Although the museum's newly opened east wing ---- more than three thousand artefacts from the late Bronze Age, no more than a tenth of them can be put on display at any one time.
Normally a field ecologist who spends her summers deep in the Amazon basin, Dr. Alvarez ---- almost all of her working hours in the laboratory at the moment, since seasonal flooding has made the study site impossible to reach.
The shuttle bus linking the north campus to the city centre ---- every twenty minutes throughout the academic year, so students seldom bother to consult the printed timetable.
I must ask to be left off the programme for Friday morning, as I ---- a delegation of visiting scholars around the excavation trenches at ten, and the arrangement was made weeks ago.
The materials science laboratory ---- an electron microscope so sophisticated that researchers from three neighbouring universities regularly book time on it.
Whenever he prepares a béarnaise for the tasting menu, the chef ---- the sauce at least four times, since he insists that it ---- unpleasantly sharp if the vinegar goes into the pan too early.
I am afraid I must miss the faculty lunch on Thursday: I ---- the external examiner at one o'clock that day, an appointment we arranged only last week, and I ---- no way of moving it at such short notice.
Nowadays even the most cautious geologists ---- the theory of plate tectonics to be beyond serious dispute, although the idea was dismissed as fantasy for the best part of half a century.
The number of applications to the archaeology programme ---- sharply at present, largely because a popular documentary series has drawn public attention to the recent excavations in the region.
Although the two beetle species ---- virtually identical to the naked eye, taxonomists ---- perfectly well that they belong to entirely different genera.