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1 10.4 ( a ) Simply biased , capacitor-coupled , common-emitter amplifier , ( b ) output characteristics of amplifying transistor with load lines corresponding to circuit ( a ) superimposed and ( c ) input characteristics of amplifying transistor also with load lines corresponding to circuit ( a ) superimposed .
2 They 're bringing it in or something or thinking of bringing actions forward into the or whatever .
3 Experiment of speaking name aloud into machine and then finding face in image made by sound-waves .
4 There was widespread scepticism about such methods of making reformers out of rulers .
5 Established methods of keeping traffic out of residential areas have been avoided in the model towns , for the disadvantages of barriers and one-way systems are now well known .
6 In connection with the pay and grading review , the team were also required to cost various methods of assimilating staff on to new pay rates .
7 As for the comment you attributed to me , that Britain has a budding romance with pressurised water reactor , I have always been an advocate of keeping government out of the bedroom and would , therefore , never have allowed such a comment to pass From my lips .
8 In 1990 Grant and co-workers started a programme of transplanting liver together with intestine , and three of their five patients are still alive ( 2 months , 2 years , and 3½ years ) ; the other two patients died from lymphoma .
9 Once a recommendation for deportation had been made it was rare for the Movement to try to reverse the order , though the irony of sending youngsters back to the source of their unhappiest memories was not lost on refugee workers .
10 The Mexicans crossed the border to sell fruit and vegetables very cheap to the over-fed Americans , though Jane noticed that her overweight hosts made a great ceremony of using tablets instead of sugar in their coffee .
11 These opened up new opportunities of producing components either for export to the big car companies in America or Europe , or for sale to the local affiliates of those same companies .
12 Rules of court in many Commonwealth jurisdictions follow the relevant English text , so there is quite a voluminous body of case-law in which the practice of taking evidence out of the jurisdiction is examined .
13 Henry went on to point out the evils of sweated labour and the pay make-up system , how it fostered a disinclination to work and how it encouraged landless men to marry just so that their income would be augmented ‘ in proportion to the number of their children ’ , and how it led to degradation of the character : ‘ The weak , the indolent , and worthless worker is now secure of the maximum payment settled by the standards you have determined from parish funds , and the industrious , skilful and honest workman can expect no more … the pernicious and demoralising practice of paying wages out of rates … ought to be suppressed and prohibited . ’
14 Welsh Water is the only British water authority committed to ending the widespread practice of pumping sewage out to sea .
15 For a while I adopted the practice of putting things away in cupboards until I was in a mood to be ruthless , but now I have advanced to instant ruthlessness .
16 The scheme was extended in 1967 to fines with the intention of keeping defaulters out of prison .
17 Wind has the effect of moving rabbits out of those burrows that are fully exposed .
18 In Poulantzas ' view , this whole has the effect of dividing people up into classes : any mode of production ‘ requires ’ the existence of people who do jobs of various sorts , and who , by virtue of their roles , have implacably opposed interests .
19 The growth in demand for rapid response in the U.S.A. continues to have the effect of transferring stock out of the retailers ' balance sheets and into those of the manufacturers , a situation aggravated this year by relatively weak fourth quarter sales .
20 These , if they proceed on a large scale , can have the damaging effect of taking custom away from the town centre on a substantial scale .
21 I hope all local areas will think about acquiring a stock of good movement photographs of local people which could be sent to the press in support of a feature — many local papers are cutting back on the expense of sending photographers out to events but are delighted to use suitable contributions .
22 Will he consider bringing the regulator 's review of purchasing policy forward from 1993 ?
23 Moreover , it has the advantage of providing data down to the level of the individual enumeration district covering roughly 500 inhabitants , which , even if too small for certain purposes , can be treated as a building block for areas specially defined by the user ( Rhind , 1983 ) .
24 I do not pretend that these notions can do more than offer a way of thinking about the quantum world with some hope of doing justice both to the idiosyncrasy of its ways and also to the beautiful structure of the microworld which has been laid bare by the discoveries of elementary particle physics .
25 Here one of them sacrifices for the other : both have trouble falling asleep , and their partner 's noisy breath wakes them ; so they wriggle towards the edge of the bed , leaving a broad space down the middle ; they pretend to be sound asleep , in the hope of making sleep easier for their partner , who will then be able to turn from side to side without disturbing the other .
26 The cheetah , forced to make its run when it is still some distance from the herd , may now spend crucial moments distinguishing its chosen target from among the confusing mass of racing bodies ahead of it .
27 His deep voice was rough and thick with controlled desire , the gleam in his dark gaze brilliant beneath the heavy lids , triggering a fresh wave of melting desire down through her stomach and thighs , almost overriding the panic which had frozen her .
28 As would be expected , such a use would not be possible with make , since the law would appear to be actually bringing about the paying of taxes ( " concurrent causation " ) : ( 166 ) * The law makes everyone pay his taxes , With oblige , on the other hand , the tax law is depicted as simply imposing a state of obligation in the present , which leaves the future actualization of paying taxes up to each individual , who may or may not actually pay them .
29 It kind of builds Gandhi up into a great er figure , as it were , ignoring his feet of clay , erm , which he definitely had .
30 All the evidence available points to the difficulty of involving users effectively in planning processes .
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