The actual Knight Bus seen in the film adaptation was built by grafting the top deck of a London AEC Regent III RT bus onto the top of another " RT " bus.

( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.

Unruly hair goes straight up from his forehead, standing so high that the top falls gently over, as if to show that it really is hair and not bristle.

Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;

He is the first top administration officer to see the bottom of the slump.

Although the United States and the U.S.S.R. have been arguing whether there shall be four, five or six top assistants, the most important element in the situation is not the number of deputies but the manner in which these deputies are to do their work.

What we must have, if the United Nations is to survive, is as nonpolitical, nonpartisan an organization at the top as human beings can make it, subject to no single nation's direction and subservient to no single nation's ambition.

Since he has just shown who is top dog, he may not be ready to receive this highest honor in the gift of the Soviet people.

It is a truism of business that no business can be better than its board of directors and its top management.

Another thing that must be taken into consideration is the volume of the area between the top of the piston and the top of the cylinder block when the piston is in top dead center position.

The only way to determine the final combustion chamber volume when such pistons are used is by measuring it with liquid while the cylinder head is bolted to the cylinder block and the piston is in top dead center position.

The single-barrel Stevens 940Y ( under $35 ) is made with a side lever rather than a top-tang lever because many youngsters aren't strong enough to operate a top tang to open a gun -- and the side lever does indeed open very easily.

After trimming off the excess on the frames and transom which was used to fasten them to the jig at a working height, the top of the side planking is installed.

The addition of endurance training later, when the body is mature enough to benefit from it without danger of injury, provides that final quality that makes the top athlete, soldier or citizen.

Another factor that may hold hope is for parallel recognition is, as one man says it: `` that the fad for educating top people along managerial lines is yielding to the technically trained approach ''.

With no set standards, there is the tendency to promote to the next highest level when the top of a salary band is reached regardless of performance.

Barbara Borland of Tigard took top senior individual home economics honors with a demonstration called filbert hats.

The three sepals are generally colourful and bright ( which is why they are sometimes called outer tepals ), with one on each side (" lateral sepals ") and one usually at the top of the flower (" dorsal sepal "), sometimes forming a hood.

South of the platform that forms the top of the Acropolis there are also the remains of an outdoor theatre called Theatre of Dionysus.

For example, the BBC website, which had previously been called BBC Online, took on the BBCi brand from 2001, displaying an i-bar across the top of every page, offering a category-based navigation: Categories, TV, Radio, Communicate, Where I Live, A-Z Index, and a search.

The article was an expansion of a well-circulated top secret State Department cable called the X Article and became famous for setting forth the doctrine of containment.

The fretboard ( also called the fingerboard ) is a piece of wood embedded with metal frets that constitutes the top of the neck.

The top, back and sides of a classical guitar body are very thin, so a flexible piece of wood called kerfing ( because it is often scored, or kerfed so it bends with the shape of the rim ) is glued into the corners where the rim meets the top and back.

On the top is a capital in the characteristic shape of a scroll, called a volute, or scroll, at the four corners.

It is sometimes called the feminine order because it is on the top level of the Colosseum and holding up the least weight, and also has the slenderest ratio of thickness to height.

On the top of the vent on the outside of the cannon is a flat circular space called the vent field where the charge is lit.

To receive newer digital cable most TVs require a " digital television adapter " ( set top box ) called a cable converter, connected between the incoming cable and the TV, that processes digital signals.

Drums with two heads can also have a set of wires, called snares, held across the bottom head, top head, or both heads, hence the name snare drum.

Controversy erupted when photographs taken after Potter's climb appeared to show damage caused by a climbing technique called top roping.

The Redskins and Dallas Cowboys enjoy what has been called by Sports Illustrated the top NFL rivalry of all time and " one of the greatest in sports.

The " lightest " products ( those with the lowest boiling point ) exit from the top of the columns and the " heaviest " products ( those with the highest boiling point ) exit from the bottom of the column and are often called the bottoms.

The simplified linear feeding pathways that move from a basal trophic species to a top consumer is called the food chain.

This code defines a new word ( again, word is the term used for a subroutine ) called using the following commands: duplicates the number on the stack ; places a 6 on top of the stack ; compares the top two numbers on the stack ( 6 and the ed input ), and replaces them with a true-or-false value ; takes a true-or-false value and chooses to execute commands immediately after it or to skip to the ; discards the value on the stack ; and ends the conditional.

The flat top has two holes ; the square hole is called the hardy hole, where the square shank of the hardy fits.

Two of the windows are called panels and are positioned symmetrically at the top of the screen.

Also called the fingerboard, the fretboard is a piece of wood embedded with metal frets that comprises the top of the neck.

The top, back and ribs of an acoustic guitar body are very thin ( 1 – 2 mm ), so a flexible piece of wood called lining is glued into the corners where the rib meets the top and back.

( The success of Hee Haw and Lawrence Welk in syndication, and the network decisions that led to their respective cancellations, were the inspiration for a novelty song called " The Lawrence Welk-Hee Haw Counter-Revolution Polka ," performed by Clark ; the song became a top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in the fall of 1972.

In 1997 Enya released her greatest hits collection, Paint the Sky with Stars: The Best of Enya, again a top five smash in the UK and Germany, which featured two new songs: " Paint the Sky with Stars " and " Only If ..."; " Only If ..." later became a single.

Amstrad has been a major supplier of set top boxes to UK satellite TV provider Sky since its launch in 1989.

Amstrad was key to the introduction of Sky, as it was the only manufacturer producing receiver boxes and dishes at the system's launch, and has continued to manufacture set top boxes for Sky, from analogue to digital and now including Sky's Sky + digital video recorder.

The same year, Amstrad supplied set top boxes to Australian broadcaster Foxtel, and in 2004 to Italian broadcaster Sky Italia.

On a three-masted vessel the masts are, from bow to stern, Fore, Main and Mizzen ; the " plain " square sails are, bottom to top, Course, Topsail, Topgallant, Royal and Sky.

Some, such as Love Sky, have sold millions of print copies, and at the end of 2007 cell phone novels comprised four of the top five fiction best sellers.

The album Head to the Sky was released in the spring of 1973 and gave the group their first two legitimate hit singles, " Evil ", co-written by Maurice and Philip, and " Keep Your Head to the Sky ", both of which reached the top 30 and the top 60 on the R & B and pop charts, respectively.

The Sky Cabin ring revolves slowly as it rises to the top and back offering a pleasantly changing vista.

Three of Gonzaga's most recent notable athletes are basketball players — former center Ronny Turiaf ( now playing for the Miami Heat ); third overall 2006 NBA Draft pick and Red Star Belgrade Adam Morrison ( who was selected by the Charlotte Bobcats ), regarded for his likeness to Hall of Famer Larry Bird ; and Courtney Vandersloot, 2011 winner of the Nancy Lieberman Award as the leading Division I women's point guard and women's Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award as the top Division I player no taller than 5 ' 8 " ( 1. 73 m ), selected third overall by the Chicago Sky in the 2011 WNBA Draft.

Two of the singles released from the album, " Your Love " and " Talkin ' to Myself Again ", reached the top 20 on the U. S. country singles charts ; a third single, " Beneath a Painted Sky " ( featuring duet vocals from Emmylou Harris ) reached No. 25 in early 1988 ( it would ultimately be Tammy Wynette's final top-40 country single ).

In March 2000 Sky News Active was launched, a 24-hour interactive service providing headlines ( and other services which ranged from weather, the top story of the day and showbiz ) on demand.

Since October 2005 he has been heard at the top of each hour introducing programmes by announcing, " Live from the Sky News Centre, this is Programme name with presenters " or " This is programme name with presenter / s ".

Future lift upgrades include the upgrade of the Galaxy double chair to a high speed detachable quad, the upgrade of the North Bowl triple chair to a high speed detachable quad, the replacement of the Patsy's and Groove triple chairs with a single high speed detachable quad, a high speed detachable lift to replace the Aerial Tram that will terminate at the future Powderbowl Lodge, the extension and conversion of the Mott Canyon double chair to a fixed grip quad that will terminate at the top of Dipper Express, the construction of a fixed grip quad between the base of Sky Express and the top of the Gondola, the reinstallation of the Wells Fargo chair, accessing abandoned terrain on the Nevada side, and the upgrading of Sky Express from a high speed detachable quad to a high speed detachable six-pack.

When Denver was awarded a major league franchise for the 1993 season, the new Colorado Rockies arranged for the Sky Sox to become their top farm team.

His image as a handsome and mighty warrior wearing a pheasant-tailed headdress and wielding a ji known as the " Sky Piercer " () on top of his steed Red Hare was later popularized by Luo Guanzhong's historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.