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[001] e full-time staff with other responsibilities such as _____ needs or the administrative role of a deputy head. I
[002] al acts are not placed by the New Testament in some ' _____ category' of wrong act, worse than, for example, gre
[003] t's ability, courses are taught by college tutors and _____ talks are given by Scottish artists and guest speaker
[004] y proud of that diversity, and it was the key to his _____ teaching abilities. He loathed narrow-mindedness and
[005] spends more than half her time helping children with _____ needs. The school has pounds 1,576 to spend per child
[006] borough friends like Graham Shepherd realised he was _____ (a 'stray from some other place or era, asurprising b
[007] d. Seventy six per cent of Asperger individuals have _____ skills and talents, which may ocasionally amount to g
[008] the other hand their IQ is usually average or above; _____ schools might be successful in teaching 'life skills
[009] help him integrate with the others. His 'statement of _____ educational need'; is now complete, and he should soo
[010] s and butter with her own money to cook her something _____ . We did not talk much that afternoon, but when Martha
[011] ip captains, he was just Jim, nothing more. He had a _____ reason for not wanting people to know his other name
[012] this rubbish? His mistakes didn't look interesting or _____ . I was disappointed. Just then, Jeremy Folk arrived.
[013] t brown coat. 'Ride to win,' Harold said. 'There's a _____ silver cup for the winner of this race.' And I did w
[014] kroom and I searched in one of the cupboards for the _____ chemical I needed. I turned off the white light and
[015] he red light. I began to print the negative with the _____ chemical. Jeremy watched. 'Can't see anything,' he sa
[016] w - looking and not finding, because I want something _____ . And now I've found it.' I was surprised. 'But Lambo
[017] I've found it.' I was surprised. 'But Lambourn isn't _____ !' I said. Clare put her hand on the Jockey's Life box
[018] ey and give them useless medicine. He knew he had no _____ power, and so he sent them away. The villagers believ
[019] uller than all through the rest of the year. It was a _____ day for everybody, and after the service they all hur
[020] ing through to ZZZZZZZ...' Exactly - though we use a _____ alphabet of our own. I'm afraid it would take too lon
[021] ere were five pieces of metal and you put these into _____ holes on the side of the boat. The pieces of metal we
[022] ind things about us - not just the usual things, but _____ things about us, and about our families. Harris call
[023] ,' Morris Townsend replied. But I fear that I have no _____ talents.' You are too modest,' said the Doctor. I kno
[024] l have children. If you failed the test, you became a _____ ', and every day new specials were created from regula
[025] thought, and I didn't have to emigrate. He had been a _____ now for over a year. Since he had failed even a basic
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[001] d hunting guns; but what astonished Mr Boutdra was a _____ stuffed into the dead man's pocket. 'The following h
[002] g, nice office jobs. Terri-Anne strikes an idealistic _____ . 'I'd like to have a job where I felt I achieved some
[003] what happened. But now I had a better idea. I wrote a _____ to thank the young man for his help, opened my window
[004] I saw that she had been crying. A few days later, a _____ came from Mr Holbrook. It was now June. Would Miss M
[005] me if anything was wrong. In November, she sent me a _____ to say that Miss Matilda was very low and not eating
[006] to his father apologizing for some wrong-doing, and a _____ to his mother. My dearest Mother, I will be a better
[007] t be ill because of me. I'm not worth it.' After this _____ , Miss Matty was crying too much to speak. She got up
[008] was her favourite colour... Fortunately, there was a _____ of explanation at the end: My dear, Signor Brunoni is
[009] bour finally chose a shawl and held out a five- pound _____ . The shop-boy looked at the
[010] . The shop-boy looked at the _____ . Town and County Bank! I think we were warned this mo
[011] Matty forgot her new silk dress. Which bank did your _____ belong to?' she asked him. Town and County.' Mr John
[012] ery sorry, Mr Dobson,' the boy said as he brought the _____ back, but the bank's notes are worthless.' I don't u
[013] t the farmer. I'll give you five pound coins for your _____ , Mr Dobson,' she said. But there must be some mistak
[014] then... Oh, I can't explain myself. Just give me your _____ , please, Mr Dobson, and then you can take the shawl f
[015] old coins towards the farmer, who slowly put down his _____ . Thank you,' Miss Matty said. I'll wait a day or two
[016] The next morning, very early, I received a mysterious _____ from Miss Pole, commanding me to come secretly to he
[017] never she thought about Mr Dobson with his five-pound _____ , she said, she felt so dishonest! She was sure the ba
[018] e.' There's no problem about that.' Dr Wagner wrote a _____ to remind himself. There are two more things . . .'
[019] t on sadly, Brenda's left town without even writing a _____ to say goodbye. So you see, I'm not very enthusiastic
[020] ned to Number 978 in the list and found the following _____ : Number 978. Artist unknown. Picture of an English co
[021] ind him. Before going to bed, he sat down and wrote a _____ describing in detail the extraordinary change in the
[022] e picture, then to read the other one, which was the _____ Williams had written the night before. What can it al
[023] he's gone to Brighton for the weekend. I'll leave a _____ asking him to see me as soon as he returns. Meanwhile
[024] ad just returned from Brighton and had found Williams' _____ . He agreed at once that the picture was of Anningly
[025] write the next day. On Saturday Catherine sent him a _____ . I don't understand,' she wrote. Morris, you are kill
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[001] ecturers in many institutions feel a tacit pressure to _____ their students. Higher education is all about meeting
[002] They did ask one more question. 'Did you see anyone _____ early this morning? Either on bicycle or on foot?' I
[003] itting alone at the old man's bedside. Time seemed to _____ slowly in the quiet, dark room. But suddenly he reali
[004] man beings.' I'm listening,' said Bill. It'll help to _____ the time.' Five hundred light-years away, the Thaarns
[005] planet, of course, but it's their only hope. You must _____ on this message, and tell them what to do.' But no o
[006] pened in the British Museum. So Karswell did actually _____ you some papers?' said Harrington. Have you checked t
[007] Karswell show his ticket to the ticket collector and _____ on to the boat. As he did so, the oicial called after
[008] saving half of it. One day, this growing fortune would _____ to Catherine. In 1835 Doctor Sloper moved his family
[009] ust invite him to dinner.' Mrs Penniman was happy to _____ on her brother's invitation, which Morris Townsend ac
[010] under the orange tree. He said, 'I will help you to _____ your examination before I leave this horrible place.'
[011] f my skirt!' screamed a third. Then a voffice said, ' _____ them along,
[012] them along, _____ them along!' and the basket of dance programmes went
[013] ing the entrance to Canal Reach, and was allowed to _____ . Inside number 9 the sitting room looked almost the s
[014] m a daughter, not a son. Now the Linton fortune would _____ to Isabella and her husband after Mr Edgar's death.
[015] t most of the rooms here won't be used again. You'll _____ the churchyard, Mr Lockwood, on your way back to the
[016] 's another missing, but I'll take care of that one. _____ the information to your chief, and you can catch them
[017] d the airlessness of the room made her feel she could _____ the evening more profitably elsewhere. But where? Th
[018] ownship like this one, the white boss must. sign your _____ every month, the white government tells you which hou
[019] ve in and what the rent is. You can never own land or _____ anything on to your children. The land belongs to the
[020] a,' Mapetla began. 'First, he says, "Do you mind if I _____ through here?" "Hell, no, man," we say. "This land be
[021] g about all over the place like this. You must have a _____ , so we know who is coming and going".' Woods smiled,
[022] South Africa, though no national teams because of the _____ laws which prevented blacks from moving freely about
[023] and the tough men stood back to let the two white men _____ into the stadium, though they still did not look very
[024] she called to Woods, frightened. 'We want to see her _____ ,' one of the policemen said aggressively. 'It is our
[025] the face of Woods' aggression. Evalina had found her _____ and came to the door with it. 'We are allowed to ques
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[001] ed does he write. 'I sit down at the computer until I _____ asleep about 4am,' he says. Although he has a rough i
[002] perverse stories, often about pretty young girls who _____ into the clutches of evil but irresistible men. But f
[003] red in front of me from a side road. The car began to _____ . I jumped out and was caught by a tree. There was no
[004] like a knife through butter, and immediately began to _____ . I jumped out and was caught by the branch of a tree,
[005] I told the woman who lived there that I had had a bad _____ , and she could see that I was not well. She gave me s
[006] im that the storm wanted? What would it be like, to _____ into that cold water and drown? 'Send the lifeboat o
[007] engineer, like his father. He talked, but he did not _____ asleep as I had hoped. He was thinking about Colin.
[008] had to carry suitcases. One wrong step, and we would _____ into the deep, dark sea, with its sharp rocks. France
[009] 4 Oxford Bookworms 4reflex. dos Reflex Just another _____ I lay on one elbow, my mouth full of grass and dirt.
[010] waited. I was breathing fast, bones aching from the _____ . Nothing broken. Just another
[011] . Nothing broken. Just another _____ . At the sixteenth fence, the three mile race, Sandow
[012] se I do,' I told myself. The only good thing about my _____ , I supposed, was that Steve Millace's father had not
[013] elf again. Nothing was wrong except the weather, the _____ , the lost race... nothing important. The next day Ste
[014] Harold. 'The money's on another horse,' Harold said. ' _____ off - or come in second. But not first. Understood?
[015] fell on to the grass under his feet. Daylight didn't _____ . He hesitated, and then galloped after the other hors
[016] fence and crashed to the ground. It was a hard fast _____ , a
[017] , a _____ that broke bones. Steve lay still while his horse got
[018] r down the hill. Everything looked all right. Then the _____ , the rider over the horse's neck and down under his
[019] ' I agreed and we drove silently to Lambourn. 'A bad _____ ,' Harold said at last. 'Mmm. Is the horse all right?'
[020] ied, but I was bruised and torn already, because of my _____ . I couldn't see, I couldn't shout. I could only jus
[021] as Clare. She knelt beside me and said, 'This isn't a _____ , is it? Someone's done this to you, haven't they?' '
[022] e kitchen. 8 'Are you all right?' she asked. 'Did you _____ ?' 'No. Must be Jeremy.' We went through to the darkr
[023] y, shaking his head knowingly. If he had a Fit, he'd _____ down, wouldn't he? I think his soul flies out of his
[024] uced his brother to Molly, hoping that Godfrey would _____ in love and marry her. Dunstan was clearly delighted
[025] at the cold grey sky. In the evening, snow began to _____ , and he felt more distant and separate from his neigh
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[001] recruitment problems in their area. The consortium's _____ to recruit French nationals to their schools received
[002] More and more people seem to be coming round to the _____ that it beats crashing out on a beach thinking about h
[003] deal guy to use when you're teaching a course on the _____ of narrative. He thinks in terms of stories,' said M
[004] l asleep about 4am,' he says. Although he has a rough _____ of where he wants to go before he starts writing, he
[005] access to mainstream activity if one sacrificed that _____ of the 'little woman' completely. DIANE ABBOTT, MP Li
[006] ind in contemporary books. I think it's a really good _____ that they're making a film of Little Women, although
[007] about the new film. Physically, Winona Ryder isn't my _____ of Jo. I imagined Jo would be rather strapping with
[008] as a symbol of the self: a person's hide contains the _____ of an almost magically direct and intimate image. Mi
[009] re that he has died and perhaps with only the vaguest _____ who he was. Best known for a Penguin paperback, The
[010] writing is also inevitable. Bloom's most influential _____ as a young critic was what he called the 'anxiety of
[011] depended on it, and seemed increasingly used to the _____ that it was bound to entail domestic confusion. As a
[012] ce. The effect is finally to extinguish the well-worn _____ that the BBC was simply 'bad for' MacNeice. It goaded
[013] y and other cliches - The old chestnut, the received _____ , the hackneyed phrase: these are not just verbal phe
[014] g strong hand holds the tiny baby's foot. This little _____ is a development of one of the major advertising chan
[015] cynical little dollar bill. Nirvana was all about the _____ of people so throroughly disconnected they couldn't t
[016] le thought. But an altogether cooler suggestion is the _____ of crime, conspiracy and control; someone runs this c
[017] make up our own minds; you can come up with any wacky _____ as long as you back it up. At sixth-form college I go
[018] ish society when you could talk of such a continental _____ : 'a full- blooded, enquiring, rootless, urban intelli
[019] photocopied sheets with pictures of chromosomes. The _____ was to cut them out and stick them on another piece
[020] he building. I thought about this problem, had a good _____ , went to bed, and slept for two hours. I got up at fo
[021] bedroom and see what happened. But now I had a better _____ . I wrote a note to thank the young man for his help,
[022] eek or two later, with a most terrible eect. My first _____ was to write a letter to the British Prime Minister.
[023] this. Whatever happens, I'm finished.' Then I had an _____ . 'Does this new Inspector know you?' 'No. He started
[024] had forgotten the name I had given Harry. It's good _____ to know your own name, he said, I looked at him again
[025] verest criminals in Europe? Then, suddenly, I had an _____ . 'Where is Scudder's book?' I asked Sir Walter. 'Quic
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[001] nd be good at technology and I may prefer music. Our _____ aptitudes are reflected in the way we divide the curr
[002] is making me climb the wall, the chances are it is a _____ child driving my partner to distraction. A child in a
[003] ish degree. 'I joined because this course was new and _____ , because the combination of the two qualifications br
[004] tion, the advantages from the French perspective are _____ . 'For the Foreign Affairs Ministry the benefits are t
[005] al world: Life for 970 million Catholics will be very _____ if Cardinal Mario Martini becomes Pope, says Paul Val
[006] change the decision but to adapt to the situation of _____ people. This has to be studied and has been proposed
[007] and there is openness for this understanding of the _____ cultural situation in the
[008] cultural situation in the _____ continents.' It is pure Martini: it may not entirely
[009] is that all the figures in it have gone in completely _____ , even contradictory, directions. Lambert was extreme
[010] most archetypal patterns of womanhood. It shows four _____ ways of being female and this is exciting when you a
[011] r Kerry and Nick Leeson, 14 years apart and moving in _____ worlds, are fluent in the language of the computer an
[012] generally indicate a combination of approaches, since _____ children learn to read in
[013] children learn to read in _____ ways. Is there a mixture of whole-class teaching and
[014] e of Mrs Shephard's Conservative predecessors took a _____ view. Rab Butler's 1944 Education Act imposed a limit
[015] Hill Middle School in Nuneaton, but they could be in _____ worlds. Tony McDonald, head teacher at Camp Hill, is
[016] hat no river is a river which does not flow. In their _____ ways, all these poems justify MacNeice's plea in Mode
[017] to poems, one of his friends said that he was not a _____ man, but the same man in a
[018] man, but the same man in a _____ key. The same is true of MacNeice in these last poem
[019] valued or actually neglected. Would things have been _____ if a biography had been published sooner? Probably.
[020] in bed. It's difficult to work when there's something _____ to do every night and you want to make new friends. I
[021] 've made some really good friends. There are endless _____ pubs and clubs to go to. Quite a lot of people have
[022] eryone's scared of because it's new. It's completely _____ having a male point of view in tutorials. They pick u
[023] also trying to set up a literary society. This is so _____ from home. I'm dreading shopping for myself. Fortunat
[024] conve ntion. From the first day of his life Ben was ' _____ ', but for the first two years the differences seemed
[025] s. What is amusing in a four- year-old may seem very _____ in a teenager. And as Ben himself gains awareness of
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[001] ame, politics. Hardly anyone would follow Lamont the _____ way towards quitting the Union. But many would agree
[002] could not detract from my gloomy perception that the _____ business was too damn serious. There was the briefin
[003] iod when Italianists were expected to range over the _____ of Italian literature. His publications reflected the
[004] - I loved that -and I have a dreadful feeling that the _____ book is about girls and fathers rather than girls an
[005] age in America have a certain feistiness. There's a _____ new young generation of wimpy women in America, that'
[006] l Whiteread's casts of rooms, furnishings and even a _____ house create solid forms out of space, turning absenc
[007] earn to read in different ways. Is there a mixture of _____ -class teaching and working in small groups? What are
[008] did not argue that trendy teachers who refused to use _____ -class teaching were the main reason for low standards
[009] the years of junior schooling are important for the _____ school career. Yet we know that in many primary scho
[010] ing to avoid reading a book by John Vincent, but the _____ point of this debate is the tolerance of opinions or
[011] MacCready, the fierce mother's help. Eventually, the _____ precarious edifice of contentment gave way when Lily
[012] rectors express in their visual one-liners. There's a _____ trainload coming into focus from the past couple of y
[013] o get some books for the course, only to discover the _____ biology section had disappeared - everyone else had
[014] not have had a degree of any academic standing. The _____ thing was a terrible disappointment.' The deputy vice
[015] e first term of 1993, that was because we had built a _____ new learning complex with space for expansion. 'We do
[016] ll win, because he's the only man who understands the _____ problem and who can stop the war happening.' 'Why don
[017] oticed that he was using my real name. I told him the _____ story, from the night I came home and found Scudder a
[018] e other work for his youngest son. When Jim spent a _____ summer reading sea stories, his father was delighted,
[019] the two men's lives told their excited friends the _____ story. When they described the waves, and the cold, a
[020] I told him about the damage, he cried, "My God! The _____ ship will be full of water in a minute!" He pushed me
[021] found without its officers, in the Indian Ocean. The _____ waterfront - boat men, natives, oicials clerks - ta
[022] that he would survive. I felt angry, however. 'The _____ miserable business is bitter enough for a man like yo
[023] el obediently. I realized that he had nowhere in the _____ world where he could be alone with his suffering. He
[024] on for my visit) that Stein wanted to hand over the _____ trading-post, with everything it contained, to Jim. A
[025] father to agree to my plan.' Jim's plan! I heard the _____ story of it from him during my visit. He had decided
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[001] bis to say the most straightforward things about the _____ of the culture. It isn't sustainable: as the churchwa
[002] to switch his attention more confidently between the _____ of the worldaround him and the state of his personal
[003] even be tolerated by other people is harrowing. The _____ was first described by the Viennese psychologist Han
[004] d be seen as a variant of autism or as an independent _____ . Rigid definitions are simplistic, but it does seem t
[005] boys than in girls, indeed Asperger thought that the _____ could almost be seen as 'extreme maleness.' The chara
[006] s a local ship, as old as the hills, and in very bad _____ . Her captain was a German whose home was in Australi
[007] lems of making sure your computer is in good working _____ when it arrives. And getting things out to Tibet, in
[008] w to answer. His friend was clearly in a very nervous _____ , and the story of Harrington's death was alarming for
[009] is brother before he died. John was in a very strange _____ for some time before his death, it's true,' replied H
[010] in and found the page for ostriches. Male, excellent _____ ,' the salesman continued. Thirty thousand dollars. No
[011] for at least...' OK,' Rick said, and hung up. Dave's _____ is really serious, he thought. I wonder why Bryant di
[012] e horses, helping to train them and keep them in good _____ , and spent a great deal of time learning from Eleanor
[013] een invited to lunch, and their mother had agreed, on _____ that her darlings were kept carefully apart from 'that
[014] elieve it. I read it again. She was not dead, but her _____ was serious. She had been sitting alone outside her
[015] y to learn from anyone who could help him improve the _____ of the farm. He had never forgotten that it was Flora
[016] ore she could really say that the farmhouse was in a _____ to satisfy Father Bertrand. There was the problem of
[017] hotels to taste our beer, to make sure it is in good _____ . The salary is two hundred a year with car and travel
[018] though neither of4 us referred to marriage. Gillian's _____ improved a little and the doctors managed to save a
[019] e I know?' 'No,' I replied. 'There was a man in that _____ in946. He died a few weeks ago, thirty years later. W
[020] of that?'3 'I'm very surprised. Most people with that _____ would have died long ago.' The next person I spoke
[021] thing wrong with Benson's heart; it was in excellent _____ .' I thanked him and rang o. It was now fairly clear t
[022] . Penny had even more doctors than I had because her _____ was worse than mine, but Ogilvie and Lumsden had br
[023] ery happiness. We have lived here for nine months. My _____ has got I gradually worse, and at one time I thought
[024] . After a few moments the Captain asked: 'What's the _____ of the air, Doctor?' The doctor looked at his instrum
[025] n become twenty.' 'I can guess,' I said. 'My previous _____ was worse than being fifty. But love!... For four yea
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[001] Cressingham: 'The bishop cannot govern us by remote _____ . He cannot be allowed to dictate to us. England isn't
[002] emical techniques photography demands have given her _____ of other forces for intrusion, change and pain. Burn
[003] er Day rehearses such themes but lacks the narrative _____ and unobtrusive symbolism which he soon acquired. Thi
[004] ooler suggestion is the idea of crime, conspiracy and _____ ; someone runs this city and strange forces are at wor
[005] Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, which was in _____ during the Soviet period. At the 1992 polls, it won
[006] thing for tomorrow.' It seemed strange for me to take _____ like this. But I was used to action, and they could s
[007] started a breathless conversation. By now his self- _____ had returned, and he apologized. 'You see,' he explai
[008] n?' I asked. I wanted to hurt him, to break his self- _____ . He jumped up and turned away, then came back and loo
[009] at a French ship had found the Patna sailing out of _____ . The captain5 had put several of his officers on boar
[010] e last time, a few years later, he was completely in _____ , strong and successful, loved and trusted by the nat
[011] roudly, and that made me smile. Did he feel he could _____ even the movements of the moon? He was in
[012] even the movements of the moon? He was in _____ of so many things in Patusan! Things that had once s
[013] atusan! Things that had once seemed as far beyond his _____ as the moon and the stars. But Stein and I had no i
[014] me, the love - all these things, which had given him _____ over his life and fate, had also made him a prisoner.
[015] ved very carefully. So Jim found himself in complete _____ of one of the most dangerous corners of the world. O
[016] d me that the mysterious white stranger who had taken _____ of the area had discovered a very large and valuabl
[017] the only one I really cared about, had at last taken _____ of his fate. He had told me he was - almost happy wi
[018] t in him, although you did not agree that he was in _____ of his fate. Well, you must judge for yourself now. H
[019] mes and crowded into Jim's house, where Jewel was in _____ . She also kept the ammunition, while Jim was absent.
[020] e was an opportunity for him. Perhaps he could take _____ of Patusan, and make himself a rich man. He would wor
[021] w minutes nobody said anything, while Silas tried to _____ his breathing. Then the landlord spoke. What do you w
[022] It isn't father or Priscilla?' said Nancy, trying to _____ her trembling lips. No, it's nobody living,' said Go
[023] oses all the time.' He seemed calmer now, and more in _____ of himself. On Earth,' he went on, we spend our whole
[024] ly. Hastings took a deep breath and got himself under _____ again. He began to speak with icy calmness, and his
[025] ow to turn off the pull of gravity, and once you can _____ gravity, you can move anything heavy, even houses, th