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1 Imagine a world in which gold and silver were cheap but iron and aluminium were rare , what advantages would there be making a car from gold instead of iron and saucepans from silver instead of aluminium .
2 She said it 's a big , big cut off , if your phone rings you 're out , so of course the phone were ringing , then it went to one in post , no it never , it went first from Ann from Lynnette then to Ann and then it went to Kathy and then it went to erm somebody else and then it come to me but I 've got seven hundred thousand pounds worth of money on my desk that I were banking and Jane had got that job and Jane was on post in cash cos she ai n't got a job cos that thing with them shoes did n't take off and do you know
3 Due to the obsession of most comparative sociologists with problems of measurement , all sight of a global system was lost in the mists of dubious generalization about a host of discrete variables from societies all over the world .
4 The expansion of putting out , the great increase in coal and metal mining and in iron making , the rise of a permanent journeyman class in some sectors of craft manufacture and the emergence of new industries like paper making , commercial brewing and distilling — all emphasised a separation of labour from capital long before the advent of the factory system .
5 Owner Gordon King acquired the aircraft from Aces High in an exchange arrangement for an original B–25 nose section , to replace the panoramic camera nose fitted to N1042B ( see July 's FlyPast , p58 ) .
6 In winter from Redshank also by dark wings , white underparts and longer legs , trailing well behind in flight , and from Greenshank by darker upper parts and red legs .
7 They intended to link their project with Documenta 9 in Kassel on the other side of Germany by requesting work from women worldwide to ‘ point out the problem of the infinitely small presence of women at this year 's Documenta , and help to shed light on the increasing number of well received approaches and concepts originated by women artists in a different way . ’
8 The keys once stretched south from Florida almost to Cuba , each tiny island linked to the next by a bridge .
9 Heads can create their own clarity if they organize their time in such a way as to digest and weigh reports , views and experiences from sources either outside the school or inside the staffroom .
10 It struck him that it seemed weird that Leeds rejected continuous bids from Blackburn all through the season and then suddenly , out of the blue , accepted one .
11 During the remainder of the century some one-third of the increase in energy consumption in the LDCs is likely to be accounted for by oil which means a reduction in its proportion of consumption from 55% today to 43% by the year 2000 .
12 Erlich had seen nothing like it in CI-3 , in Washington Field Office , where each room had photos of wives stuck onto cork boards , of kids , postcards from vacations all over the world , cartoons , clippings of headlines and a huge blow-up of a quote from an English thriller writer : ‘ The most suspicious , unbelieving , unreasonable , petty , inhuman , sadistic , double-crossing set of bastards in any language [ are ] the people who run counter-espionage departments . ’
13 I ask because I have been throwing out a raft of old notebooks and discovered some scrawled lines from years ago about the open air factor .
14 Chris Perry from Stockwell again in South London .
15 There are plans to expand the scope and activity of the Guild from September onwards with Keep-Fit , Step Reebok , Embroidery and Sewing , Music and Entertainment and various social activities .
16 Bream from pegs upstream of the shipyard , including odd specimens to 7 lb 8 oz .
17 The markings should be located as follows : a spot over each eye ; on cheeks ; as a strip around each side of muzzle , but not on the bridge of the nose ; on throat ; triangular mark on either side of prosternum ; on forelegs from carpus downwards to toes ; on front of rear legs from hock to toes , but not completely eliminating black from back of rear pasterns ; under tail ; black pencilling on toes .
18 On March 10 the Hungarian Foreign Minister , Gyula Horn , and his Soviet counterpart , Eduard Shevardnadze , signed a similar agreement in Moscow , providing for the withdrawal of all 49,700 Soviet troops from Hungary also by July 1991 , with two-thirds of the troops and equipment due to be removed by the end of 1990 .
19 Castles Farm on the north side of Loch Awe , extending to 8,000 acres of some of the wildest , steepest and most challenging farming country imaginable , sold to an Englishman from Kent just before Christmas on a lock , stock and barrel basis for more than £500,000 .
20 Ranulf had cursed his departure from London away from the young wife of a London mercer .
21 Males have a blue face , especially on the cheeks , while females do not , and the presence or absence of iridescent blue on the lips is a sure way of separating males from females even at small sizes ( say 1.5″ S.L. )
22 At apastron ( A ) , when the stars are furthest apart , where v a is the pulsar velocity and a ( 1 + e ) its distance from O. Similarly at periastron ( P ) Taking the ratio of the last two equations , we obtain .
23 That does not , however , detract from the value of separating out the notion of cost leadership from differentiation conceptually in order to work out the implications for measurement and control ( see chapter 5 ) .
24 The second comment is that loadings on the 17.18 ex Salop train have been so good that the caterers are experimenting with extending the buffet service from Saturdays only into the week .
25 A few self-contained University flats are also available to couples , though there is considerable competition for such flats from students already at University .
26 Detectives have already been to Scotland to talk to colleagues there … and they 're pooling information with officers from forces all over Britain .
27 The only evidence from Britain apart from the pottery , is a small piece of sculpture from Lincoln and an inscription at Chedworth ( Prasina Factio ) the green company , referring to one of the four colours of the chariot races .
28 WOMEN managers from colleges all over Wales will gather at the St David 's Park Hotel at Ewloe today for the launch of the Network for Women Managers in Further and Continuing Education in Wales .
29 Both raw materials and finished products were all in bags — we unloaded the raw materials up until midnight then re-loaded the lorries from midnight onwards for the drivers to deliver the next day .
30 Alone of the Pacific species , N. emarginata shows something like a comparable variation in shell shape with exposure ( Crothers , 1984 ) , but the shell is so thin as to afford little protection from crabs regardless of its shape ( Kitching , 1976 ) and an ability to resist desiccation could be of great value to this highQQintertidal species in sites protected from continuous spray .
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