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Correspondence from Canada: Letter 35 - 09.03.82 852 910 1 1.10

... killed Sadat with the hope of establishing an Iran-type theocracy. However, in general Egypt is the most ...

Correspondence from Canada: Letter 53 - 14.08.82 852 487 1 2.05

... the dole for a short while I may as well teach myself to type. Also, if I'm sending off letters of application for jobs ...

Travel journal: USSR 852 35,187 1 0.03

... it's against the many rules of this place to have any type of heating appliance in your room; however most residents ...

Burns in School Alison, Mr Jim 5,919 1 0.17

... from primary upwards, a well produced resource of this type is essential. 5. TEACHING METHODS The teaching methods ...

Dipper: 06 - The Byllies Begg, Dr James A 498 1 2.01

... class o chiel, Wha niver buys a ticket - - Ye ken the type gey weel - They mooch aboot in twas an threes, Wi treble ...

Spelling reform essay Bell, Rosie 1,118 1 0.89

... would have to be incorporated into our alphabet and type-faces would require to be changed for the printing of the ...

A Study into the Knowledge and Use of Scots Amongst Primary Pupils on Upper Deeside Blackhall, Sheena 29,793 6 0.20

... Speaking of her childhood in Braemar she described the type of Scots spoken in that area: One or two here and there ...
... to the language that they hear around them, and the type of speech which they claim to use in particular ...
... me to get his safties, and I thought he meant those roll type things..but he meant slippers. They'll say 'It's a gey ...
... place within the categories of occupation income education type of housing locality father's occupation. Trudgill makes ...
... areas and localities of where the children lived and the type of school which they attended. His analysis of the ...

The Fower Quarters: 02 - Purity Blackhall, Sheena 3,055 1 0.33

... was nice and tight," as if it were a huge compliment. That type of remark was always followed by a sigh of fond recall, ...

The Fower Quarters: 13 - Prune Stones [Content label: lesser] Blackhall, Sheena 3,692 2 0.54

... off by a pearl necklace and lilac blouse. "House of Fraser type," he said to himself approvingly. No doubt she too had ...
... aside me? Flasher, eh? Ye can aye tell. He's jist the very type." ...

The Fower Quarters: 17 - Veesitors [Content label: lesser] Blackhall, Sheena 3,511 1 0.28

... made a feel o," the auld spikk ran. Bit Arthur wisna the type tae mill a feel o onybody: saft-hairtit fur a laddie, wi ...

The Fower Quarters: 20 - Missing the Bus Blackhall, Sheena 2,562 1 0.39

... - a hideous mauve tunic, topped with a straw boater of the type beloved by male barber-shop quartets. Mrs Emslie assumed ...

The Fruits of Sacrifice. Sigmund Freud and William Robertson Smith Booth, Gordon K 4,587 1 0.22

... deity, and the consecration of the bonds of kinship as the type of all right ethical relations between man and man. And ...

Lecture on Scottish Literature 1 Corbett, Dr John B Video 7,319 1 0.14

... At their more, at their most complex, the continental type of prose writing, er contains grammatical structures ...

Reulis and Cautelis Corbett, Dr John B 5,063 1 0.20

... seems to be acknowledging here. That said, the Caxton type of translator did not disappear: in his version of ...

The Stalking Cure [Content label: lesser] Corbett, Dr John B 6,214 1 0.16

... leein aroun; an, like Edward Whymper, Greig is an outdoors type, haen screiv’t anent his mountaineerin ploys afore turnin ...

Myl-gruel at da millenium De Luca, Christine 391 1 2.56

... da: the; Norrawa: Norway; rømegrut: midsummer porridge-type treat made with sour cream; sweet mylk: fresh milk; ...

Letter: 05 Fairnie, Robert 179 1 5.59

... ae caird is the higher cost. For cairds the same size an type as the anes ye wis sellin, we'd hae tae chairge £1.30 a ...

Scots Tung Wittins 175 Fairnie, Robert 2,364 1 0.42

... o the Rock warld, but whan they meet they suin revert tae type. They exchynge quick fire banter in the West o Scotland ...

Buchan Words and Ways Fenton, Alexander 52,521 7 0.13

... It was used all over Scotland as long as the 'lum' type itself existed. The fire under it could be at the level of ...
... tradition. When butter was to be made, whatever the type of wooden churn, it had to be plottit wi bilin watter ...
... up too fast just with being carried out. Nowadays the type of fork usually used about the place is a general-purpose ...
... alone and in that case the spade was a breist-spad. Which type you used depended on the nature of the peat. As the peats ...
... smaller-scale farming areas. But these were of a special type. They had the usual wooden handstaffs, but the souples or ...

SKARRS Forde, Catherine 5,474 1 0.18

... Welsh valleys, and I'm not talking your posh school rugger type. Taff was a miner, prop for his village team. I tell you ...

The Former Pupils' Guild of the Mary Erskine School - Minutes May 1994 Forrest, Mrs Shona C 1,423 1 0.70

... buy 30 cups and saucers, (not plain white) in a different type from those at Merchants' Hall. We would not purchase a ...

Letter from Frances Gardner 04 - 11/10/89 Gardner, Frances 500 1 2.00

... a lot more rubbish you can write when you get going on the type writer. Much love, Mum xxx PS. Uncle Bill could only be ...

The Nyaff (Scottish Types No. 2) Hubbard, Tom 298 1 3.36

... kent syne seventeen-seeven (at the least). A Scottish type? O ay! He’s shair he’s Scottish: It’s awfly nyice to be ...

The Loss of the Princess Victoria Hunter, Jack 6,115 1 0.16

... answering the ferry's initial request for vessels of that type. If only, if only. .. The harsh reality of the situation ...

The Lost Town of Innermessan Hunter, Jack 5,358 2 0.37

... or shore is not for the sedentary. A fine example of a type of monument common in Galloway, Innermessan motte has not ...
... time held land near Drummore (MacQueen: op. cit.). Another type of tenement was the rood, an area of a quarter of an acre ...

Forever Panting and Forever Young Kay, Prof Christian 1,665 1 0.60

... creation. A friend who had miraculously learned to touch-type roused my envy that she composed with her eyes shut and ...

History of linguistics II Kay, Prof Christian 2,450 1 0.41

... and to exclude the ungrammatical ones. Hence this type of grammar is known as generative. It’s also sometimes ...

Journal of the Russian Trip Kay, Prof Christian 6,438 2 0.31

... for the night. However, we had quite comfortable aeroplane-type reclining seats, and I was tired enough to sleep, which ...
... including some Mongolian looking ones, women’s institute type groups, working men’s club outings etc. Feeling rather ...

Metaphors we liveD by Kay, Prof Christian 3,416 5 1.46

... that is stupidity. 2. Here we begin to approach the second type of metaphor, those which Lakoff and Johnson (and many ...
... of a particular group of speakers. Famous examples of this type of metaphor from Lakoff and Johnson are the proposition ...
... got to. So far I have gleaned quite a lot of examples of type (a), the continuous metaphors, a few examples of type (b), ...
... of type (a), the continuous metaphors, a few examples of type (b), which might be called relexicalised metaphors, and ...
... called relexicalised metaphors, and very few instances of type (c), thus perhaps suggesting that there is more continuity ...

Synonym Clustering in Beowulf Kay, Prof Christian 2,531 3 1.19

... positions are referred to as “clustering”. The first type of clustering investigated was “large-scale clustering”, ...
... the dragon fight and the death of Beowulf). The second type, “intensive clustering”, shows how individual words within ...
... were recorded. These will be discussed according to the type of repetition involved. 1. There were 99 examples of ...

Inaugural speech by John Kirk to launch the Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech Kirk, John M Video 6,982 1 0.14

... difficult or or or very funny. Scottish people love this type of interaction, and they've even a whole vocabulary for ...

...Auld Zimmery [Content label: serious] Kydd, Robbie 73,728 3 0.04

... I haven't summoned up the energy yet. He's the grateful type, pleased with everything and snuggling up to Mother Hen. ...
... in a big penthouse apartment with a sultry Raquel Welch type of mistress.) Maybe I should forget style and just write ...
... you?' 'So everyone keeps insisting,' I said. 'I seem to be type-cast.' That sounds cocky, but I wasn't feeling cocky. ...

Women, Poetry and Song in Eighteenth-Century Lowland Scotland McCulloch, Margery Palmer 7,267 1 0.14

... folk-song of the traditional love-dialogue or courtship type. Further comparison with Pagan’s “Collected Poems” (which ...

Language Games and Activities McGonigal, James,
Philp, Andrew
4,502 5 1.11

... skimming and scanning skills. ‘Scrabbling Around’ Scrabble-type letters are put in a bag, and one member of the class ...
... for Subject and Predicates, with the pupils playing Rummy-type or Whist-type card games to create meaningful grammatical ...
... Predicates, with the pupils playing Rummy-type or Whist-type card games to create meaningful grammatical sentences. In ...
... games to create meaningful grammatical sentences. In Rummy-type, pupils exchange cards on each turn and try to build up as ...
... with fewest sentences on each round is out. In Whist-type, one player plays a Subject and another tries to take a ...

Assessing the Productive Skills in Modern Languages S4-6 McGonigal, James,
Templeton, Brian C
1,733 1 0.58

... errors in verb tenses, but these will be of the j’ai allé type, which leave you in no doubt as to the tense and meaning. ...

Grammar, Reading and Writing in Modern Languages S4-6 McGonigal, James,
Templeton, Brian C
3,550 2 0.56

... the tasks themselves indicate a significant shift in the type of writing being developed. Particularly at Higher level, ...
... grammar-checking in the target language. The other main type of writing to be developed is for the purpose of personal ...

Refuge [Content label: serious] Paisley, Janet 22,040 1 0.05

... his reputation tae think aboot. He'll be the persuasive type. Mair likely tae arrive wi a section order than spilin fur ...

How do we teach Knowledge about Language? Philp, Andrew 4,340 3 0.69

... kinds of language feature which are to be expected in each type of text, or to practise the use of a particular feature. ...
... game can be played as a form of Rummy or Whist. In Rummy-type, pupils exchange cards on each turn and try to build up as ...
... can. The pupil with least on each round is out. In Whist-type, one player plays a subject and another tries to take a ...

Language Background and Educational Failure Philp, Andrew 1,153 3 2.60

... from ‘disadvantaged’ areas. ‘Coding Orientation’. A third type of explanation of how the language of certain social ...
... in school. The child who is not predisposed to this type of verbal exploration in this type of experiential context ...
... not predisposed to this type of verbal exploration in this type of experiential context “is not at home in the educational ...

Learning Through Reading and Writing: Informational Texts Philp, Andrew 2,683 2 0.75

... consider both viewpoints. Advertisements are a special type of persuasive text, with their own distinctively complex ...
... intentionally focusing on issues of source, origins and type. Through this ‘joint construction’ the teacher was able to ...

Why do we teach Grammar? Philp, Andrew 2,409 1 0.42

... Thus, aspects such as the use of speech marks, or of bold type, capitals or italics for effect, can be introduced in the ...

Scottish Liberal Democrat Manifesto 2003 Policy Committee Scottish Liberal Democrats 18,684 1 0.05

... is to move to a proper federal system for the UK - of the type that is normal in Europe - in which the Scottish ...

GOW Newsletter Nov 2004 Roberts, John 1,124 1 0.89

... heap, and in fact someone may even have the correct type of bin to start this off. Firstly lay a layer of course ...

Scottish Parliament: Bills: 10 Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Bill (Bill as passed) Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 2,924 1 0.34

... Watson On: 1 March 2000 Supported by: Tricia Marwick Bill type: Member’s Bill ...

Scottish Parliament: Bills: 14 Education and Training (Scotland) Bill (Bill as passed) Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 937 1 1.07

... Introduced by: Nicol Stephen On: 28 April 2000 Bill type: Executive Bill ...

Scottish Parliament: Bills: 34 Community Care and Health (Scotland) Bill (Bill as passed) Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 10,088 1 0.10

... Jackie Baillie, Mr Jim Wallace, Malcolm Chisholm Bill type: Executive Bill ...

Scottish Parliament: Bills: 66 Organic Farming Targets (Scotland) Bill (Bill as introduced) Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 1,023 1 0.98

... Introduced by: Robin Harper On: 30 September 2002 Bill type: Member’s Bill ...

Scottish Parliament: Bills: 69 Gaelic Language (Scotland) Bill (Bill as introduced) Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 1,544 1 0.65

... Introduced by: Michael Russell On: 13 November 2002 Bill type: Member’s Bill ...

Scottish Parliament: Business Bulletin 110/2002 Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 11,474 1 0.09

... (iii) 2001-02 and (iv) 2002-03 to date, broken down by type of case. S1W-27456 Christine Grahame: To ask the Scottish ...

Scottish Parliament: Business Bulletin 1/2003 Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 18,803 1 0.05

... total catch of salmon was in 2002, broken down by area and type of fishery. Business Bulletin No. 1/2003 Monday 6 January ...


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