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1 During the first half of 1992 , a plan was developed to restore Waterford Crystal to acceptable profitability .
2 After work that day , 13 September , I went to the hospital and asked to see Suor Eusebia , the Mother Superior , a truly saintly woman .
3 She settled the squirrel evening cape that had belonged to her mother on top of her light summer coat , then walked in and asked to see Mrs O'Dare .
4 Herbert Cranko asked to see Dulcie Howes and discussed John 's training with her .
5 Ken asked to see Robert Bolt and demanded the speech to be cut .
6 If you are desperate for a splash of hard-core realism this month you wo n't want to miss Martha Mayer Erlebacher 's Old-Masterish allegorical figure paintings at Fischbach ( her first show in New York since the demise of Robert Schoelkopf ) or the recent narrative works of Vincent Desiderio at Marlborough ( both from 6 to 27 February ) .
7 The law , originally intended to combat Ku Klux Klan members intent upon harassing freed slaves , had also been used in the 1960s in support of civil rights campaigners .
8 This has now developed to include Henley members and has become an official club fixture , the winners rewarded with the Jayemdoubleyou Cup which the late Jack Webb presented and which cup had in fact been his father 's rowing trophy !
9 Mr Gould said he did n't resign last Wednesday because he did n't want to overshadow John Smith 's impressive Commons debut as Labour leader .
10 ‘ For another , if it is n't too far ahead for you to enquire into this , Harry , then I might take up an invitation I 've received to attend Newmarket races at the beginning of October .
11 ‘ I 'll have to risk contacting Arthur Beck , Chief of the Federal Police in Berne .
12 It is business as usual for ENGLAND U21s , although it is saddening to see Martin Turner , a wonderful servant of English ( particularly English junior ) rugby , retiring as chairman of the England U21 panel in favour of Malcom Phillips with John Elliott continuing as team manager .
13 Mr Midgley said the spillage had been traced to near Lartington treatment works , but there were no reports of wildlife or fish being affected .
14 ‘ I keep hearing people say they do n't want to see Ovett running 3:58 because they want to remember him running 3:48 .
15 I do n't want to see Mr Jackson tomorrow , but I did n't tell him that .
16 I do n't want to see Mr Jackson again neither .
17 ‘ Do you want to see Miss Rose before we have lunch or after ? ’
18 The only ones who do n't are those who do n't want to like Philip Larkin , and there is a sense in which poems have — probably since I started writing — have been lifted off the page much more in the absolutely literal sense , that people are used to hearing them and can read them afterwards .
19 It is certain the board would prefer to see Mr Weir re-elected as it tries to keep a united front over the next few months when it has to produce new proposals for its future which are acceptable to the Scottish Office and the Office of Fair Trading .
20 The Short construct , containing Ea DHS I-II was a 9kb fragment obtained from restriction enzyme digests using Bgl I ( Figure 1d ) .
21 For each subgroup a Wilcoxon signed rank test was used to compare before and after treatment concentrations of gastric juice ascorbic acid and total vitamin C , plasma total vitamin C , and the ratio of gastric juice to plasma vitamin C. The estimated median within subject before to after treatment differences and their approximate 95% confidence intervals were calculated using Minitab procedure WINT .
22 They will be used in research by the Mass Section of the NPL , into the effects of vacuum on such standards aimed at offering better traceability to the national standard of measurements made using Pt-Ir weights in vacuum .
23 In the morning , she agreed to see Winifred Shalcross .
24 Reluctantly we had to stop as it was time to go to see Mr Hopkin , who made us most welcome .
25 I expected to see Dr Mortimer , as I knew nobody else in the village .
26 It was the day before we expected to see Treasure Island .
27 First we got to see Joey B. Where is he ? ’
28 Until Mr Kempton died in May 1989 , the inspector made a number of unsuccessful efforts to arrange to interview Mr Kempton and his wife .
29 MALCOLM ALLISON was back in managerial business last night when Dennis Rofe quit struggling Bristol Rovers after a row over the man brought in to guide him through troubled waters .
30 The appointment of Mrs Brooks is intended to enable Michael Ainslie to focus on developing auctioneering activities in new market areas such as South America and the Far East .
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