Parties or coalitions of parties put out slates of candidates for the departments, as well as a national list.
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An account of the impressions of plants on the slates of coals.
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Prices have been arranged for the purchase of bricks, cement, lime, slates, soil and waste pipes, rain pipes and rhones, sanitary work, ironmongery, etc.
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At the moment the demand for slates is practically hon- existent, and all that the quarries can do is to produce slates for stock.
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The council immediately inspected the roof, and it found that 24 slates had been maliciously damaged.
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Slates are used for public buildings whenever this material is most suitable, having regard to all the circumstances.
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People put up farm buildings, and when the old slates come off they may have to use something else for repairing.
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To-day the slates have to be delivered in a hurry, for the purpose of some local authority's housing scheme, and they are railed forthwith.
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The materials in particularly short supply are timber, steel and cast iron, lead, certain types of electrical components, salt glazed pipes, and slates.
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Are we going to build of bricks and slates, or are we going to use concrete, or some new form of construction?
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We have plenty of bricks on hand, timber, cement, and so on, for the first 100,000 houses, with a fair supply of slates.
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I know of several repairers in my own area who have spent a lot of time trying to get these slates, with no result.
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There is a difficulty with regard to the supply of slates, but my regional officers will assist local authorities in this matter.
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Are slates still as difficult to obtain, and are they still as expensive to quarry?
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There is no change in the price of slates at all.
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dark slate
This large grey-brown pigeon has an obvious white hindcollar contrasting with adarkslatehead.
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full slate
A constitution was adopted and afullslateof officers were elected.
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piece of slate
A man belonging to a mendicant order scratched the wall of the well with apieceofslate, following the imprint of the cross.
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