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1) Many aquatic plants need full uninterrupted sunlight. , fish require plenty of sunlight to maintain
their colouring and to grow satisfactorily.

2) We had to give up our climb and turn back the bad weather.

3) When I was eight years old I stopped taking guitar lessons and I took up the piano.

4) Manchester United are now ten points clear at the top of the Premier League table. they could win
the league title for a record 20th time.

5) Norman Blamey, who died in 2000, was an English oil painter who painted just three paintings a
year. , he only ever worked on one picture at a time.

6) Something moving in the sky caught my eye. I had seen several meteors and knew this could not
be one.

7) After a long search for the grave of Eric Liddell, the runner who was immortalized in the film, The Chariots of
Fire, has been found in China by a Scotsman living in Hong Kong.
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8) The flat was tiny. , we managed to live there for 3 years.

9) the flat was tiny, we managed to live there for 3 years.

10) It makes much more sense to build a colony in space send people to other planets or the moon.

11) The flat is nicely decorated and the rent is reasonable. , they may not want to rent it.

12) The police spray the protesters with water cannons and they disperse.

13) the school was not built to a high enough standard, it collapsed during the earthquake.

14) He wrote a number of well-known poems his novels.

15) snakes reach maturity they have already reached their maximum length.

16) This is not, , true of the reticulated python, which goes on to grow three times longer after
maturity.

17) If you’ve got the faith; , if you believe in God, you can believe that anything is possible.
, you will realise that you can be cured of any disease.

18) On 31st August 1997 Lady Diana, the Princess of Wales, was killed in a car accident in a road tunnel by the
River Seine. Emad Mohamed Al-Fayed, the heir to Harrods, and the driver were killed.

19) Graphene, the thinnest material ever created, is far stronger than steel. , it conducts electricity
better than copper and is as flexible as rubber.
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20) I won’t know anyone at the party, I don’t really feel like going.

21) In the 85th minute Van Persie had his big chance of glory, he kicked the ball straight into the
keeper’s hands.

22) Emily has been active supporting causes environmental pollution, the anti-nuclear movement and
gay rights.

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