Word Sketch for stroke (n)

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luck_n----------PP_of----------(back to top)

• Suppose that the origin of life was quite a probable event, but the subsequent evolution of intelligence was exceedingly improbable, demanding a huge stroke of luck.
• The final stroke of luck was a strong north-easterly which sprung up to wash them ashore on Great Barrier Island.
• All I know is that it was our biggest stroke of luck this season."
• We had an extraordinary stroke of luck last year.
• If, by some appalling stroke of bad luck, he and I happened to bump into each other while we're here --" He broke off.
• Then the probability of any one planet, such as Earth, enjoying both strokes of luck is the product of the two low probabilities, and this is a far smaller probability.
• Isn't that a stroke of luck?
• Then there was a stroke of luck.
• DEPRESSED James McMeekin turned to crime after three strokes of bad luck within days.
• With a tragic stroke of luck that set venereology back many decades, the patient from whom he collected the pus was also suffering from syphilis, and Hunter went on to develop both gonorrhoea and syphilis.

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• Mikael Nilsson scored for the Swedes after two minutes and Johnny Ekstrom got the second on the stroke of half-time.
• Fielding a side picked with an eye on the forthcoming Toulon tournament and an under-20 game with Italy next month, the Scots took the lead on the stroke of half-time.
• Sammy Smyth, who almost signed for Comrades after playing a number of pre-season friendlies, put Carrick ahead in the second minute before Brian Robson edged them further in front on the stroke of half-time.
• Summerbee struck right on the stroke of half-time to set up a clash with France impressive 3-0 winners over Portugal in the final tomorrow.
• Wimbledon might have conceded a second goal on the stroke of half-time when Harford curled his shot narrowly over after a poor clearance by Segers.
• On the stroke of half-time, Roy fell offside at a midfield ruck.
• CLIVE ALLEN took his tally to seven goals in five games with a spectacular volley on the stroke of half-time in rain-lashed Cosenza last night.
• Hayward kicked his third penalty on the stroke of half-time though Harries reduced the deficit with a penalty for Newport.
• The only goal of the match came on the stroke of half-time from 18-year-old Gary Rowett.
• Collegians, with wind advantage, had trouble converting their pressure into points and led just 8-0 on the stroke of half-time.

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• Really, quite a stroke of genius.
• At the time, his appointment seemed a stroke of genius by Tom Bradley, Los Angeles's weary mayor of 20 years.
• It seems that Teller remained an inexhaustible source of ideas but, as with Winston Churchill, "nine out of ten of them were useless and he needed men with more judgement, even if less gifted to select the tenth idea which was often a stroke of genius".
• The Super stroke of genius
• After John Whibley left the Palace in 1923 the outside-left position became something of a problem for manager Edmund Goodman, but he filled it, some two years later, with a stroke of absolute genius, by obtaining the signature of George Clarke from Aston Villa.
• Anna and Colin's strokes of genius
• The British secret service came up with a a stroke of some genius when the stopped having our operatives shot when they caught them and simply turned them into double agents."
• It was a stroke of genius on my part to avoid such awkward questions as "Why has the club such an appalling record?" and "Is the club's current position due to managerial incompetence?" by pretending it was a terrible phone line and I could not hear the questions.
• "Easy -- a stroke of genius hit me at the height of the bombing, General.
• Every other paper one picked up had something either about his ancestors or his own latest piece of rabble-rousing -- It was a stroke of genius by the Prime Minister to make him Minister of Fine Arts, where he could shout his head off and do little real harm.

midnight_n----------PP_of----------(back to top)

• AT the stroke of midnight more than 500 further education, tertiary and sixth form colleges left local authority control and became state-funded corporations.In line with the 1992 Further and Higher Education Act, colleges will now be responsible for managing their own budgets and the Government will hold the purse strings, funding them directly through a national FE Funding Council.Once considered the Cinderella of education, further education is now being promoted as the fairy godmother with the ability to improve post-16 education and training, stem the drop-out and failure rates and make Britain economically competitive once more.
• As a distant bell in Port-au-Prince tolled out the stroke of midnight, the drums ceased and the candle-holder in the lead halted at the rickety cemetery gates.
• "On the stroke of Midnight"
• Tomorrow, at the first stroke of midnight... adieu.
• There was a relationship between Jean Simmons (then married to Stewart Granger) and Burton which was so close that he continued embracing her, publicly, after the stroke of midnight one New Year's Eve, only to look up to a slap in the face from Sybil, who instantly left the party -- for New York.
• Thus, a lease for seven years "from 25 March 1970" will begin at midnight between 25 March 1970 and 26 March 1970; and it will end at the stroke of midnight at the end of 25 March 1977.
• The wartime allies have officially handed control of Berlin back to the Berliners; the two Germanies will become a single nation at the stroke of midnight.
• They stretched and stained in the darkness, and the hours crawled by like years; Till, now, on the stroke of midnight,
• Most remarkable of all is Saleem, born precisely on the stroke of midnight, who has the ability to wander into other people's lives and share their experiences.
• As the day of "our final hour" approached our publicity releases continued to whip up public opinion, and I carefully planned the last programme for broadcast from 9pm on the last evening until the station's license expired with the stroke of midnight.

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• But by a remarkable stroke of fortune we were saved from falling into error.
• But she had a stroke of good fortune when she inherited Penelope Beaton as her art teacher, a woman who laid aside "the nice tidy little shell paintings" favoured by her predecessor in favour of teaching her class the pleasures to be had from working with the wonders of unpredictable watercolour.
• Your first big stroke of fortune was playing Eugene Marchbanks in Shaw's Candida with Deborah Kerr in the West End.
• In Sybil , the humble heroine turns out to be an heiress and is able to marry her well-meaning aristocratic lover without compromising the class system, and a similar stroke of good fortune resolves the love stories in Shirley and North and South.
• That tavern wench was a stroke of good fortune -- but then you go and get yourself lost!"
• So, far from being obsessed by witchcraft and sorcery as the causes of every unkind stroke of fortune, the truth is that Zande recognize many overlapping and reinforcing causal agencies.
• By an extraordinary stroke of good fortune, both resident tutors appointed by the Cambridge Board were supportive of the WEA as a democratic adult educational movement.
• But after eight issues, early in 1967, the paper had a stroke of good fortune.
• For those who find themselves in that category, something extra is now needed, some adventitious stroke of fortune, something to upset the terms of the argument and create a world no longer dominated by a leader of proven unpopularity.
• The high number of joyful expressions about the salvation of the Fuhrer, which is emphasized as a true stroke of fortune for the German people, is not only proof of the devotion and loyalty of the soldiers to the Fuhrer, but of the firm determination of the soldiers to fight and conquer for him, which is also brought out in the letters ...

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• A few strokes of his pen brought out all the Irishness of an Irishman; proud lean faces were a speciality.
• So, at a stroke of the administrative pen, contests like those in 1991 between Lancashire and Worcestershire, and Surrey and Northamptonshire have been eliminated.
• On May 14th a criminal-court justice, Denise Frossard, shocked the country when, with a stroke of the pen, she ordered 14 of Rio's leading outlaws into jail as a threat to public order.
• The sequences of co-ordinates are transformed into vector chain codes (Freeman, 1961) whereby changes of direction in the strokes of the pen are converted into a numbered code.
• I just though it was a simple misprint and with one stroke of the pen I changed "otter" to "other", thus effecting a rather broader sweep to Party policy than had been intended.
• One or two more bold strokes of the pen could wrap it up for Kenny!
• The rash combustion, the pyrotechnic spree of the Electric Warrior reduced by the fond stroke of a pen to mere running-boy torch bearer in pop's endlessly unfurling tapestry!
• At the stroke of a pen they removed hundreds of thousands of needy youngsters from the benefit system and condemned many of them to a life of mendicant poverty, many also slipped into prostitution.
• Bryan took up his drawing board and, with a few quick strokes of his black felt-tipped pen, he drew outlines of the bills, head shapes and size differences of the two gulls to make all quite clear.
• Czechoslovakia's far-reaching new law that bans all members of the "old structures" from public office for five years tries to solve the problem of the past with a simple administrative stroke of the pen.

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• Rapid strokes of a pastry brush dipped into golden oil.
• Scant make-up was applied, and her pale gold hair was treated to little more than a few vigorous strokes of a brush.
• It is one stroke of the brush or a single measured cube and it is the whole painting and the completed grid.
• With a few deft strokes of the brush, Katherine gathered up Portia's fine sandy hair into a loop at the back of her head and let its length trail her shoulders.
• In the middle of combat, one is little more than a wave in the sea... a stroke of the brush lost in the painting...

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• She'd never been thrashed before, apart from the half dozen strokes of the cane suffered at Holmsly Manor.
• For his pains he received a black eye, a bloodied nose, a split lip, two skinned knees, several bruised ribs and four strokes of the cane on each hand for fighting on school premises.
• NEW penalties to crack down on adultery in Malaysia include... six strokes of the cane.

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• But I'll do it! she told herself, her enthusiasm for the task growing with every stroke of her charcoal pencil.
• Mr. Gilpin said "picturesque ideas are all cloathed in bodily forms and may often be explained better by a few strokes of the pencil than by a volume of the most laboured description."
• I have seen snapshots of her arms extending cigarette lighters, her lips painted seamlessly in China red matt, each eyebrow plucked and lined with one rich stroke of a black pencil, false lashes on her eyes, "twinkle" blue kohl beneath and drawn at a tilt.

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• Amateurs there were of course, men who volunteered for the job in order to save their own skins, and it was one of these who, in 1626, took twenty-nine strokes of the sword to end the life of the Comte de Chalais.
• Before the Crusade drove all other concerns from his mind, the King's favourite occupation had been to sing duets with the Duke (Richard had a voice remarkably like a dying pig, but one does not mention such things to a feudal magnate who can split an anvil with one stroke of his sword) and one evening, probably after rather too much mead, the King had confided to Blondel his fear of being kidnapped.
• The impact propelled her forward and two assistants had to hold her, two more strokes of the sword being necessary to decapitate her.

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• The principle is similar to double jacquard, with each colour being knitted by one stroke of the carriage.
• But I have gone a long way from my original fine lace and the number of strokes of the lace carriage.
• This pattern had 12 strokes of the lace carriage to two with the main carriage.

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• Substitute Ropati's try, after neat work by Bishop, came on the stroke of full time as Warrington relaxed in the warmth of this surprisingly easy victory.
• Lang restored Instonians lead to four points before McGarry replied with a fine penalty on the stroke of half time.
• Jamie Richmond added another on the stroke of half time and Gert Jan Vreevurg brought the score up to 7-0 with a slapshot from the point.
• His glory was the late cut, rated by C.L.R. James as "one of the great strokes of our time", but apart from the hook, which he did not play, all the other strokes were there, elegant, graceful, polished, a joy to watch.
• Palmer put Sheffield Wednesday back into the lead with four minutes left and on the stroke of time, Sherringham made it four four.
• Portsmouth took the lead in their match at Fratton Park against Bournemouth through Clark, right on the stroke of half time.
• As time ran out, Martin Cool right on the stroke of full time got in a great volley, it was well held by Ken Vasey.
• But they made no mistake on the stroke of half time when Stevenson pounced on an Elliott pass to crack the ball through a ruck of bodies after Wrexham failed to clear a free kick.
• Jimmy Phillips gave Middlesbrough brief hope of a revival from the penalty spot two minutes later after Mike Hooper hauled down John Hendrie, but Steve McManaman restored respectability to the scoreline when he turned home Liverpool's third on the stroke of half time from Don Hutchison's raking pass.
• Steve Foster was desperately unlucky not to score when he'd bludgeoned his way through, right on the stroke of half time.

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• According to one informed source, Microsoft Corp partner Insignia Solutions Inc, has not done a stroke of work on its "WABI-like" SoftPC native Windows-on-Unix solution (UX No 434) because it's been too busy trying to fix NT.
• He liked to tell one that he was a dilettante, "I've never written a line for publication nor put brush to water-colour, in short I never did a stroke of work, except for those few years teaching at Harvard, and I must admit that I enjoyed every moment of them--in retrospect."
• Dr Neil could have given her several answers, beginning with the beautiful hands lying in her lap which had visibly never done a stroke of work in their owner's life, but said instead, "A strange place for a young lady like yourself to look for it."
• The picket lines are up, the rule book's out and it's eight months and not a stroke of royal work for me.
• They uniformly show young, narrow-shouldered, and in so far as one can see through the draperies, narrow-hipped, flat-chested women with long pale hands which have clearly never done a stroke of work.
• He's never done a stroke of work since."
• Gerry "Yea, ten months and I've not had a stroke of work and believe me I've looked all over the place....

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• Bishop Daly was speaking during his first interview since suffering the stroke seven months ago.
• Towards the end of September Patil's position was weakened when he suffered a stroke , and in early October his predicament worsened when Advani's Rath Yatra [see above] incited serious communal rioting in Karnataka which resulted in up to 50 deaths.
• There was also speculation concerning the health of both Taufa'ahau Tupou and his aged Prime Minister, the former having cancelled a state visit to Japan in order to travel to Australia for medical treatment, the latter having been incapacitated for a number of years after suffering a stroke .
• In essence, the obsessive Clare Leash had taken it upon herself to make a full account of the volumes in the Society's possession, and had suffered a stroke while doing so.
• After suffering strokes in 1983 and 1986, Abernathy caused controversy in 1989 when he published his autobiography And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, in which he expressed regret for having been seen as "no more than an appendage to Martin".
• Over the past year Trixie Selman has lost her husband and suffered a stroke .
• Yet the dog had grown old and less capable, and one day the gillie had come and explained with great sorrow that the dog had suffered a stroke , and must be put down.
• Understandably Diana found it hard to concentrate on the cookery course she had enrolled in a few days before her father suffered his stroke .
• When I tell you that, every year, 100,000 people in England and Wales suffer a stroke for the first time and that some of these may be unborn babies or small children, then I am sure that you will want to help.
• Heartwatch gives a specific assessment of the probability of developing heart disease or suffering a stroke in later life.

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• They count the strokes : six.
• Phat counted the strokes , darting an occasional glance at Duclos to ensure he retained his approval.
• Word count -- means that words are counted, ie. "a word is a word" -- do not count 5 strokes to make a word.
• I stalked back into the room and brushed my hair furiously, counting the strokes .
• My heat was pounding as I began to count the strokes of the church clock.
• "You will count each stroke aloud."

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• Dogs should not be exercised then, because there is a risk that they could succumb to heat stroke .
• Because of the problems we could have had due to heat stroke I elected to walk with the group carry 50 litres of water.
• In some climates, outdoor workers have to be trained to take protective measures against exposure to long periods of sunlight leading to dehydration because of perspiration loss; or to heat stroke ; or after long exposure, to an increasing rise in the incidence of skin cancer (Nichols, 1988).
• You must always be careful, however, when leaving a dog in a car, that it will not succumb to heat stroke .

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• On the other hand, many patients with high blood pressure ultimately had strokes , apparently because their vessels burst under the excessive pressure, or they died because their hearts failed in the continuous task of driving blood through their constricted arteries.
• Buck Finnegan was going to take 7, which meant that Stevie had two strokes to force a "sudden death" play-off.
• And then, lo and behold, your lover's wife has a stroke of the sort of good luck that must mean that he'll be able to leave her secure in the knowledge that life is smiling on her, that, compared with that kind of opportunity, the mere defection of an already-estranged husband can only be incidental.
• The diarist Evelyn described how at Whitehall in 1685, on the Sunday before Charles II had his fatal stroke , he witnessed "the inexpressible luxury and profaneness and forgetfulness of God, as the King sat and toyed with his three concubines whilst his courtiers played at basset with GBP2,000 of gold on the table".
• She turned to the bookcase: "Those were his books, but after he had his stroke he couldn't read for any length of time without tiring his eyes and I used to read to him.
• We had an extraordinary stroke of luck last year.
• In June 1968, soon after receiving the gold medal of the Society of Antiquaries, she had a stroke .
• She don't, she do she i she er finished her eightieth birthday and then had a stroke .
• His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper: I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill... do you think I am made of stone?... surely I deserve better consideration... who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer ... have you forgotten that it was I, when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart?
• Their life completely changed the day George had his stroke .

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• We finished a stroke ahead of the field, and Christy O'Connor was nearest to us.
• A second round of 66 clinched the title for the Sussex county player after he had finished three strokes behind the first-round leader, Leslie Cox, of Foxhills, with a morning 71.
• He collected a total of GBP55,000 for his troubles, and Wales -- runners-up in the team tournament last year -- eventually finished six strokes behind America, who restored some pride after their failure in last month's Dunhill Cup.
• As it was we finished a stroke behind Dai Rees and lied for second with Kel Nagle.
• On a day of low scoring, they finished a stroke clear of Xonia Wunsch from Spain, winner of the Italian Open two weeks ago.
• " Right now I don't really know how to describe the way I feel," said Murray, minutes after holding out to finish one stroke clear of New Zealand's Frank Nobilo and three in front of the rejuvenated Sam Torrance.
• At one stage it looked as if Gordon Hotson, of Sleaford, would put in a severe challenge, but after being five under in his second round he slipped back to a 69, finishing a stroke behind the leaders.

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• Couldn't swim a stroke .
• The Olympians had slightly further to swim, and while the juniors were allowed to crawl Moorhouse was made to swim the breast stroke at which he won gold at Seoul 5 years ago.
• TWO Liverpool mothers who cannot swim a stroke saved a lifeguard from drowning in a North Wales holiday camp pool.
• To my surprise this man who could not swim a stroke had covered a quarter of a mile towards Malta, judging by the fluorescine trail."

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• The Spencer family feared the ghost of the Earl's father was slowly killing him following a stroke .
• In the early stages of recovery following a stroke or head injury, it may seem impossible that the patient will ever be able to work again.
• All studies were conducted in the month following the stroke in the sequence described.
• It is with great sadness that we report the death of Ken Rowlands. the former director and general manager of Wood Group Haven Engineering Limited, passed away on 3 April following a massive stroke .
• The patient should not be expected to get dressed in the early stages following his stroke .
• In the early stages of recovery following a stroke or head injury, you, as carer, have to be nurse, therapist, friend and companion to the patient.
• Stanley also had to cope with epilepsy, a fairly common complication following a stroke .
• Following a second stroke in 1892 he retired, and he died 15 June 1893 in Torquay.
• Either there is no one else to step in, or doctors and social workers -- themselves at their wits' end to find facilities -- conspire to bring it about by assuming that such care will be given, for example when a patient is discharged from hospital following a stroke .
• Saunders died 5 February 1870 in Dartford Heath, following a debilitating stroke two years earlier which had put an end to his trade activities.

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• There are probably three good reasons for playing a stroke with two hands on the racket:
• He had already blown his chances and perhaps that was why he played a relaxed stroke .
• However, he holed from 40 feet at the 11th for a birdie before Stewart played the stroke of the round at the 12th.
• On the other side of the road, Anwar was playing cricket strokes .
• Yeah, but he doesn't have , he doesn't have to be noted in the score book, that he was no balled for a, for a beamer, but out of interest perhaps he was letting him er, so Giles there, there, left-hander, played some lovely strokes in the first innings, wasn't in for long, then Shaw goes down on his knees there up and outside the old stump, he's playing backwards, the ball goes through to Russell.
• They make room for themselves to play strokes deflecting balls off the line of the stumps and deliberately playing "educated edges" through the now unpopulated slips area.
• This time they added 70, played attacking strokes about as freely as was sensible in the conditions, and dug out or skipped a fair few difficult balls.
• DeFreitas played a daffy stroke : he tried to pull one from Cairns which was not short enough.

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• "And you'll remain bent over until you've received all the strokes .
• On the scaffold the condemned man was allowed to embrace his daughter before being dispatched by Franz, receiving thirty-one strokes of the bar before expiring.
• She received all twelve strokes : lamenting and bawling at each, as the warmth of her masochistic sensuality mingled with the heat of the assault on her burning fundament.
• You're going to receive twelve strokes ; and then, young lady, I'll tell you what you've done to deserve them."
• I have so much more important concerns on my mind that I am hardly fit for anything, or to wish for anything than to receive the last releasing stroke .
• Gents match, the Ladies driving from the men's tees but receiving an extra half stroke benefit!

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• Massage cream or oil into your skin, using light upward strokes , working up the body.
• By using the tilt it is possible for a white water race, for example, to steer down a rapid whilst still using powerful forward strokes rather than having to use slower sweep strokes.
• er but if you are actually swimming and you are using the different strokes and so forth, it does use power-wise all the main muscles of the body.
• Technique, first of all, is the ability to use a stroke in the simplest way so as to achieve the best stroke.
• Hold the foot firmly to the floor with your free hand and use short brisk strokes on the lower and inner parts of the leg.
• Mark and cut the shape on a piece of cardboard, transfer on to the front of the tile, and using a few downward strokes to get the cut started, saw out the shape.
• Very few experienced paddlers will ever use this stroke in real paddling.
• Leg furnishings are also best groomed daily with a metal comb, using downward strokes at an angle of 90 degrees to the leg.
• By using the tilt it is possible for a white water race, for example, to steer down a rapid whilst still using powerful forward strokes rather than having to use slower sweep strokes .
• Use light even strokes so as not to cause bubbles to form in the film.

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• Jane Sixsmith led the scoring spree with two goals in each half with captain Mary Nevill twice on target before the break, and her Leicester colleague, Kath Johnson, converting penalty strokes in the 43rd and 52nd minutes.
• Williams converted a 58th minute penalty stroke after she was illegally tackled following a fine individual run from a counter attack.
• Skates went on to score three more after the interval, all from open play, with Gary Brown contributing two and Dominic Maguire converting a penalty stroke as Brooklands romped home 8-1.

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• He died soon after a crippling stroke by the end of the same year.
• Every stroke was applied with precision by the bitch of an SS officer, and after each stroke she would smile and run the whip lovingly through her fingers.
• Even after his stroke , he still had a charismatic presence, and people valued his company.
• The dependency of the old person may emerge gradually with increasing frailty or suddenly, as after a stroke .
• His health was affected by a serious illness in 1891, and deteriorated still further after a slight paralytic stroke in 1909.
• BACK TO WORK HAIRDRESSING AFTER A STROKE : STANDING ALL DAY AND USING BOTH HANDS WITH PRECISION.
• There was a relationship between Jean Simmons (then married to Stewart Granger) and Burton which was so close that he continued embracing her, publicly, after the stroke of midnight one New Year's Eve, only to look up to a slap in the face from Sybil, who instantly left the party -- for New York.
• After a stroke in 1987, he had survived a coup attempt in 1988 mounted by a group within the VP [see pp. 35906; 36067; 36381].
• They will take confused or physically frail elderly people for assessment and rehabilitation when they are at their most vulnerable, maybe after a stroke or bereavement.
• Yeah but she didn't, well she didn't live long after her stroke did she?

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• Success at a stroke
• Thus, a lease for seven years "from 25 March 1970" will begin at midnight between 25 March 1970 and 26 March 1970; and it will end at the stroke of midnight at the end of 25 March 1977.
• Using it as fuel deletes transport's contribution to the greenhouse problem at a stroke , as hydrogen burns to give just water vapour and NOx.
• Whole villages were wiped out at a stroke , towns were abandoned, and in the chief provincial cities nearly three quarters of the people were taken by disease.
• If the Comintern, too, decided that the anti-fascist coalition would be weakened in Vietnam by national independence, itself something of a bourgeois concept, and if the Indochina Communist Party followed suit, no matter how reluctantly, it would at a stroke lose a very significant part of its political appeal.
• At a stroke , they would lose a flourishing tourist trade and their place on the world map.
• THE Conservative Party has doubled its headquarters' office space at a stroke by buying a lease from Thames Water next door.
• It took more optimism than most people could summon to believe that man could renounce the time-honoured outlet of war utterly and at a stroke .
• Routes may be closed, reducing accessibility, or subsidies may be removed, increasing fares for users at a stroke .
• All irritation seemingly forgotten, he leant forward in his chair and smiled at James Grierson -- one of his most stunning smiles that seemed to wipe the cruelly from his face at a stroke .

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• Mrs Burrows had been paralysed by a stroke .
• Their father was paralysed by a stroke in the early 1790s, following which some part of his business failed.
• But neither was ever in contention, as Chip Beck, one of last year's American Ryder Cup team, regained the lead he had lost on Saturday to win by a stroke from Greg Norman and Mike Standly.
• Anthony Coburn got the commission to write the first story by a notable stroke of good fortune.
• This was all the more so, since part of the problem with which I was faced was due, as I recognized, to lack of forethought on my side, though it had been complicated by a stroke of ill-luck.
• By a stroke of luck, she had spotted it on a colleague's bookshelf before lunch.
• WESTHILL's Ronnie McDonald won the North East Alliance Championship by three strokes at Duff House Royal yesterday.
• He made the cut by three strokes , and in qualifying for the final two rounds he has already guaranteed himself a place on next season's growing satellite tour, Europe's golfing second division.
• Vicente Fernandez won the English Open in dramatic style by holing a putt of around 100 feet on the last green to beat Swedes Fredrick Lindgren and Per Ulrik Johansson by a stroke .
• This is useful in understanding the problems experienced by some stroke patients, and may also be useful in understanding when eye witnesses' reports can and cannot be relied upon;

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• His tongue tasted her, exploring with delicate strokes which gradually deepened into a passionate demand that blew her mind and exploded all her misconceptions of what a kiss could be.
• Blade cleaning is dangerous so the technique is to work from the centre boss radially outwards, with short strokes of a well folded cloth, lifting pressure as the edge of the blade is reached.
• On May 14th a criminal-court justice, Denise Frossard, shocked the country when, with a stroke of the pen, she ordered 14 of Rio's leading outlaws into jail as a threat to public order.
• In Chronic Diseases we are told that when giving remedies in solid form i.e. solid form i.e. granules or powders dry on the tongue, Hahnemann found that remedies prepared with more than two shakes were too strong so stayed with two strokes for consistency; but during the last years since I have been giving every dose of medicine in a solution, divided over fifteen, twenty or thirty days and even more, no potentizing in an attenuating vial is found too strong, and again I use ten strokes ."
• With every stroke he shouted "Hai!"
• In a fifth instance, given in ex.5d, the cellos, again in the tenor clef, have the combined angular and linear theme the first with strokes , the second with dots while the basses, in bar 383, give out the fourth of the five themes, with strokes in pure accentual meaning, as proved by the third minim that is tied to its neighbour.
• I just though it was a simple misprint and with one stroke of the pen I changed "otter" to "other", thus effecting a rather broader sweep to Party policy than had been intended.
• "Enter the professional tour with sound basic strokes and complete all round game before challenging the big guys on the tour.
• Compare this map with the forward sweep paddle stroke that we teach in the Star tests.
• What is also curious, is that if the vertical pointer is lined-up with the vertical stroke of the letter "E" so that it becomes an "I", the name SION can be read.

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• Outside the prison, the minutes after the stroke of nine brought an inevitable sense of anti-climax.
• Two years after the stroke , Esther still had very severe associated reactions in her left arm, which interfered with her activities: the arm would always be in her way and never where it was needed.
• The election reaffirmed Mandela's position as effective leader of the ANC (whose 72-year old president, Oliver Tambo, was in Sweden convalescing after a stroke ), with Sisulu, Mbeki and another veteran freedom fighter, Raymond Mhlaba (who had been released from prison along with Sisulu in October 1989) now forming the core of the internal leadership.
• The patient's first experiences of standing up, in the early stages after his stroke or head injury, aim to help his body regain the tonus needed to hold itself up against gravity (pp.9, 115).
• The occupational therapist may supply portable handrails in the early stages after the stroke , so that the patient has some support on each side while he sits on the toilet, although these should not be used to lean on when standing up or sitting down.
• Mr Biermann, who is visiting his mother at her home in Elton Road, wrote the books to rebuild his life after a stroke in 1989 left him paralysed down the right hand side of his body.
• Chronic conditions such as diabetes and weakness after a stroke may also lead to incontinence.
• Mr Biermann spent eight months convalescing after the stroke , staying with his mother, Anne Biermann, in Elton Road, Darlington, and running a music course at Williams music shop.
• The other trustee is his former partner, Mr Jellaby -- who, as you know, has unfortunately been in the hospital for the past two months after a stroke ."
• His graphic story has just been published in the Darlington Postgraduate Journal, edited by doctors at Darlington Memorial Hospital where he was treated after his second stroke .

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• In 1932 he became Prime Minister and in 1933 Dictator, a situation which continued until his retirement due to a massive stroke in 1968.
• Thirdly, both cardiac death and death due to stroke would be reduced, but the near universal absence of a fall in reported overall mortality makes this unlikely.
• Firstly, cardiac death would be reduced but not death due to stroke .
• "Allingham was found dead on the bed due to a stroke or apoplexy," Sir Richard commented.
• Secondly, death due to stroke would be reduced but not cardiac death.
• It was presented "for outstanding care for his father, who was paralysed due to a stroke ."

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• Doctor Rossitter came and dressed Susan's arm, which he said was much better; and in the afternoon Breeze left her sister safely tucked up and she was knocking at the Vicarage door on the stroke of three.
• Propulsion occurs on the back-stroke (when the hairs are erect) and far less energy is expended in moving the leg forward on the recovery stroke (when the hairs collapse against the leg and so reduce the resistance to movement).
• Summerbee struck right on the stroke of half-time to set up a clash with France impressive 3-0 winners over Portugal in the final tomorrow.
• On the stroke of eleven, she bustles into the room, accompanied by the grey-haired and angular figure of the Lord Chancellor, lugubrious as an upmarket undertaker in black tailcoat.
• Then Paul Rideout's cynical backheel at Darren Peacock's head on the stroke of half-time left the Merseysiders with only nine men in the second half.
• HA Cup Round Two: Southport 3 Formby 0; Liverpool Sefton 0 Ben Rhydding 2; Swalwell 3 Harrogate 2; Norton 1 Sheffield 8; Wakefield 0 Alderley Edge 4; Timperley 0 Pelicans 0 (Timperley win on penalty strokes ).
• It is caught by a hook on the bobbin case carrier at a point just above the eye of the needle when on its upward stroke .
• Jett threw open the drawing room door just on the stroke of twelve.
• And Steve obediently went off, taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel, and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars, waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio: a faint, feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual, though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known.
• Appropriately it kicks off on the stroke of midnight tomorrow with a pyrotechnic extravaganza likely to distract even the most serious Hogmanay party-goers.

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• Norman Crawford then pulled off a master stroke , introducing McConnell, and he set up Mark Burns for a short corner strike in the 46th minute before adding two goals himself in the space of five minutes to leave Holywood 4-2 ahead.
• It is even more difficult to find the boundary in front of the wicket since "the sweepers" are out on the mid-wicket and cover boundaries, cutting off the strokes which penetrate the inner ring of fieldsmen before they reach the ropes.
• Etienne de Vignolles, known by the name of La Hire which his Burgundian enemies had given him, brought off a spectacular stroke with the capture of Chateau-Gaillard, on the river Seine, in 1430, while in the following year Ambroise de Lore and his band travelled across much of Normandy to attack a fair near Caen, before retreating in good order with their prisoners.
• Morris's presence also put him off his stroke on the phone.
• Cobalt got up from his chair as though nothing had happened to put him off his stroke .
• She took a calming breath and turned, and was put off her stroke for a moment when she saw his glance flicking over her slim and erect carriage, taking in the elegant and attractive navy-trimmed white outfit she wore.
• It put him off his stroke and the chopper slipped, cutting his finger.
• Nixon had brought off an imaginative stroke in foreign policy.

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• Her mother Mary Butler, seen here before a serious stroke which left her unable to swallow, now needs a tube and pump system to get food directly into her stomach.
• As he had lived alone before his stroke , he had to hire 24-hour nursing help, and a nurse accompanied him whenever he went out, which was initially only to attend for rehabilitation care.
• If you were close to the patient before his stroke , and were used to showing him affection by touching and kissing him, and if you still feel the same warmth for him despite his illness, you can help his morale greatly by continuing to behave as before, even if he seems not to respond.
• Oh dear, the last time I saw her before her stroke was when she was playing under the beech tree with Alexandre -- he must have been two years old that summer -- and she was wearing a green chiffon blouse.
• Appointed first a lieutenant-colonel, and then a lord commissioner of the Admiralty, he saw active service in the Channel during the French wars, before a stroke in 1698 put a premature end to his military career, and probably hastened his death.

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• It left the French golfer four strokes ahead of Gronberg, with Davies one stroke further behind, to be sharing third place with Annika Sorenstam from Sweden.
• Then we shot a 68 in the second round, easily the best round, but most importantly it put us nine strokes ahead of Nicklaus.
• Roberto played beautifully in the third round and we progressed to two strokes ahead of the field after he shot a 67.
• A confident Tom Kite shot a bogey-free 65 to move two strokes ahead of the field after the fourth round of the Bob Hope Classic in La Quinta, California.
• We were two strokes ahead of Dai Rees, but at the 15th we hit trouble.
• With a 10-under-par halfway aggregate of 136, the former British and United States Open champion moves into today's third round one stroke ahead of Susan Moon, with Spain's Xonia Wunsch one stroke further adrift.
• Laura's challenge to race back was uttered in that spirit, but she was the better swimmer and reached the jetty strokes ahead of me.
• We started one stroke ahead of Miller, but it was all-square after the second where we missed the green and bogeyed.
• James, who shot a second-round 69 to add to his opening 71 for a four-under-par aggregate of 140, is one stroke ahead of South African De Wet Basson and Dutchman Chris Van Der Velde -- and very happy with his golf.
• We finished a stroke ahead of the field, and Christy O'Connor was nearest to us.

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• The 31-year-old from Paisley had a second 70 at Santa Ponsa to move alongside Ronan Rafferty at four under par, two strokes behind Danish leader Steen Tinning, who has one stroke in hand over England's Jim Payne, South African Ian Palmer and Sweden's Joakim Haeggman.
• Ames, who went so close to winning in Madeira last month, then birdied the seventeenth as well to join Gilford on nine under par on the last tee with Spence one stroke behind.
• At one stage it looked as if Gordon Hotson, of Sleaford, would put in a severe challenge, but after being five under in his second round he slipped back to a 69, finishing a stroke behind the leaders.
• His final round of 73 left him on 279, five strokes behind the winner, Australian Peter Fowler, who shot 67 for a two-stroke triumph.
• Ballesteros returned 70 for day three to be two strokes behind the two leaders, with the West German Bernhard Langer.
• Davies didn't drop a shot as she carded six birdies and an eagle in her round, after starting the day six strokes behind the French golfer.
• He then eagled the 10th to go to 15 under, while Gilford dropped a shot at the same hole to fall one stroke behind.
• We were still a couple of strokes behind Tony Lema and another Australian mate Bruce Devlin.
• A second round of 66 clinched the title for the Sussex county player after he had finished three strokes behind the first-round leader, Leslie Cox, of Foxhills, with a morning 71.
• After starting the day a stroke behind Stewart, the USPGA champion, Langer overhauled him over the seventh, eighth and ninth holes.

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• An interesting effect can be obtained by brushing a few strokes of water onto the paper and drawing over the top.
• The Yorkshire Evening News described the deal as "a rare stroke of business".
• At a single stroke of fate, Mikhail Vologsky was nothing, with only uncertainty to look forward to.
• AT the stroke of midnight more than 500 further education, tertiary and sixth form colleges left local authority control and became state-funded corporations.In line with the 1992 Further and Higher Education Act, colleges will now be responsible for managing their own budgets and the Government will hold the purse strings, funding them directly through a national FE Funding Council.Once considered the Cinderella of education, further education is now being promoted as the fairy godmother with the ability to improve post-16 education and training, stem the drop-out and failure rates and make Britain economically competitive once more.
• It was a stroke of genius on my part to avoid such awkward questions as "Why has the club such an appalling record?" and "Is the club's current position due to managerial incompetence?" by pretending it was a terrible phone line and I could not hear the questions.
• Sammy Smyth, who almost signed for Comrades after playing a number of pre-season friendlies, put Carrick ahead in the second minute before Brian Robson edged them further in front on the stroke of half-time.
• By a stroke of good fortune Ninian was earning at its maximum rate when much of the rest of ICI was suffering severe competitive pressures from exchange rate movements.
• STROKE OF GENIUS
• Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors spokesman Peter Miller called for a further one per cent reduction on the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve.
• To refine this even more, random strokes of Polychromos pastel No. 176, Van Dyke brown, were added to give a colour and tonal variation.

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• Meanwhile, Britain's Sally Prosser was only two strokes off the lead after a 72 in the second round of the Republic of China Open, at Chang Gung in Taipei yesterday.
• We didn't seem to worry too much about being a couple of strokes off the lead.
• Todd was six strokes off the lead at the half-way mark, but promptly shot a 77 in the third round and eventually finished 71st, earning $594.
• His first round 79 left him seven strokes off the pace set by MacPherson and two other southern players, and when he added a second round 75, he was nine strokes behind his Cheshire team mate Dave Watson of Helsby, who started 73-72.
• NICK FALDO shot a second-round 72, adding to a first-round 69, to stand five strokes off the lead after two rounds of the Honda Classic at Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
• Meanwhile, Britain's Sally Prosser was only two strokes off the lead after a 72 in the second round of the Republic of China Open, at Chang Gung, in Taipei yesterday.
• Bernhard Langer really looked as though it could be his year with a 68, and Sandy was three strokes off the lead.

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• As Cantona brushed aside Liverpool with brilliant strokes in front of goal, both on the ground and in the air, the canvas was not so pretty for Graeme Souness.
• MIKE ATHERTON's hope of retaining his England Test place took a blow today, when he was out to a careless stroke in front of Graham Gooch.
• Brian Huggett was a stroke in front of us and I remember Arnold Palmer was about, as well as Peter's big friend Kel Nagle.
• In the PGA Championship at Inverness, he was four strokes in front of Bob Tway with only nine holes to play -- and still lost, Tway holing from a bunker on the final green for a birdie.
• Sadly Cottrell slumped on the final afternoon to total 300, while Nowicki's 70 put him on 291, two strokes in front of MacPherson.

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• Meanwhile, thanks to a series of startling medical breakthroughs, his father was recovering from his debilitating strokes .
• Bill Warmington was recovering from a stroke .
• A woman who has recovered from a stroke or head injury may decide she would like to work for the first time, as part of the challenge of overcoming her illness.
• Tragically, Jim failed to recover from the stroke he had suffered on the Saturday morning (28th May) and died the following morning.
• After an intensive rehabilitation programme of physiotherapy and speech therapy, Elinor appeared to have completely recovered from her stroke , although she could no longer think of three things at once, which Buzz said was a mercy for the people who had to live with her.
• The former ANC president Oliver Tambo, who had only partially recovered from a stroke , was given the largely honorary position of national chairman.
• recovering from strokes or head injuries
• The Lubavitcher Rebbe is recovering from a stroke .
• Mabel, who is recovering from a stroke , added: "I feel great.

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• It was presented "for outstanding care for his father, who was paralysed due to a stroke ."
• And as for the delay in writing, don't you have any idea how time-consuming it is, looking after someone who's been paralysed by a stroke ?"
• Their father was paralysed by a stroke in the early 1790s, following which some part of his business failed.
• Mrs Burrows had been paralysed by a stroke .

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• Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors spokesman Peter Miller called for a further one per cent reduction on the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve.
• At the end of the five year systolic hypertension in the elderly trial there was a reduction in total stroke incidence of 6 per 1000 patient years of treatment.
• An Australian trial of treatment of mild hypertension in elderly people showed no reduction in fatal strokes but a 75% reduction in ischaemic cardiac deaths.
• In contrast, Coope and Warrender reported a 50% reduction in total strokes , but the "incidence of myocardial infarction was unaffected by treatment."
• Campbell supports this with results from a subset of patients from the Australian national blood pressure study, saying that these "show no reduction in fatal strokes but a 75% reduction in ischaemic cardiac death."
• The recently published Medical Research Council trial showed a reduction in strokes but no significant reduction in coronary events.
• Among the five substantial trials of treatment of hypertension in elderly people the reduction in stroke was 47% in the Swedish trial, 42% in the hypertension in elderly patients study, 37% in the systolic hypertension in the elderly programme, 36% in the European working party trial, and 25% in the Medical Research Council's trial.

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• Indeed, the lower the blood pressure the better, because statistically it reduces the subsequent risks of stroke and heart attacks.
• People with mild high blood pressure are at a slightly increased risk of a stroke , heart attack, or heart failure.
• There may also be an increased risk of stroke , heart attack and high blood pressure.
• The example given was a 10% risk of a stroke .
• The doctors were adamant that the risk of a further stroke was too great to justify another pregnancy.
• Thus, although these subgroup data are compatible with the possibility that intravenous heparin adds a small benefit to that already achieved by aspirin and thrombolysis, they also raise concerns about excess risks of stroke (2.1% with intravenous heparin, 1.1% with subcutaneous heparin, 1.2% with none).
• Doctors say an aspirin a day reduces the risk of strokes by stopping platelets in the blood from clotting.
• It will prove useful in localising the embolic source in patients with stroke and may allow identification of subgroups of patients at risk of subsequent embolic stroke .
• They are at an increased risk of a stroke , heart disease, kidney failure and blindness and nerve disorders.

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• Frail Kathleen Lillyman, 61, died of a stroke after Raymond Oxborough's attack.
• (143) Something of this can be learned from "The Way to the Churchyard" (1901), an anecdote about an old failure whose fit of anger at a passing cyclist causes him to die of a stroke or seizure.
• But the funeral of Mr Whitelaw, who died of a stroke , will go ahead as planned today.
• On 10 April 1911 Ras Tasamma, the Regent, died of a stroke .
• "He died of a stroke only a short time after Mamma left him."
• In April, Earl Godwin died of a stroke , and his eldest son Harold became Earl of Wessex while Alfgar, son of the Earl of Mercia, was restored to his still-warm earldom of East Anglia.
• "His father died of a stroke .
• Alec Lewis, 84, died from a stroke two days after his car was in collision with a bus on Muirhead Avenue, Norris Green, Liverpool.
• "Your uncle died of a stroke ?"
• Fifty percent of you will die of heart attacks, twenty plus will die of cancer, and ten percent will die of strokes .

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• These data show that for the 65 -- 74 age group mortality from stroke decreased by 42 per cent for males and 50 per cent for females.
• In the Swedish trial in old patients with hypertension the reduction in overall mortality was largely due to a reduction in mortality from stroke .
• The reduction of mortality from both stroke and ischaemic heart disease are characteristic of much of the developed world.
• For the North American white population aged 65 + there have been significant decreases in mortality from stroke and ischaemic heart disease.

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• He missed the four-round cut by two strokes , but he left the course with a cheery "See you next year".
• He missed the four-round cut by two strokes , but he left the course with a cheery "See you next year".
• It is even more difficult to find the boundary in front of the wicket since "the sweepers" are out on the mid-wicket and cover boundaries, cutting off the strokes which penetrate the inner ring of fieldsmen before they reach the ropes.
• Ariel saw the timehri , a chevron cut by a downward stroke , signifying great peril; then again, later, after she told Jack Elsey that she could not find the necessary seaweed for a certain panacea on this stretch of the shore, but must go further, she found another rock, with the same fresh cipher.
• The other types of saw which are useful are a padsaw, which can be fitted with a hacksaw blade (it cuts on the pull stroke ) and is useful where space is limited, and a general-purpose saw which will cut through metal as well as wood.
• He made the cut by three strokes , and in qualifying for the final two rounds he has already guaranteed himself a place on next season's growing satellite tour, Europe's golfing second division.
• He made the cut by three strokes , and in qualifying for the final two rounds he has already guaranteed himself a place on next season's growing satellite tour, Europe's golfing second division.

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• We have evidence from studies on non-diabetics that treating hypertension reduces the incidence of stroke , congestive cardiac failure and possibly myocardial infarction (Veterans Administration Co-operative Study Group on Antihypertensive Agents, 1967,1970; Hypertension Detection and Follow-Up Program, 1979).
• The risks of surgery are undoubtedly higher in patients of this age -- in two series the hospital mortality was around 10% and the incidence of postoperative stroke was 4%.
• There will also be targets aimed at reducing the incidence of strokes , heart disease and preventable cancers.

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• But neither was ever in contention, as Chip Beck, one of last year's American Ryder Cup team, regained the lead he had lost on Saturday to win by a stroke from Greg Norman and Mike Standly.
• The 43-year-old US Open champion, who won by six strokes , had 37 birdies and two eagles in the five-day tournament at La Quinta, California.
• But peter pulled away a bit in the second round (Thomson 71; Thomas 74) and he won by four strokes .
• They overpowered the Italian pair to win in the last few strokes
• Eddie won by a single stroke only after a back nine countback.
• Then it all went wrong for Hamilton, who dropped four strokes in four holes from the 11th as the chill wind began to take its toll and Davis romped away to win by five strokes .
• Page only needed a par four on the ninth green, his final hole, to prevent a play-off and win by a stroke from the 20-year-old from Drayton Park, Staffordshire.

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• I alternate the direction of these strokes , imitating the direction I use to apply the pastel in the first place.
• The sequences of co-ordinates are transformed into vector chain codes (Freeman, 1961) whereby changes of direction in the strokes of the pen are converted into a numbered code.
• I alternate the direction of these strokes , imitating the direction I use to apply the pastel in the first place.
• Vector chain coding techniques (e.g. Freeman, 1961), which code six or eight directions of strokes (see chapter 2 for more details) are also often used for pattern recognition.
• He knew how to create extraordinary visual effects simply by changing the direction of his brush stroke , so that light streams down from an unseen sun, or a horizon line is conjured up out of three horizontal bands of subtly modulated shades of blue.

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• Scouter Ruth Sellors, head of the group, from Farsley, near Leeds, said: "Mick swam a couple of strokes , then went still."
• It is a surgical steel scraper that removes oral debris in a couple of strokes .
• I slipped back into the water and swam a couple of strokes to the curtain.
• We didn't seem to worry too much about being a couple of strokes off the lead.
• We were still a couple of strokes behind Tony Lema and another Australian mate Bruce Devlin.

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• (Friend of woman who had had a number of strokes .)
• Let alone of course large numbers of liberal stroke nationalist erm revolutionaries within Europe in the eighteen er twenties, thirties and forties.
• This may be information such as the number of strokes used, the order in which the strokes are written, the direction of the writing, and even the speed of the writing for each stroke.
• But I have gone a long way from my original fine lace and the number of strokes of the lace carriage.
• As with all my ablutions, the shave follows a definite and predetermined pattern; I take the same number of strokes of the same length in the same sequence each morning.
• The average number of strokes taken by a tournament winner on the U.S. Tour is 68,2 per round, with the final round completed in an average of 67.8 strokes.
• Breaking on the German wheel was a punishment reserved mainly for murderers and, far more drastic than French punishment, the regulation number of strokes with the sharp-edged bar was forty, the last one being directed at the chest or the nape of the neck.
• The St Albans clock had two similar escapements, one to control the going-train and one to ring the bell each hour on a twenty-four-hour system with the number of strokes equal to the hour.
• Dynamic systems have the facility for collecting further information such as the speed or direction of writing, number of strokes used, and the order in which they were written.
• "I sat in on the Jockey Club working party that drew up these latest proposals Their idea was to bring down the number of strokes and they did not seem very interested in what we, the jockeys, had to say.

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• His form had continued with a win by several strokes in the Madrid Open and a high finish in the Italian Championship.
• HA Cup Round Two: Southport 3 Formby 0; Liverpool Sefton 0 Ben Rhydding 2; Swalwell 3 Harrogate 2; Norton 1 Sheffield 8; Wakefield 0 Alderley Edge 4; Timperley 0 Pelicans 0 (Timperley win on penalty strokes ).
• HA Cup round two: Southport 3 Formby 0; Liverpool Sefton 0 Ben Rhydding 2; Swalwell 3 Harrogate 2; Norton 1 Sheffield 8; Wakefield 0 Alderley Edge 4; Timporley 0 Pelicans 0 (Timporley win on penalty strokes ).

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• Alas, all good things come to an end and with a mixture of breast stroke and doggy paddle I managed to beach myself onto the belay.
• Alas, all good things come to an end and with a mixture of breast stroke and doggy paddle I managed to beach myself onto the belay.
• For two illustrations see ex.4a from the Overture to Don Giovanni, where the two violins have a mixture of strokes , dots and no marks, without any apparent rationale; and ex.4b from the Violin Sonata in B&flat K454, where in the violin part (above) and the right hand of the piano, dots and strokes are haphazardly mixed.

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• Hayward kicked his third penalty on the stroke of half-time though Harries reduced the deficit with a penalty for Newport.
• Lang restored Instonians lead to four points before McGarry replied with a fine penalty on the stroke of half time.
• The third option is to drop the penalty of one stroke , as far back as you wish, keeping the ball's entry into the hazard (marked B) between the spot on which the ball is dropped and the hole.

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• There is no legally guaranteed freedom of speech, no legal right to a fair trial which Parliament could not remove at a stroke .
• On the other hand he would have a much enlarged Aquitaine, to be held in sovereignty, the "perpetual liberty" which he had instructed the Black Prince to demand of his royal prisoner in 1357, and which would remove at a stroke the threat of confiscation.
• They also remove at a stroke the central workplace the bedrock of strong trade union organization.
• If I could no longer eidetik effectively, had my status as apprentice and licentiate of the Brahmin of the Banal been removed at one fell stroke ?

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• Green scored from a penalty stroke and a fine open-play goal before Yvonne Ayshford got Midlands' consolation goal almost on time.
• In the 28th minute Potter scored from a penalty stroke .
• They won Saturday's game 1-0, Vickey Dixon scoring from a penalty stroke .

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• A study has been commissioned into domiciliary care compared with hospital care in stroke patients, to be undertaken by the department of public health at the United Medical and Dental School.
• It may also help to boost the spirits and is used in the care of stroke patients who are left feeling despondent.
• The care of stroke patients involves a plethora of different health and social care workers.
• However, his physiotherapist decided that he would progress better in a specialist unit, so he was transferred to the care of a specialist stroke treatment centre in London.
• Home care for the stroke patient may be chosen because the patient's doctor feels that the necessary rehabilitation can be done at home, or might be best done at home; the patient may be more comfortable, and therefore more co-operative to treatment if he remains among familiar surroundings; he might be liable to excessive stress if parted from his close family, friends or a beloved pet; or it may be a temporary situation, in which the patient is waiting for a bed in a specialist rehabilitation unit to become available.

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• The book traces his family history leading up to that midnight stroke and carries it through to the dark period of Mrs Gandhi's emergency.
• Moon, who led by two strokes half-way through the third round of the Italian Open, made birdies at all five of the long holes.
• One cause for concern is that blood flowing through artificial organs tends to clot, which can lead to a stroke or to coronary heart disease.
• Couples led by four strokes with eight to play, but only forced the play-off by holing from a greenside bunker for a birdie at the last.
• The 31-year-old Ulsterman, who was the leading Briton in the Open at Troon last July, had a 10-under-par 62 to lead by three strokes in the first round from the American, Davis Love III.
• Defending champion Davies finished the day at nine-under-par to lead by one stroke from overnight leader Marie-Laure de Lorenzi, from France.

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• When a human chess player finds himself ahead, the art of the game demands that he win in the most expeditious manner; some sort of lightning stroke that ends the game rapidly.
• When a person is not getting their quota, or the right sort of strokes , they go out of their way to manipulate situations in order to obtain the strokes they need.
• It looks so sad there, all cold and lonely, that I hold my hand out to sort of stroke it, but it flies off.
• Next to that would be a sort of double stroke in the margin, erm can you see the name Holloway erm Well, on the line below that, erm it's talking about the Earl of Newark and his servants, and then on the following line it says, "removed to Trinity College and son gone out of town".
• I did not think He would mind this, especially if I made the whole thing into a sort of combined barby stroke burnt sacrifice.

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• This week is National Chest Week, a first for the Heart, for the er Chest, Heart and Stroke Association.
• But also to make people aware of the Chest, Heart and Stroke Association, what we're trying to do, and that we're there to help people as well as being er an organisation which just hands out money to er doctors.
• A nonlinear relationship was observed between coronary heart and stroke mortality with the two hour postprandial blood glucose.
• Now I mentioned that this was Chest Week and it's the first time that the er Chest, Heart and Stroke Association have had a, a, a week specifically aimed at people with chest problems, or, or looking at chest problems.
• Now Lynne Taylor is Regional Executive for the Chest, Heart and Stroke Association, Lynne er is it, this is er as I said a new week, are, you hopeful that it's, it's working well?
• We also know that people who have lost a limb, or had a stroke or heart disease can get back their mobility and their health in a way that would have seemed quite impossible only twenty years ago.
• But also to make people aware of the Chest, Heart and Stroke Association, what we're trying to do, and that we're there to help people as well as being er an organisation which just hands out money to er doctors.
• Indeed, the lower the blood pressure the better, because statistically it reduces the subsequent risks of stroke and heart attacks.
• O mmol/l had increased mortality compared to those with blood glucose <5.4 mmol/l Age and hypertension were most strongly related to coronary heart and stroke mortality within both the diabetic and glucose-intolerant groups.
• The first drugs which could be relied on to reduce the dangerously high arterial pressure which precedes strokes and heart failure were substances which blocked the actions of acetylcholine at these ganglia, and so prevented the passage of nervous messages which put up the blood pressure.

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• Here the staccato ranges presumably from "snow" to "rain" but hardly to "hail" It is here where, given the speed of Mozart's writing, the exact character of the staccato was not important enough for him to make a conscious effort at graphic differentiation, and where, as a consequence, dots and strokes have the same meaning.
• Of the five answers published by Barenreiter in 1957, four scholars Hermann Keller, Hubert Unverricht, Oswald Jonas and Alfred Kreutz pointed up distinct differences between stroke and dot (all were agreed that the wedge is simply a printer's equivalent for the stroke).
• Frederick Neumann Dots and strokes in Mozart
• Mozart's use of dots and strokes in his notation has given rise to much debate.
• For two illustrations see ex.4a from the Overture to Don Giovanni, where the two violins have a mixture of strokes, dots and no marks, without any apparent rationale; and ex.4b from the Violin Sonata in B&flat K454, where in the violin part (above) and the right hand of the piano, dots and strokes are haphazardly mixed.
• Here the staccato ranges presumably from "snow" to "rain" but hardly to "hail" It is here where, given the speed of Mozart's writing, the exact character of the staccato was not important enough for him to make a conscious effort at graphic differentiation, and where, as a consequence, dots and strokes have the same meaning.
• Briefly summing up, there seems to be little doubt that Mozart distinguished dots and strokes , and while he was nonchalant about the graphic shapes where it mattered little, he distinguished the signs with deliberation where it did matter.
• In 1954 the Gesellschaft fur Musikforschung invited a competition on the question: "What is the meaning of the signs wedge, stroke and dot in Mozart's autographs and first editions; did Mozart intend a differentiation, and how should the signs be reproduced in new editions?"
• Frederick Neumann Dots and strokes in Mozart
• Briefly summing up, there seems to be little doubt that Mozart distinguished dots and strokes , and while he was nonchalant about the graphic shapes where it mattered little, he distinguished the signs with deliberation where it did matter.

attack_n -----------andor----------(back to top)

• In the United States it is reported that some 35 million heart attacks and strokes occur each year.
• Celebrities are much less likely to die from heart attack or stroke , but that is probably only because they die young in other ways.
• Your heart will be healthier and you will be far less likely to have a heart attack or stroke when you get older than someone who has exercised very little during their life.
• The decline may sometimes be very gradual but in other cases a heart attack or stroke makes an immediate change in lifestyle necessary.
• Drink more than this and you run the risk of developing high blood pressure, which in turn can lead to heart attack or stroke .
• It's believed he dies of a heart attack or stroke .
• In Britain alone it is estimated that in excess of 150,000 people die every year from heart attacks and strokes .
• Such an improvement would rewrite the record books, taking perhaps ten minutes off a runner's marathon time, but E P O can also be deadly, leading to heart attacks and strokes in apparently healthy people.
• "It puts an extra strain on your entire body," points out Heartwatch co-ordinator Andrew Smart, "causing damage to joints and increasing the chances of illnesses that may lead to heart attacks or strokes or diabetes."
• The main thing to cut is saturated fat which can cause high blood cholesterol levels, leading to clogged up arteries and potentially a heart attack or stroke .

disease_n -----------andor----------(back to top)

• As so often happens, the passage of time showed an increasing number of disadvantages of the treatment, including a greater frequency of heart disease and strokes in men receiving oestrogens.
• In England and Wales those aged 65 + represent the majority of deaths from all forms of heart disease and strokes .
• Mortality from coronary heart disease and stroke is exceptionally high in young men in the south Wales industrial valleys, with rates similar to those in the west of Scotland.
• He will be involved in campaigns on the five Health of the Nation targets -- heart disease and strokes , cancer, mental health, HIV/AIDS and sexual health, and accidents.
• Heart disease and stroke are very prevalent among the older age groups.
• If you scored two or more points you should, if you have not already, see your doctor and get further advice from him or her about what you should do to reduce your heart disease and stroke risk.
• And the other condition we haven't mentioned is er th th th the risks of coronary artery disease and strokes which actually do, are the main cause of death o , in Scottish women!

roll_n +----------andor----------(back to top)

• Strokes or rolls on the drums pp are a commonplace of orchestral writing.
• Special effects can be obtained by strokes or rolls on a suspended cymbal, executed with timpani or side-drum sticks.
• The "splash" effect of a harp glissando is much enhanced by the addition of a stroke or roll on the cymbals with a soft stick.

cancer_n +----------andor----------(back to top)

• As she says, associated conditions are heart attacks, strokes and cancer.
• It can help to reduce the risks of serious illness or death from heart disease, stroke and cancer.
• Vested interests were reluctant to accept that the typical diet was a cause of coronary heart disease, strokes and cancer, and that people should eat less fat, sugar and salt and more cereals, fruit and vegetables.

downward_a -----------adj----------(back to top)

• He seldom thought of the half-dozen men who had been hanged during the twenty years of his forensic experience, primarily because of his evidence, and when he did, it was not the strained but oddly anonymous faces in the dock which he remembered, or their names; but paper and ink, the thickened downward stroke , the peculiar formation of a letter.
• Leg furnishings are also best groomed daily with a metal comb, using downward strokes at an angle of 90 degrees to the leg.
• With the pile running down, the colour tends to be lighter, shows fewer pressure marks, and can be brushed more easily with a downward stroke .
• Spread on lather evenly and shave first with downward strokes , then relather and shave in the opposite direction.
• Loops were provided for the ascenders (upward strokes) of b, f, h, k and 1 , and the descenders (downward strokes ) of f, g, j, y and z .
• Ariel saw the timehri , a chevron cut by a downward stroke , signifying great peril; then again, later, after she told Jack Elsey that she could not find the necessary seaweed for a certain panacea on this stretch of the shore, but must go further, she found another rock, with the same fresh cipher.
• But for all that the words are still coming out from under my fist, upward strokes and downward strokes proliferating like twig insects on the sheets of foolscap paper.
• Typically flies low over water, with shrill "twee-wee-wee" call and flickering wings, appearing distinctly bowed when held momentarily at the downward stroke .
• Mark and cut the shape on a piece of cardboard, transfer on to the front of the tile, and using a few downward strokes to get the cut started, saw out the shape.

single_a -----------adj----------(back to top)

• Eddie won by a single stroke only after a back nine countback.
• "If I was to tell you that I can solve both problems at a single stroke what would you say to me?"
• At a single stroke of fate, Mikhail Vologsky was nothing, with only uncertainty to look forward to.
• The desire of the Cubists to keep closely in touch with visual reality explains Picasso's uneasiness about his Cadaques paintings: clearly he could not go back to his earlier, more laborious methods of dealing with form, and yet at a single stroke he had carried the new technique suggested in the work of Braque to something very near complete abstraction.
• With a single stroke the rope parted.
• Single strokes are often used to mark the principal accents in the lighter forms of music.
• With further practice you will discover words that hold more than one meaning, that are themselves ambiguous, enabling you to represent contending realities at a single stroke .
• In addition to the roll, the kettledrums are effective in single strokes and in the execution of simple or complex rhythmical figures.
• A single stroke on a cymbal with a timpani stick produces a "splash" of sound, and a crescendo roll adds great excitement if added to a general orchestra crescendo three or four bars before its climax.
• Single strokes at regular intervals on the bass drum p or pp are most impressive -- almost awe-inspiring -- and when f or ff impart tremendous force to the tutti.

bold_a -----------adj----------(back to top)

• Its thickness and heaviness were emphasized by the bold strokes of its painted decoration, dark orange, dark pink, and navy blue.
• One or two more bold strokes of the pen could wrap it up for Kenny!
• However, arguments along the lines of "the Russians" real objective was less their alleged anxiety to protect Cuba than to alter the whole balance of global strategy to their advantage by one bold stroke ' (Clissold: 1970, p. 49) would seem to raise something of a false dilemma.
• He was active not only as an architect, designing a further series of public buildings, stucco-faced terraces in the London manner, and attractive suburban villas, but also as a town planner, responsible for the creation of Union Street, a bold stroke of planning which united the three towns.
• I tried to find a method whereby I could seize the effect of motion... how to arrest a movement in a few bold strokes , catching the passing moment and finding new forms... my goal was always to express emotion and experience with large and simple forms and clear colours".
• "I use the sides of the sticks to create bold strokes with which to cover large areas quickly.
• Mr Major has taken plenty of decisions -- Norman Lamont's budget was full of bold strokes .

deft_a -----------adj----------(back to top)

• With a few deft strokes of the brush, Katherine gathered up Portia's fine sandy hair into a loop at the back of her head and let its length trail her shoulders.
• I can with a few deft strokes build myself a crenellated castle with coloured windows, or a maze of evergreen, or a field of rippling corn, or a fat blackbird with bright eyes picking at a cluster of red berries.
• He captured her in a variety of poses and moods which reflect her many facets: as a grande dame in a hat and fur collar; as a great courtesan -- "Madam Pompadour" he called the painting, perhaps deliberately mis-spelling it; in a wicker chair; demure in front of the piano; and he sketched her all the time, with quick, deft strokes .
• A few deft strokes with a metal bar and Toby was free!

fatal_a -----------adj----------(back to top)

• But we saved the Queen's fair fame, and to Rudolf himself the fatal stroke came as a relief from a choice too difficult: on the one side lay what impaired his own honour, on the other what threatened hers.
• Again he progressed very well, and it was therefore a terrible shock to all his colleagues when he suffered the fatal stroke .
• An Australian trial of treatment of mild hypertension in elderly people showed no reduction in fatal strokes but a 75% reduction in ischaemic cardiac deaths.
• Campbell supports this with results from a subset of patients from the Australian national blood pressure study, saying that these "show no reduction in fatal strokes but a 75% reduction in ischaemic cardiac death."
• There were only two fatal strokes and five fatal heart attacks in this study.
• The diarist Evelyn described how at Whitehall in 1685, on the Sunday before Charles II had his fatal stroke , he witnessed "the inexpressible luxury and profaneness and forgetfulness of God, as the King sat and toyed with his three concubines whilst his courtiers played at basset with GBP2,000 of gold on the table".

slight_a -----------adj----------(back to top)

• She also suffered from Parkinson's Disease, irritable bowel syndrome and had suffered a slight stroke .
• The shame of it may have caused the slight stroke that overtook him, or perhaps it preceded the disaster.
• But I I thought then he'd had a slight stroke so to make him
• It was only a slight stroke , after all.
• Apparently before some time in December, he was diagnosed as having an ulcer and almost immediately afterwards had a slight stroke .
• The dazed expression had almost left her face and I wondered if she might not have had a slight stroke when Celia abandoned her, and was now recovering.

upward_a -----------adj----------(back to top)

• Massage cream or oil into your skin, using light upward strokes , working up the body.
• Loops were provided for the ascenders (upward strokes ) of b, f, h, k and 1 , and the descenders (downward strokes) of f, g, j, y and z .
• It is caught by a hook on the bobbin case carrier at a point just above the eye of the needle when on its upward stroke .
• But for all that the words are still coming out from under my fist, upward strokes and downward strokes proliferating like twig insects on the sheets of foolscap paper.

debilitating_a -----------adj----------(back to top)

• Meanwhile, thanks to a series of startling medical breakthroughs, his father was recovering from his debilitating strokes .
• Saunders died 5 February 1870 in Dartford Heath, following a debilitating stroke two years earlier which had put an end to his trade activities.
• How lust for life defied two debilitating strokes

massive_a -----------adj----------(back to top)

• She had a massive stroke .
• But I am sorry to tell you that he passed away on after a massive stroke .
• In 1932 he became Prime Minister and in 1933 Dictator, a situation which continued until his retirement due to a massive stroke in 1968.
• It is with great sadness that we report the death of Ken Rowlands. the former director and general manager of Wood Group Haven Engineering Limited, passed away on 3 April following a massive stroke .
• Most fortunately for the Allies as it turned out, since within days Falkenhayn was to unleash all his troops from the area of fallen Antwerp, together with supplementary formations of volunteers, stiffened by regulars, in a massive stroke down the coastline, with the object of encircling the sanguine Joffre's left flank.
• He died suddenly of another massive stroke three and a half years after his original illness.

severe_a -----------adj----------(back to top)

• I worked with a man whose severe stroke left him only able to say "Yes, yes, yes".
• When Miss Louisa had a second more severe stroke at the end of August, and Miss Ellen another heart attack, both old ladies died within a few days of each other.
• The physiotherapist may need the help of a second therapist, especially for the head-injured patient or the patient who has had a severe stroke .
• He suffered a severe stroke .
• Arthur B had just passed retirement age when he suffered a very severe stroke .
• Handel wrote the Messiah in London, where he lived in a house close to present-day King's Cross Station, five years after suffering a severe stroke , and it received its first performance in Dublin in 1742.

powerful_a -----------adj----------(back to top)

• After one more anxious glance she took off for the other end of the pool and a quick look showed that he was already on his way, moving with powerful strokes and keeping well clear of her.
• We swim, with strong kicks and powerful strokes , far enough out for discretion, deep enough for fun.
• In a touring boat we want long powerful strokes to go fast over long distances.
• Three powerful strokes brought her to the rail where she went straight into an underwater turn and headed down the pool.
• If you are touring down a remote gorge do you choose a technique which gives maximum force and a high risk of injury or would you prefer a slightly less powerful stroke and a reduced risk of shoulder dislocation?
• Using the rock and the darkness as cover, she watched him as he broke into motion and that powerful stroke carried him out to the rocks and back.

tremendous_a -----------adj----------(back to top)

• The lightning came again, and a tremendous stroke of thunder.
• A miracle, in other words, if it occurs at all, is a tremendous stroke of luck.
• We asked around, and eventually we had a tremendous stroke of luck.
• Suddenly with a tremendous stroke an old man close by threw a tiny fish up in the air and down it fell.

rhythmic_a -----------adj----------(back to top)

• But the oarsmen, chanting a low, endless rowing-song to their slow rhythmic strokes , seemed unconcerned, used to infinitely worse conditions than this.
• Desperately she sought for something to break the enchantment of his rhythmic strokes .
• She watched the rhythmic strokes of the razor for a moment, then turned her attention to Twomey's own cat which was miaowing and writhing uncomfortably in the wooden wine case which was her quiet bed.

slow_a -----------adj----------(back to top)

• He stirred a pot of paint, dipped a brush in the paint, bent forward and applied it in slow strokes to the sheet of card in front of him.
• She stared back at him, a total and willing victim of his dark physical presence, aware of nothing but the low sexual note in his voice and the excitement engendered by the slow stroke of his hands.
• He didn't let memory divert him from his present pleasure, but found his rhythm; long, slow strokes .
• With long, slow strokes she brushed it, then applied a small quantity of "Blue Grass" to her wrists and throat.
• Then he would pick up the silver hair-brush and groom her hair in slow strokes from its dark roots to its glowing auburn ends.

firm_a -----------adj----------(back to top)

• Then she began to milk; gentle but firm strokes , smooth and rhythmical, her head pressed against the side of the cow.
• Repeat these long, firm strokes several times until the whole of the back is well oiled, but not too slippery.
• Repeat the long firm strokes as in Step 1, two or three times.
• Then he pushed himself calmly off from the Hokule'a and paddled away with quick firm strokes and vanished into the half-light.
• Somehow his other hand had slipped inside the back of her waistband and begun to mould her buttocks in firm strokes that matched her pelvis against his own, energising her desire with the heat of his own ardent body.

smooth_a -----------adj----------(back to top)

• Shave legs with long smooth strokes from ankle to knee and from knee to thigh.
• Long smooth strokes
• He was holding himself rhythmically now, pumping with long, smooth strokes .
• Smooth strokes along the cool skin.

gentle_a -----------adj----------(back to top)

• Pol climbed on to her seat at the front of the cart, urging the pony onward with a click of her tongue and the gentle stroke of a leather rein.
• Little kisses were planted on her wet face, and murmured endearments and gentle strokes ad&rehy;ministered.
• Wrap a piece of paper around the pipe to act as a guide and cut through using gentle strokes .
• Give him a gentle stroke .

swift_a -----------adj----------(back to top)

• These must be done with swift strokes , as if you were drawing a cartoon rather than painting in oil.
• He plunged for the side, but with three swift strokes Nails caught up with him and collared him round the neck.
• A few swift strokes of the comb smoothed her bubbly curls into soft wings which lay neatly against her well-shaped head and feathered down the nape of her neck.

specialist_a -----------adj----------(back to top)

• Otherwise, the patient might be transferred to a specialist Stroke Unit or have a private consultation with a specialist physiotherapist.
• The physiotherapists began the task of bringing Rose's spasticity under control, and, some fifteen months after the stroke, she was referred to a specialist stroke treatment centre not far from her home for intensive rehabilitation.
• However, his physiotherapist decided that he would progress better in a specialist unit, so he was transferred to the care of a specialist stroke treatment centre in London.
• After a spell at the rehabilitation centre, Guy's parents realized it was a mistake, and tried to have him transferred to a specialist stroke rehabilitation centre in London, even though this was a long way from home.

forward_a -----------adj----------(back to top)

• Apply the second and subsequent coats, initially with the grain, with even backward and forward strokes , then with slightly less pressure across the grain, and finally with the grain again, drawing the tips of the bristles very lightly across the surface.
• The efficient forward stroke in such boats is different.
• This means that in order to paddle a straight line in a white water boat we need to include a bit of steering into the forward stroke .
• By using the tilt it is possible for a white water race, for example, to steer down a rapid whilst still using powerful forward strokes rather than having to use slower sweep strokes.

clear_v----------subject_of----------(back to top)

• Canizares, 45, second and fourth on his last two tour outings in the Catalan and Portuguese Opens, is the only player under par on 212, four under, and is five strokes clear of the field as he attempts to emulate the millionaire feats of Severiano Ballesteros, Jose-Maria Olazabal and Jose Rivero.
• Prosser emulated Laura Davies and Janet Soulsby who respectively took the Thailand and Singapore Opens when her six-under-par 210 left her six strokes clear of Helen Wadsworth, of Wales, and Sweden's Maria Bertilskold.
• De Lorenzi had led at seven under par after opening rounds of 67 and 70, three strokes clear of Sweden's Sofia Gronberg with Davies a further three strokes behind.
• Then in the US Open, Norman was three strokes clear of the field by twelve holes of the third round, but slipped away to finish no higher than 12th.

be_v----------subject_of----------(back to top)

• They considered themselves above parish apprentices, yet of the fellow members of the cutter club with whom he rowed on the Thames, Place recalled that the stroke was hanged for a murder he did not commit, not being able to provide an alibi as he was committing a burglary at the time, while the cox was transported for a robbery.
• There are a number of algorithms by which characters may be extracted from this data, including spatial analysis methods, whereby strokes are coded by a numbering system on a grid, and topological feature methods, whereby attempts are made to identify the constituent shapes within letters.
• To reverse this process at a stroke would be impossible, and every compromise suggested so far has foundered in a fearful bog of legal and financial complications.
• Nonetheless, stroke was observed only in patients in the treatment group in the studies from Philadelphia.
• The silky-smooth animation has to be seen to be believed -- each stroke is executed without a hint of jerkiness, and they're so realistic you'll think you're watching Wimbledon!"
• Chris Different Strokes is on
• His accountant said that my stroke is weakening his left arm, he's right-handed.
• Oh dear, the last time I saw her before her stroke was when she was playing under the beech tree with Alexandre -- he must have been two years old that summer -- and she was wearing a green chiffon blouse.
• Single strokes are often used to mark the principal accents in the lighter forms of music.
• That important stroke was the result of Olazabal and Stewart narrowly missing birdie putts on the 18th which would have resulted in a play-off.

leave_v----------subject_of----------(back to top)

• The stroke had left Marriage hunched and rigid; he turned his head slowly and his smile had become a lopsided leer.
• I worked with a man whose severe stroke left him only able to say "Yes, yes, yes".
• I could always hear her moving around; her stroke left her clumsy in the house she's supposed to know.
• In 1919, a stroke left him paralysed down the left side, confused, unable to read or dictate, and staring vacantly into space.
• But a stroke left him paralysed, and after a spell in hospital he moved in with his daughter and son-in-law.

paddle_n -----------nn_compound----------(back to top)

• I had nothing to do but paddle, and my fingers blistered as we canoed around Laguna Grande while the Australian, crouched in the bow with his bazooka lens, shook his head and tutted at each audible paddle stroke .
• The important principle is that the study of experienced paddlers defines reality and good technique and taught paddle strokes are only ever working copies.
• Our new paddle stroke is therefore probably correct.
• Like the map, the taught sweep paddle stroke is unlike the real sweep stroke but still very useful.
• In this month's article I will be discussing this and in passing we can look at the wider aspects of how techniques and paddle strokes are developed.
• Bearing this in mind, let us now look at the low brace and try to create the low brace paddle stroke from first principles.
• For the rest of this article I will refer to the simplified taught techniques as paddle strokes and to real strokes by their normal names.
• Compare this map with the forward sweep paddle stroke that we teach in the Star tests.
• A paddle stroke technique is simply a diagram of a move.
• Many canoeists will have a style which is influenced by past use of old paddle strokes .

brush_n -----------nn_compound----------(back to top)

• He knew how to create extraordinary visual effects simply by changing the direction of his brush stroke , so that light streams down from an unseen sun, or a horizon line is conjured up out of three horizontal bands of subtly modulated shades of blue.
• Information is conveyed in an entertaining fashion, with brush strokes projected one after the other onto easels dotted about the technological countryside, as a way of illustrating the impressionist technique.
• For wood graining (as used in the treasure chest on page 106), simply apply winding brush strokes along a brown washed background in a slightly darker brown, splaying the brush tip out slightly to create a blurred variegated line.
• BRUSH STROKES
• Fluffing her hair in a fine halo around her head with brisk brush strokes , and sketching in warm-toned eyeshadow, mascara and lipstick, Belinda was soon ready to slip into matt black court shoes and go out to the veranda.
• Then, after the dense brush strokes of the Ligurian painters Assereto ("Figure of a Bishop" on show by Scardeoni) and Orazio De Ferrari ("Focion refuses the gifts of Alexander" on show by Altomani), comes the high theatrical style of "The pool of Bethesda" by Gregorio De Ferrari (Bencini).
• Mark Holborn has written: "The silver eye and black silhouette were photographed in a similar convention to sumi-e ink painting, like brush strokes in the sky!
• He was a man who liked his cases to be neat, to be finished in broad brush strokes .
• Life itself added the boldest brush strokes and when, finally, he, Jack Nicholson in person, confronts the world, there is the most awesome feeling of encountering a man of unquestionable charm, intelligence and friendship, yet who possesses an indefinable menace that can only be compared with some of the roles he has acted.
• There could be no greater indication of the contrast between me two friends' approach to their craft than a comparison between The Lost Road , tentatively built up stage by stage, with an infinite number of backward glances at the whole mythology that has gone before, and Lewis's self-confident brush strokes as he dashed off Out of the Silent Planet .

penalty_n -----------nn_compound----------(back to top)

• The changes proved successful and Gregs won an early, though dubious, penalty stroke .
• Against Slough, she saved a penalty stroke from Karen Brown but was beaten six times -- twice by Brown and twice by another GB striker, Kate Parker, the Slough captain, with further goals coming from Lesley Hobley and Sue Chandler, Slough's latest recruit.
• Burnell toiled to a 75, while Hutt, who birdied two of the first three holes after lunch, then took seven at the 4th, including two penalty strokes from grounding his club in a water hazard.
• Europe should not hold any fears for the English cup-holders after only four defeats, including two on penalty strokes , in 22 matches on the Continent in recent years.
• Tumilty earned a penalty stroke in the 23rd minute when he was fouled in the circle and Newry High School defender Ivan Steen, who had an impressive debut, converted from the spot.
• In the 28th minute Potter scored from a pena