900 - 1000

While her romance session failed to reveal his problem, it did wonders for her confidence.

Taxes provide most of the government’s revenue.

He was a considerable force in the educational revival of Jewish education in France.

She’d never thought he meant she’d literally help revive the planet.

During the revolution of 1885 it was partly burned and was rebuilt on a somewhat larger plan.

We find here the consciousness of creative thought focused in a new principle which is to revolutionize speculative science.

The conception of evolution is being applied more rigidly to the comparative anatomy of organs and systems of organs.

This generally involves solitary confinement of the most rigorous nature, and, as little is done to occupy the mind, the criminal not infrequently becomes insane.

Intellectual rigors of a graduate program with the delivery of a business school.

The wind/storm is rising (= beginning to get stronger).

That was why Pete chose the route - less risk of being robbed.

It was a ritual they had been performing morning and night for the past two weeks.

No computer can rival a human brain for/in complexity.

I’m allowed to roam the fortress.

He looks robust and healthy enough.

Schools play an important role in society.

The shell is represented as fixed, while the head and foot rotate from left to right.

There has been an increase of roughly 2.25 million.

That was why Pete chose the route - less risk of being robbed.

Health and safety rules are routinely flouted/ignored.

It only took me an hour to learn/pick up the rudiments of skiing.

Her knowledge is still only rudimentary.

His appendix ruptured and he had to be rushed to hospital.

There was something sacred about his trust in her.

They showed that the permeability of this sample of iron was considerably diminished at the lower temperature.

The spirits and wine list is abundant, and you’ll leave the restaurant relaxed and satisfied.

The park was deserted save for a few joggers.

Adopting the centigrade scale, this gives 1390.846 foot-pounds.

Recent logic does scant justice to scientific analysis.

It is a common opinion in Germany that our material is in fact too scanty or too self-contradictory.

The protesters scattered at the sound of gunshots.

There are several possible scenarios.

The air was scented with lavender.

Oil painting does not come within the scope of a course of this kind.

It was scorching hot inside the greenhouse.

Benjamin received cards from scores of local well-wishers.

She has nothing but scorn for the new generation of politicians.

I’ve read every scrap of information I can find on the subject.

She raised her hand to screen her eyes from the bright light.

He scrutinized the men’s faces carefully/closely, trying to work out who was lying.

The Government’s record will be subjected to/come under (close) scrutiny in the weeks before the election.

Johnny sculpted an old man’s head out of wood.

Saliva is a liquid secreted by glands in or near the mouth.

My doctor says I should start playing sport because my lifestyle is too sedentary.

Hundreds of dissidents are seeking refuge/asylum in the US embassy.

A seething mass of children crowded around the tables.

The salad was decorated with segments of orange.

I seized his arm and made him turn to look at me.

Now that we have a baby, we seldom get the chance to go to the cinema.

She looks sensational (= extremely attractive) in her new dress.

I have my public life and my private life, and as far as possible I try to keep them separate.

For the sake of convenience the photographs are shown in chronological sequence (= in the order in which they were taken).

It may, however, yield a more sequent conclusion if one minor change in the text be made.

She has a lovely serene face.

This rain looks as if it has set in for the rest of the day.

Jenny set off down the road on her new bike.

It’s a process, and sometimes you will have a setback.

After they got married, they settled in Brighton.

The knife severed an artery and he bled to death.

This is a school for children with severe learning difficulties.

Even the doctors were shocked by the severity of his injuries.

Acquaintances were shallow and many, but if a person had one true friend in a lifetime, they were blessed.

The glass shattered into a thousand tiny pieces.

His success was due to sheer willpower/determination.

The police held up their riot shields against the flying rocks and bricks.

Media attention has shifted recently onto environmental issues.

He shivered with cold in his thin cotton shirt.

There’s a shortage of food and shelter in the refugee camps.

The first one I saw displayed in a gun shop showcase drew customers like bears to honey.

Your sweater will shrink if you wash it at too high a temperature.

I’ve never shied away from hard work.

His paintings were so unique as to require no signature for identification.

The discovery of the new drug is of great significance for/to people suffering from heart problems.

There has been a significant increase in the number of women students in recent years.

Secondly, lie simulated thunder and lightning, the latter by flashing in Zeno’s eyes an intolerable light from a slightly hollowed mirror.

Two children answered the teacher’s question simultaneously.

The earlier conception of Varuna is singularly similar to that of Ahuramazda of the Avesta.

If our ship didn’t sink, it was certainly leaking like the Titanic.

The council haven’t yet chosen the site for the new hospital.

We must size up the situation before we decide what to do.

Many experts remain skeptical about/of his claims.

After a slight hesitation the door burst open with a cracking blow.

Napoleon turned to him with a pleasant, though slightly ironic, smile.

The path slopes up/down to the house.

A long queue had formed, snaking its way downstairs and out into the street.

You’ll snap that ruler if you bend it too far.

So far we’ve made thirty-two thousand pounds.

She relaxed after a nice, long soak in the bathtub, her thoughts wandering among the stars.

The sole survivor of the accident was found in the water after six hours.

He was also to solicit a subsidy in consideration of the guarantee, and a loan of five million dollars.

On the hill, a solitary figure was busy chopping down trees.

I think a more sophisticated approach is needed to solve this problem.

The sophistication of computers is increasing.

Many sorts of bacteria are resistant to penicillin.

At the age of seventeen she is already one of Hollywood’s most sought-after actresses.

Experts are trying to track down the source of the contamination in the water supply.

Over a span of just three years, the new government has transformed the country’s economic prospects.

Information coming out of the disaster area is sparse.

The frogs haven’t spawned yet.

His diaries speak of a troubled mind.