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1. a good way to shelve the content of the criticism without escalating conflict
2. Some models shelve the concept of market value altogether and concentrate on the
3. Connie enjoyed her job, loved the people with whom she worked, and the thought of spending the next eight hours doing what she loved was enough to shelve away most of last night and this morning into the closed stacks of her mind
4. Perhaps I was wrong to shelve that idea so soon
5. ‘Mum,’ I said, ‘we have to shelve this visit
6. percent off for equipment that's sat on the shelve for more than one
7. But with what face the Board of Trade, which, having made the regulations for 10,000 ton ships, put its dear old bald head under its wing for ten years, took it out only to shelve an important report, and with a dreary murmur, "Unsinkable,"
8. I ask myself whether the Marine Department of the Board of Trade did really believe, when they decided to shelve the report on equipment for a time, that a ship of 45,000 tons, that ANY
9. Thank you for reading the first draft and loving it at a time I was ready to shelve the entire thing
10. He’s going to shelve his lecture
1. What a surprise! Bunty appears to have shelved the idea
2. The turbine project was shelved
3. would have lit le believability, so we shelved the manuscript
4. She shelved items in
5. shelved for now, but maybe once I get this tome published, I will have
6. I even have a piece of commercial fiction that's about one quarter complete, though I've shelved that for now
7. Neatly shelved under the monitors were dozens of DVDs, labelled with date and name
8. I see the Bible as a great resource for living, but I have shelved any literal interpretation of its contents and use it only as a guide and a starting point for healthy discussion
9. Unfortunately, it seems that it will now have to be shelved, unless I find a way to fund it or to convince the Federal Council to change its mind about it
10. Even getting any type of non-archaic weapon to work on a ship seemed to have been a permanently shelved project
11. collected and shelved in cob-webbed archives
12. The film was permanently shelved, although some spoke of revival with hushed reverence
13. She laughed as she shelved the last of the books, then looked directly at Connie
14. Connie picked up Peter Straub’s Julia, which had been shelved in the wrong place, and turned it over in her hand
15. Just as libraries don’t condone readers replacing books on the shelves for fear that the books might be shelved incorrectly and therefore be temporarily
16. That was an interesting development and one he shelved away for further contemplation when the time was right
17. She shelved her curiosity, determined to enjoy the evening
18. The man had been employed at the university for more than two decades and although there were a couple of brief mentions of possible unsavory behaviour toward some of the female students, nothing had been proved and the complaints appeared to have been shelved
19. “There certainly is a common theme,” Aazuria remarked as she studied the rows of spines, thinking of how the carefully shelved volumes reflected on Trevain’s interests
20. With the utmost sympathy and tenderness, and crying so much that he found himself comforting her and wiping away her tears, she had delicately shelved him; and he had been so seriously ill of it that he had had to go away for six months on sick leave, and for years afterwards wouldn't go anywhere, except to Court functions he couldn't avoid, for fear, positively, that if by accident he were so close to her that he had to say something and hear her speak, he might drop dead at
21. were never shelved by the Army Corps of Engineers
22. There had to be at least forty DVDs and videos in the return bin, another stack of returns waiting to be shelved and a big list of reservations in the reservation book
23. Instead of deporting the Jews out of Europe: he put off the whole problem and shelved it
24. Plans to include the normal salesman's perk involving housewives, have been shelved for the moment
25. I have studied people and their goals and found that some goals are impractical in the time limit originally set, and consequently these goals are forgotten or shelved because the intensity or complexity simply overwhelms the goal setter
26. The only solution used to be those flimsy plastic shelved carousels
27. 'So Sebastian is in pursuit of the fox,' he said, 'and our little problem is shelved for an hour or two?'
28. The two halves of this creature were so joined as to reveal no point of fusion where pearl woman, woman of a whiteness made of cream-water and clear sky, merged with that half which belonged to the amphibious slide and rush of current that came up on the shore and shelved down the shore, tugging its half toward its proper home
29. The other shelved the books, withholding one
30. The Illustrated Man trod cat-soft in the labyrinths of shelved and darkly waiting books
31. ” Now that the cotton had been shelved for all time by the death of the husband, leaving a magnificent golden fleece in its stead, her devotion to “the cloth” had reasserted itself
1. She stared straight at the liquor on the shelves as if the Jager had insulted her mother
2. Toby imagined Michael Jordan doing a lay over up to the top shelves
3. He had found a whole back closet behind some shelves in the eaves closet that she hadn't even known about
4. We wiped everything off with warm water, threw away a lot of grains, disassembled the shelves and painted the pantry walls
5. Every bare wall, except in the computer room (he was afraid of shelves falling on his computer) had a bookshelf stuffed with books
6. The shelves and racks were dotted
7. In fact he could see his hand in a box in the shelves above her dressing area
8. Book shelves covered three walls with doorways let into them here and there; a young woman stood apparently wrapt in the volume she was reading, a thirty-something man with a large backpack at his feet scanned the shelf above his head, neck craned, lips muttering silently as he concentrated
9. The only difference was that at Abery, the shelves held books and here they held containers of varying sizes and colours
10. The central set of shelves held a selection of weaponry that not only looked lethal but also sported notes stating where it had been used, against whom and what the outcome had been
11. She dusted the tables and shelves, and dust mopped the rest of the floors
12. on tightly packed shelves full of
13. Pottery vases and dishes trailing ribbons and silken cord stood before effigies of tulips and lilies in pink, white and turquoise behind rows of ornate glassware balanced on the shelves
14. All the shelves, table tops and chair backs were protected with embroidered white linen and above us, a wooden beamed ceiling
15. This leads me into wiping down the draining board, for which I need to run some hot water and before I know where I am, I’m wiping down the cupboard doors, rubbing at the marks on the fridge door and starting on the shelves
16. Piling all the containers onto the table, I scrub down the shelves
17. I hesitate for a moment over whether the red on the blind will match the red on the shelves and decide to take a gamble on it
18. I’ve got to re-paint the shelves anyway
19. Making a space on one of the top shelves, I fit the pot into it, allowing the leaves to cascade down over the books … I step back to consider the effect … yes, that looks nice
20. The study was small and cozy, one wall had shelves from ceiling to floor and each was filled with books of all sizes
21. Perched high up on one of the shelves, Billy felt as cold and as
22. Oh yes, then these shelves would be full to
23. I scan the shelves … (don’t think about it, Sarah) what about Notting Hill? Nice love story you can cry over
24. He rises and goes over to a bookshelf against one wall, standing browsing the shelves as I watch him
25. helped pick them up and replace them on the shelves
26. The shelves would have to be painted cream to match … they would look wrong stained dark as they currently are
27. More velvet window dressings, more well apportioned seating and carefully placed book shelves integral with the walls of the long cabin met his gaze
28. When he was tall enough to see over the counter in the hardware store he was given new chores: counting and recording stock on shelves once a week, restocking, cleaning the shopfront windows and the countertops
29. Tania knew where every obscure bangle, bobble, thingamagig and whatsit sat on shelves or under cabinets throughout the store and stockroom
30. indicated the shelves of books lining the walls – “and I found an
31. to the edge of the shelves, but the majority lay on the floor
32. He was a librarian preparing to restock the shelves at the end of the day
33. It was cluttered with shelves, tables, cushions and racks
34. leafing through one of the old journals lining the shelves
35. The store shelves were rearranged and the stock room shelves were put into order and he closed the front door for the day
36. They began their commercial expedition and every so often Chloe would roam amongst the shelves of some emporium and glance, unnoticed, over to her companions idly waiting for her quest's success
37. Desa turned from putting the fallen objects back on the shelves and looked at her
38. Li-Na was stocking the shelves
39. The hallway leading into Rafe’s chamber was lined with empty shelves, and shattered display cases
40. He was thought a scrounge at the time, but in less than a century the vines had grown thick, the shelves had grown in and the archwood's cracked limbs had healed
41. Desa had quite a few other music notes and writings on music history on the shelves
42. It was simply scores of shelves with hundreds of bottles on them
43. The scattered books, piled high, and on shelves, Relating to various scientific and mysterious matters, Are filled with equations, esoteric illustrations, Diagrams, texts in various languages;
44. shelves are covered in dust
45. Plastic shelves stood against the wall, packed with cardboard boxes, most of them labeled with alcoholic beverage brands and a couple branded as cleaning supplies
46. Song and Deni scurried over to the shelves and with Deni on Song's shoulders they carefully plucked the unit off its perch and delivered it to an appreciative Pim
47. She crossed to the central aisle that led to the main entry, perhaps fifty yards or more from where she'd entered and peered around at the crates and shelves
48. They walked past the endless high marble shelves
49. A lamp was lit on each of four shelves he had built into the wall
50. Each held a lamp with room on the shelves for small articles
1. The room revealed was about the size of Joris’s office at Abery, and similarly laid out with shelving around the walls and a table set in the middle
2. “Are they gone?” she said peering uncertainly around the shelving
3. First I headed to the shelving section because I thought maybe I'd find something that was exactly 2-foot wide because I had this terrible vision that I would have to buy 6 foot long 1 x 6 boards that I would have to cut with a jigsaw into 2-foot pieces
4. With her buying, the merchant would say, “Yes, that will be full price plus tax and a shelving fee
5. The place Watts found himself in was littered with glass and soil, obviously caused when some of the shelving secured to the walls had collapsed for some reason
6. Crossing to the back of the room, Piers found a tier of shelving on which were enormous glass tanks with metal lids on top of them
7. Did you know that when I was a library volunteer and was supposed to be shelving books during my lunch hour, I was really just standing in the aisles and reading? She caught me a few times and never said anything about it
8. Rows of sturdy wooden shelving reaching up to the low ceiling, stretched away in front of us, the shelving lined with large barrels of wine
9. I stepped quickly to the shelving unit that held them, along with speakers and numerous CDs, but no headphones
10. Install wire shelving
11. Once storage needs have been identified, one can create the required shelving, cabinet, and wall-storage system to best suit your needs
12. The shelving, cabinets, draperies, paintings and tapestries they had planned to place there were already in position
13. Lifting it he rolled it, for it was on wheels, to the first row of shelving
14. Shelving it for a moment he waited for her to give him her agreement
15. "This was not built for midgets," he said as he gazed up at the high shelving
16. The owner asked him if he could erect some shelving that he needed for
17. From where Grailem is standing the room looks full of coffins that are stacked on shelving, one on top of the other until they reach the ceiling ten metres above
18. It had a shelving unit with the remains of cans and boxes of foods still on it, a cooker, sink and chemical toilet
19. “She’s playing kiss chase with Suraj, and Musafir's gone to return the props, once he's back, he has to put up a shelving unit up in the store,” answered Preeti
20. Just as Bally was about to tell Tony of the girls plan to leave, Musafir rushed round the corner, he’d finished putting up the shelving unit at the shoe section, he tripped over a box on his way in; he got up as if nothing had happened
21. screaming, “use some of that shelving to knock it in
22. He pulls a pair of skates from the shelving, blows off the dust, and
23. The woman then showed to the two policemen an impressive pistol with some kind of optical sight on it that sat on a high tablet of a shelving unit
24. A Warrior showed up one day and set up shelving filled with strange looking bottles and medicines
25. the containers using adjustable shelving where necessary
26. Place the strips in a slightly sunny area but where the seeds won’t be disturbed or pelted with rays of light, such as basement shelving near a window
27. Metal hangers were scattered on the shelving above the appliances like shrapnel from a duel at a laundromat
28. She had worked as a page shelving books, keeping things in order, helping out at the circulation desk now and then, until she graduated from high school, whereupon she attended Smith College where she worked part-time in the library there
29. Cabinetry, shelving, or windows covered almost all of it
30. Large shelving units held the boxes into well-organized
31. I make my way over to the Shelving that stood at the other side of the room and find the file with Ricks name wrote upon it
32. I walk over to the medical cabinet that stood proudly at the far side of the room and pick up a scalpel that was resting on the shelving within it
33. On the wall opposite the doorway was an old wooden shelving unit filled with empty canning jars and various canning supplies
34. Think of it, Papa Lindeberg, hitherto a long narrow person buttoned up silently in black, mysterious simply because he held his tongue, a reader of rabid Conservative papers through black-rimmed glasses, and as numb in the fingers as Wordsworth when he shakes my respectful hand, has begun to unbend, to unfold, to expand like those Japanese dried flowers you fling into water; and having started with good mornings and weather comments and politics, and from them proceeded to the satisfactorily confused state of the British army, has gone on imperceptibly but surely to confidential criticisms of the mistakes made here at headquarters in invariably shelving the best officers at the very moment when they have arrived at what he describes as their prime, and has now reached the stage when he comes up through the orchard every morning at the hour I am due for my lesson to help me over the fence
35. It was Bohdan stepping out from between two shelving units
36. There were lines of shelving and displays along one side and CDs and magazines in the centre
37. Actually, it was more like a library than an office — there was a desk at the other end, with several straight-backed chairs in front of it, but most of the room was given over to floor-to-ceiling shelving in some beautiful, dark wood
38. Instead he walked to the back of the store, shining the torch around the shelving as he went
39. disappeared, the place left with just the white Formica shelving and the dirty carpet
40. I gave the shelving space a quick wash before I restocked it
41. and he or she gets it for from you from shelving in a storeroom
42. There was only a row of high windows letting in camouflage-dappled light and a bunch of empty shelving
43. Her room looks like an old library, with hundreds of books that line the wall, floor to ceiling, on dark wood shelving
44. Each section was delineated by shelving, and there were four obvious sections
45. You may kiss your hand towards that highest shelving roof
46. shelving head of coral hue: and when he had nestled it in, he hovered
47. the shelving rather than showing the edge of the
48. square; otherwise you may end up with a shelving unit that
49. All being sent to a salt mine somewhere deep beneath the Austrian village of Altaussee, where a mile-long tunnel drops into a glittering arcade filled with shelving three stories high, upon which the high command is stacking Europe’s finest art
50. Or did he simply mean that they had better hurry up and take a with a low, shelving bank where they could get out easily? That seemed too much chance on being able to do what he himself could do without difficulty? This seemed more likely
