There is,alas, little data about bioethicists' personal biases.
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The derivativesalasand a/an are derivatives along the streamlines and normal to them, respectively.
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Explaining cultural change, in popular music as well as other cultural forms, is,alas, much more complicated than connecting content with social forces.
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The title of the book raises expectations which,alas, it does not fulfil.
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The central finale,alas, seemed to have neither quality.
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Alas, she heard me - she saw me - not, but fell back in bed in her former state!
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His other planctus,alas, are untranscribable, unless imagination is to have free rein.
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Local authorities,alas, find it difficult to see the total cost-benefit wood for the trees.
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In any event this means that, my aspirations notwithstanding, the involuntariness argument is not,alas, theologically neutral.
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He made every effort to explain to them the rules of harmony, but,alas, mostly without any success.
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Historians,alas, must proceed to the question of just what the author is trying to prove and what kind of reading he gives to his sources.
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The answer,alas, is usually yes.
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On occasion,alas, our guts are invaded by bacteria that inter fere with the proper operation of the system, causing various unseemly ailments and, in extreme cases, death.
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American politicians' minds are always concentrated - and,alas, their thoughts are seldom of all eternity (or even, so far as one can tell, of their place in history).
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Alas, most of this increase is bound to take place simply because of the high birth rate since 1956.
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