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1 She stared at him , her mouth slightly open so that her rather small even teeth gleamed in the thin October sunshine that was now filling the kitchen .
2 Stress applied to a migrating epidermal cell at right angles to its direction of movement ( tangential to the leading edge of its lamellipodium ) causes the lamellipodium to retract and brings about a reorganization of the cell 's actin into a cable oriented along the major axis of stress .
3 Where no expansion was taking place , the only chance of transfer was if vacancies arose in the regular workforce .
4 They fell victims , along with others , to the belief that if a building complied with the existing building regulations and Codes of Practice it must be deemed to be safe .
5 The gravelled drive split into two ; one branch led to the front door , the other to the back of the house and , according to a finger post , to waiting room and surgery .
6 At Oxford United a person occupying such a role would have been one of six or seven boys who were always at the front when conflicts arose with the rival fans .
7 The opportunity arose in the close season when the FA decided to form the Mid-Counties Combination .
8 In her early thirties , her raven black hair gleamed in the overhead light .
9 As a result , his skin glowed more healthily and his halo of hair gleamed like the outer circle of the sun .
10 The coast ( or cliff-top ) walk from the hostel in the other direction led to the delightful settlement of Robin Hood 's Bay , where the slipway resembles a drawbridge let down from the towering sea walls .
11 All the way from the shrine down the hillside and through the pine trees , hundreds of flames glowed like the roving eyes of night-prowling animals .
12 All parties to the Afghan conflict had been invited to talks , which were postponed after disagreements arose between the rival groups over the conference .
13 But the alliance with Athens must have been renewed before the beginning of the Peloponnesian War when Thessalians fought on the Athenian side again ( Thuc. ii.22 ) .
14 While Madeleine snored in the bottom bunk Léonie fought to keep awake , to know the exact moment when , in the very centre of the Channel , precisely equidistant from both shores , the walls of water and of words met , embraced wetly and closely , became each other , composed of each other 's sounds .
15 Bright little creature — it took her just three minutes to work this out as her antennae fluttered in the sudden sweet smelling breeze .
16 Her olive skin glowed in the artificial light , the curves of her naked breasts softened into a newly voluptuous sensuality that reflected and heightened her resolution .
17 Wigeon grazed on the far shore .
18 The Albion board over-reacted to the whole situation .
19 With their shareholders lulled by the regulatory safety net strung under them and lured by the prospect of fat and easy profits , many banks in the 1980s went for growth instead .
20 Its activities led to the British Film Weeks of 1924 , which involved screening a programme of British pictures , accompanied by the sort of ballyhoo which left the public , according to critic Paul Rotha , ‘ hypnotized into readiness to applaud the worst picture in the world because it was British . ’
21 Pauline Kael admitted in The New Yorker that , ‘ reviewing this perfect nothing of a movie is rather degrading : it 's like giving consumer hints on the latest expensive worthless gift for the person who has everything ’ .
22 On one island the macaques lived in the forested interior .
23 Technically , it is on commercial grounds , and they can not recoup the money made from the everyday operation of the reactor to pay for the refurbishment of the reactor , that is true .
24 The difficulty arose in the present case because of the Divisional Court 's decision in R v Board of Inland Revenue , Ex parte Goldberg ( 1989 ) QB 267 .
25 Quite what the taxpayer got for the extra money is not readily apparent .
26 Another celebrity winner was Schnorbitz , the St Bernard owned by the late Bernie Winters .
27 Lysosomes incubated with the homogenising medium alone were used as controls .
28 Nevertheless , the fact that these bound states arose from the well-defined N = 8 theory should enable us to make a number of predictions that could be tested at energies that are accessible now or will be in the near future .
29 In a separate case last Friday , Mr Justice Popplewell ruled in the High Court that the courts were not an appropriate place to decide a child 's educational needs .
30 Edward 's regular trail led to the nest-box area in the centre , where there were old trees and the open space with the big fallen mossy trunk on which he sat .
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