1. The United Kingdom .......... a period of time until 1995 to clean up its beaches by the European Union, but Morecombe Bay in Lancashire was so dirty that it .......... two more years to bring the area up to the required standard.

2. I hope the new timetable .......... by Friday as I want to start a driving course next week, but I need to know which afternoon I will be off before I can enroll on it.

3. Obviously, the management ....... that we ........ the new conditions without questioning the consequences.

4. Look! The other team must be about to play their substitute because he .......... warmed up at the side of the pitch.

5. To the ancient Romans, a census ........ simply counting the people and valuing their estates for the purpose of taxation, but today the range of information collected by a census taker is very wide, and the statistics gathered ........ to many uses.

6. I really dislike .......... to work on Sundays because I feel torn between my family and work.

7. The FBI .......... that he knew where the body .......... .

8. Animal lovers would like industrial testing on animals .......... to medical experiments.

9. The end of slavery in America ........... by the passage of the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution on 18th December, 1865.

10. Medicines and chemical cleaning liquids .......... out of childrens reach.