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1 Unlike gold , native silver does not occur in alluvial deposits , but has to be won from veins in mountainous regions or recovered by metallurgical processes from natural alloys or ores .
2 It has come from experiments with high-energy muon neutrino beams at particle accelerators , and from lower-energy neutrinos at two nuclear reactors .
3 However , in case you think it 's that simple , terminal bonuses , supposedly surplus profits earned from investments in previous years , have varied in their direction simultaneously from life office to life office .
4 The subjects of the scrutinies varied from payment of social security benefits to the organisation of the coastguard ( Gray and Jenkins , 1985 ) .
5 Wharfe is omitted from mention in official guides to the district and does n't mind it all .
6 He was to suffer from bouts of explosive flatulence for the rest of his life .
7 Conclusions ranged from condemnation of general practitioner care as ‘ erratic , ’ of ‘ generally poor standard ’ and ‘ less satisfactory than care by the hospital diabetic clinic ’ to a view that organised general practitioner diabetic care ‘ can achieve a degree of glycaemic control … equal to that reached by a hospital clinic . ’
8 Predicted opening prices ranged from 128p for Northumbrian Water , 127p for Thames , 126p for Southern , 126p for Wessex , 125p for Severn Trent , 125p for Anglian , 124p for Yorkshire , 124p for Welsh , 123p for South West and 122p for North West .
9 ( The old technology was not without its hazards — which ranged from burns from molten metal to eye-strain caused by reading metal type in poor light . )
10 And as he moved from boyhood to early youth , tales of heroism and daring-do accumulated , luring him by their unreal charms .
11 Brendan Daly moved from Defence to Social Welfare , Michael Woods from Social Welfare to Agriculture and Food , Michael O'Kennedy from Agriculture and Food to Labour , and Bertie Ahern from Labour to Finance in place of Reynolds .
12 This unit was formed in 1968 and moved from London to temporary quarters in Edinburgh in 1973 , at first at 13 Braefoot Terrace and later overflowing to accommodation at 9 South St David 's Street .
13 Hohne , the EAT reached a similar conclusion in that when the employer moved from premises in High Holborn to Regent Street , the move itself did not constitute a fundamental breach because the new premises were just as easily accessible to Mrs Hohne as she travelled by underground .
14 The International Socialist Bureau , the office of the Second International , moved from Belgium to neutral Holland .
15 By matching the patterns of tree rings from trees of known dates , a larger pattern of thick and thin rings covering hundreds or even thousands of years can be built up .
16 This was partly for the reasons discussed in Chapter 3 : more elderly people and medical advances which enabled more of them to benefit from treatments like joint replacement at even more advanced ages .
17 I used to work with an ex-BBC engineer who revelled in the fact that , in his day , Radio 3 , which was deemed by many hi-fi buffs as tonal nirvana , emanated from studios with ageing turntables and consoles , odd lengths of disparate signal cable were employed and much of it was held together with string and Sellotape .
18 Fourteen of 19 patients with normal or mildly abnormal hepatic function were discharged from hospital after successful transplantation , 10 being alive at long term follow up .
19 On Feb. 12 Lebanese Deputy Prime Minister and National Defence Minister Michel al-Murr , returning from talks with Syrian officials , said that the army had instructions to ban any displays of armed force there .
20 Already officers were returning from enquiries with completed interview-forms and Lucy Lane was going through them as they came in .
21 The strongest opposition is likely to come from supporters of nuclear power , which was cut sharply in the Clinton budget .
22 They sailed , they landed , swam from rocks in clear water .
23 But it no longer seems so queer if one thinks of rationality as starting not in inference from observations but in the testing of spontaneous expectations , just as in our theory of valuation it starts from choice between spontaneous inclinations .
24 Walmington-On-Sea 's arthritic Jerry-bashers were an unlikely hit , rescued from doooom by top-quality acting ( Lowe , Le Mesurier , Laurie , Pertwee , Frank Williams as the vicar ) and the same sense of Little England that bogged Last Of The Summer Wine down like treacle .
25 I felt like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz on first seeing Munchkinland — the scene when the screen changed from sepia to glorious Technicolor and Judy Garland spoke that immortal line , ‘ You know , Toto , I do n't believe we 're in Kansas any more . ’
26 It therefore appears that , although the Wirral heroin users differed from users in other parts of the UK in being younger , more predominantly male , and typically smokers of heroin , they shared with ‘ new ’ users throughout the country the characteristics of unemployment and relative poverty .
27 If the New-York Historical Society wants to deaccession works to pay for operating expenses , legislators who help fund the Society should have some veto power over those sales , particularly if works of art and other objects of local interest threaten to pass from museums into private hands .
28 Egyptian jewellery adorned the statue of Victory long since looted from Tarentum in southern Italy and displayed in the Curia Julia , named after the Julii , Octavian 's family .
29 At the coastal town of Easky , two life-sized statues of cloth-capped old men appeared as if turned from flesh to blue-grey stone on the spot , one wheeling a bike , the other resting on a seat .
30 Farm income slumped from 16% of national income in 1919 to 9% in 1929 .
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