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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Chop with fine scissors ill a tilted glass Petri dish .
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Manipulate the oviducts in a plastic Petri dish or glass cavity block on the heated stage of a binocular directing microscope.
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Place drops of the clear supernatant on to dental wax in a Petri dish as before.
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Recover the eggs by inverting the mesh over a second Petri dish and passing fresh medium through it.
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Sin and shame are at the heart of this movie: bacilli fostered in the Petri dish of poverty and religious authoritarianism.