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Norman’s house may have been more expensive but it is smaller and less
1 ,
attractive than mine.
2 . It is a mystery (as to) what (has) happened to the two climbers.
3. Cooking for five hungt7 children is no fun/gives me no pleasure.
4. Don’t you get fed up with having to stay at home in the evenings?
5. There is no statesm an (thaưwho/whom) I admire more than the President.
6 . It w as not so much a discussion as an argument.
7. Despite my (strong) disapproval of your behaviour, I will help you this time.

8. W e were never made to do anything w e didn’t want to.
9. Mrs Jones is the most generous person youVe ever met.
10. The less time my boss has, the better he vvorks.

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1. There’s no point in trying to get Tim to lend you his car/to borrovv Tim's car.
2. Pancy seeing you here.
3. But for his command of the local dialect w e would have been
jailed/thrown/put in(to) jail.
4. Only after all the guests had gone home could w e relax.
5. Rather than disturb the meeting, I left vvithout saying goodbye.
6. Galileo is regarded as (being) the tather of modern astronomy.
7. It hasn’t rained for a tortnight.
8. VVhenever he com es to visit us there’s trouble.
9. The doctor suggested (that) I (should) rest.
10. There has been a considerable fall in the value of sterling in the past week.

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1. She left the room vvithout saying a word.
2. The students deserved severe punishment for their riotous behaviour.
3. Only aíter the money has been received do we dispatch goods.
4. No matter how long you use it, it won’t wear out.
5. It’s high time you were able to dress yourselt.
6. I w as the last (person) to hear/know about the accident.
7. Svvearing at the reteree earned him a suspension for two matches.
8. No matter what I do my parents find íault with iưme.
9. Hardly a day p asses/goes by vvithout me vvriting to him.
10. I’m sorry not to have attended Protessor Baker’s lecture.

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Had ít not been for the death of the Prime Minister, the bill would have been
passed.

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