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1. Her sister on the ground was worried they might have run it without the containment, but their instruments would have alarmed if they had done that and would still see it as a beacon now
2. beacon for all generations when the sexes repeat the folly of Eve and Adam, and
3. a beacon of hope in the darkness, welcomes
4. they could light a beacon at night as a warning
5. Meanwhile, Eve walked away to a private spot, and activated the Distress Beacon
6. March more than anything was a beacon of hope, something concrete
7. If there is an ILS beacon available the airplane can land itself following the ILS signal
8. sort of beacon – an inspiration to others
9. Her tall, lithe body was a beacon of light in his dark nightmare
10. will see you as a beacon of…”
11. You’re a beacon for us to follow and you will never lead anyone off course, because you will remain on the honorable path you have always chosen
12. The great stone dragon head adorning the ancient bridge before her was a thrilling beacon
13. The Breton chuckled to himself, his lantern a lightly swaying beacon in the darkness
14. Her children shall be many and her radiance shall be as a beacon across the seas
15. The mind-entity had hopped aboard trying to install a homing beacon for itself
16. Ben sent out a telepathic beacon of energy encoded with patterns of himself, Danny, Jodie, Orb and Golf
17. When our intention is sincere, it glows like a beacon and it is always something that resonates with our hearts and that of others too
18. In a seat almost as comfortable as the train’s he was lifted above the small town, an area remaining stalwartly resistant to anything resembling industrialisation – or even suburbanization; traditional-style residential houses with their solar roof panels reflecting the pink-orange sky like a beacon to their owner’s pride
19. The main difficulty was how those people making the trip to the beacon would be able to carry their supply with them
20. “Now, as I believe you all know, some of us are going to set out for the beacon at the other sections of the ship, first thing tomorrow
21. Either way, someone has to get to the beacon
22. They followed the furrow for as far as it went and then started to climb between the boulders, heading roughly towards the beacon
23. “Well that gives me the incentive to get to the beacon
24. Worse still, if no-one came for them then they would not have enough supplies to make a viable second attempt at reaching the beacon
25. No, the only option was to push on to the beacon and salvage what they could from the wreckage of the rest of the ship
26. “How much further is it to the beacon now?” asked Chris
27. If this carries on, we won’t make it to the beacon, whether our supplies hold out or not
28. ” said Chris, “If you’re really that bothered by it then, once we’ve reached the beacon and set up a proper camp, you can come back and clear up
29. They had only travelled a short distance before Melissa announced, “Only sixty-two more kilometres to the beacon now
30. “What’s the other beacon?” asked Richard
31. “Set it to receive the ID beacon frequency and scan the local area
32. Theoretically it should only take another four days to get to the beacon as they were almost halfway there already
33. He deployed a relay beacon, to constantly record his transmitted position and vital signs and broadcast to him any changes in the local environment
34. But when he checked with the beacon, it had gone; curiously the suit had omitted to relay that to him
35. Coming to a halt at a kilometre from the vessel he made a check with the transponder beacon, needing the reassurance that it was still functioning
36. According to the beacon twenty (Earth) days had passed since his last transmission request, and his time dilation was becoming exponentially greater
37. The beacon was set now to give a constant update
38. Equally, activating a distress beacon would only advertise his presence to the aliens, perhaps viewing him merely as the leftover detritus to clean up: the only sentient being to survive the wave
39. “What happened to the beacon on the Elysian?” he asked
40. “Melissa must have stored the coordinates in the navicom’s memory and used them as a reference instead of the real beacon
41. The emergency beacon is above the aft section and there’s no top hatch in that section
42. He had to escape, but only after a last futile act of sending a distress beacon, in the remotest chance that he could be wrong in his assumptions
43. Chris unfastened the four catches that held the metal shield over the beacon
44. Only Druantia’s Green Men remained, the Battle Angel herself was a beacon of blue-green light with wings of blue fire hovering twenty feet above Jean
45. He moved swiftly towards the glowing beacon at the end of the tunnel, the heart of Kerak’Otozi
46. He sometimes resented his naturally distinctive appearance, that it always meant he’d be recognised, for example, by someone who may have only met him once ten years back when still a child – as if a beacon had been activated for him to be noticed from some distance
47. antimatter blast had been effective in getting them this far, it had also been a beacon to the forces
48. battlestations, and saw on the com-link near his bed the winking beacon that called for ‘all hands on
49. Here they stopped and set out another beacon
50. We could use it as a beacon almost anytime
1. Love is a flame; -- we have beaconed the world's night
2. Anne looked up at Diana's light and thought how it had beaconed to her for many years; but soon it would shine through the summer twilights no more
1. beaconing for attention, and everywhere there were voices calling out in organized chaos
2. The workstations used this information during the beaconing process to isolate the location of a network fault
3. Beaconing When a station on a Token Ring network failed to detect a signal on its receive port, it assumed that there was a fault in the network and initiated a process called beaconing
4. If the NAUN began beaconing also, this indicated that the problem was farther upstream
5. By noting which stations on the network were beaconing, it was possible to isolate the malfunctioning system or cable segment
6. When a system suspected that it may be the cause of the network problem resulting in beaconing, it removed itself from the ring to see whether the problem disappeared
1. "There's beacons on the canister
2. Usually, they act as beacons of light for the rest of the population of Earth
3. “This unit only has an effective range of around seven-hundred-and-fifty kilometres, as far as ID beacons go, so I doubt we’ll find much
4. "We have radios to home in on beacons down the coast AND the ability to log our distance by dead reckoning
5. Oh, my God! They had lights streaming out like fucking beacons, staining the ground outside with a golden tint
6. At 9:24 PM, the yard floodlights faded quickly from blinding beacons to orange, then receded to dull-red embers
7. We are all beacons of inspiration
8. ” His uncontested success attracted new beacons
9. On the right the lights of Ingleside gleamed through the maple grove with the genial lure and invitation which seems always to glow in the beacons of a home where we know there is love and good-cheer and a welcome for all kin, whether of flesh or spirit
10. James told me that the three candles on the altar stood still like beacons never even flickering once
11. “They aren’t navigation beacons
12. Robinson published an article critical of the base communications procedures and the absence of electronic positioning radio beacons (EPIRBs) in the 22-foot rigid hull inflatable patrol boats
13. Lighthouses, Lightships and Beacons
14. By the mid-1990s, all of the Great Lakes lighthouses were automated; some isolated lights and beacons were powered by solar panels
15. any ports nearby, but also indicated a few beacons, which of
16. Shdows moved among the many-colored beacons, caused them to dance and shimmer
17. "The kataspace connector linkups and receiving beacons have been switched off?"
18. My house, my room, me, the funeral parlor, all had become beacons for the undead
19. The Palladiums were beacons for all
20. Barbara winked one of those green beacons at me when our eyes made contact
21. " The old man paused, his yellowing, watery eyes were beacons in a distant time
22. They're guides, beacons of light in the darkness
23. Nancy, as well as Rebecca Milner, Mike Crawford and Klaus Manheim, took place at once at each corner of the mattress sitting in the middle of the hold, which was surrounded by a set of space-time beacons that would help the transit probes jump with precision to the cargo bay
24. doors, with the two crystals shining like beacons
25. Jack also put in place four time beacons to facilitate the arrival of the other members of their team and their robots
26. With Mona’s scooter well out of the way of the beacons, Maran’s scooter and Farah’s cargo platform quickly joined them in the covered passage
27. Going to the shelter, which was guarded like the containers by a squad of combat robots, Fernand and Natia switched on the portable workstation inside and the series of powerful light beacons that ringed the square to facilitate landings
28. By the way, saying that you lost them won’t work: they have internal radio beacons
29. Activating the eight beacons one after the other, Nancy ended up with a large cubic volume of space that she was going to be able to use to return to her cabin with uncanny precision by jumping space-time
30. When she reappeared in her own cabin two minutes later, helped in this by her space-time beacons, Nancy listened carefully for a few seconds, then sent mentally a radio message to her combat robot
31. She followed the taxiway leading to one end of the main runway of North Base and pivoted on the spot once at the start of the runway, to face the long ribbon of concrete lit up by light beacons on each side
32. Others held alternate views, of course; standing out like beacons of reason in a confused, chaotic world
33. But, despite periods of overwhelming ignorance and superstitious savagery, some people have stood like beacons in the dread of night to counter the mental affliction of mankind
34. A portion of the outer rim of the saucer rotated around the main hull of the ship and it was lit by flashing beacons
35. There were steady beacons at the top most and bottom most surface of the ship
36. Beacons exert a powerful gravitational pull
37. True beacons are such a rare occurrence these days, You gain the capacity to harness emotion, that when people find them, they flock to them
38. “Flash your starboard beacons so that I’ll know everything is good and that I can
39. The ships running with only starboard beacons are on our side
40. These existing nature forms that had enabled us to arrive here are also the beacons in order to transport us towards the next stage as these frames of syllogisms suggests here
41. There were med kits, beacons we could plant on Bethani to remind us where we are and help locate our ship after all the deeds had been done
42. Eventually the problem went away, for the signals on the Robot homing beacons went flat as soon as everyone stopped illegally watching movies
43. The glaring reflection of the metal showed the path to the port in the daylight, and bright beacons on the roof led the way at night
44. Cars lined the streets and lights blazed, cheerful beacons in the dark as Norah climbed out of Cam’s truck
45. It was illuminated by flashing beacons
46. They are beacons that illuminate the dark passages of fear and ignorance
47. The pattern came to life oscillating and pulsing among its beacons
48. His eyes lit up like beacons as he looked across the tram carriage at her
49. evil is essentially to serve as beacons
50. and should have disappeared inside that giant head, whereas they shone like beacons