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31 COLERAINE plumber Peter Bell was overcome when he won the 400 newcomers race at the Manx Grand Prix after arch rival Ian McVeighty ran out of fuel .
32 This positive working relationship helped to strengthen the foundations of the sport , especially when Sarah moved on in 1987 to become a senior staff coach at the English Ski Council and Development Officer for freestyle .
33 Steam trains stop at the restored station on the West Somerset Railway which runs past the beach from Minehead inland to Bishops Lydeard near Taunton .
34 Serious eaters look at the red Michelin Benelux guide , which lists about 25 restaurants in the centre , a handful of which have one star .
35 Eighty per cent of it I duck , but people look at the other 20 per cent you do and because it is 50 per cent more than others do , it appears , as you say , that you are a self-promoter . ’
36 Gina had the first volume open at the initial entry and she read aloud : ‘ Durban , Natal , Thursday , January 1st 1852 .
37 These 10m people live at the south-eastern edge of the culture-area called the West .
38 Such coalitions exist at the municipal level in West Berlin and Frankfurt .
39 MIDDLESBROUGH and Cleveland Harriers were third to take the bronze medals in the youths race at the national cross-country championships at Newark .
40 Thus there are often traffic jams for several minutes on Wainfleet 's main through road , while motorists wait at the level crossing .
41 Catalysts lie at the very heart of the chemicals industry .
42 In nightly theatrical TV rituals of social order and chaos , a stream of hero-policemen stand at the symbolic crossroads between peace and mayhem , and the detective and the chief officer now operate at the point where once the church and its priests declaimed on categories of good and evil and the resulting binary codes they produce .
43 Across the dale from Aysgarth , Penhill Beacon and West Burton lie at the northernmost end of that beautiful secluded dale , Waldendale .
44 The two chip sets interface at the Advanced Radio Interface-1 which defines the signalling protocol between the radio receiver and the digital processing portions of a DECT system .
45 As discussed in the previous chapter , this view argues that distinct political processes operate at the national and the local level .
46 The same forces operate at the national level ; in Italy , for example , agricultural policies have favoured large scale agriculture and further decreased the viability of non-intensive , small-scale producers who predominate in the south .
47 The fact is that all the examples adduced to support the proposition that there should be a qualitative — or ‘ radical ’ — extension of the role of trade unions into the management of the business employing their members fail at the crucial oint .
48 In Britain enquire at the Swiss National Tourist Office ( SNTO ) , 1 New Coventry St , London W1V 3HG .
49 Although we know much about how genes work at the microscopic level , less is known about all the intermediate processes through which genes find expression in phenotypic characters at the macroscopic level of the whole animal .
50 In Hemingway 's famous expression , what teachers need at the present time is ‘ grace under pressure ’ , and my intention is that the discussions in this book should be very practical aids to the development of this valuable commodity .
51 Your hands clutch at the gaping wound as you try to stop your entrails spilling into the slime of the sewer . ’
52 First , the crossed auditory pathways inhibit the uncrossed pathways such that stimuli presented to the right ear arrive intact at the left hemisphere and stimuli presented to the left ear arrive at the right hemisphere .
53 For further information contact at the HIAN office .
54 For further information contact at the HIAN office .
55 Today Mr Clarke saw how the police operate at the sharp end .
56 An air of emergency was reflected in the men busy at the large illuminated translucent plot that dominated the end of the room , at the messengers disappearing through doors and at telephones giving out their muted urgent calls .
57 The present results results confirm earlier findings that pan-PLA2 values increase at the early stages of the disease and then rapidly return to normal .
58 A repeat at the English Schools Championships in Blackpool on July 9–10 would almost certainly put both among the medals .
59 MASSIMO AMBUCETTI/AP Vested interest : AC Milan 's Demetrio Albertini tries to slow down English midfielder Paul Gascoigne of Lazio in the Italian Serie A match at the Olympic Stadium in Rome yesterday
60 Bored gauchos sit out of the wind , sucking yerba maté from gourds ; their horses munch at the thin grass in a desultory fashion .
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