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1 William Downes ' study of King Lear 's famous question to his daughters is a superb example of the level of depth and insight that stylistics can reach when it draws eclectically from a variety of areas within linguistics in order to relate the surface features of the text to the situational , historical and cultural contexts which are relevant to their effect and interpretation .
2 Secondly , a number of views of this procedure can be considered relevant , eg from the point of view of the individual who is concerned with the speedy settlement of claims , the administrative assistant who checks the claims for errors , and the boss who is concerned with the effect on his status if a large number of false claims were to be made , and discovered outside the section .
3 In Britain the scanty government services provided to the nation 's merchants had come until the 1860s almost entirely from the board of trade .
4 Under the terms of the Act , polytechnics and certain other colleges of higher education are now removed entirely from the control of LEAs , and are financed directly by central government — as are Grant Maintained Schools .
5 Mounted men in ones and twos appeared suddenly from the cover of trees , or out of folds in the ground .
6 A clause excluding liability for " consequential loss " has been held not to exclude liability for losses which arise directly and naturally from a breach of contract , under the first head of Hadley v Baxendale ( 1859 ) 9 Ex 341 .
7 As Labov and Sankoff point out ( 1980 : xi ) , the emphasis in recent years arising naturally from the maturing of sociolinguistics as a research area has been less on purely methodological concerns such as measurement techniques and the presentation of correlational relationships between linguistic and social structure .
8 As he says of himself at that juncture in his career , his quitting in Monaco was ‘ the climax to a situation which had existed all year , stemming … basically from a lack of interest and enthusiasm ’ .
9 There was no sound of impact and certainly no disintegration for when the water and the spray cleared away there was only the empty sea and curiously small waves , little more than ripples , radiating outwards from the point of impact .
10 By convention these will all be members of Parliament although not necessarily from the House of Commons .
11 Troops loyal to the breakaway faction , led militarily from the town of Nasir , on the Ethiopian border , by Cdr Riek Machar , are now on alert expecting an attack from the town of Malakal ‘ at any time ’ , Dr Akol said .
12 The parents of toddlers and preschool children were encouraged to give several servings daily from a variety of fibre rich foods such as whole grain breads and cereals , fruits and vegetables , and legumes .
13 The Bangladesh Vice-President , Moudud Ahmed , said on Oct. 4 that Bangladesh would lose about $1,400 million annually from the loss of exports to , and remittances from , Iraq and Kuwait .
14 As she felt the muscular ridges pulsing and throbbing she almost sobbed aloud from a mixture of fear , curiosity and excitement , but at least the thing was no longer between her legs .
15 At 2.94m , 10.5% of the labour force , it is down from a peak of 2.99m in January .
16 Another half-hour 's walking brought me to Cow Dub where a stream thunders down from a lip of flowstone , crashing through a narrow tubular cavern to scour out a perfectly formed round pool below .
17 It spans the Laxford River which comes down from a string of lochs alongside the Lairg road and is notable for salmon fishing .
18 In a sort of aperture she saw a white baby hanging upside down from a nail of light .
19 As they grow into their compact form , their beautifully regular , heart-shaped leaves hang down from a tangle of branches to give glorious dappled shade from the hottest summer sun .
20 But it has reached the stage where Group 4 have now ‘ lost ’ Sir Norman ’ — Labour 's Frank Dobson on the announcement that the Tory chairman is to stand down from the board of Group 4 .
21 At Brooke Parker 's there were men reversing a lorry against the bed of concrete that sloped down from the top of Thorpe Street to the wide loading-doors .
22 It is an easy walk down from the church of Sauveterre to the riverside , where the stump of the old fortified bridge still stands , starting hopefully out from one bank but no longer reaching to the other — a disappointed bridge , to borrow James Joyce 's perfect description of a seaside pier .
23 On the way down from the summit of Broad Peak they passed Greg Child and the ailing Pete Thexton , who was to die in a lower camp that night from pulmonary oedema .
24 He told us on more than one occasion that he could not himself contemplate coming down from the House of Lords and denuding it of himself as well as its leader .
25 Scrambling down from the mound of sand , Garry began walking towards the houses , his hands and knees stained orange .
26 It has been suggested by Dobbins that the defective T cell responses may be a secondary phenomenon , resulting perhaps from the combination of anergy triggered by infection , incomplete intestinal lymphatic obstruction , and severe malnutrition .
27 Remember , even if you do not have any specific ailments you will still benefit greatly from a course of lessons , perhaps preventing much pain or discomfort later on in life .
28 The peoples who survived in the northwest area gained greatly from the mixture of arts and race but retained their individuality also until the tide turned once more and the northwestern island increased its influence eventually over the whole of Spain .
29 The lands which formed the military frontier had suffered greatly from the passage of armies in both directions during the fierce fighting of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries , and when the defensive zone was established many of the villages had been depopulated .
30 The third , however , is both reliable and objective ; and furthermore has benefited greatly from the advancement of computer technology and a proliferation of textual resources in electronic form .
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