Sentences with phrase «by canals rather»

It sits on a small spit of land in the middle of a bay, and many of its tightly - packed dwellings perch over the water on stilts and are connected by canals rather than streets.

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A January study of more than 2,000 adults in the United States by Clarizen and Harris Poll discovered some employees would much rather watch paint dry (17 percent), commute four hours (12 percent) or endure a root canal (8 percent) than attend a boring meeting.

But rather than pushing baby out for a long time before the body and perenium are stretched and ready, with breathing, slow, even breaths, she conditions her body to stay calm, and evidence has been shown that by doing this she is pushing baby further down the birth canal until the end when they are at the opening and ready to emerge.

In the process, we rather amusingly went the wrong way down a one way strip of canal, only to be told off by the water police.

Photo shoots are outdoors in parks, by canals, or quiet streets rather than inside photographic studios to avoid formal, posed shots.

One area of waterfront is rather spoiled by the presence of a huge dredge pipe which, though unsightly, is helping to clear a nearby canal for boats.

Owing to its construction upon marshland, Venice is largely navigated by a system of canals rather than streets.

They accomplish this by placing a wider speaker near your ear, rather than snaking a smaller speaker into your canal.

By that I mean most people would rather have a root canal than go on an interview or talk publicly to a group.