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1 In 1764 Angelica Kauffman met the German art lover Joachim Winkelmann , She painted his portrait , showing him casually dressed , holding a quill , seated over an open writing book .
2 Sheffield United have been trapped by the candid camera too often in the past and Bassett thinks the prying lens is wrong in all sorts of ways .
3 Good manners demanding it , Luce made the formal introduction , adding perforce , ‘ Mr and Mrs Cook are staying in the same hotel . ’
4 As he always has done , King produced the big names .
5 Ward lights the blue touch-paper at York
6 And the Union made the expected noises about not appointing a forensic scientist .
7 The first he knew of his death was when Yeremi plunged the monomolecular knifeblade up his severing nostril through bone into his cerebrum .
8 Haydn recommended the Viennese pianos of Wenzel Schantz ( c.1750–90 ) in a letter of 1790 .
9 Tx represents the additional tectonic stress not predicted by the horizontally-constrained elastic model .
10 Takeshiba-O made the early pace followed by the two American horses Czar Alexander and Fort Marcy , while Piggott was content to keep Sir Ivor well covered up at the back of the field with La Lagune .
11 Pamela asked the young girl on the reception desk , speaking very slowly since she clearly spoke very little English .
12 And then he used to have the bus on from here to Holyhead to see the other people in Holyhead .
13 Swinburne read Greek and took English metric in hand ; Rossetti brought in the Italian primitives ; Fitzgerald made the only good poem of the time that has gone to the PeoPle ; it is called , and is to a great extent , a translation or mistranslation .
14 To begin with , people thought that electric charges could be arbitrarily big or small , but Faraday made the crucial step of showing that charged atoms , or ions , are always associated with a fixed amount of charge or some multiple thereof , suggesting atoms of electric charge .
15 The sumptuous Sherborne Missal represents the high point of Siferwas 's art .
16 With Marlboro 's backing , McLaren made the right decision : Hunt could continue to be himself .
17 Simply cross over Scarth Gap from Buttermere using the old packhorse route .
18 The upper storeys of the dwellings leaned out over the street , giving them a drunken appearance , and the dim caverns beyond the light of the high street seemed to Isabel to mirror the dark side of this city of churches .
19 Sussex offers the Elizabethan majesty of Parham House , the Edwardian beauty of Parham House , the Edwardian beauty of Preston Manor and the Classical lines of Petworth House .
20 An agreement signed during a two-day visit by senior purchasing staff from Behr appointed the Welsh Development Agency 's source team to select Welsh companies capable of supplying air conditioning system components such as wiring harnesses , precision castings and turned parts .
21 Frances experienced the red alert as agony .
22 One µg of mRNA was reverse transcribed using M-MLV RT and subjected to PCR using the following internal primer pairs : ( 1 ) AD13/AD15 , ( 2 ) AD13/8E2 ( 3 ) AD15/3200 .
23 Ben Crawley got the only try as Saracens beat relegation favourites Rugby 14-6 .
24 Black and Scholes make the following assumptions :
25 When John Hawarde , a lawyer , was summoned from his rooms in the Temple to attend the Privy Council at Greenwich he had to pay Mr Ward , the Clerk of the Council , a royal for recording his appearance , 6s. 8d. for his entering into a bond , and 6s. 8d. for the bond itself .
26 Baker met the senior Mongolian party and government leaders : Punsalmaagiyn Ochirbat , the Chairman of the People 's Great Hural Presidium ; Sharavyn Gungaadorj , the Chairman of the Council of Ministers ; Foreign Minister Tserenpilyn Gombosuren ; and the general secretary of the MPRP , Gombojavyn Ochirbat .
27 Father Doyle became the famous Fr Willie Doyle of the trenches , where he was killed in 1917 .
28 ‘ I do n't need to be Plato to see the obvious , ’ he said coldly .
29 ALAN KELLY made the crucial penalty shoot-out save that crowned Sheffield United 's FA Cup fightback against Blackburn and clinched their first semi-final for 32 years .
30 NME understands the fledgling Suede recorded a single for a Brighton-based acquaintance of bass player Mat Osman , who was keen to found a record label .
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