It was getting close to midnight in London, and there were no dancers, no waves, no Miami Sound Machine blasting through the August sky.
There seems to be a grave worry here that 2.5 seconds of downtime between beach volleyball points would put 15, 000 people to sleep, so there's been a never-ending blast of music Miami Sound Machine, Maroon 5, Usher, Yakety Sax (better known as the theme to "The Benny Hill Show").
Other artists in the top five in previous years include Frank Ocean (Sound of 2012), The Vaccines (Sound of 2011), Marina and the Diamonds (Sound of 2010), Florence and the Machine (Sound of 2009), Foals (Sound of 2008) and Plan B (Sound of 2006).
Other artists in the top five in previous years include Hurts (Sound of 2010), Florence and the Machine (Sound of 2009), Duffy (Sound of 2008), Klaxons (Sound of 2007), Plan B (Sound of 2006), Bloc Party (Sound of 2005), Franz Ferdinand (Sound of 2004) and Dizzee Rascal (Sound of 2003).
Crimson circles now surround the power and volume controls, pulsating along with the sound coming from the machine's stereo speakers.
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The continuous pumping means the patient's pulse is replaced by a constant whir - similar to the sound of a washing machine.
She heard the sound of the sewing machine clattering into action.
The therapy, a variation on the technology used to crush kidney stones, involves pounding the heel with highly focused sound waves generated by a large machine called a lithotripter.
In addition the machine can be set to sound an audible tone when the vehicle enters the highlighted space.
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Other artists in the top five in previous years include Florence and the Machine and La Roux (Sound of 2009), Duffy and the Ting Tings (Sound of 2008), Klaxons (Sound of 2007), Bloc Party (Sound of 2005), Franz Ferdinand (Sound of 2004) and Dizzee Rascal (Sound of 2003).
The Geneen machine ran on the principle that sound financial management could be applied successfully to any business, from rental cars to bakeries to insurance.
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He said the theory was sound, but it would probably prove very difficult to develop a machine which could be of practical benefit to patients, not least because liver cells did not survive for very long outside the body.
Delivering a sound that resonates with the presence and power of live music, the Hanwell is a carefully crafted machine, designed to attain that trademark Marshall tone.
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