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31 FOYLE Meats has given a big boost to the National Sheep Association , which holds its multi-breed ram sale at Antrim on September 21 .
32 No one has given a satisfactory answer to that .
33 Since its arrival in the eighteenth century , this is a literary mode which has recurrently been pronounced dead but which has been capable of renewal , and now Ackroyd has given a further turn to the wheel .
34 This situation has given a further boost to the microelectronics industry , which now has the incentive to apply its research and development programmes to telecommunications .
35 The Gulf War has given an enormous boost to the cable television industry in India .
36 Designed to provide a straight answer to a straight question as fast as possible .
37 The hatches were painted Go Fasta Red with Skull White Crosses and some yellow detail was added to provide a strong contrast to the blue areas .
38 Capital spending is rigorously controlled , and in general this has permitted a cautious approach to the adoption and dissemination of new expensive technologies ( Stocking 1988 ) .
39 The job or position to which a person is attracted has a strong link to their goal profile .
40 The autumn screening of the third series is expected to provide a welcome fillip to the railway 's passenger numbers .
41 This is expected to provide a considerable boost to BA volumes .
42 This is expected to provide a considerable boost to BA volumes .
43 The solos still grate , but at least you can get the beers in at this point without fear of missing anything serious — although Hammett has included an axe-trashing coda to his widdly-widdly section ; that 's what you get for hanging out with Nirvana .
44 ‘ We want to encourage a positive attitude to individual health and fitness , ’ a police spokesman said .
45 Salim is now homeless in the sense that he has shed an old tendency to nostalgia : ‘ the idea of going home , of leaving , the idea of the other place ’ , he takes to be weakening and destructive .
46 NATIONAL Express has enjoyed a one-way ticket to profitability , the coach operator revealed today in its first results since it floated on the stock market .
47 The obsession for vintage denim , both genuine and reproduction , has added a new twist to the syndrome and depleted bank balances up and down the island .
48 The Easter Festival has added a new dimension to Salzburg 's musical life ; though there are those who argue that Karajan changed the Summer Festival : both its audience and its artistic ideals .
49 This determination has added a new dimension to the play of a man who says he is ‘ getting more pleasure out of humiliating a guy ’ and likes to ‘ crush his ego ’ .
50 Intravenous contrast medium ( Gadalinium DTPA — Gd DTPA , Schering Health Care Ltd ) , has added a new dimension to MRI , particularly in the central nervous system .
51 The Spires and Shires tour company has added a new landmark to its sightseeing tour of Oxford .
52 Borden has added a new grade to its range of bottle labelling adhesives .
53 SIR — Filling the hollow core of carbon nanoclusters with foreign material has added a new aspect to the promise of this family of novel materials .
54 SINGER Rolf Harris has added a new touch to the Led Zeppelin song Stairway to Heaven — a wobble board and an ‘ altogether now ’ chorus .
55 The agreement reached between SCOTVEC and SCOTCAT members — and between SCOTVEC and BTEC — has added a further dimension to the flexibility and widened opportunities for candidates which are the hallmark of our new advanced courses .
56 Other invaluable fanatics who have contributed to the project include Caesar Glebbeek ( who , with Harry Shapiro , co-authored last year 's definitive Hendrix biography Electric Gypsy ) and poster specialist/Artrock supremo Philip Cushway , who has supplied examples of psychedelic art ( including Rick Griffin 's seminal ‘ Eyeball ’ image that will be on sale at £1,000 a print ! ) and has added an extra dimension to the Jimi Hendrix image .
57 Equity & Law has added an optional extra to its endowment plan , which will cover a borrower 's mortgage repayments in the event of a serious illness .
58 The Byatt Report , Accounting for Economic Costs and Changing Prices ( 1986 ) , has added an interesting twist to this argument .
59 This agreement between the governments in London and Dublin was an attempt to promote co-operation between them and to try to find a joint approach to at least some of the problems of Northern Ireland .
60 We will need to provide an evolutionary approach to migrating from one technology to another so we 're not forcing our customers down the fantasy land alternative .
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