In the 1970s, a friend offering to crack open a bottle of foul muck made in a cupboard under the stairs was a common threat and the prelude to an appalling hangover.
Diplomats from six major powers are due to meet next week to discuss a common negotiating strategy as an expected prelude to restarting high-level talks with Iran at about the end of this month.
"But common household items are a great prelude to sex toys".
We used a genetically diverse source population of Tetranychus urticae [52], which has been kept in culture on common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L. cultivar Prelude) for nearly ten years.
By the mid-18th century the use of additional movements (galanteries), such as gavottes, bourrées, and minuets, and even of an air (a lyrical movement not deriving from a dance), was common, as was a variously entitled introductory movement; e.g., prelude, overture, fantasia, sinfonia.
Insulin resistance is a common consequence of obesity, and is frequently a prelude to frank type 2 diabetes [ 1].
His comments will be greeted with scepticism by many senior Tories who fully expect him to attempt to return to the Commons as an MP in 2015 as a possible prelude to a Tory leadership bid.
Recitals that offer the complete Chopin preludes, or waltzes, scherzos, ballads, nocturnes and such, are fairly common.
The second most common postgraduation activity is to work as a laboratory research assistant, usually as a prelude to future graduate study.
The integration of common bean physical and genetic maps is an important part of comparative genome analysis and a prelude to positional cloning of agronomically important genes for this crop.
