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  • Constable appreciated The Farmer's Boy, using couplets from it as tags to two paintings: a 'Ploughing Scene', shown at the Royal Academy in 1814, and 'A Harvest Field, Reapers,

    Index of People 2009

  • Dr Hamish Meldrum, the chairman of the British Medical Association, said: Ploughing ahead with these changes as they stand, at such speed, at a time of huge financial pressures, and when NHS staff and experts have so many concerns, is a massive gamble.

    Andrew Lansley unveils health bill as chorus of concern grows 2011

  • Ploughing on regardless of the evidence is stupid – and it is stupid policies that, ultimately, are much more toxic.

    The coalition's strategy is courting disaster | Observer editorial 2011

  • His already waning popularity nosedived even further but seemed to boomerang back after an apology and his appearance at that most Irish of events, the National Ploughing Championships.

    Michael Winship: The Celtic Tiger, Declawed and Defanged Michael Winship 2010

  • Ploughing the minimal techno furrow with some aplomb, they like to concentrate on the less geeky end of things which seems to go down well with the bar's dressy, up-for-it crowd.

    Clubs picks of the week Patric Baird 2010

  • Ploughing ahead with an exorbitantly expensive project seemingly out of vanity?

    In praise of David Maddox Jeff 2009

  • Ploughing ahead with an exorbitantly expensive project seemingly out of vanity?

    Archive 2009-09-01 Jeff 2009

  • Ploughing and open mining of ores and coal have directly obliterated habitats.

    Kazakh steppe 2008

  • Ploughing behaviour is apparently unique to babirusas among Suidae, and its discovery implies that babirusas in captivity might have their behaviour enriched if they are provided with suitable areas of soft, plougable sand or soil.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Ploughing behaviour is apparently unique to babirusas among Suidae, and its discovery implies that babirusas in captivity might have their behaviour enriched if they are provided with suitable areas of soft, plougable sand or soil.

    The many babirusa species: laissez-faire lumping under fire again Darren Naish 2006

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