs said.

cartoon character Daffy Duck wails, spit flying and lisp in full effect as he stuffs Bugs Bunny down a rabbit hole in hopes of keeping the pile of treasure all to himself.

Even if the hole is exactly as wide and deep as it needs to be, it has to be re-done if it's not in the right place, creating more than double the work for the team because you have to fill in the first hole,» Jerkewitz explains.

Think of this as a potential new hole in the huge beaver dam currently backing up oil in the North American heartland.

«His work as a cosmologist and discoveries in black hole physics were legendary.

We managed to stop putting a hole in the ozone layer by phasing out the chemicals that were causing it (cholofluorocarbons) and, as a result, the hole is closing and there are millions fewer cases of skin cancer than there would otherwise have been.

Toshiba needs to sell the chip unit to plug a giant hole in its finances caused by the failure of the conglomerate's U.S. nuclear business, but the deal has snagged on such issues as antitrust concerns if the U.S. disk - drive maker were a major owner.

Leslie Miley, a Silicon Valley veteran who is on a leave from his position as director of engineering at Slack, said he absolutely took what he called Uber's «a — hole culture» into account in hiring decisions.

As the fresh - baked doughnut smell wafted into the streets, customers began requesting to purchase the delicacies directly, so Rudolph cut a hole in the wall to open his first retail location.

There is a drink named in Palmer's honor, as well as an airport, a golf tournament, hospitals, streets, charity initiatives and 19th - hole grill rooms.

You can get away with this in a job you can muddle through, but, as an entrepreneur, if your priorities aren't clear, you may never be able to dig yourself out of that hole.

Smartphone maker BlackBerry once accounted for 20 % of Celestica's revenue (which was US$ 6.5 billion last year), but as BlackBerry lost market share in recent years and had to cut costs, it switched to cheaper Asian suppliers, and the two companies formally announced their split last summer; sure enough, Celestica's first - quarter results showed a BlackBerry - sized hole in the balance sheet, with revenues down 19 % from the year before.