When photography first appeared, some people predicted that it -------- the death of painting.

In the end, he admitted that he -------- the fire -------at such a speed.

The name Adonis was given -------- a stream rising in Mount Lebanon which runs red -------- the soil of the hills after a sudden fall of rain.

In the Franco-Prussian war, balloons were used to maintain the city's contacts -------- the outside world ------- the siege of Paris.

The sustaining role of the family may go unappreciated ------- the younger members, but the older ones are fully aware -------- its value.

Wellington's abandonment of an attempt to make a Tory government was not -------- due to the threats of civil war -------- to Peel's refusal to join a Tory government.

Income tax can be fitted more closely to the individual taxpayer's ability than -------- tax.

The occupational psychologist is often regarded by industrialists as being-------- academic to serve any practical purpose.

In the works of many twentieth-century dramatists, it is possible to see ------- the individual writer's ideas and experience ------ some of the social and political developments of his period.