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1 The shelving sliders at either end of the graphic 's bands prove particularly useful when using 5 and 6-string basses , allowing straightforward boost or cut across a wide frequency range , and giving the bassist well-defined depth on the lower strings and bright treble at the top , but with a ‘ cut mid ’ to minimise that confusion of bass and lower mid frequencies .
2 And with copious amounts of tone modification and sheer brute power on tap , via the active contouring filters ( 18dB boost at 100Hz and 10Hz ) then the graphic equaliser ( 15dB of boost or cut with a ten-band slider ranging from 30Hz right up to 8kHz ) , the Hartkes are never likely to be found wanting .
3 Isolation groove 7 may be filled with insulation or replaced by a high resistivity region .
4 The tentacle scales may be distinct from the oral papillae being either separated by a gap or placed at a higher level as viewed from the ventral side as in the genera Ophiotoma and Ophioblenn .
5 Under the new scheme , CFCs and water are mixed in a reaction furnace and heated with a high-frequency electric current to about 10,000 degrees Centigrade , at which point electrons are stripped from the atoms to form a plasma .
6 Inform your neighbours ; notify the local fire brigade if required by a local byelaw .
7 Besides a full set of stamps mounted on card and protected by a transparent sleeve , each pack opens up to reveal a wealth of information , accompanied by full-colour illustrations .
8 He woke briefly in the middle of the round with an eagle and a couple of birdies , but eventually slid back into indifference and finished with a level-par score .
9 A LAWYER-FREE small claims procedure , easily operated by the do-it-yourself litigant and staffed by a new body of volunteer ‘ civil justices ’ , is needed to combat problems of cost and delay Lord Donaldson , the Master of the Rolls , said .
10 With the exception of two seminars on the assessment of enterprise skills , the focus on teaching and learning was taken out of the programme and shifted to a two-day conference ( with a menu of sessions to which staff can opt in ) held in June 1993 in conjunction with the Educational Development Unit .
11 Sixty odd years separate this work from The Birth of Tragedy and compared with a similar span of years since Winckelmann 's revolutionary study of Greet art , the later period , viewed as a period of German Hellenism , is anti-climatic .
12 Once they start to hatch the emerging fry will be picked up in the parent 's mouth and deposited into a pre-dug pit , or under the edge of a rock .
13 A modern one bedroom End Terrace House built some three years ago of brick under a tiled roof and situated in a small attractive close .
14 A file on the alleged offences was compiled by the Suffolk force 's internal discipline department and sent to a special section of the CPS in London which deals with allegations against English police officers .
15 Alternatively they may be subsumed within the department and treated as a poor relation .
16 To reach Ireby , descend alongside the wall heading south-west , crossing it where convenient and continuing down the other side until confronted by a large shakehole with a floor of boulders .
17 The bow is made out of a separate piece of fabric and stitched to a basic straight tie-back .
18 About 1.45am a few other hostages and I were herded into a red van at gunpoint and driven to a private home in the wealthy neighbourhood where General Noriega lives .
19 A MAN was being quizzed by police yesterday after a schoolgirl was kidnapped at gunpoint and subjected to a terrifying three-hour sex ordeal .
20 This explanation is consistent with the increase in bending angle reported to take place in the ternary complex and interpreted in a similar way by Zinkel and Crothers [ 27 ] .
21 The shorts , printed with the fish motif , are full cut and gathered onto a wide , basque style waistband which is elasticated at the back .
22 Beyond it , to the east , was a meadow , thick with fritillaries in spring and surrounded by a wooded path , known ( after the essayist and moralist who was a fellow of the College in the early eighteenth century ) as Addison 's Walk .
23 Both rejected positivistic literary scholarship and called for a renewed attention to literature as literature ; both insisted on the differences between literature and other kinds of writing , and tried to define these differences in theoretical terms ; both gave a central role in their definitions to ideas of structure and interrelatedness , and treated the literary text as an object essentially independent of its author and its historical context .
24 SRI LANKA 'S Tamil Tiger guerrillas announced yesterday that they had renounced violence and registered as a political party .
25 This season 27-year-old Llewellyn already has 23 wins under his belt and looks on course to top his previous best total of 53 achieved last term and capped with a Grand National triumph on Party Politics .
26 Anthony Andrews , so often seen as the archetypal urbane Englishman , turns in a performance of immense depth and sympathy as Miller , who is accused of spying and cast into a barbarous prison camp .
27 CHURCHMEN and intellectuals in East Germany , worried about the new , aggressive tone that has crept into the emotional issue of reunification , yesterday warned against confrontation and called for a temporary end to mass street demonstrations .
28 Total RNA was isolated from 2 to 20 ml of whole blood and hybridised with a specific biotinylated oligonucleotide .
29 Interest is paid annually upon each anniversary of the first deposit to your TESSA and calculated on a daily basis on cleared balances ( including any interest credited but not withdrawn ) .
30 He passed his arm over the guardrail and settled into a comfortable position .
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