The government is aiming ..........  a 40% reduction  ............ unemployment.

After twenty-three years of ................., Jeffrey Bartlett is retiring from his position as chief accounting officer.

Most banks are ................... to loan money to small businesses and that is the big reason for the recession in this country.

Everett-Buchanan Industries’ research ....................... on the newest drug to combat stomach infections recently received a grant from the National Gastrointestinal Medical Research Foundation.

The driver gave him a few biscuits; _______ was given a few biscuits. 

In spite _______, the baseball game was not cancelled.

__________   we had planned everything carefully, a lot of things went wrong.

The newest prototype ......... to give the engineers at Nova Enterprises a marked advantage over their competition.

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The   _____________ version of the budget proposal must be submitted by Friday.

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When the tenants failed to pay their bill, the authorities decided to......... the gas supply to the flat.

Attendance at the council meeting was very _____ .

Your e-mail, .................... in transit, is potentially visible to anyone outside your enterprise who might have access to your server.

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The contract  _______________  states that the tenants must renew their rental-property agreement by March 1.

Candles __________ from beeswax burn with a very clean flame.

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Everyone in favor of shortening working hours, but ________________   the president approves the change, nothing will happen.

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I……………….a big chocolate cake a day but I stopped three years ago.

He was the last man  ............ the meeting room.

Nowadays, many serious childhood diseases  ............  by early immunization.

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We're .................. to hear that you pass the driving test.

 He had a new heart valve _______.

Choose the best answer among A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence:  Most 15th century Europeans believed that the world was flat and that a ship could conceivably sail off the end of the earth. …., many sailors of the time refused to venture forth with explorers into unknown waters.