The researchers deliberately used questionnaire responses written in Italian to increase the difficulty of the task for the English-speaking participants.

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The MPs say the priority should be to answer what they call "the English Question", a task they would assign to a "preconvention".

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Most of the appeals about marks were about English papers - especially the writing task.

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Talling has made it his task to bring the English capital's lost rivers back to the surface, metaphorically at least.

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But if you think your office is a tough place to operate, spare a thought for the Yuletide task of one prominent English Premier League football manager.

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For this he has been taken to task by Terry Eagleton, a professor of English at Oxford University and a leading exponent of politically committed criticism.

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Faced with the task of studying vast amounts of microbial data gathered from the English Channel, the biologist explored alternative ways of making sense of it all.

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