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1 In theory , items can be devised to test the more sophisticated thought processes listed in Bloom 's Taxonomy such as knowledge of trends and sequences , or skills of analysis , but such item writing demands not only a high degree of skill , not often available , it also requires a considerable sophistication in language and comprehension skills which second language learners are unlikely to possess .
2 Fair trial for fibre Geoff Hamilton scrutinises the newest cocofibre trials , and shells out on a cocoa shell mulch his lime-hating plants will love .
3 PEGGY SECORD Our New President
4 With City struggling to defend at set pieces , Strachan again planted a free kick into the penalty area where David Wetherall released Gary Speed whose left foot shot gave Tony Coton no chance .
5 As part of Illinois ' month-long celebration of French culture , science and trade , the Art Institute of Chicago is giving Patrick Tosani his first U.S. solo show ( until 19 July ) .
6 Are these not the same Glentoran fans whose continual barracking got our manager Ronnie McFall the sack and look what success Ronnie has had from he came to Shamrock Park .
7 Alternatively , stay at the grand manor houses whose impoverished owners will take B&B guests ( from £25 a night for a double ) under the Turismo de Habitação scheme .
8 Understood in this sense professionalization contests what ordinary policemen and women see as long-established , wellgrounded , practical experience .
9 For Figure 8 , I used a plotter , a mechanical drawing board whose moving pen is controlled by the electronic signals coming from the computer .
10 In his last few years Kuypers and Gabriella Ugolini made use of viruses which travel into the nervous system and multiply in a pathway so that they cross nervous junctions and spread detectably along a whole connected system : a quite novel labelling technique whose full potential now remains to be realised .
11 ( It is worthy of note at this stage that Harris never received his full complement of aircraft and in the final days of the Bomber Offensive his maximum strength of first line aircraft was only 1,625 of which 200 were Mosquitos , ) in one of my Staff College lectures .
12 The structure dominates a central area of the city where developers have built a new Transi-plaza-the kind whose exterior architecture and landscaping is hologrammic , altering entirely ( but superficially ) every twenty-four bio-hours .
13 Diminishing environment returns from refinements to petrol-driven cars and uncertainty over which alternative power sources to pursue will complicate the plan , according to motor industry experts who last week testified before the clean air and nuclear regulation subcommittee of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee .
14 At the time no one denounced it more fiercely than Ayatollah Khomeini , whom the Shah had exiled in 1964 for his fierce opposition tot he Pahlavi regime .
15 There were not enough , however , to stop them being blitzed in the final by a Warblers side whose quaint victory song underlined a cutting edge .
16 Jo and Maggie sitting cradling cups of tea , chip papers stuffed into the waste bucket , the kids eating theirs next door in the bedsit , watching television .
17 Future advances in technology may disclose other , more sensitive markers of cell proliferation whose predictive accuracy is greater .
18 Southern Railway kept a mule at Spencer Shops whose sole purpose was to get on board a train on Sunday so that a run could be made from Spencer to Goldsboro .
19 HOUSING CONVERSION FROM A METHODIST CHAPEL : A HOUSING GAIN BUT A LOSS TOT HE RURAL COMMUNITY ( SOURCE : AUTHORS AND A. TEED )
20 The Court reversed a ruling by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by adjudging that Zacarias was not protected by the 1980 Refugee Act which required aliens seeking asylum to demonstrate " a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race , religion , nationality , membership of a particular social group or political opinion " [ see pp. 30411 ; 34541 ] .
21 The Taiwan High Court on Oct. 14 began an investigation into the DPP for alleged violation of the Civic Organizations Law which prohibited advocacy of secession .
22 A misunderstanding between Richard Eyres and Derek Pyke gave Rocky Turner his first penalty chance , and a second , from a similarly kickable position , arrived when David Hulme was forced to obstruct Mark Roskell .
23 They ca n't go up there , we 've got to do the best we possibly can , and the Government is doing all it possibly can to help by providing subsidies for housing associations by providing ninety five per cent of the rent rebates which this City Council gives , so on and so forth .
24 The Cowboys handed the Denver Broncos their first home defeat of the season in a 31-27 thriller .
25 Imagine a polyglot College Art Association conference whose concurrent sessions are scattered around town for an entire week , and you will have some idea of the confusion that enveloped the event .
26 Patrick Alston emphasizes the students ' poverty , Regina Eimontova their political opinions , Daniel Brower the interaction of the two .
27 Thus , rather than developing a broad perspective on women 's experiences of poverty , the chapter reviews what recent studies reveal ( and obscure ) about the impact of low household income on Black and white mothers caring for children .
28 It is impossible to recognize in the poet thus characterized — ‘ precious ’ , ‘ insulate ’ , ‘ toylike ’ — the William Carlos Williams whom American opinon over the last thirty years has promoted as a respectable , and better than respectable , counterweight to Eliot .
29 Bruce , therefore , became a kind of guerilla leader whose main means of harming the English was to harass them rather than seek a formal confrontation with them .
30 They left behind them a mouldering group of small loft buildings whose interior columns might once have been ships ' masts .
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