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He cannot ______ ignorance as his excuse; he should have known what was happening in his own department

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Conservation is a challenging job but we cannot ____

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The planets move ___________ the sun in ellipses

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Negotiation is among a few effective ways to resolve any dispute

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I asked Angela to ......... for me while I went for lunch

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I just opened the drawer as usual and the handle ..... in my hand

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Many groups worldwide are trying to develop vaccines that protect against a wide range of coronaviruses and prevent (26) _______ pandemic. These efforts have now been boosted by the discovery that some healthcare workers had pre-existing immunity to the SARS-CoV-2 virus during the first wave of the pandemic. During the first half of 2020, around 700 healthcare workers in the UK were tested weekly as part of a crowdfunded study called Covid Sortium. Most of these people, who wore protective equipment, never tested positive for covid-19 in PCR tests or developed covid-19 antibodies – proteins that (27) _______ to the outside of viruses, preventing cells from being infected. (28)_______ , when Leo Swadling and Mala Maini at University College London and their colleagues looked more closely, they found some of those (29) _______ tested negative had a protein in their blood that is linked to covid-19 infection, as well as T cell responses to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. T cells are (30) _______ of the immune system

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Introducing a new species to the area may be injurious to the local eco-system

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The United States and China have (16)_______ a deal that allows the Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE to stay in business in exchange for paying an additional $1 billion in fines and agreeing to let US regulators monitor its operations. The fine comes (17)_______ Donald Trump stepped in to save the company after US regulators barred it from doing business in the US, an effective death blow for the company. In addition to the fine, a compliance team chosen by the US will be embedded at ZTE and the Chinese company must change its board and executive team. “ZTE is essentially on (18)_______,” said Amanda DeBusk, chair of the international trade and government regulation practice at Dechert LLP and a former commerce official. “It’s unprecedented to have US agents as monitors ... It’s (19)_______ a good precedent for this situation. ZTE is a repeat offender.” The news did little to appease critics. Senator Mark Warner, vice-chairman of the Senate select committee on intelligence, said: “It is the unanimous conclusion of our nation’s intelligence community that ZTE poses a significant threat to our national security. These concerns aren’t new; back in 2012, the House permanent select committee on intelligence released a report (20)_______ the serious counterintelligence concerns associated with ZTE equipment

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To better understand the effects of crying in humans, it is also important to consider the animal counterparts to human crying (in the domain of communication), as well as other animal behaviors that might serve stress-reducing functions. In all mammals and most birds, offspring react with (25)_____ calls or distress calls to being removed from the parents. There can be little doubt that this is the phylogenetic basis of the acoustical crying of human infants. This very basic form of crying is meant to undo the separation from the parents and it is not likely to have any direct soothing function. Rather, this behavior seems to be associated with a state of increased arousal and result in soothing because of the comfort and support it elicited, that is, because it has (26)_____ its inter-individual function. In animals, distress calls are mainly (27)_____ by young offspring, and they are never accompanied by the production of tears. (28)_____ , candidates for the mechanisms that might contribute to reduction of distress in non-human animals (and in humans as well) can be found in displacement behaviors and stereotypes, (29)_____ are proposed to serve communicative functions as well

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How will you _________a living in Australia?

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I haven't made ________________ my mind where to go yet

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Mackley's online Business Ethics journal ------- publishes articles by well-known social-psychologists.

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Forty-niners ............. to California for gold in 1848

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At the moment, students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are required to pay for both their tuition fees and ____ expenses

Joe and Alan sit _____ each other.

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The company said it had ______________ a profit of about £1.4bn on the deal

Odd one out: (Stadium  / literature / house / museum)

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I don't want _________ about it anymore - let's drop the subject

How much rice............... you want? - Two kilos.

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Thanks to everyone's efforts, we can do ____ to make school a meaningful place for students living in poverty