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1 The Park Off-Licence in Faringdon Road in Swindon has been raided several times in the past few months .
2 Since publication , Alan has been given more information on this illustrious unit and has been kept busy updating his files .
3 It was perhaps as well John Hounsell had been given some forewarning .
4 Once the senior clerk in the Chancery , Nigel had been given this assignment as a benefice , a reward for long and faithful service to the Crown .
5 Kitty spoke of a new lair , a vixen biting the ear of a cub , an owl on a rat , the sound of a wolf although everyone knew the last wolf in England had been killed some years before about forty miles to the south , near the Bay .
6 Taylor pointed out that pride and eagerness to play for England had been restored these past two games .
7 Webbe 's appearances for Bridgend have been limited this season and he has only five tries so far .
8 Belinda nodded , knowing by this time that Faye had been hospitalised several times for keto-acidosis and other diabetes-related problems brought on largely by her former wildly fluctuating blood-sugar levels .
9 NatWest had been told that merchant banking was a good idea , but I do n't think they thought much beyond that , with the result that we could plough our own furrow , ’ he says .
10 A police Rover had been parked half-on the pavement , along with a couple of officers ' cars .
11 Nigel Kennedy has been promised several free pints when it reopens in November .
12 ( Similarly , Datir ( 1978 : 245 ) found that only five of 644 released prisoners in a sample in Maharastra had been granted this . )
13 Twenty one years earlier , Franco had been denied this decoration .
14 He said 90 per cent of the equipment at Al Atheer had been destroyed this week , though the buildings and laboratories , some with three-foot-thick walls , were built to resist attack .
15 Miles had been surrounded all evening , it seemed , by droves of tinselled ladies .
16 Further on he writes : " Istanbul , Bursa and Edirne are recorded in the defter each as 300-akce Damascus and Aleppo have been recorded each as 500-akce .
17 SSDs have been given another set of community care priorities .
18 Britain has been denied this freedom because it has never had a truly commercial broadcasting environment .
19 While no deaf person in Britain has been awarded any armed services medal — for the simple reason that no deaf person is permitted to serve in the armed services — or any government sponsored civilian award , or police award , deaf people have been given awards from such bodies as the Carnegie Fund , the Royal Humane Society , and the Society for Protection of Life from Fire .
20 SO Lennox Lewis has been crowned this country 's first heavyweight champion for almost a century .
21 John Jones has been told more money will be available from the first of April and he can expect his knee operation in the next year .
22 The FBI has been summoned several times to tackle problems the local police could not handle .
23 The Haywards have been offered another holiday in America … free of charge … courtesy of Virgin , the company who organised their trip .
24 TREVOR FRANCIS has been promised more cash for new players despite Sheffield Wednesday 's debts of around £2 million .
25 Trevor Francis has been promised more cash for new players , despite Sheffield Wednesday 's £2m debt .
26 But Hygeberht had been demoted some time before .
27 Bernard had been told this was a confusing mixture reminiscent of the old drapers ' shops — and would never work as the products would attract different customers .
28 Kelly had been kicked all night and he thought it was going to happen again .
29 Since 1947 Spoonbills have been recorded each year , except in 1959 , 1960 , 1962 , 1963 , 1969 , 1973 , and 1976 , and there were records involving 82 birds .
30 ARBROATH has been dealt another jobs blow .
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