1. Training schemes in the United Kingdom ---- by the government as unemployment ----.

2. After the Germanic invasions, Celtic cultures, which in pre-Roman times ---- most of Western Europe, ---- almost entirely to the British Isles.

3. Investigations by modern doctors ---- that Catherine the Great of Russia ---- from syphilis.

4. This morning it ---- in the news that the great Italian tenor Pavarotti ---- of pancreatic cancer soon after midnight.

5. Most newspapers are of the opinion that if a majority of Scots really ____ independence, the British Parliament has no option but ____ to their wishes.

6. Since Samaranch assumed leadership of the International Olympic Committee, ____.

7. Thesigers passionate belief that traditional societies around the world ____ against the modern onslaught ____ fierce criticism.

8. He ____ that the forests ____ to their natural inhabitants, that is, to all varieties of living things.

9. With the help of satellite images, the Indonesian government ____ that it is the timber companies which ____ the mass destruction of their rain forests.

10. I sent an e-mail to everyone in the department, asking for articles for this special issue, but ____ there has been no response.