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1 Spontaneity was given organised form on 11 October when antislavery delegates from Bath , Bristol , Exeter , Gloucester , Taunton , Devizes and Westbury met at Bath and resolved to work for the end of apprenticeship by August 1838 .
2 Indeed the Director of Kenya 's Institute of Education looks forward to a time when a syllabus may be devised which , in addition to a national ‘ core ’ , has specific defined areas where programmes devised at district or local levels will be developed and implemented .
3 As the days , weeks and months dragged on and the fine weather turned to biting snow , preventing builders or delivery vans from approaching Remaisnil , the frustrations for Laura and Bernard became at times overwhelming , One of the lowest moments for Laura was an interview she agreed to give to Susan Raven of the The Sunday Times , for ‘ A Life in the Day of ’ series .
4 These demos were released in 1985 , just after the release of ‘ The Unforgettable Fire ’ , but were recorded either in 1978 or 1979 , presumably at the sessions Barry Devlin produced at Dublin 's Windmill Lane Studios or those produced by Chas de Whalley .
5 From 1842 Allhusen lived at Elswick Hall , Newcastle , but moved to Stoke Court , Stoke Poges , Buckinghamshire , in 1873 and died there 13 January 1890 , not long after his wife .
6 WHILST Minton lived at Hamilton Terrace it remained an open house for anyone wishing to call .
7 Miss Honey gazed at Matilda with absolute amazement , but when next she spoke she kept her voice level .
8 Some assets , such as money lent at call to other financial institutions , are highly liquid .
9 The massacre occurred at night after President Alan Garcia ordered the security forces to put down a co-ordinated rebellion in three jails by prisoners associated with the Maoist guerrilla movement , Sendero Luminoso , on the eve of a Socialist International congress here .
10 In 1990 Somerville excelled at sport .
11 Manchester had modest arrangements with Macclesfield and Winsford ; Liverpool had major schemes at Winsford ( again ) and Ellesmere Port ; Wolverhampton built at Wednesfield and Seisdon ; Salford had a major involvement with Worsley ; Newcastle upon Tyne expanded at Killingworth and Cramlington ; Bristol utilized Warmley ; and Walsall also took up the provisions of the Act .
12 Doyle jerked at Tug 's arms to bring him round to the table .
13 Such a case occurred at Kirkcaldy in 1828 .
14 In this connection , it is worth noting the so-called ‘ Messianic Rule ’ of the Essenes found at Qumran .
15 Two years ago I published an appeal by Mrs Mary Marsden , of Church Stretton , Shropshire , for news of any relatives of six airmen of 57 Squadron killed when their Wellington crashed at Staplefore , near Cambridge , on 3 September 1941 , when returning from a raid on Frankfurt .
16 The pair of them added a fair number of crashes to the record that year and when both Hunt and Horsley crashed at Brands Hatch ( Hunt made it a double by crashing his Mini on the way home ! )
17 The PA was the same system The Eurythmics used at Wembley and offered clarity and balance .
18 In the convention used here , a plus sign signifies that a response was obtained at onset at that position , a minus sign that a response occurred at offset , and O means that no response was obtained there or outside that position .
19 The testimony of a witness in a case tried at Matara early in the nineteenth century illustrates the lack of plausibility of much court testimony : ‘ I saw the two prisoners drive a head of cattle — It was in the high road — It was about two hours before dark — We asked them where are you going with the animal — Is this not the animal of the schoolmaster .
20 As the world warmed , the global sea level rose at rates which certainly were without parallel in the last 100,000 years , but until this month no continuous record of this sea-level change had been available to scientists .
21 Dr Mikehe qualified at Liverpool University steps in for regular hooker Paul Hackett who was dismissed in somewhat debatable circumstances against Richmond last Saturday and is still awaiting the date of his hearing .
22 The pathetic image of one of Scotland 's greatest players , labouring outside a bar owned by another soccer genius , is a far cry from the corporate image of drink and football peddled at Ibrox , where they sell a specially bottled vintage Rangers wine and where the name of the club 's sponsors McEwans Lager is brazenly emblazoned on the club 's shirt .
23 Paddington gazed at Mr Grover in astonishment .
24 From the time when the sovereign lived at St James 's Palace , first occupied by Henry VIII and abandoned in favour of Buckingham House ( now Palace ) by George III , the court has traditionally been known as that of St James .
25 in red dress … in an aesthetic interior ’ by Edward John Gregory sold at Christie 's for an astonishing £30,000 ( $45,000 ; estimated quite rightly at £10–15,000 ) to David Mason .
26 Leaders of Poland , Czechoslovakia and Hungary met at Visegrad in Hungary on February 15th to promote co-operation on these issues .
27 For a long while seven or eight pairs of lidless eyes gazed at Flaubert .
28 Deuce gazed at Harry in a way which made the boy cover himself .
29 When she was not travelling round the world , Miss Hayes lived at Nyack or spent time with her adopted son , James , who became known to television viewers as detective Dan Williams on the series Hawaii Five-O .
30 Nine Yugoslav policemen were injured when Dynamo Zagreb fans rioted at Borac Banja Luka .
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