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1 Grimsby frustrated Middlesbrough in the early stages with their sweeper system and repeated back passes to their goalkeeper .
2 In Victorian days , the Watch Committee regularly placed adverts in the local newspapers in early December : ‘ Shopkeepers are advised not to give Christmas Boxes to police officers . ’
3 About 10 per cent of solicitors — around 6,000 — might want to conduct cases in the higher courts , Mr David Ward , president of the Law Society , has estimated .
4 The fact that no one is given command in the green movements does not mean that no one stands out among the ruck .
5 None of the patients or the normal volunteers had received antibiotics in the two weeks before the test period .
6 None had symptoms or a history of gastrointestinal disease or surgery or had received antibiotics in the two months before the study .
7 I conclude that the court should grant declarations in the following terms : ( 1 ) The Secretary of State is required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State sets the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence .
8 To enable researchers to report back on the results of recently completed research in the Scottish courts to an invited audience comprising the various branches of the legal profession , policy makers concerned with the administration of justice , pressure group and voluntary organisations and to stimulate an informed discussion of key findings .
9 There are also lekking birds in the temperate regions of Europe and North America .
10 VHWs were trained to observe interactions in the different rooms of the health centre .
11 Some men made a working tour of as many mines as they could , thus gaining experience in the differing conditions between districts and even neighbouring mines .
12 In the earth sciences this has resulted in decisions to reduce the number of departments offering Ph D degrees , and to concentrate funding in the remaining centres , which are thought to be centres of excellence .
13 On July 26 , Cabinet ministers announced that a new committee would review the financial benefits that the previous government had made available in order to encourage settlement in the occupied territories .
14 Chandrasekhar and Xanthopoulos ( 1988 ) have also considered perturbations in the initial regions which contain the approaching waves .
15 In Vl , CO-rich regions appear as regularly spaced blobs in the upper layers of the cerebral cortex while , in V2 , they appear as stripes .
16 There were no cinemas or pubs or dances so that we were forced to find pleasure in the ordinary things which surrounded us , the sky and books and the changing seasons .
17 Controls on overseas lending by domestic US banks plus the quest for new profitable markets encouraged large US banks to establish branches in the main centres of euro-currency business , e.g. London and Luxembourg .
18 The reason behind the emphasis is an admission that not enough has been done to help the small , growing company and a belief that a key element in the failure of many growing enterprises to expand beyond a certain size is the lack of links with the right people to provide help in the major decisions faced at that stage .
19 The most common explanation for long-duration unemployment among older workers is that they lack skill which enable them to find work in the expanding sectors of the economy , and , being older , do not have the expected future working lives to justify further training and retraining .
20 Backbenchers can introduce Bills in the following circumstances : 1 .
21 The male penguin might just have calculated that if you 're stuck in the Antarctic for years on end then the cleverest thing to do is stay at home minding the egg while you send the female off to catch fish in the freezing waters .
22 As well as representing Officials in the Associated Banks IBOA also has members in subsidiaries and other financial institutions .
23 We therefore give an indication of what causes bands in the electronic spectra of transition metal compounds , of how these bands can be analyzed , and of what sort of structural information can be obtained from them .
24 The scheme worked well : four-fifths of the boats taking part found fish in the predicted areas , good news for a country that makes 15 per cent of the total world catch .
25 Advertising for an apprentice , he promised instruction in the different branches of the profession and access to his museum .
26 Dalriada will represent Ulster in the senior girls event , Wallace High School will be the junior girls representatives with Bangor Grammar representing Ulster in the junior boys event .
27 The third is the new power the European Commission and the council will get to demand changes in the fiscal policies of members .
28 However , the development has attracted criticism in the past months as a possible white elephant following the effect of the steep rise in interest rates on the economy .
29 However , the development has attracted criticism in the past months as a possible white elephant following the effect of the steep rise in interest rates on the economy .
30 Nuclear reactions by contrast involve changes in the atomic elements themselves , such as the conversion of hydrogen into helium within the Sun , and vast amounts of heat are generated in such processes .
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