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1 Expelled from the Commons as a result of giving false statements , he was returned unopposed in 1734 for Great Grimsby , a venal borough that had elected other disreputable financiers and in which Sutton owned considerable property .
2 At home the action that has drawn most attention in the past year was his vote in favour of war in the Gulf .
3 One of the main characteristics that has distinguished all radical art , from that of the Soviet revolution to the art of South Africa , from the art of our movement to the work of the AIDS practitioners in the United States , is its proximity to an active audience .
4 Of the 1,570 reported cases all but nine are positively linked to feed containing recycled ruminant tissue and seven of those are animals that have proved impossible to trace .
5 It 's like this people th they 're deep sea divers and they discover , they 're stuck in the crevice , a big erm nuclear submarine and what it 's for is an experiment that 's gone wrong and it it 's to make and instead they make an abomination you know , incredibly powerful and intelligent but really nasty you know , murderous and killer and so they take they take him to these people .
6 Indeed , in a partnership that has cost British Telecom £19m along with £5m from HIE , the existing infrastructure in the region has been significantly upgraded with the installation of advanced equipment at over 60 of its telephone exchanges .
7 Equally threatening are the dozens of federally subsidized cattle ranches that have depleted underground water sources used by antelope and bighorn sheep .
8 Although there have been attempts to assess penetrance in the two phenotypes of Gardner and simple polyposis that have shown low penetrance , these have relied on the expression of cancer or the extraintestinal features .
9 The Chicago Civil Aviation Conference of 1944 is rarely discussed today , but it established the forms and organizations that have governed postwar civil aviation to this day .
10 It is this feature of Beccaria 's programme that has caused more problems than probably anything else , as we shall see later .
11 By exempting pension funds and unit trusts from income tax on trading profits from futures and options dealings , he has managed to clear up an uncertainty that has kept many investing institutions shy of London 's derivatives markets .
12 The borderline between ritual and custom is a little blurred ; custom could be said to be a form of ritual that has lost many of its magical or religious overtones , but still retains some of the original intent to transform .
13 What was the fault that had deserved this punishment ?
14 The results , summarized in Fig. 3.13 , reveal some evidence of latent inhibition in that these subjects acquired suppression less readily than control subjects that had received initial exposure to a stimulus other than the tone .
15 An interference effect was indeed apparent at the start of the final stage ( Fig. 4.7 ) and did not differ in magnitude between subjects that had received their aversive training in the same context as that used for the test and subjects that had received aversive training in a different context .
16 The story of the Patiño family is by no means unique , but it is arresting nonetheless for all the romance and tragedy that has surrounded this clan of immensely rich and socially ambitious art collectors .
17 It is not only the United States that has become dependent on imports of oil .
18 This countered the tendency towards antagonism between presidential advisers and departmental secretaries that had weakened other administrations , and it also reduced the chances of cabinet members ‘ going native ’ .
19 Dale 's studies of fetal response to moderate cardiovascular exercise showed increased breathing movements , transient bradycardia or tachycardia , or changes in uterine bloodflow , but there does not appear to be a systematic study that has given clear guidelines for safe levels of maternal exercise .
20 Some books that have proved useful are :
21 It released the voice of Osbern of Eu , his colour still high from the interview that had preceded this one .
22 Practice that had made these things second nature to the T'ang .
23 This is a practice that has threatened several species .
24 In the past , carnivorous plants have been gathered by unscrupulous collectors from the wild ; a practice that has depleted natural stocks .
25 This crumpled wreck … is the car that had claimed five young lives .
26 ‘ A hundred years ago , ’ he said furiously , ‘ they designed a system to prevent cars that had broken loose from running backwards and crashing into things .
27 It was the cars that had started some new idea …
28 Write down examples of previous relationships that have followed similar patterns to the one that you now have with the addict in your life .
29 Ken Wilson , of the Emmaus fellowship in Ann Arbour , Michigan is not ashamed to give clear step-by-step models for how to pray for relationships that have gone wrong .
30 This position was not only the culmination of ideas that had been knocking around in Balcon 's mind for the past six years or so , it was also a declaration of a new confidence in the possibility of British cinema , and a final casting off of the inferiority complex that had impaired British filmmakers since 1918 .
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