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1 Since becoming head of the Kimbell in 1980 , he single-handedly built the sleepy Fort Worth museum into one of the most select collections in the country , purchasing a stellar array of old masters , including masterpieces by Caravaggio , Pietro da Cortona , Domenichino , Poussin and Georges de la Tour that would have significantly complemented or filled gaps at the National Gallery .
2 The joint between the end of the dock and the standing work of the bay end is preferably a direct butt joint between suitable packed or faced surfaces at the leading following and bottom sides of the dock which close simultaneously by a direct butting , as distinguished from a sliding , motion against corresponding surfaces on the standing work .
3 Not surprisingly Galway boss Jarlath Cloonan has given a vote of confidence to the side that shocked Tipperary at the semi-final stage .
4 Well , the figures are there , it 's , it 's following the , the very substantial debate that took place at the last County Council meeting , on the issue of earnings within Shropshire , it 's to give the Committee a bit more detailed information about the position , and , and particularly I think , the position about female earnings in the County er , where we 're , we 're really at the bottom of , of the U K lists .
5 In other words the candidates most likely to be nominated if they so wish will be those who were nominated and became TDs at the previous general election .
6 She went out and found Jack at the nursing station with Jake Hunter , the obs and gynae senior registrar .
7 When the German officer began to shout abuse at the Poles , this goat leant out of his window and shouted abuse at the German officer .
8 Then I went over to the vice-president 's mansion and played tennis at the naval observatory in Washington a bunch of times .
9 They cheered , and threw bread at the haggard Frenchman .
10 This and many other recollected gems stand out in The Don 's admirably planned and delivered speech at the 1989 dinner marking the opening of the Bradman Museum at Bowral , NSW and the Bradman Trust .
11 He went to the gap in the hedge and saw Gary at the far end of the kitchen garden .
12 When Tilden was fifteen , he was apprenticed for five years to Alfred Allchin , a London pharmacist , and attended lectures at the Royal College of Chemistry and the Pharmaceutical Society .
13 Trundle through the system and you 'll come across Sherlock Holmes ' familiar profile at Baker Street , and that of Queen Victoria at Victoria station ; old architectural sketches at Paddington , echoing the West Country connection with the engineering Isambard Brunel ; the escalator design at Oxford Circus , in the heart of department store territory ; and crossed pistols at the odd duelling spot of Finsbury Park , to name but a handful .
14 Temperate species are slow to accept it ; those that de-hardened and resumed growth at the first sign of spring warming would suffer severe damage in subsequent frosts .
15 It had been a long time since we last saw one of those , so we bought ice cream , sat in the sun and wrote postcards at the Reykjahlid shop .
16 He went to the turn in 34 , and was still two shots ahead of the field , but dropped shots at the 10th , 17th and 18th to fall back to 12 under and joint fourth place with Steve Richardson ( 70 ) .
17 Your mother was a silly greedy girl — a gold-digger who wanted to marry above her station , but took fright at the last moment , without caring what hurt she bestowed .
18 Britain benefited from such a programme when they finished third at the Los Angeles Olympics , as did England at the 1986 World Cup .
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