The history of this trade and that in carpets proceeded in somewhat comparable manner.
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Having wellfitting, carpeted stairs, in a good state of repair, was contrasted with problems that can occur with, for example, polished wooden stairs.
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Echoes of it are in the decoration of the furniture, in the carpets, the drapes and soft furnishings.
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Next, we describe some parameters of the self-affine carpets that will appear in the dimension formulae below.
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Physiotherapists and occupational therapists know that danger follows changes made in otherwise familiar surroundings : chairs moved, corners of carpets rolled up for cleaning, a visitor trailing the flex whilst vacuuming.
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What about a patient who would only look - and keep looking - at the profusion of objects surrounding him, asking questions about carpets, chairs, or paintings on the wall?
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They are filled with unhealthy cheap materials: for example, carpets that give off chemicals known for their carcinogens and the copious use of medium density fibreboard.
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Moreover, contamination of indoor household surfaces such as carpets may occur if animal faeces are brought into the home on the soles of shoes or on a contaminated object.
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Structure 2b is also balanced, but in a manner such that neither reading corresponds to our real-world knowledge of the materials typically used to manufacture either carpets or brooms.
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The process is initiated by binding of the cationic peptide to negatively charged phospholipids, resulting in a ' carpeting ' of the membrane surface, without self-association of the peptide.
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Our exports of glass and carpets in 1961 were worth $4·2 million, but the increase in duties was larger.
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We are not accepting a meaningless statement in relation to tufted carpets.
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The following statistics exclude industrial uses of pesticides, for example, for timber preservation, proofing of carpets and so forth.
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Many of them now have carpets rather than cold, bare linoleum.
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The industries with the highest productivity growth rates were chemicals, man-made fibres and carpets, which are relatively capital intensive.
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Collocationswithcarpet
carpet
These are words often used in combination withcarpet.
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carpet cleaning
His work—he was, incidentally, a policeman—involved moving very largecarpetcleaningmachines.
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carpet factory
There is acarpetfactoryin my constituency, too.
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carpet manufacturer
One might get onecarpetmanufacturerwho also spins his own yarn.
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