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Meanings of unpromising material in английском

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Usage of unpromising material in английском
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We must have been unpromising material from the military point of view.
Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army
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It made something domestic-justanother kind of neighbourhood-outof this unpromising material.
The secret river
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But from this unpromising material J. M. Coeztee fashions a novel of breathtaking subtlety.
The Irish Times
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Pete made a good many Auld Lichts in his time out of unpromising material.
Auld Licht Idyls
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Out of this unpromising material the lively imaginations of the women built up a romance.
Little Novels
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Even in the pettiest, most unpromising material, she had discovered, you could find real treasures.
Smoke and mirrors: short fictions and illusions
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I've known good husbands made of mighty unpromising material.
Miss Gibbie Gault
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Now what would you expect from that unpromising material?
Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
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If the school training is worth anything at all, it makes the most of unpromising material.
A Girl's Student Days and After
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Indeed, in no part of Scotland has a more productive soil been made out of such unpromising material.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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Milly had a faculty of getting some results even from such unpromising material as Marion Reddon's sullen Swede.
One Woman's Life
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Irene Oakes will try to make a little bit of history at Fairyhouse today with some pretty unpromising material.
The Irish Times
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Moneyball made something compelling of unpromising material (it was as much a business movie as a baseball flick).
The Irish Times
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The story here poetically retold of the great Florentine sculptor shows how much a lofty spirit may make of unpromising material.
It Can Be Done: Poems of Inspiration
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And our choirmaster, pictured by the bus, the genius who had forged this little flying unit out of such unpromising material, was called Jake Clare.
Life
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By this process he succeeded in producing poetic effects from the most unpromising materials.
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