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Examples of slate


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Parties or coalitions of parties put out slates of candidates for the departments, as well as a national list.
An account of the impressions of plants on the slates of coals.
Prices have been arranged for the purchase of bricks, cement, lime, slates, soil and waste pipes, rain pipes and rhones, sanitary work, ironmongery, etc.
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At the moment the demand for slates is practically hon- existent, and all that the quarries can do is to produce slates for stock.
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The council immediately inspected the roof, and it found that 24 slates had been maliciously damaged.
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Slates are used for public buildings whenever this material is most suitable, having regard to all the circumstances.
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People put up farm buildings, and when the old slates come off they may have to use something else for repairing.
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To-day the slates have to be delivered in a hurry, for the purpose of some local authority's housing scheme, and they are railed forthwith.
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The materials in particularly short supply are timber, steel and cast iron, lead, certain types of electrical components, salt glazed pipes, and slates.
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Are we going to build of bricks and slates, or are we going to use concrete, or some new form of construction?
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We have plenty of bricks on hand, timber, cement, and so on, for the first 100,000 houses, with a fair supply of slates.
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I know of several repairers in my own area who have spent a lot of time trying to get these slates, with no result.
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There is a difficulty with regard to the supply of slates, but my regional officers will assist local authorities in this matter.
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Are slates still as difficult to obtain, and are they still as expensive to quarry?
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There is no change in the price of slates at all.
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In cases where the landlord did do repairs this is what they found—11 years, odd slates; 46 years, a new ceiling.
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Whether we like it or not, we have to face the fact that, generally speaking, local authorities prefer tiles to slates.
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Let me compare the price of putting slates on buildings with that of other materials.
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Few tiles to be used, only 730 yards slates.
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The actual source of the slates was not specified, and has not been identified by historical research.
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I listened with great interest to the debate on the colours, sizes and textures of slates.
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All along the road there were slates, fallen bricks, sheets of corrugated iron, wooden garages which had been blown across the road, and fallen trees.
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Therefore, there is a shortage of slates and it is quite unrealistic to say this is not true.
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I am told by those competent to speak that the only supply which exists in this country to any extent is the supply of slates.
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They are externally painted and slates are replaced if necessary.
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Usually slates that are difficult to get are large ones.
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I have no information to the effect that the housing programme is being hampered by a shortage of roofing slates.
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In round figures, some 60,000 imported slates were used in the dockyards in 1983–84.
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Arrangements are in hand to accumulate supplies of tiles and slates for the housing programme.
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Earlier, he said, that the slates on the roof of a house were pulled off.
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Where are you going to get your timber, slates, and the hundred and one things required for building houses?
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Then, unfortunately, slates were put upon the roof.
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We do not write costing systems on slates; they are printed on paper and sent round.
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I believe that there is considerable delay in supplies of roofing slates.
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My experience has been that it is even harder to find slaters than the slates.
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In one area of comparatively recent building there were several hundred slates lying on the ground.
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Slates are virtually indestructible and those which come off an old building can be put on to a new roof.
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The next problem that ought to be studied is how much information is available about alternative methods of dealing with these slated roofs?
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The chief deficiency, the chief shortage, is the shortage of slates.
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The production of tiles and slates is also eminently suitable for the work of those displaced in the mining industry at the present time.
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One contractor told me many of these foreign slates are so brittle, that he was able to crumble them to dust with his bare hands.
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Studies have found that those are ideally suited to match the traditional grey weathered slates still seen on historic buildings.
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Who in his right mind would require an election in those circumstances with perhaps competing slates of trustees appealing to the membership?
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Secondly, it is profoundly important, especially in neutral countries, that our case should be slated and re-stated clearly and effectively.
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I know of cases where slates were never put properly on the roofs.
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In the next list, in paragraph 8, tiles and bricks are excluded, and they are in my view quite as destructible as slates.
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We all know the difficulties of selling small slates nowadays for roofing.
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Perhaps naturally, when the elections to membership take place, slates are produced.
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Constituents telephone me because slates have just been taken off their roof or their stock has been disrupted or damaged by low overflights.
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In the top back room the walls are damp, and there is a z-feet square hole in the ceiling which exposes slates.
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The same principle will apply with respect to slates and tiles.
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I was told that all they need is the odd teacher, some slates and some chalks.
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Tiles or slates might be replaced to small patches, and displaced window frames could be replaced and sashes and casements made secure.
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Many buildings are held up by the shortage of slates.
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More drains will be wanted, more tiles, more slates, everything—which will improve our industry throughout the country by a demand for those products.
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I understand that the slates are lying there waiting for transhipment.
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In the whole of the year 1920, the value of the slates imported into this country was only £1,100.
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If you are going to get what is suitable, you must take the air at the highest point of your slated roof.
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Each of these people collected so many votes, and had so many people on their slates.
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The provision of slates alone offers ground for anxiety, but this is being overcome.
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Permits are frequently issued for slates but are not honoured.
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I have had no information about a shortage of slates.
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Slates are used, not only for roofing, but in other parts of the structure, such as for window-sills.
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Then there is the quite unjustified importation of foreign slates.
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Slates for new buildings are in short supply, and we have to use alternative roofing material.
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Slates are very much better than tiles: they do not blow off so easily when the doodlebugs come along.
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Nothing looks better than a timber roof with good slates or tiles.
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Light blast damage—for example, dislodged slates, broken windows—would not markedly affect radiation protection factors.
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Take the case where the slates have been blown off—there are hundreds of thousands of such cases—and tarpaulin has been put on the roof.
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The seconds and thirds are probably too heavy to put on temporary buildings, but the best slates certainly are not.
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Here are the men to produce the slates.
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The roofs of both houses and outbuildings were stripped of slates, and there was only one small bedroom left which was at all water- tight.
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At the present moment the quarries in my constituency are not producing slates for sale.
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The slates are competitively priced, and the company, just as importantly, is a south-western business.
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The roof could not be slated for that figure.
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He did not suggest how that should be done, apart from saying that more houses should be roofed with smaller slates.
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The teacher unions take a keen interest in those elections, drawing up and canvassing so-called "slates" of candidates.
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One in ordinary life puts slates on to roofs.
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I do not know whether there is any prospect of reopening either of them or getting slates from another source.
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My experience has been that there is a shortage of slates, possibly because roofs are largely now made of synthetic materials.
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I do not want a plastic palace on top of the grey-green slates which form the harbour wall.
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The buildings that are being put up can bear the weight of the best slates.
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I succeeded the other day, at the request of the industry, in getting slates excluded from war-risks insurance.
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Much of the damage such as broken slates and fallen chimney pots is not readily assessable.
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In which parts are most roofs made of brick tiles or artificial asbestos" slates"?
Direct evidence that slates were used in some mathematical arts is indirect evidence that they were used in all the mathematical arts.
The presumption is that these slates were erasable.
There has been a tendency to assume that hominid minds are blank slates capable of whatever the particular researcher wants them to be capable of.
Even the most powerful young learners are not blank slates.
The only sounds to be heard at times were the slates being used.
Towards the margins of the dome the schists grade successively into phyllites and finely laminated dark grey, quartzrich slates at distances of more than 2 km from the intrusion.
There is some good, though sporadic, evidence for the use of slates in the mathematical sciences in the period from the late fourteenth to the late fifteenth century.
How far back must one go in wiping clean the historical slate of injustices?
The participation and investment of development-focused partners and their growing slate of scientific outputs are cited as outcomes.
Finally, we turn to observable indicators of the cost to the president of refusing the slate of cabinet appointments proposed by the prime minister.
There is evidence that the slate belt deformation took place under enhanced heat flow.
From maps dating back to 1888 it can be seen that the site was used as a slate quarry.
The pinnacle of skill in all these definitions are slate-makers, but even specialists within slate-making are not the "true" quarriers.
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