It is hard to imagine a betterprovinggroundof the theory that ideas - even ostensibly abstract ones - are inextricably historical.
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In addition to its exports, the industry provides a technologicalprovinggroundfor textile machinery makers—another large exporting industry.
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Suggestions are now produced of using an aerodrome as aprovingground.
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It is aprovinggroundscheme which should not be judged until the financial reports on contracts undertaken by the new management are available.
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It has been suggested, therefore, that a disused aerodrome, should, if possible, be purchased, or rented and converted into aprovingground.
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It is no part of an airline's business to be aprovinggroundfor any aircraft.
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They say, as regards location, that no particular area of the country has yet been recommended for the location of aprovingground.
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This requirement will be borne in mind in the selection of a site for the proposedprovingground.
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And we cannot know that they are going to be better unless we have aprovingground.
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It is not for us to show why we want a motor track, or what is now, in a very cowardly way, called aprovingground.
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Almost eight years passed before aprovinggroundwas again pursued.
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This consumer-facing personalized music magazine was aprovinggroundfor the technical and commercial approach of idio.
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In theprovingground, the player maneuvers a starfighter through a series of gates within a time limit.
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It was clear by this time that the base's mission would be aprovinggroundfor aircraft and a testing site for experimental aircraft.
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The party is lost in a savage land, and to survive, they must escape a druidicalprovingground.
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