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1 Whilst it is true that parole was advocated in Crime — a challenge to us all , it is true also that in the consensual politics of the day party study groups drew freely upon the available sources of expertise and received wisdom : the penal services themselves , the legal and academic communities , penal reform and other related interest groups , and published material from official or academic sources .
2 Although early progress in study of environmental perception often related to socioeconomic geography such as the attitudes of farmers to the drought hazard on the Great Plains ( Saarinen , 1966 ) , later research concentrated more upon the physical environment and the fascinating evaluation of myth and reality in the context of a volcanic eruption in Papua New Guinea ( Blong , 1982 ) has already been referred to .
3 There can be no doubt that the lack of such a programme bore heavily upon the poor , and that poor health and mortalities were a consequence .
4 This was a prevalent interpretation within the EEC , and one which was reinforced by the tone of the debate in the British House of Commons upon the Stockholm Convention , in which most speakers concentrated more upon the relationship with the EEC than upon the organisation and aims of EFTA .
5 Before 1322 , however , because of his often fraught relations with the magnates , Edward relied heavily upon the church for essential funds .
6 The study focused mainly upon a group of twelve ‘ lads ’ in a school in Birmingham whom Willis followed around school and outside .
7 Their eyes remained appraisingly upon the gleaming little dish .
8 The educational debate during the years immediately following the war concentrated more upon the nature of secondary schooling than it did upon the primary stage .
9 His eye lit again upon the dinosaur .
10 Mr. Gardiner argued that this case supported the Woolwich principle in as much as recovery depended solely upon the fact that the corporation had been placed by statute in a position of authority .
11 During most of the 1950s and 1960s UK governments as a whole concentrated predominantly upon the employment objective , with the balance of payments frequently exerting a cons-traint on the achievement of this goal .
12 David Batty used once upon a time to write an agony column in rec.sport.soccer .
13 ‘ Who 's there ? ’ she murmured , and her head turned restlessly upon the pillows .
14 His long gaunt bony head lay heavily upon the white lace-fringed pillow which Moxie had put in place , the flesh of his thin forearms , emerging from spotlessly clean pyjamas , was like wax .
15 The stripper gyrated slowly upon the tiny square of painted hardboard at the end of the bar .
16 ‘ Nothing will come of nothing ’ , as King Lear said once upon a time .
17 The naïve , almost religious basis of belief in Hitler is clearly visible in such reports , which show too , however , that people were above all listening in Hitler 's speeches for hints of an early end to the war , and that his popular standing depended heavily upon the fulfilment of such hopes .
18 Towards the end of the campaign television focused more upon the two-party Labour versus Conservative battle and public expectations about Alliance performance declined .
19 Indignation is anger targeted precisely upon an action which deserves it and upon whoever has performed it . ’
20 Behind it lay two political motives : first , to see the Plan as the first step towards an effective political integration , and second the political conviction that stability and union within Western Europe rested ultimately upon a rapprochement between France and West Germany .
21 At last , however , the door fell inwards upon the carpet .
22 Tuppe sat gloomily upon the tall boy 's rucksack .
23 The political and moral education of the boy and apprentice knight depended less upon the teaching of the church than upon the chansons de geste sung by minstrels .
24 ‘ If this matter rested solely upon the question of the best interests of the children I should have no doubt whatever that their welfare would be better served by their remaining in England in order that their future be determined by the High Court here .
25 To them he promised to pay some £276,000 , much of it by the recklessly optimistic date of February 1338 ; from them he gained promises of military aid whose fulfilment depended largely upon the payment .
26 In 1922 the chief drainage engineer for the Ministry of Agriculture reflected thus upon the constructive uses to which he had put the heroes home from the trenches :
27 Another sporting triumph followed hard upon the conquest of Everest and gave added reassurance to the nation , especially those steeped in the amateur spirit for whom the demolition of English professional football by Puskas and the Hungarians was not a matter for much regret .
28 It seems that many Breton lords relied heavily upon the profits of wreck to boost their incomes , and to abolish it might have caused yet another rebellion in an area where Angevin control was still fairly fragile .
29 For this group income levels and other life chances depended largely upon the market situation of the occupational group to which the individuals belonged .
30 There was real distinction about his elegant yet powerful performance , but further misery descended cruelly upon the Scots 18 minutes into the second half .
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