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A Facebook advert we saw had one man "looking for 7/8 ghost tenants in various houses of mine".
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
However, it has had some technical issues and been criticised for a difficult opening night that included an unscheduled advert break during Arsenal's game against HB Koge.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Meanwhile Joe Marler, probably still edging Pollock in the crossover star stakes, has previously taken to the field with an advert for team-mate Olly Kohn's sausage company shaved into his head.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Speaking to BBC News, Mullen confessed the infamous wanted advert had been his father's idea all along.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
I did not know whether I could bear to speak to one who would advert to her.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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A watchdog has launched a crackdown on misleading sunbed adverts, warning tanning firms they must not claim their beds are safe or can treat medical conditions.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
The government is planning to make pay details compulsory in adverts, with legislation on the issue being brought forward "as soon as possible".
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
However, one industry group said setting pay was a complex process and regulating adverts was not always suitable.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
Carberry added the process was complex, saying that drafting job adverts is "best left to good employer practice rather than government regulation".
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
‘It looks funny, people walking around like signposts, or billboard adverts.’
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
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On his person he bore the marks of these perils of the laboratory; but they were little heeded by him, and, when adverted to, always afforded him the occasion of some good-humoured pleasantry.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 17, 2015
I'm not certain how disaster can be adverted when an inferior service will cost more money.
From Economist ● Dec. 14, 2013
It was strange she never once adverted either to her mother’s illness, or her brother’s death, or the present gloomy state of the family prospects.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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There is another case which is so familiar to economists that it need merely be adverted to.
From Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive by Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester) Anderson
Having thus briefly adverted to the causes which led to the breakdown of the transport train, I continue my journal.
From March to Magdala by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
The decline in ratings has put pressure on adverting dollars as well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
Andrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the consortium, welcomed the delay on adverting rules as "one less distraction" for companies looking to focus on keeping prices down.
From BBC ● May 14, 2022
The human element in this example could have played multiple factors in adverting the breach or at the very least discovered it a lot sooner.
From Forbes ● Jan. 5, 2015
Much of this tracking is for adverting purposes: to collect data on you to show you more relevant ads.
From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2013
Before taking leave of Dr. Ayre, we cannot omit adverting, in a very few words, to a circumstance noticed in his preface, and which we think of some importance.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache
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