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One to watch The well-bred Tinghir (David Lanigan) Looked a useful prospect for middle distances next year when second on his debut at Kempton on Monday, green after travelling well but still pulling clear of the rest.
However, I quite liked Shannon Gabriel, who looks a useful prospect - he has a classical West Indies action - a nice tall, loose action.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers, of course, saved the Red Sox last August by trading for Adrian Gonzalez, Carl Crawford and Josh Beckett, absorbing some $265 million in salaries and — perhaps most staggering — giving up useful prospects in the deal.
Application of the aforementioned three models in the Kuqa Depression of the Tarim Basin in western China shows that the simplified pseudo 3-D model is very efficient and less computationally extensive, and the predicted quantities and locations of petroleum accumulations approach those determined by exploration, showing these models could form a useful prospecting method.
Gravimeter, also called gravity meter, sensitive device for measuring variations in the Earth's gravitational field, useful in prospecting for oil and minerals.
When government scientists collected twenty-two samples from across the United States, however, they found gold concentrations well below one part per million, and concluded, "Equisetum would not be useful in prospecting for gold".
Even though the level of computer simulation for optical designing is becoming powerful, the 3rd order aberration theory is still useful for prospecting optical characteristics and developing optics.
The thesis of the book is that people now block marketing that interrupts them, such as advertisements and spam, that instead companies need to provide information that is useful to prospects , who will then self-identify.
Anthony Finn, chief executive of GTC for Scotland, said: "The response rate to this survey is relatively low but it is still a valid sample and provides us with useful information about the employment prospects of our probationer teachers, who are some of the best qualified and most talented anywhere in the world".
On LinkedIn, every glance in the direction of your profile is a path to future job prospects, useful information, and what the company's C.E.O., Jeff Weiner, described to Nicholas Lemann as "economic opportunity for everyone on the globe".
They had used several bore-hole caliper surveys and these data support the concept that fracture traces reflect underlying fracture concentrations and are useful as a prospecting guide in locating zones of increased weathering, solutioning, and permeability.
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The phrase "useful prospect" functions as a compound noun phrase , where the adjective "useful" modifies the noun "prospect". It serves to describe someone or something as having potential value or benefit, as shown in the Ludwig examples.
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