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| 1 | The back-to-back Grand Slam and a place in the final of the World Cup in November have been the triggers for a vast increase in recruitment . |
| 2 | The Southern Alps have been the subject of a number of studies examining the relationship between tectonics and landforms ; these include those by Adams ( 1985 ) , Basher et al. |
| 3 | For soccer skills , we 've always looked to the Brazilians ; in cricket , the West Indies have been the power . |
| 4 | ‘ Garren Of New York and Trevor Sorbie have been the biggest influences on me ’ . |
| 5 | But the Wandjina have been the subject of special interest and speculation to anthropologists , ethnologists and certain writers who have linked them with visitors from space due to their resemblance to astronauts . |
| 6 | You will not dispute , I presume , that Mr Marshall of Charleville House and Mr Lane of Bridewood have been the two great butlers of recent times . |
| 7 | The Flowers , alongside The Waterboys now adopted Irish citizens , decamped in the County Galway fishing village of Spiddal have been the biggest visible influence on a generation of urban folk dreamers . |
| 8 | This and our unbelievable performance against Northtown have been the only bright spots in another nightmare week . |
| 9 | Since 1950 America and Britain have been the slowest . |
| 10 | Studlar ( 1984 ) has remarked that all established institutions in Britain have been the objects of critical attack in recent times except for the monarchy : ‘ Only the monarchy seems safe from challenge , secure in its substantive weakness ’ ( p. 5 ) . |
| 11 | By contrast , almost the only areas of decline in Britain have been the conurbations and some of the older established industrial areas in South Wales , Scotland and the North of England . |
| 12 | In the past , Oxford have been the heavier but this year , on average , they 're nearly a stone a man lighter . |
| 13 | Well , Oxford have been the favourites for months ; they always are , but as the tide changes so do their chances . |
| 14 | If America and Eastern Europe have been the world leaders , the only countries in the world that can claim to be clean are those where the athletes are too poor to afford the drugs . |
| 15 | I do not believe that altruism , good neighbourliness or even the visions of Jean Monnet have been the motivation behind the EC but simply hard-headed self interest . |
| 16 | The world 's largest bilingual dictionary publisher , Langenscheidt have been the only traditional print-on-paper publisher to enter the electronic handheld market with direct , independent investment . |
| 17 | Indigenous people in the Americas have been the victims of gross human rights abuses ever since Christopher Colombus landed on the island of Hispaniola on 12 October , 1492 . |
| 18 | English hill forts and medieval towns have been extensively excavated in recent years , and a new dimension has been added to our knowledge of them ; in this the Biddles have been the incomparable pioneers in their excavations at Winchester — but many other cities have made a major contribution , including York and Lincoln and Oxford . |
| 19 | The batsmen of England , Australia , India and New Zealand have been the patsies . |
| 20 | The disintegration of the Soviet Union , of Yugoslavia and of Czechoslovakia have been the most obvious results , but serious intercommunal tensions are also evident in Bulgaria , Romania and elsewhere . |
| 21 | Mr. Walker:I believe that I am correct in saying that , percentage fall in unemployment , the North-west of England , the west midlands and Wales have been the three best regions of the United Kingdom . |