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[001] will do the same. And where would the settlement be? _____ , say the experts, at L5, of course! This reference d
[002] Every time I got a monthly statement it always said: _____ don't you increase your credit limit? There ought to
[003] cording to how much you use the phone? S: No. That's _____ we use it all the time. I: That's interesting. Thank
[004] : Everyone loves chips, but not all the time. That's _____ the Ross Company have brought out Oven Crunchies -
[005] had us where he wanted us. How could we ever explain _____ we were driving so fast? What excuse did we have? No
[006] than a person. No, I wasn't frightened, I don't know _____ . The one who spoke started to walk towards the light
[007] ht this was very strange, but I did as he told me. I: _____ have you decided to tell people about it now? B: Bec
[008] ould you go through those one by one? First of all, _____ should people working at home be paid a lower wage? L
[009] w the lungs called the diaphragm. Doctors don't know _____ they come or go. *** CHARLIE CHAPLIN Charlie Chap
[010] and moved away. 'Who was that?' I said, shaken, 'and _____ does he talk in that extraordinary way?' 'His name i
[011] but that has all died out since Aids. It's hard to say _____ we are all so boring. I think people are forced to t
[012] om schools of performing arts. Which finally explains _____ none of the original 'Famers' are household names: F
[013] y more. 'You know,' says De Silva, 'I think this was _____ there was such a turnout at our auditions. Over the
[014] y criteria: are they a low-cost producer, and if not, _____ not? Should they go for volume (nutty, if there are n
[015] rimes committed ever reach the courts, which explains _____ prison numbers have such a minimal effect on the cri
[016] fectiveness is monitored, in the NHS and schools, so _____ not in prison policy?
[017] not in prison policy? _____ doesn't Mr Howard have to explain what he is gaining
[018] hot off into a robust attack on the French language. ' _____ on earth are we spending so much time teaching our k
[019] nguage. German and Spanish are enormously important; _____ do we teach German to a quarter of the numbers we tea
[020] rposes, whatever these might be. Derek is clear about _____ he puts in so much work every week. 'It is an interes
[021] siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas? _____ should militant racist right-wingers find such signif
[022] are seen as the instruments of this action, which is _____ the federal building in Oklahoma City, which housed t
[023] offices, became a target. Now, too, we can understand _____ right-wingers and white supremacists featured promine
[024] nst the power of Washington and its servants. This is _____ Bo Gritz, the man on whom Sylvester Stallone's Rambo
[025] ually being under siege by their own government. It's _____ John Wilkes Booth killed Abraham Lincoln. It's
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[001] o find different parts of speech for the same word - ' _____ ,' 'actor,' 'actress,' or adjective 'active,' adverb '
[002] ; and soon exceeded their targets. The most striking _____ of legerdemain was, at a stroke, to turn the polytec
[003] an enjoyable one. I like to make my friends laugh and _____ the clown. At school, you have to conform. At univer
[004] at Tony Blair's door. With the 1991 Criminal Justice _____ came a more liberal policy under Douglas Hurd's auspi
[005] , funded by Lord Astor of Hever, 'generous enough to _____ as the Echo Organ for the Temple Church'. In the still
[006] no purpose, no law whatsoever can ever make licit an _____ which is intrinsically illicit.' This takes us a long
[007] nstructions. 'Acts of cruelty occurred . . .' like an _____ of nature, for which nobody can be held responsible.
[008] the New Testament in some 'special category' of wrong _____ , worse than, for example, greed, jealousy or fornica
[009] wn sex. But a temptation towards an extramarital sex _____ - whether homosexual or heterosexual - is not in its
[010] - term for 'parental preference'. The 1980 Education _____ entitled parents to state which school they would pref
[011] rs took a different view. Rab Butler's 1944 Education _____ imposed a limit on class size of 40 in primary schoo
[012] something missing in his character? What had made him _____ like that? The two engineers were now standing in fr
[013] nly; but fortune has not been kind to them. Men can _____ badly sometimes, and still not be completely evil. It
[014] you like to come out tonight, Miss Ferris?' I had to _____ normally. 'Light fishing? I'd love to. What about Fra
[015] ad no sensible advice to oer poor Catherine. You must _____ , my dear,' she said. The important thing is to
[016] , my dear,' she said. The important thing is to _____ .' Mrs Penniman had also written to Morris, and had ar
[017] wing one of those beautiful women who did not sing or _____ ; they were famous only as guests of Buster Friendly.
[018] , to find a very old man called Al Jarry, who used to _____ in films before the war. We went to his home in East
[019] the young man. 'I'm not an actor.' 'You don't have to _____ . You look exactly like young Simon Ashby. And it's e
[020] lt sorry for him. Only Brat knew that this was all an _____ , that Simon was only pretending to accept the return
[021] know about Phillips?' 'Not much. His main job is to _____ as the controller. He should leave the sales to his
[022] hit the bed post. That killed him. Now Charles had to _____ quickly. He realized that Conrad, pretending to be C
[023] y I had arranged a meeting with him, so Celia had to _____ as secretary and Conrad played the part of Charles.
[024] , maybe twenty minutes.' 'And then you decided not to _____ like a fool, yes? Twenty minutes. Why wait this long
[025] said Mr Neck quickly. 'in mean it. Would you like to _____ in a film?' A great cry broke from Seth. Mr Mybug fe
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[001] n when cable networks and satellites bring down the _____ of installing terminals in people's houses and then,
[002] related pension scheme - a move which halved its final _____ and which Redwood later modestly decribed as 'the mo
[003] grant has progressively declined in real terms. The _____ of accommodation on campus or for miles around has gr
[004] Graduates would pay back a proportion of maintenance _____ and fees through income tax or national insurance. T
[005] ition using service-industry criteria: are they a low- _____ producer, and if not, why not? Should they go for vol
[006] on by 300 per cent, with 1.5 million prisoners, at a _____ of dollars 40bn. Astonishingly, one- third of all bl
[007] me. It does work, in other words, but at unimaginable _____ , with a prison population so colossal that the social
[008] tion we are being marched in with blithe disregard to _____ or effect. In March, the prison population reached i
[009] anced him brilliantly from Old Labour, but at a high _____ . It sent the Tories into a spin, led to Mr Howard's a
[010] understanding a little less', what hope of effective, _____ -efficient crime policies? The Independent COMMENT 19
[011] re liberal western education systems. But there is a _____ . Many young children have little sense of play, and
[012] le on their toes.' But others questioned whether the _____ was justified given that the reports often told parent
[013] s together suppliers in the field of open learning, a _____ - effective method of delivering training By STEPH
[014] orking day, and it is also cheaper: open learning can _____ anything up to 40 per cent less than a conventional
[015] , to be held in London next week. 'Open learning is a _____ -effective way of building those skills.' The exhibiti
[016] fold, could the rest be far behind? But the snag - a _____ to the public purse of around pounds 5m a school - was
[017] at to expect in Britain, and all were surprised at the _____ of living. 'We were told very little about Thames Val
[018] support for the institute has come from the UK. The _____ of the building - the third and last part, the South
[019] building - the third and last part, the South Wing, _____ more than dollars 500,000 - came more particularly f
[020] erests in a determined way even - sometimes - at the _____ of diplomatic tensions locally.' This is what the Fre
[021] given her own spin-off series starting with The High _____ Of Living. Two recent comics, Signal to Noise and Mr
[022] The school faces a loss of around pounds 17,000, the _____ of a teacher. 'This is a very good school, but apart
[023] ish froze to death during the holidays - replacements _____ money. There is a large expanse of grass outside on
[024] iew of higher education, focusing on quality and the _____ and funding of any further increases in numbers. Ove
[025] ossible to make the patient comfortable, whatever the _____ . And Miss Jessie's a wonderful nurse. My dear, if you
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[001] nd their parents can begin to worry about costs. The _____ of the undergraduate grant has progressively declined
[002] rsity see me as being a bit strange. I have a novelty _____ because I am from 'Up North', but I don't have an acc
[003] g times for five-year-olds - Diana Hinds assesses the _____ of 'baseline tests' for measuring the effectiveness
[004] ll be one of the first to gain information about the ' _____ added' in its primary schools, when its seven-year-ol
[005] they tend to measure not necessarily what is of most _____ , but what is most easily measured. And although more
[006] anything linked with league tables and the notion of _____ added. 'The trouble with any form of
[007] added. 'The trouble with any form of _____ -adding is that people inevitably concentrate on gettin
[008] n getting to the schools that demonstrate successful _____ - adding, and that becomes the focus instead of takin
[009] hich produce a good score for the school in terms of _____ added. Although they may get the child to jump throu
[010] nt in prehistory when human life attained its unique _____ and significance? Or can we think in terms of a gradua
[011] ten, 'Loyalty of course is possible anywhere, but its _____ stands in proportion to the ideals which it serves.'
[012] xamine its centralised structures and appreciate the _____ of parochial democracy, then maybe we have done some
[013] s. The study shows that teachers are convinced of the _____ of Home Office funds for ethnic minority English lan
[014] m happy here, though I must admit that for sheer snob _____ I had wanted to go elsewhere. But I'd probably feel l
[015] , he said, were confidential. If he knew anything of _____ he would tell them, but he did not. He sat down nea
[016] largest house, surrounded by wedding presents whose _____ would add up to something between fifty and a hundre
[017] ch with Wendy. It was a terrible sight. Everything of _____ had been smashed. Wendy began to help Ntsiki and Mamp
[018] man? Young? Old? Anything you can tell me will be of _____ .' He led Penelope through Gillian's story several tim
[019] nk the worst of most people, and do not see much real _____ or common sense around me. Mr Bingley, for example. H
[020] ring ideas. As a thinker, he believed strongly in the _____ of beauty, in life as well as in art, although. The P
[021] with our taxes?' said Scarlett. 'They're putting the _____ on Tara sky high and you'll have to pay more tax,' sa
[022] Goldman, Sachs and American International Group. The _____ of the notes is linked to commodity prices. These sec
[023] o dozen factors from the operation of its top to its _____ for the money. And they ranked the cars subjectively
[024] judgment, 10 Washington area jobs that might make you _____ your job all the more. The perks range from hair-rai
[025] judgment, 10 Washington area jobs that might make you _____ your job all the more. The perks range from hair-rai
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[001] weight in gold. The violin, owned by the Mendelssohn _____ , was made by Stradivari in 1720, and, because of its
[002] fessional musician'. In its years in the Mendelssohn _____ , it was played very litle, but its beautiful tones
[003] year. I: Uhum. S: In winter we often go skiing. My _____ has a house, a dacha outside Leningrad, and we leave
[004] le often have a nice meal on Sunday, with all their _____ , grandparents, grandchildren, and so on. The meal can
[005] all of which is worth 3 million. Miss de Beaumont's _____ are furious. Her niece, Mrs Charmian Pickford said,
[006] her last years. Mr Pocock has no connection to this _____ and must not be permitted to get our money'. Mr Poco
[007] ery useful - see, 'use,' 'useful,' 'useless,' a word _____ ! And something else. I always put a mark with my penc
[008] -old grandson of J Paul Getty was kidnapped from his _____ 's home in a suburb of the Italian capital. Unknown m
[009] ot hesitate to contact me or members of my immediate _____ . Thank you.' He smiled and moved away. 'Who was that
[010] t. A much smaller state, much more private provision, _____ support and self-reliance, more Englishness within a
[011] Jencks is married to Maggie Keswick, of the Keswick _____ who for over 150 years have run the Jardine Matheson
[012] s and got a two E offer, that decided it. None of my _____ had ever gone to university and they were thrilled.
[013] hters, Harriet and Elspeth. They were a closely knit _____ and McWatters's friends were struck by the change
[014] and McWatters's friends were struck by the change _____ life brought about in him. The man who had previousl
[015] give too many hoots what he says. When he went to the _____ seat in Newry, he said he had 'come for the back rent
[016] tive quagmire. Tripp has tried to construct a generic _____ saga, but has instead concocted a delirious nightmar
[017] out of college and from a respectable wine- merchant _____ , Crist was married with two small children, was stud
[018] icult for Pratham, to hold a simple conversation. His _____ , first- generation city-dwellers who made their money
[019] As part of a conformist society, in which the extended _____ still provides a guiding structure, the system works.
[020] offices, not the parents. One school refused to show a _____ around its classrooms, and even erected a screen to k
[021] hard-working people like Gordon Kahl and the Weaver _____ . In 1974 Gordon Kahl, a North Dakota farmer and an an
[022] discussaction in response to the case of the Weaver _____ . They had been involved with one of the US's leading
[023] ences. Released on bail, he went on the run with his _____ . In August 1992, having discovered the remote cabin h
[024] he authorities moved in. In the ensuing gunfight, the _____ 's dog was shot dead, their lodger, Kevin Harris, was
[025] fficult years in the US, he returned in 1954 with his _____ to England, where he taught mathematics to sixth-for
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[001] three lines in the first place, is allowed to make a _____ hash of one of them ('My God! I had no idea!'). But P
[002] and notes. Fortunately, Keith McWatters was able to _____ his task as editor before his final illness. Reading
[003] and reciting a nursery rhyme. Once the assessment is _____ , a resource pack for teachers offers guidance on how
[004] ough this smorgasbord, Donleavy himself has written a _____ history of The Ginger Man, charting its painful birt
[005] te for International School-Book Research includes a _____ collection of West and East German history- books fr
[006] It also insists that students attend all classes and _____ every piece of work by the deadline. A student who p
[007] e reprint, bound in 1,500 substantial volumes, of The _____ Collection of the Four Treasures of Literature. This
[008] s if I was a rhinoceros. I dutifully tried my best to _____ the piece in the style of a rhinoceros. When I'd fini
[009] rs and students. If students attend two tutorials and _____ two assignments to their tutor's satisfaction, they r
[010] ant cars. Big, anonymous, cruel and glamorous. I'm a _____ sucker for this particular shot - not because it's so
[011] ce and His Home Counties Question. Now the circle is _____ . The gesture has 'been completely appropriated and c
[012] ood. 27 November: I went home this week, which put a _____ stop to any homesickness I felt. Everything was quie
[013] down at any moment. The government's reaction was a _____ reversal in economic policy. Overnight, the orthodoxy
[014] . His 'statement of special educational need'; is now _____ , and he should soon be receiving ancillary help for
[015] iversity guide, claims one in eight students fails to _____ the course because of overcrowding and student debt.
[016] er of a Prime Minister. The story in his book was not _____ , and there were some things I didn't understand - for
[017] he behaved very carefully. So Jim found himself in _____ control of one of the most dangerous corners of the w
[018] - but don't you see what may happen? When the list's _____ and God doesn't ring the Final bell - or whatever it
[019] noise of the printers as the computer did its work in _____ silence. Three months of this, George thought, was en
[020] so close! Now they could probably repair the ship and _____ the two centuries of travelling that still lay before
[021] ot really believe that she was doing this - meeting a _____ stranger on a lonely beach at night. All day she had
[022] uder. I cannot accept the idea of ghosts. It is the _____ opposite of everything I believe. I hold, as you kno
[023] and amusing, and no fashionable party in the city was _____ without him. He was also lucky. In 1820, at the age o
[024] re such good mourners that they are paid to mourn for _____ strangers. As soon as family and friends in Lagos hea
[025] hillips. We'll mail you4 a copy of the report when we _____ it.' As I said goodbye, I asked who owned the enormou
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[001] the First World War and an air- raid warden in the _____ , crawling out of bomb debris on four occasions. She
[002] y the year 2000, say - this could have changed. The _____ stage of space exploration will have begun. There c
[003] to feel very frightened. We heard the tiger's roar a _____ before we saw it. Kamal shouted, Look out!' It jumpe
[004] ake jobs in order to encourage self-reliance; private _____ pensions for all, wherever possible; yet more home o
[005] ich had dominated the world's architecture since the _____ World War was close to exhaustion: narrow, dogmatic,
[006] and then read English at Leeds University. After the _____ World War, he taught for 13 years in the extra-mural
[007] veloped world. How long could we afford that? In the _____ half of the Seventies, Shirley Williams, then Labour'
[008] was mistaken; they immediately were regarded as the _____ division. This was more a gut opinion than an academ
[009] to-five routine, I'm not conventional enough. In the _____ term of my first year I read a philosophy essay - Ju
[010] brilliant, some were awful. There was a point in my _____ year when I considered dropping out, but I sat mysel
[011] to make friends in the first couple of weeks. In the _____ term, I settled in much more quickly. I met more peo
[012] de themselves available if you had a problem. In the _____ year, I moved into a house with four other English s
[013] g as the advent of universal primary education in the _____ half of the last century, or the expansion of higher
[014] tion how to set the date and time on a digital clock. _____ , education, like other industries, is becoming driven
[015] recordings with the choir, the first in 1985 and the _____ in 1993, and it is a matter of great regret that this
[016] aught music at Hanson High School, Bradford, and was _____ Assistant Organist at Bradford Cathedral, moving two
[017] ritique more rigorous and specific. By the end of the _____ day, the assessors between them have sat through and
[018] twork of state militias provides an ideal forum. The _____ is that Waco serves as a symbol of a widespread sens
[019] and power of federal government. Since the end of the _____ World War, the tax protest movement has been a powerf
[020] the Pope shows himself better at the first than at the _____ . As an eloquent defence of the Gospel of Life agains
[021] ve sought to avoid. Fifty years after the end of the _____ World War, the latest books on the curriculum seek t
[022] back to square one. They want 8 May, the end of the _____ World War, to be commemorated not as a day of liberat
[023] ess practical in a rural county than a big city. The _____ is that a system devised in the Eighties under which
[024] een in London since October and has just started the _____ semester of the year-long course, the first of its k
[025] e language of commerce and the world's most preferred _____ language. Some images of the British overseas are qu
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[001] e west country, Wales and Northern Ireland: you can _____ some rain in the morning and afternoon and quite str
[002] ront moves in over the Atlantic. Northern Ireland can _____ the same, but the rain will end before dark. But aga
[003] us away. What was the least number of years we could _____ to spend locked up in some awful gaol? Perhaps ten?
[004] shoulder firmly with his enormous hand. 'You didn't _____ to meet a cop on this lonely road, did you!' 'I - I g
[005] lesman and mum is a librarian. I didn't know what to _____ from Oxford. When I first arrived, I was very concern
[006] stressed about my finals, but that's all over now. I _____ a 2:1. The teaching is very different to other univer
[007] t least pounds 1,000 a year. Now I'm back at home -I _____ they'll hand me the bill at some point. Ed Chester, 2
[008] that course and I ended up a pure physicist. I didn't _____ university to be some big 'life experience', because
[009] gives you the chance to travel with a purpose - but _____ some tricky times By SARAH ABDULLAH What do an
[010] ul selection and systematic briefing of what they can _____ in England,' he says. 'Teachers are also carefully g
[011] are also carefully guided to understand what they can _____ from Russian students.' Moscow State University, he
[012] students admit they were given little idea of what to _____ in Britain, and all were surprised at the cost of liv
[013] d-be crew in touch with yacht captains. Most skippers _____ a contribution of around pounds 20 per day towards f
[014] apart from those on youth training schemes. They can _____ nothing untilthey are 18 and even then payments are a
[015] a is hardheaded in her attitude to work. She does not _____ to do a job for life. 'If I find that the industry i
[016] lls. They had probably seen my bicycle, so they would _____ me to try and escape by road. I found a small lake I
[017] He understands our enemies. People only see what they _____ to see. This man came late, spoke little, and left ea
[018] , and left early - but he behaved exactly as we would _____ Lord Alloa to behave.' 'But I don't understand,' said
[019] ir of long ago After Miss Jenkyns's death, I did not _____ to go to Cranford again. It was pleasant, therefore,
[020] e Miss Pole and Mrs Forrester to tea. It was silly to _____ anything fashionable from the Drumble shops, I suppos
[021] any of the county families were coming, as they would _____ to sit in the front row. When he shook his head, Miss
[022] imes that I have a little child of my own... I didn't _____ to be "Miss Matty Jenkyns" all my life, you know,' s
[023] 's not that,' said Jem. It's just that, well, I didn't _____ to marry so soon. Martha moves so fast when she has
[024] at last, saying, 'I had no idea it was so late.' 'I _____ you've had enough of this,' he said, 'and to tell you
[025] b'1 Itam, were watching the bigger creek, and did not _____ anyone to attack from the narrow creek behind them.
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[001] hly admired all over the world for their pure, deep, _____ sound. *** James was a student at Oxford Univers
[002] The weather forecast said it was going to be a warm, _____ night with no clouds, and that's perfect for fishing.
[003] otection should go to all home-workers. Now, what is _____ is that the new technologies are radically changing
[004] this year could have been marked too low. It is not _____ whether wholesale adjustments could be made before pa
[005] nd consistently. Where schools are unhappy there are _____ procedures for appeal.' The following are some sampl
[006] is hard to know what weight to give to each. What is _____ , though, is that they are self-reinforcing: for examp
[007] ve to supply commercial performance data. It is also _____ that this is not just a British issue, for the educat
[008] ghted if that happened, and not just because it would _____ his way. Lomu - the brightest star of the World Cup i
[009] ng to have to weigh up whether he can do that with a _____ conscience,' says Wingfield-Digby. 'That's difficult,
[010] something of the caustic wit, the frankness and the _____ -eyed intelligence of the writer to whom he devoted m
[011] their own purposes, whatever these might be. Derek is _____ about why he puts in so much work every week. 'It is
[012] for graduates wishing to study abroad is the lack of _____ guidance on which place to choose. There is a huge r
[013] ber. 'Many# schools offer MBAs and it is by no means _____ who are the good ones and who are the lousy ones. We
[014] e cared deeply about people, I want you to make that _____ .' She beams a broad grin and empties the glass. For a
[015] he final confirmation of a place comes through. It is _____ that the schools are making the choffices, not the pa
[016] on is involved would suffice to justify an absolutely _____ prohibition of any intervention aimed at killing a h
[017] of mind that has put endless details together into a _____ and convincing picture of a world-wide development th
[018] g interest and influence. Just as France still has a _____ idea of what it is and wants to be in the world, Fren
[019] own interests, albeit in a narrow sense. They have a _____ idea of their own interests and identity. We don't gi
[020] from its rigidity and red tape. 'But then it became _____ that there was no follow-through, she was not serious,
[021] . Sexual lifestyle is not - and St Paul makes it very _____ that certain standards are required. I would support
[022] t St Paul's the advantages of learning French became _____ on a recent trip abroad, says a pupil, Joseph Sticking
[023] rnment. The political strategy behind all this seems _____ and pretty shrewd. There is a nationalistic mood abou
[024] er dogmatic in his teaching, but always insisted on a _____ , logical, 'through-composed', linear thinking. In fac
[025] e entering this debate, from whatever side. He makes _____ that those who support the study of the classical ca