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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Carol looked up at the weathercock as the car drew up at her house in the cobbled square.
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In a wind, however, the model will only turn until the trim offset is balanced by the weathercock effect.
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It had been going more and more slowly since diving down from the weathercock .
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On the exterior is an octagonal spire, called the Torre de Gallo, after its weathercock .
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Sharpe looked up at the weathercock on the stable roof and saw the wind had backed southerly.
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The bunch pulled out by the weathercock had left the rest of the twigs loose in their binding.
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These are designed, rather on the principle of the weathercock , to orientate themselves to the instantaneous local air movement.
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We have already seen that the weathercock effect due to forward flight makes the tail rotor too effective.