Their airliner was lying across the road from the airport, on a parcel of land abutting an Accra football stadium.

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The plans for the three turbines were revealed in 2010 with the proposed site lying across the boundaries of Broxtowe and Nottingham City.

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Josh Brolin, a slab of hair lying low across his forehead, gives White a brick-headed, baffled manner, a tormented neediness.

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My mother had drawn the heavy mauve curtains across the windows and I was lying in the dark.

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Your brother had found you that morning, lying on the floor with your hands folded across an afghan like the dozens Granny had knitted for all of us, just like we all used to do when watching TV.

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Lying abed, looking at the Emerald City of unfettered finance capital coruscating across the rooftops of the Victorian corridor streets that Le Corbusier and Howard so decried, I can appreciate that enacted here is the most important axiom of contemporary architecture - form follows finance.

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Calling Hurricane Katrina "a portal into the future, " he says it is already too late to avert a rise of up to one degree that will lead to Arctic meltdown, extreme drought across much of the world and the destruction of low-lying island nations such as Tuavalu and the Maldives.

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There were plenty of durable classics lying around -- like Kon-Tiki, the story of Thor Heyerdahls excursion across the Pacific on a raft, and The Worst Journey in the World, about Robert Falcon Scotts disastrous expedition to the South Pole.

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The route took me across the Washington Mall where under some trees I found a group of babies lying their cots, gurgling contentedly up at the leaves.

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