Roadside verges and lay-bys in Cumbria are being blocked off in preparation for a horse fair.
Physical intimacy with patients occasionally verges on something closer than that with a lover.
Listening to several speeches in a row, including one just before dawn, verges on torture.
Much of what Mr Hashimoto wants is so ambitious that it verges on the fantastical.
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We live on the A39 which is a busy road with no street lights, footpaths or verges.
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All this is orchestrated by the director, Sam Raimi, with a halting, scattershot approach that verges on panic.
You know the sorts of things, leaving verges on fields, low pesticide use, perhaps even fallow periods and so on.
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Police have put up cones to stop people parking on grass verges, and are hoping to avoid too much disruption.
Philips envisages similar applications, perhaps using glowing plants to illuminate road verges or as warning strips on flights of stairs.
These emerging firms are the key opportunities for savvy investors as the lighting world verges on the next generation of green technology.
Guides lead trekkers up precipitous verges and across rivers, and rusty machetes are used to hack paths through the thick, thorny rainforest.
Verges and hedges became badly littered so the council has resumed clearances.
The plot is so closely woven that it verges on the incestuous.
But those around them sense a bond that verges on the paternal.
Others sit by the roadside in the shade of birch trees, bikes propped up next to them on verges dotted with pink and white cosmos.
And just to repeat, yes, I realise this verges on the ludicrous.
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He also has a reputation for straight-talking that verges on the reckless.
"The Notorious Bettie Page" verges on David Lynch territory, but explored earnestly, with a misplaced belief in the dramatic value of broad-stroke sketches.
He drove along footpaths and grass verges as he pursued the police through several streets in Aberdeen, eventually crashing into their unmarked car.
Wemyss drove along footpaths and grass verges as he pursued the police through several streets in Aberdeen, eventually crashing into their unmarked car.
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Though it admits the Mahatma's failings, Mr Wolpert's book verges on hagiography, which is disappointing in a life of such a historical figure.
If the cost does drop, the market "verges on being insatiable, " says Jay Flatley, chief executive of Illumina, the leading maker of DNA sequencers.
Customers hate call centers with a passion because it verges on the miraculous if they are ever able to get back to the same operator.
But strikingly, the pilgrims at the Mela told the researchers that they "feel good ... actually, more than good ... their language verges on the ecstatic".
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Earlier this year verges along the B1393 and the B181 through the forest were cleared in order to improve the visibility for both drivers and deer.
Electronic signs will also be mounted on verges and gantries displaying variable mandatory speed limits and information to warn motorists about incidents, lane closures or conditions ahead.
Despite its image as a purple, loopy purveyor of fun, Yahoo is a solitary place defined by an us-against-the-world fervor and a confidence that verges on fatal arrogance.
Seth's account of Michael's anguished outpouring verges on the tedious.
Much more serious threats to many species of fungi are pollution, intensive agriculture and the disappearance of many of the fields, forests, meadows and verges where they used to flourish.
Yet the movie itself is hardly free of exploitative tricks, and what seemed, a decade ago, like an unprecedented exposure of our viewing habits now verges on a gruelling condescension.
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