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1 ‘ They were obviously carrying on long before the first Mrs Suvarov died , and I …
2 We may regret some inevitable omissions — but a fair conspectus of Ferrier 's repertory has been preserved for posterity with the one great regret — the absence of her Angel in Gerontius , which I heard her sing under Barbirolli so memorably at the 1952 Edinburgh Festival .
3 The other side of Kelling has the same outward-slanting wings , shielding a terrace from which the garden slopes gently away to the wide Norfolk view .
4 OD1 proved itself much more like the classic Marshall sound , with enough dirt to make things ballsy , but not so much that backing off the guitar did n't clean up the tone for real blues rhythm playing and crunchy Bryan Adams-type chords .
5 Martin charging down on Dobson ; Martin , eyes glaring and lips drawn back in a feral snarl ; Martin , arm raised and baton coming down again and again on Dobson 's head ; Martin , growling savagely at the yobs , daring them to interfere ; Martin , turing angrily as the sergeant pulled the baton from his hand ; finally , Martin , white and shaking , as he looked down disbelievingly at the unconscious Dobson .
6 The incident happened at around 1pm close to the Golden Sands Holiday Camp .
7 It was the latest blow in what has proved an unhappy first season so far for the former England striker and Grampus in the new J.League 10-club championship , launched on May 15 .
8 It has now been conveyed to the rest of us , and we should not too quickly dismiss the thought that this message might resonate usefully in Nicaragua , in Iran and the Lebanon , and perhaps even in the two Germanys .
9 Holyfield , watching Ruddock gunned down live on the American HBO cable network at his training camp home in Houston where he is preparing for his November 13 defence against Bowe , said : ‘ Sure , Lewis looked good but I 'm not alarmed because I 'm a very cool person .
10 The excavators at Silchester and Caerwent had found great quantities , but regarded it as merely so commonplace and ordinary , that they hardly bothered even to mention it , thus ignoring the important principle laid down earlier by the great Pitt-Rivers , who attempted to record everything he found ‘ however small and however common … common things are of more importance than particular things , because they are more prevalent ’ ( 1898 , 27 ) .
11 One book is not enough for the inexhaustible Terry , so we also have a new juvenile title from him , Johnny and the Dead ( £9.99 ) .
12 These amendments are a response not only to the recent EEC Directive on Coordinating the Regulation of Insider Dealing in Member States , but also represent an attempt to remedy certain perceived defects in the current legislation .
13 But it was not bashfulness that made her avert her eyes ; it was a deeper , stronger feeling : one that she tried to hide not only from the watchful T'ang , but from herself .
14 Loyalist intransigence was bolstered not only by the new IRA campaign but also by the actions of three leading Fianna Fáil politicians in the South who were open and vocal in their support for the IRA .
15 The most popular leaders ( Boris Yeltsin , Anatoly Sobchak , Gavriil Popov ) had ostentatiously left the party in 1990 or not long before the 1991 August coup ( as Eduard Shevardnadze , Alexander Yakovlev and Alexander Rutskoi had done ) .
16 This is evident not just in the personalised PWL number plates on the directors ' cars but in the results .
17 Although the sing still takes place in July , it is not always on the last Sunday of the month .
18 This does not apply , however , to the Devon Rex cat , another curly-coated breed , discovered in 1960 , not far from the original Cornish Rex home .
19 Right now , Kendall is not back at the aristocratic Everton he knew seven years ago .
20 It was also partly down to the well-disciplined orchestra , although the jazz idiom of , for instance , Crown 's ‘ A Red-Headed Woman ’ is not really in the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra 's blood , and Libor Pesek was inclined to take more time than some of his soloists wanted .
21 The women took Arthur away across to the mystical Isle of Avalon where he still sleeps waiting to claim the British throne once again .
22 The present map ( figure 3.1 ) shows an axis of high density extending broadly south-eastwards from the southern Pennines , where it takes in the industrial conurbations of Lancashire , Merseyside , and South Yorkshire , through the Midlands to the London conurbation .
23 It should be noted that the lifecycle of a module subscribing to a defined process model is in parallel with not instead of the normal DC controlled lifecycle .
24 Thus it was that at 6 30 the same barely-to-bed morning the column found itself outside the newsagent 's in Aycliffe , joined shortly afterwards by the ebullient Edgar .
25 The stunning mid-engined car — apparently the result of a hush-hush deal with Bertone that Kimberley neglected to inform the dealers about — was seen rather more as the new Esprit than a design exercise .
26 But the two strikers looked unable to make an impact early on against the big Harefield back four , and it was Harefield who appeared most dangerous in the opening period , putting Town keeper , Mickey Cummings under a lot of pressure .
27 But more importantly in the competitive Sparc clone marketplace , Opentec is claiming to have beaten other workstation developers to the punch by preparing a machine based around the Texas Instruments Viking/SuperSparc chip .
28 Puzzled , she turned her gaze once more to the pictured Petula .
29 He had , after all , surpassed himself once more in the 1991 Ryder Cup by winning 4½ points out of 5 .
30 Think further back to the famous Oxford three-quarter line of Iain Smith , Phil Macpherson , George Aitken and A.C. Wallace .
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