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31 James retorted , and he went over to unlock his warehouse and take delivery of a cartload of barrels from Dunkeld .
32 Moreover , Dudek 's scholarship was of a more penetrating kind than anything under which Leonard had yet sat , or was to sit , as became that of a Doctor of Letters from Columbia University .
33 So in an effort to find out whether are blind , or they 're just weird , we asked a member of a party of visitors from Tokyo , Miss Takishima , to be kind enough to let us process the film in her camera .
34 Exercises which have been used include : pattern-cutting in French ( with engineers ) , making beurre maniere ( with engineers ) , interpreting the general instructions on a French dressmaking pattern ( with clothing staff ) and dictation of a list of names from different languages and cultures ( with business studies staff ) .
35 Problem solving/minimisation is a highly iterative process and consists of a number of stages from problem sensed to problem overcome .
36 It focuses on systems , such as the family , considering them to be an entity , a whole , rather than merely the result of a number of contributions from independent parts or individuals .
37 In Between the protagonist confronts the jargons of a number of fields from a female perspective .
38 It is against this background that we must see the recent withdrawals of a number of analgesics from the market in Britain .
39 As Iraq moved through the 1970s the Baath regime became well settled in power , with the gradual emergence in key positions of a number of individuals from the town of Tikrit on the Tigris , north of Baghdad .
40 Despite a number of withdrawals from the field , there are still some 15 European producers of ethylene oxide , and about seven of phenol and four each of carbonylation alcohols and amines .
41 Despite a string of appearances from the bench it took Watson more than a year to open his account , finally breaking his duck in the 2-1 second leg win over Spora in Luxembourg in the last round .
42 But even he could do nothing about a shot from Bishop which flashed past a group of players from the edge of the area but went the wrong side of the post and a header by Martin seconds from time which was cleared off the line .
43 The growth of towns was in large measure the result of an influx of migrants from the villages .
44 April 1 sees the arrival at the Accademia Italiana of an exhibition of artefacts from Pompeii that has already toured Houston , New York and Malmö .
45 The first publication will be the catalogue of an exhibition of paintings from the Bowes Museum in Country Durham which opens at the National Gallery on 28 April .
46 ‘ We could see what looked like a range of hills from our window but they 'd gone by the morning — nothing left but huge ripples as if a great tide had come up and washed them away .
47 I 'm not the most diplomatic man in the world , and we began a slanging match like a couple of kids from the ghetto . ’
48 Like a list of jams from Culpeper ! ’
49 On the other hand the Kingdom might appear like a blaze of lights from a city located on high ground which can be seen from miles around ( Matt.
50 Police say organized groups of children are behind a spate of thefts from elderly shoppers at Long Eaton .
51 Police believe organized groups of teenagers are behind a spate of thefts from shoppers at Long Eaton .
52 In 1983 , however , it seems that Pakistan did not seriously test Soviet terms for a withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan , and in May the Pakistani Foreign Minister failed to obtain the concurrence of the United States for the draft settlement reached the previous month .
53 She is seeking funding for a range of projects from tailoring and knitting bazaars to poultry raising .
54 These deposits are for a range of maturities from overnight to one year .
55 Under the scheme , run by the Countryside Commission , farmers who enter into 10-year agreements will be eligible for a range of payments from £0.65 for every hedgerow tree planted to £2 per metre of hedge laid .
56 Bugs at Wilton 's terephthalic acid plant are already being treated to Purisource , which is suitable for a range of effluents from many industries , including food , paper , pharmaceutical and chemicals .
57 John Cole called for a transfer of resources from the rich to the poor .
58 A major exchange of exhibitions of antiquities starts this month when the George Ortiz Collection travels to the Hermitage in return for a pick of objects from museums in the former USSR , the latter showing initially at the Kunsthaus Zurich .
59 Bubbles , 63 , wife of newspaper owner Lord Rothermere , was getting tablets for a variety of ailments from at least four doctors in London alone , the inquest was told .
60 Human beings are needed for those tasks for a variety of reasons from their highly dexterous manipulative potential through to their ability to accept informal instructions .
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