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1 Flying and owning a rare World War Two aircraft is a serious business , although the funny side of life does occasionally come to light , as Lindsey related to FlyPast : ‘ I was preparing to fly to an airshow , when I was told that the fuel bowser at Duxford had somehow got water in it , rendering the fuel useless .
2 The money I was going to save on rent over the next month could be put towards a deposit on something — always assuming the Department of Employment did eventually pay me my due — and then I would be able to start again .
3 Pouring out of thanks for the young Timothy who spent the time in prayer if you wish to say a short simple prayer of thanks do so end it thank you God and we 'll all join in thank you God .
4 Nagging doubts do remain , though , that the level of perception does occasionally produce a feeling of calculation .
5 what kind of jumper do usually wear ?
6 The two final categories call for no comment at this stage beyond the fact that the fiscal evidence shows that the overwhelming majority of husbandmen did actually have less than £10 worth of personal estate ; the £10-£99 group looks like an intrapolation to accommodate a broad spectrum of well-to-do peasants ( including yeomen ) , master craftsmen and small-time merchants .
7 However , a large proportion of divorcees do eventually remarry .
8 If the Caldwell test of recklessness does indeed apply , then this form of omissions liability could be assimilated within the general doctrine of manslaughter by recklessness .
9 The queen of England did no come , but she met instead her husband , Prince Philip , and her daughter , Princess Anne .
10 And could I just say that I think that the issue of sustainability does also touch upon the need for the new settlement to be be located on a public transport corridor , preferably an existing public transport corridor , and I think again that argument for for s for somewhere where a rail link , preferably , could be provided , and that of course would tend to support all those factors tend to support a location on the Northern side of York rather than the Southern side of York .
11 The better explanation remains that the policy pursued by the trade unions during the winter of discontent did indeed mark a return to normality .
12 Although the Select Committee on Energy did indeed say that some of the advantages that would flow from the privatisation of the electricity industry in Northern Ireland were not entirely dependent on privatisation for their achievement , we accepted that privatisation would accelerate that achievement , and in that sense , we certainly welcome the privatisation .
13 The numbers of Indians at stations did indeed become an index of the distance the American traveller had journeyed westwards .
14 The shared struggle against Nazism did however hold the Big Three together until victory was achieved , and there were high hopes of maintaining the alliance into peacetime .
15 Pious it may sound , but I do actually believe that there is a sense in which a group of students do collectively know much of what they need to know about learning : the problem of the PGCE year is to give them confidence that they know ; and the experience that knowing they can successfully act on their knowledge .
16 I Christopher Wybergh , Curate of Burneston do hereby certify , that the above is a true extract of the entry so numbered , in the Baptismal Register Book of the said parish of Burneston , Diocese of Ripon .
17 Now my relationship with David did actually include sex , but it was never initiated on that basis as he 'd come to my flat only as a lodger and during the course of the time he was there , we slept together .
18 I want to suggest that whatever anthropological and economic truths are embodied in these and similar statements , the fact is that there are indeed certain systematic differences in the lives of women and of men , and that this fundamental contrast in life-experience does indeed account for and to some extent also justify a difference in their moral outlook and assumptions .
19 To produce the low scarps which wind across the Mercurian surface the radius of Mercury need only have decreased by a few tenths of a percent .
20 Gray 's ‘ Elegy ’ , of course , can be read as a lament for the undeveloped mind : ‘ But knowledge to their eyes her ample page / Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll
21 Poets like Woodhouse had best go back to their jobs .
22 What one hopes , of course , is to find that one comes to the same conclusions from using the neuropsychological method as from using psychological methods of investigation : and , as we will show in Chapter 9 , such agreements between conclusions do actually occur .
23 Perhaps two sets of people do actually agree on education .
24 The last danger seemed very real because French critics of EDC did now argue that German rearmament should be abandoned so that détente could succeed .
25 The leasor 's father " … in his life tyme , did say that the making of a quintall of Copper did then stand but in 17s or 18s , and but of late years 25s , and yet ( in the present time ) it seemeth to be rated sometimes at 32s a Quintall , and now very lately charged with an encrease of 1s of every Quintall …
26 He had always thought the MP for Arden read little save for the Motor Traders ' Gazette .
27 The wonderful world of dreams had better go .
28 It may be that the correct account of knowledge does unfortunately give the sceptic the opening he is looking for .
29 I think a lot of schools do still teach the t the children their tables which I think is a good thing .
30 IAN WRIGHT and Kevin Campbell take their goal scoring double act into Europe next week and after this demolition of Ipswich , the Danes of Odense had better watch out .
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