The teacher together with his students _____ running there now.
He put in a special _____ for an extra day's holiday so that he could attend his daughter's wedding.
The microphone enabled them to keep in touch, in other words, it made it _____ for them to contact each other.
It was clear that the small grocer was _____ people he owed money to.
The map was drawn to the standard _____ of 1/100,000, so there was not much detail.
It was _____ by the railway board that the cost of rail fares would be increased by ten percent.