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Перевод: showpiece

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Тезаурус:

1. The "Mercury" catalogue is by no means all showpiece music - there are concertos by Dvok, Schumann and Beethoven for example - but the discs one lingers over include Dorti and the LSO in Stravinsky, Paray/detroit SO in an all-Ravel programme, or Dorti again with the LSO and his own Minneapolis Orchestra in Respighi's Pines, Fountains and Birds .
2. The NACAB information system, whether paper or microfilm, can justly be considered the showpiece of the service and many wish to protect it.
3. (The Paviours Arms in Page Street, Westminster is a good example, having originally been a showpiece of restrained and elegant design.)
4. In the string, taking Shine On for a showpiece half-speed over five furlongs, riding home, her mind was on the implications of his message.
5. A lack-lustre school five minutes' walk from home with no major roads to be crossed may be preferred to a showpiece two miles away.
6. When seen in conjunction with the Cloister Court, of which it forms the northern side and which offers some fine Tudor brickwork, it presents a showpiece of a rather more homely kind than do the grand stone courts of some other colleges.
7. The important work of slum clearance has been virtually at a standstill since 1939, only individual houses having been demolished, apart from an area in London intended as a showpiece for the Festival of Britain.
8. Norwich and Cambridge were reached; Clydeside's 85million showpiece was completed with the linking up of Largs and Ardrossan Harbour to the main Ayrshire system; and the Great Northern system was extended north to Huntingdon and Peterborough.
9. Meet the Corn Traders, who still gather in this Victorian showpiece.
10. Todd, who played briefly at Wakefield Trinity last season, is in the New Zealand touring squad currently in this country, and was refused an exemption to take part in the showpiece game.
11. When Nicholas returned to Parkhead to play his home debut in a showpiece friendly against Everton he was greeted with rapturous applause.
12. By 1800 the new Shorthorn was Britain's tallest breed, the bulls standing 152cm at the withers; the famous Durham Ox was 165cm tall and weighed 3,024 pounds as a five-year-old in 1801 when it was exhibited all over the country, remaining a star travelling showpiece until it dislocated its hip in 1807.
13. For years foreigners have been unable to make up their minds whether Cuba's showpiece investment in genetic engineering is an expensive folly or the foundation of a high-tech economy.