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• Higher education institutions in the UK are, quite rightly, largely autonomous.
• His memoir features a child named Tommy Nothing Fancy who suffers from and dies of a seizure disorder. Quite the coincidence, don't you think?
• It is quite the proper thing for a lady to be on intimate, and even on affectionate, terms with her favourite clergyman, and Lizzie certainly had intercourse with no clergyman who was a greater favourite with her than Mr. Emilius.
• “Looks like you and Clay had quite a party,” she said with a glimmer in her dark blue eyes.
• To debauch the Indians with rum and cheat them of their land was quite a Government affair, and not at all criminal; but to use rum to cheat them of their peltry, was an abomination in the sight of the law.
• Scaramouche has already been greeted as the finest French Revolution yet brought to the screen-and even if you are a little weary of seeing a strongly American band of sans-culottes demolish a pasteboard Paris, you should not miss Scaramouche, for it is quite the best thing Rex Ingram has done since The Four Horsemen.
• Laploshka was one of the meanest men I have ever met, and quite one of the most entertaining.
• London Underground is quite unique in how many front line staff it has, as anyone who has travelled on the Paris Metro or New York Subway will testify.
• “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
• While the government claims to lead the world with its plans to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, the figures tell quite a different story.
• "My little plot has been rather successful, after all, hasn't it?" "Quite a perfect success," said Drake.
• Thus when they had the witch disrobed quight, / And all her filthy feature open showne, / They let her goe at will, and wander wayes vnknowne.
• However, the proceedings were quite carefully orchestrated to produce what seemed to be a predetermined outcome.
• And with a prolonged sound, not quite a sniff and not quite a snort, he trod on Euphemia's toe, and went out, leaving a sensation and a faint scent of barley−sugar behind him.
• I ventured to hint that he was not quite a fair judge, as Churchill had attacked him violently.
• Create a new, quite separate, private company – say Murdoch Newspaper Holdings – and give it all, or most of, the papers that News Corp owns.
• When I warned him that his words might be offensive to identical twins, he said that identical twins were a quite different case.
• In Lejeuneaceae vegetative branches normally originate from the basiscopic basal portion of a lateral segment half, as in the Radulaceae, and the associated leaves, therefore, are quite unmodified.
• El Adrea was quite dead. No more will he slink silently upon his unsuspecting prey.
• Religion and parochial etiquette are probed to reveal unhealthy, and sometimes shockingly violent, internal desires quite at odds with the surface life of a town in which tolerance is preached.
• Margaret passed quite through the pines, and reached the opening beyond which was what was once the yard, but was now, except for a strip of flower-border and turf which showed care, simply a tangle of bushes and briars.
• Nobuyoshi Araki has been called a monster, a pornographer and a genius - and the photographer quite agrees.