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1 Wee Blair McAfferty now rides for the DB am team .
2 Promoter Jon Nicholls again managed to bring the cream of Irish music to Australia and New Zealand for the festival .
3 Yet despite all this La Scala soon became the focal point of Milan society and culture .
4 But , although the House had capital status , La Scala always had the advantage of having vital commerce on its doorstep .
5 In addition Listeria also infects 12% of pre-cooked chickens , 16% of salami-type sausages , 50% of raw pork sausages and 10% of soft cheeses .
6 One called John lived at Cheddington , owning land worth £1 with goods of £20 , another at Linslade , assessed at £2. 6s. 8d. and £6. 13s. 4d. respectively ; either could have been the owner of £1. 6s. 8d. in land at Soulbury , where William Turney also had the same income from land , together with £5 in moveables .
7 Below decks , Grace was shipshape , but after calling on Lord Jim Nenna always felt impelled to start cleaning the bright-work .
8 The days were getting shorter and colder , and with Christmas approaching there was so much to do in the kitchen Sarah rarely had a spare minute .
9 " He had no friends and did not deserve any , A.J.P. Taylor once wrote .
10 JIM MILLS yesterday resigned as manager of the Welsh Rugby League team in protest at his side 's omission from the World Cup , to be staged in Britain in 1995 .
11 He rarely survived to the final reel , because the notion of Van Cleef nobly agreeing to a duel in a deserted street was ridiculous .
12 When Beatrice Webb publicly renounced her stand against the suffrage in 1906 , she explained in a letter to Millicent Garrett Fawcett that : ‘ The raising of children , the advancement of learning and the promotion of the spiritual — which I regard as the particular obligations of women — are , it is clear , more and more becoming the main preoccupations of the community as a whole ’ .
13 He kept in with the Soviets in case Moscow ever prevailed in Bucharest — plus the extra money he undoubtedly obtained . ’
14 Over the years , the traffic swelled to such an extent that La Chapelle eventually expanded to form four separate stations : La Chapelle-lntérieure , La Chapelle-Charbons , La Chapelle-Triage , and La Chapelle-Annexe .
15 Home Secretary Kenneth Baker strongly defended his party 's policies on crime .
16 Kenneth Baker yesterday said ‘ well , the Labour Party has n't changed ; they 're still a high spending , high taxation and high borrowing party ’ .
17 This is why Cardinal Newman once remarked , " It is not reason that is against us , but imagination . "
18 But when it 's down mostly to wiggling around a stage in clattering heels there is no time for deep analysis of the psyche of folk who engage in such events and despite a doughty effort , director Ian Kellgren simply does not have enough suitable material to mesh this into any shape worthy of the tag theatre .
19 In addition to misinforming the administration of some of his travel arrangements , in mid-June Sununu also used a White House limousine to make a 200-mile trip to New York to attend a rare stamp auction .
20 ‘ Of course Steiner almost pulled it off , ’ Schellenberg said .
21 Ibn Hajar merely says that alter having served as kadi of Bursa for a while , " he went to Konya and settled there " .
22 Ivor Warburton generously presented the Mayor with two duplicate nameplates .
23 Of course Truman always kept a framed copy of that hanging in his office .
24 In his writings Sant' Ambrogio occasionally made reference to the Basilica Vetus , a very early ( perhaps the earliest ) Christian church in Milan .
25 A pupil of the anatomist John Hunter , Van Butchell later practised as a highly successful dentist before becoming an eminent truss-maker , specializing in the treatment of fistula .
26 As he left Number 10 , Ian Gilmour sourly summed up the changes by saying they were ‘ not much good if you are steering full-speed ahead for the rocks ’ .
27 But although she was also one of Kraus 's greatest admirers she had dared to read Heine , of whom Kraus had once said : ‘ Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today even little salesman can fondle her breasts . ’
28 SUPERFIT body-builder Bernard Ayre just managed to gasp out ‘ I love you ’ as he collapsed dying in his wife 's arms .
29 And Patrick Lundy suddenly understood .
30 Director Roger Mills even retained a quip from Alan Whicker ( whom the presenter consulted ) about a Bernard Levin series in which the pretence of solitude was attempted .
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