Some made a forced return from leave, expressing a sense of urgencyuncharacteristicof ordinary project life.
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Loan words that retain foreign sounds, that combine sounds in unfamiliar ways, or that showuncharacteristicsyllable structures are the easiest to identify.
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Gubion and his colleagues wereuncharacteristicof the priory's employees to the extent that they were employed so many times.
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Since this singular behaviour isuncharacteristicof the experiment in general, the close attention paid to it might appear unwarranted.
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He admitted what he called a medieval 'mensural interpretation', but only for these fewuncharacteristicand isolated cases.
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The employment of a single craftsman and an assistant or assistants was, by contrast,uncharacteristicof the sort of employment offered by the priory.
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One child scored only 83, but was exhibitinguncharacteristicbehavioral problems during the administration of the test.
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Theuncharacteristicrhetoric of the editorial contrasted sharply with most of the others published during its decade.
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Observers sort the 90 items into a forced distribution of nine piles that vary in the extent to which the item is characteristic oruncharacteristicof maternal behavior.
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More dramatically, the episode ended with the government'suncharacteristicsubmission to the employees, who traditionally had been weakened by neglect and lack of an organizational voice.
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In other studies, the specific types of psychopathology studied have been salient for boys but relativelyuncharacteristicof girls and, therefore, have generated relatively little information about females.
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I am sure that it has outgrown that, however, and can look forward to some decades ofuncharacteristictranquillity.
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I thought that he lapsed a bit towards the end; he should change the special adviser who inserted theuncharacteristicand entirely inaccurate jibes.
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Her personality began to change, withuncharacteristicrages, violent outbursts and other evidence of a brain disorder.
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With anuncharacteristiclack of candour, he has omitted from his list fixed penalty notices, which he mentioned earlier.
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