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- verb Present participle of
concrete .
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Examples
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Too much Japanese government spending has been on useless assets such as concreting riverbeds, and bridges to no-where, which were done to justify the diversion of tax revenues to organisations which supported the LDP system - the amakudari bureaucracy, large building corporations and local government.
AMPONTAN 2010
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Orr rejects the concerns: This will not result in a concreting over of the countryside.
Activists prepare for battle to save countryside from the developers 2011
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As at Jackson Lake the year before, Crowe attempted to keep his concreting crews deployed through the harshest weeks of winter.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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As at Jackson Lake the year before, Crowe attempted to keep his concreting crews deployed through the harshest weeks of winter.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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However, can we say xtc = xtCO2 in respect of these when, for example, concreting over green wedge also implies an energy and emission saving in terms of lower grounds maintenance?
Look How Clever We Are ! Newmania 2008
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The concreting crews whacked the safety latches free with their shovels and scrambled clear as the operator, still relying on the signals from his spotters, released the trapdoors and discharged the sixteen-ton load.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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The concreting crews whacked the safety latches free with their shovels and scrambled clear as the operator, still relying on the signals from his spotters, released the trapdoors and discharged the sixteen-ton load.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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The narrative coheres towards resolution, this textual binding making the girl's role in the narrative integral, restating the core conflict (authority versus the individual), concreting the theme that runs through the entire narrative.
Patrica Russo's "The Oracle Opens One Eye" Hal Duncan 2008
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They and their colleagues in the Labour party are supporting it while in an unusual alliance the Conservatives and Greens have joined to oppose the concreting of this flood-prone area.
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The narrative coheres towards resolution, this textual binding making the girl's role in the narrative integral, restating the core conflict (authority versus the individual), concreting the theme that runs through the entire narrative.
Archive 2008-02-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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May 21, 2009