she worked hard at her task before she felt sure that the results would ________ her long effort.
most laboratory and field studies of human behavior. ______ taking a situational photograph at a given time and in a given place.
i saw them bending with great ____ over the machines.
thousands of people turned out into the streets to _________ against the local authorities’ decision to build a highway across the field.
thomas jefferson and john adams died on july 4, 1826, the fiftieth _______ of american independence.
a man who always ____ his salary can never become very wealthy.
there a c was being built to ____ commerce between the two countries.
equipment not ______ official safety standards has all been removed from the workshop.
american companies are evolving from mass-production manufacturing to ________ enterprises.
these causes produced the great change in the country that modernized the _______ of higher education from the mid-1860’s to the mid-1880’s
being ignorant of the law is not accepted as an ______ for breaking the law.
the meeting was put off because we __________ a meeting without john.
the london marathon is a difficult race. _______, thousands of runners participate every year.
a series of strikes have ____ many of the basic industries in that country.
i went there in 1984, and that was the only occasion when i ________ the journey in exactly two days.
the defense lawyer was questioning the old man who was one of the ______ of the murder committed last month.
in no case will they ____ with folded arms.
he is too young to be able to ______ between right and wrong.
if you explained the situation to your solicitor, he ________ able to advise you much better than i can.
the chairman of the board _____ on me the unpleasant job of diissing good workers the firm can no longer afford to employ.
he promised to put ____ a word for me.
for a little while the girl ____ for her dead cat, but she got over it after a few days.
it may be necessary to stop ______ in the learning process and go back to the difficult points in the lessons.
such a(n) ____ person has got to the top of the company! that’s more than i bargained for.
he asked me to lend him some money, which i agreed to do, ________ that he paid me back the following week.
james has just arrived, but i didn’t know he _________ until yesterday.
poverty is not ______ in most cities although, perhaps because of the crowded conditions in certain areas, it is more visible there.
to his great joy he discovered that his ear was becoming ____.
within two days, the army fired more than two hundred rockets and missiles at military _____ in the coastal city.
do you know tim’s brother? he is _________ than tim.
fuel scarcities and price increases ________ automobile designers to scale down the largest models and to develop completely new lines of all cars and trucks.
the bank refused to ______ him any money, so he had to postpone buying a house.
his remarks were ________ annoy everybody at the meeting.
i don’t know if the story is true, but i’ll try to ____ it.
politically these nations tend to be ______, with very high birth rates but poor education and very low levels of literacy.
the manager gave one of the salesgirls an accusing look for her ______ attitude toward customers
if you don’t like to swim, you _____ as well stay at home.
to speed up the ______ of letters, the post office introduced automatic sorting.
the portion of the total income of china’s railways which comes from carrying cargo is ____ 80 percent.
yor can hire a bicycle in many places. usually you’ll have to pay a _________.
some day software will translate both written and spoken language so well that the need for any common second language could _____.
the more a nation’s companies _______ factories abroad, the aller that country’s recorded exports will be.
inside the machine is an ____ arrangement of wires.
_________ conscious of my moral obligations as a citizen.
he knows the regulations, and if he refuses to ____ with them he must take the consequence.
i never trust him because i always thought him as such a _____ character.
the old paper mill has been ______ to make way for a new shopping centre.
the party will ____ their leader very determinedly.
poor health and lack of money may both be ____ to educational progress.