1 They were held captive by masked gunmen.

2 He was taken captive on the border.

3 The rock star had a captive audience.

4 His son had been taken captive during the raid.

5 A salesman loves to have a captive audience .

6 The terrorists were holding several British diplomats captive.

7 Television provides a captive audience for advertisers.

8 The three brothers were held captive for three months.

9 They were taken captive by masked gunmen.

10 She was held captive in a castle.

11 Airlines consider business travellers a captive market.

12 Children come to zoos precisely to see captive animals.

13 They managed to smuggle a videotape of the captive journalists out of the prison.

14 Lying in my hospital bed, I was a captive audience to these uninteresting old stories.

15 Our communities should not be captive to the mistakes of the past.

16 They led him captive.

17 Philip Leapor did not have a captive market.

18 Her captive breeding programmes are being attempted.

19 While the camps remain, the villagers are themselves captive.

20 In the past, manufacturers had a captive market.

21 Each captive was injected with a tranquillizer.

22 I am being held captive by Simon Butcher, the society photographer.

23 I am not a slave, I am not a captive, and by energy I can overcome the greater obstacles. 

24 Her heart had begun to pound inside her chest like a captive animal.

25 He described the difficulties of surviving for four months as a captive.

26 We all performed action songs, sketches and dances before a captive audience of parents and patrons.

27 Richard was finally released on February 4, one year and six weeks after he'd been taken captive.

28 But beyond the hedge, Mundin had run into a captive audience.

29 The most popular activities include fund management, asset financing, captive insurance and treasury management.

30 And so when I talk to a young person I have a captive audience.

1 He was taken captive on the border.

2 The rock star had a captive audience.

3 His son had been taken captive during the raid.

4 Her heart had begun to pound inside her chest like a captive animal.

5 They led him captive.

31 Not that socially imposed monogamy need extend to captive slaves.

32 It can be said he was addressing a captive audience ... of stooges.

33 Several studies on digestion of bone by captive owls and diurnal birds of prey have been published.

34 Work out the answers to these questions: Where were the Athenians held captive?

35 He heard the patter of feet behind him and turned, his captive slid from his hands like an eel.

36 If they die the whole campaign to save the condor by captive breeding could come under renewed attack.

37 The eye-level grill with captive locking device leaves you with both hands free to turn hot food safely.

38 His black telephone sat captive in a pool of light, ready for interrogation.

39 Little wonder patients held captive by their immobility were fearful.

40 But what pleasure to be left hanging as the sticky captive in the center of the silvery web!

41 Armed gunmen broke into the church and took the priest captive.

42 The photo showed the captive sitting down, encircled by several armed men.

43 Public aquariums are a good source of information regarding the status of captive breeding of invertebrates.

43 is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.

44 Zoos contribute substantially to the captive banks of many endangered species and those that are less rare.

45 We want to cooperate with leading manufacturers without being captive to them.

46 The latter is a major reason for continued interest among non-insurance companies in setting up their own captive insurance subsidiaries.

47 The outcome of these behaviours in a captive colony is the formation of one-male groups similar to those found in the wild.

48 His family were a captive audience, especially at meal times, which were central to their day.

49 The sixth child was taken captive but returned to friends a few years later.

50 Too late, for as they spoke their captive became a lion, roaring and glaring terribly.

51 It haunted his dreams, controlled his waking hours, held him captive.

52 Use of a captive can produce cost savings and cash flow advantages for groups.

53 The scheme will turn the 36-acre Regents Park site into a first-rate animal conservation and captive breeding centre.

54 I had seen the march of feudal armies, the victors returning in triumph, captive princes led past in chains.

55 It is often seen in nature, but becomes much more obvious when natural hazards are removed in captive and human populations.

56 Verbal, as opposed to written, reports give you more freedom to exploit your captive audience.

57 By night he is a prisoner, the last captive of Tangentopoli.

58 In studies in Hawaii in 1984, a captive bottlenose dolphin was trained to mimic computer-generated sounds by modifying its whistle.

59 Anyone belonging to these categories who had been taken captive was to be freed.

60 He was a real showman, and however he was feeling, he always rose to the bait of a captive audience!

61 A gun's been recovered after the latest attack, in which a store manager was held captive for six hours.

62 Father Tim saw at once that the truest meaning of the term captive audience was being demonstrated right before his eyes.

63 What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me?

64 The San Francisco Zoo has the largest and most successful captive breeding program for bald eagles in the nation, Aikin said.

65 Several tourists were being held captive by rebels in Kashmir.

66 It was like the first stage of the revolution, i. e., taking the king captive.

67 There lay Dineh, captive, in a torpor, while his enemies decided how to put him to death.

68 For that reason, modern nation-states are free to unleash devastating reprisals against their captive nations who attempt liberation.

69 They include captive monsters goaded into fighting and monsters which have been magically bound by spells of obedience.

70 My abductors made me sign all the checks in my checkbook and kept me captive while they cashed them.

71 Just how essential this help can be was documented over 18 years by a researcher studying these animals in a captive environment.

72 This has been demonstrated by experiments with captive starlings, using the technique of displacing the sun's image with mirrors.

73 The captive princess caught their attention and they looked curiously at her.

73 try its best to gather and create good sentences.

74 He really loved the hairdressing profession as it gave him a captive audience to bounce his latest jokes off.

75 Within its wide and crumbly confinement, the virgin Missouri writhed like a captive snake.

76 A week before the election a splinter group of the Moro National Liberation Front had taken several nuns captive.

77 She had been physically hurt when she was dragged from the villa and she had been held captive ever since.

78 He searched the recumbent form of his captive roughly and, straightening, tossed a slim package to Alexei.

79 Many education officials derided the effort as exploitation of a captive youth audience.

80 The tame elephants manoeuvre a captive into position, acting rather like gaolers.

81 The logic of global production is again operating, but through transfer pricing and the use of captive suppliers.

82 Often, they said, a captive woman would try to attach herself to one leader to avoid repeated gang rape.

83 She liked nothing more than a captive audience.

84 To take captive, as by force or craft; seize.

85 Because, captain, basically be I think hold captive it.

86 The captive was whooped and jeered.

87 Buried the gun, possum, be captured next captive.

88 The Cheyenne warriors traded their captive for two rifles.

89 Captive audiences for TV commercials can become brainwashed consumers.

90 T wo men are flying in a captive balloon.

91 Television advertisers can exploit a captive audience.

92 The most detail behavior ethogram of adult and nestling of captive Oriental white stork was recorded.

93 And so the staff is a captive audience for their manager's jazz-band gigs, elegies over his approach shot to the 17th green, or any other avocation mistaken as part of the vocation.

94 To be Shanghaied meant to be drugged, kidnapped and forced become a captive deckhand on an outbound ship.

95 In 2 Kings 5, we find two people who had bad things happen to them. First is a young girl from Israel who was taken captive by the Syrian army.

96 Ren became enamored with Jessica's fiery spirit, and held her captive as his own personal guest.

97 Shek Office told reporters that the venture take captive by the two elder affairs should be decided, on the one hand , Germany headquarters, on the other hand , Peterson take captive La themselves.

98 With a rush of panic, he realized the rope harness held him captive underwater.

99 You allured him with beauty, made him captive, and crowned the formless death with fadeless form.

100 The enterprise mainly manufactures bolt cutters, pipe wrenches, captive hand tools most other pipeline products, including pipe clamp production scale ranks first in the country counterparts.

101 He became a captive , bound to the chariot social existence.

102 Perhaps most important to the marketer is the captive nature of the audience.

103 In the Apocrypha , a captive in Babylon who was falsely accused of adultery and was rescued by Daniel.

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104 A new method was developed to analyze the population age groups of the captive Alpine musk deer (Moschus chrysogaster) based on the visible-near infrared reflectance spectra of their feces.

105 The bash shell uses the tab key for command completion, so it can be handy to have a captive tab character that you can use when you want a real tab.

106 You are to save the poor female poodles that were stolen and hold captive by mean dog enemies.

107 The patterns of activity rhythms of captive Amur tigers did not show any seasonal difference.

108 Book Reviews: 1. Uromastyx. Natural History, Captive Care, Breeding 2. The Amphibians and Reptiles of the Western Sahara 3. Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Japan.

109 The last captive Quagga, a mare, died on 12 August 1883 in Amsterdam Zoo, where she had lived since 9 May 1867.

110 I saw my first whale in a safari park outside London—a captive orca named Ramu—back in the early 1970s.

111 A kin slayer and fugitive, Tyrion assumes manifold roles in "Dragons": mummer, soldier, paymaster, slave, river rat and captive.

112 Wallace sets about reprogramming his captive bunnies to shun vegetables.

113 During the Nadd uprising, Arca Jeth was held captive by the vile King Ommin.

114 The team, from Hayashibara Great Ape Research Institute in Okayama, Japan, lived and even slept in the same enclosures as the captive chimps, to ensure they would be there when they gave birth.

115 Even the study of captive red goral was not sufficient, which focused mainly on the nutrition, reproduction, life history and other biology aspects.

116 The push rod can be supplied free or captive, with female M5 thread, an M5 rod eye, or dome end, Captive push rods can be sprung loaded, in either direction, on sensors up to 250 mm of travel.

117 Lying in my hospital bed, I was a captive audience to her uninteresting stories.

118 Or at least the relief that some must have felt. For others, taken captive by wild tribesmen then sold to merchants, the town's infamous slave market would only be the latest stage of their nightmare.

119 Griffin - Sets forth the property of a valorous soldier whose magnanimity is such that he will dare all dangers, and even death itself, rather than become captive.

120 At the same time, the captive breeding of Chinese water deer is becoming popular in China, but researches on reproductive behavior, genetic background of captive Chinese water deer is still lack.

121 Rebels in Liberia have released four foreigners after holding them captive for a week.

122 Neighbour hears voice, come help sb to get over his worries, right now this female " hero " skill back up, single-handed hold bastinado, shout an order " captive " fast from climb below the bed.

123 'Does it mean a captive , or a place of captivity?

124 The aliens take him to their zoo, where he will be held captive in an exact duplicate of his apartment.

125 The stranded drivers, who spend their time sleeping, walking around, or playing cards and chess, are a captive market, and the local entrepreneurs are keen to take advantage.

126 Although many are seeing cancellations by guests who never arrived, in most cases those losses have been more than made up for by a captive market of travelers with no place to go.

127 The picture gave rise to speculation that the three were still alive and being held captive.

128 The high polymorphism of MHC genes in Chinese alligator would be of great benefit to genetic conservation in the captive population of Chinese alligator.

129 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

130 Some balloonists talked of using captive ', ballons from ships.

131 You saw an example of command substitution in Listing 9 when we created a captive tab character.

132 The captive captivated by the apt adaptation rappe inbsp ; the cavity with rapture.

133 In Listing 9 we create a captive tab character using command substitution and then create a very small shell script containing two cat commands,( ) which each read from a here-document.

134 Bee breeders send them in a cage to beekeepers, who place the captive in a queenless hive.

135 Press Gang : Convert an unskilled captive to a pirate of rather inferior quality.

136 In 24: "There will be great distress on earth and wrath, they will fall by the edge of the sword and be taken away as captive among all nations.

137 However, with the increased number of captive bred Harris and Redtail hawks available today at very modest prices, the Buzzard is now being overlooked.

138 Although the captive Chinese alligator populations have been greatly developed in recent years, there has been genetic depression in the filial generation because of the founder effect.

139 It's not quite a captive market, but definitely one that's tied into protecting the value of its original capital investment.

140 But it borrows cheaply, partly because the pension fund is a captive buyer.

141 Liddell said the lack of a captive finance company had cost GM sales, particularly with less credit-worthy buyers.

142 Scientists are studying wild and captive dolphins to decipher their secret language.

143 Device and wallplate mounting screws are captive, speeding installation time.

144 In truly captive markets, quantity delivered might be more important than relevance or quality.

145 A captive wildebeest calf was inoculated with virulent bovine blood.

146 Free amino acid contents were measured in 20 milk samples of 8 captive giant pandas Ailuropoda melanoleuca using high performance liquid chromatography .

147 Domesticated and captive animals have their rights restricted even further.

148 We conducted the digestive tract anatomy with 5 Crested Ibis which are captive -breeding in Beijing Zoological Garden.

149 Noa, Teek and Wicket snuck into the Marauder castle to free Cindel and the captive Ewoks.

150 Eight months later, they executed their royal captive, and in 1533 their leader, Francisco Pizarro, picked a young prince, Manco Inca Yupanqui, to rule as a puppet king.

151 Previous studies of primates had been confined to captive animals but Leakey believed, presciently, that much more could be learned by studying them in the wild.

152 Non - car owning household trips are captive to public transport.

153 Low profile captive fasteners are ideal solutions when parent material thickness is not sufficient to countersink, but protrusion above the face of the panel must be kept to a minimum.

154 This paper describes and discusses the captive breeding and growth of Golden pheasant ( Chrysolophus pictus ) chicks.

155 Finally, the morphology of ruminal papillae showed significant difference between captive and wild muntjac which could be related to the diets that stimulate the growth of papillae .

156 A desperate attempt to rescue the three captive princes failed.

157 A captive Huon or Matschie's tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus matschiei), National Botanic Gardens, Port Moresby.

158 Stable Operation. Operates efficiently without continuous operator supervision; captive microbial population prevents upsets due to fluctuating hydraulic or organic loads.

159 The water company which supplies the region, having no competitors, enjoys a captive market.