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The pain was almost more than he could bear.

And that is a torment I can no longer bear.

And the strain on the cable would be more than most materials could bear.

The ice is too thin to bear your weight.

It works in compression to divert the weight above it out to the sides, where the weight is borne by the vertical elements on either side of the arch.

The document bore his signature.

They bear a strong resemblance to river systems on Earth, and geologists think that they are dried-up beds of long-gone rivers that once carried rainfall on Mars from the mountains down into the valleys.

Yawning bore no relationship to sleep patterns, however.

It’s worth bearing in mind.

She was not able to bear children.

It's actually a member of the banana family&it even bears little banana-shaped fruits.

Jean Painlevé was born in 1902.

In 1769 in a little town in Oxfordshire, England, a child with the very ordinary name of William Smith was born into the poor family of a village blacksmith.

(Grasses are simple forms of angiosperms that bear their encapsulated seeds on long stalks.) In a surprisingly short time, angiosperms filled many of the land areas on Hawaii that had been bare.

It has been suggested that if the environment were capable of supporting breeding populations of bears, there would have been enough food resources to support humans.

Clara Schumann was born in Germany in 1819.

Cecilia Beaux was born in 1854, and after learning to paint and studying with several important artists of the time, Beaux became known as one of the best portrait painters in the United States.

The primary difference is that a rabbit’s young are born blind and without fur, while a hare’s babies are born with a full coat and able to see.

Um... Alice Neel painted portraits, she was born in Pennsylvania, and she lived from 1900 to 1984.

Now, a pioneer of modern dance was Isadora Duncan, who was born in 1878.

Hatchlings are really vulnerable, especially to birds and small mammals when they are born.

Actually, the town where he was born is presently part of Romania.

Bartok was born in Austria-Hungary, a nation that broke apart when he was about forty years old.

Locke’s viewpoint essentially was that when humans are born, their minds are like blank slates, that is, we don’t have any kind of knowledge when we are born.

Harriet Morrison Irwin was from the South, born in North Carolina in 1828.

Thus, the first truly sedentary (that is, nonmigratory) societies were born.

Unprotected plants bore only 45 seeds per plant, but plants occupied by ants bore 211 seeds per plant.

Each island was born from underwater volcanoes and was gradually covered by organisms derived from strays that rode the ocean currents and winds from other islands and continents.

The satellite was born dead and has remained geologically dead for more than four billion years.

Student:I mean, if someone's born with good approximate number sense, um, does that cause them to be good at math?

Female Student: Um...newborn reindeer are very adult-like, like they can stand as soon as they're born, and by their second day they can already run as fast as a human.

 Student: The rocky planets were born.

Many of the biographies are extremely detailed with all the basic facts about where the artists were born, where they'd worked, who their teachers were and so on.

All we can say for certain about Anaximenes, who was probably born around 560 BCE, is that following in the tradition of Anaximander, he also disagreed with his mentor.

Much more is known about Anaximander than about Anaximenes, probably because Anaximander, who was born sometime around 610 B.C.E, ambitiously attempted to write a comprehensive history of the universe.

Thus, the change in the status of Brazil sharpened the conflict between Portuguese elites born in Brazil and elites born in Portugal and loyal to the Portuguese crown.

He himself suggested that maybe it wasn’t an unknown species but a hybrid, born from two different species.

And then they return to the same streams where they were born to reproduce, or spawn.

Ok, as you probably know, salmon are born in fresh water streams, they might ran to oceans where they spent most of their lives.

And the practice of drinking tea was born.

When you get to the fork in the road, bear right.

The French said opera ought to reflect the rhythm and cadence of dramatic literature, bearing in mind that we are talking about the golden age in French literature.

The bear lumped along.

But earlier at Chauvet, there is a significant interest in large dangerous animals, lots of rhinoceros, lions, mammoth, bears.

Cave bears, yes, but not humans.

The coastal hypothesis has gained increasing support in recent years because the remains of large land animals, such as caribou and brown bears, have been found in southeastern Alaska dating between 10,000 and 12,500 years ago.

It involves a prince who is a white bear by night and a human by day.

So that’s why bears to this day have such short tails.

When the bear puts his tail into the water through a hole in the ice, to try and catch a fish, the ice freezes around it, and he ends up pulling his tail off.

So there’s one about a fox who fools a bear into going ice fishing with his tail.

They tend to involve animals like bears, wolves and foxes.

There’s no surprise ending like in O. Henry’s story The Gift of the Magi or some big adventure like in Faulkner’s The Bear.

You know how bears mostly sleep through the winter.

Drought-tolerant plants are like bears in a way.

These grazers supported in turn a number of impressive carnivores, including the giant short-faced bear, the saber-tooth cat, and a large species of lion. 

Student: Like the polar bear living in the Arctic on the ice sheet.

Professor: Ever heard a frog being chased by a polar bear?

It’s actually more efficient for a bear to only eat some parts of the fish and then try catching another one, instead of eating the whole fish. 

I mean if I were a bear preparing to hibernate, I probably eat everything I can catch.

Bred:Um, you said that the bears only eat half of each fish they catch?

So it’s safer to bring it back into the forest, to a place where the bear can eat undisturbed.

When one bear catches a fish, it’s not uncommon for another bear to try stealing it.

Professor:Well, imagine several hungry bears looking for salmon.

Maria:Why did the bears bring the salmon so far into the forest?

And since the bears only eat about half of each fish they catch, other animals like eagles, crows and insects feed on the leftovers.

The bears catch the salmon in the streams and then they carry them back into the forest to eat.

Each bear catches an estimated 700 fish during the 45 days that the salmon are spawning.

So in the autumn, bears are busy putting on extra-weight as they prepare to hibernate.  

And bears play an important intermediary role.

The plan will not bear close inspection.

He bears himself proudly, like a soldier.

He bears no resentment towards them.

She bore the responsibility for most of the changes.

Three kings bearing gifts change gifts with each other.