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1 In addition , this company also contributed to the Association 's efforts on behalf of the ‘ Reach for the Sky ’ Appeal by helping to arrange a Royal Film Gala night at their Shaftsbury Avenue cinema .
2 To start with , Alison planned to wear a white evening dress .
3 I I find this quite extraordinary Chairman after two years of consistently arguing and voting in committee and at council , they appear to have been bought off by the Labour group and now intend to support a fudged half merger , half federation option .
4 At a meeting of its environmental committee yesterday , Dunfermline District Council agreed to issue a public health notice against Fife Regional Council .
5 The aid was developed using a commercial expert system shell , but we found it necessary to integrate the shell with a spreadsheet for data input , with an algorithmic language for certain numeric calculations and with a graphics package for presentation of the output .
6 You will play your part in helping to preserve a distinctive beer style for future generations to enjoy .
7 Then Wim went off and tagged IBM and when IBM and Hewlett agreed to support a common position Sun decided it could n't resist , especially with Novell Inc nudging it on .
8 Then Wim went off and tagged IBM and when IBM and HP agreed to support a common position Sun eventually found it could n't resist , especially with Novell nudging it on .
9 In Rome , central areas such as the Piazza di Spagna , Via Condotti and Via Veneto are particularly well decorated , while in Piazza San Pietro [ St. Peter 's Square ] crowds flock to see a big Christmas tree — a gift from Austria — together with a Nativity scene .
10 The teaching methods in the full-time courses were centred upon projects which sought to provide a simulated work situation , to integrate what might otherwise appear to be disparate subject areas and to engender in the student independence and originality of thought .
11 In Russia for example we intend to launch a small partnership fund to support small projects promoted by the voluntary agencies in the United Kingdom who 've developed a wide range of connections with their Russian counterparts .
12 Considering he was four over par after the first three holes of the New Orleans tournament , Faldo 's 11 under for the remaining 69 on a course he found demanding looks a useful dress rehearsal for the first of the year 's majors .
13 When the need arose to find a new lord lieutenant for East Sussex in succession to the Queen 's horseracing chum , the Marquess of Abergavenny , the name which emerged from Downing Street was not that of another grand county family but Admiral Sir Lindsay Bryson , a retired naval engineering officer whose address , 74 , Dyke Road , Brighton , hardly hinted at rolling acres .
14 The PLO failed to secure a UN-supervised peace conference to which it would send a delegation to represent " the Palestinian people " [ see pp. 38167 ] .
15 An elderly couple who survived an arson attack on their flat say a council failed to repair a defective smoke alarm .
16 Subsequent investigators have attempted to read deep , allegorical , psychological , and even transcendental meanings into the book ; it is more likely that Stoker merely intended to write a popular horror story by taking an ancient legend , placing it in a contemporary setting , and garnishing his tale with blood , thunder , and damsels in distress .
17 In celebration of his new appointment Mozart apparently intended to write a large scale missa solemnis in D minor , of which one movement , a Kyrie previously thought to date from much earlier in his career , survives .
18 Mr Clarke said the armed forces would be withdrawn as soon as the unions agreed to provide a normal emergency service .
19 Portugal agreed to provide a revolving fund credit facility , which would guarantee the conversion into Portuguese escudos of up to US$10,000,000 of local currency remittances .
20 The congress agreed to establish a closed trade unions ' assets management company in which any union could become a member .
21 During ministerial-level talks the two sides agreed to establish a joint co-operation commission .
22 In another new initiative in 1974 , under Italian and Irish pressure , the EC agreed to establish a Regional Development Fund .
23 The summit also agreed to establish a regional stock exchange from January 1991 with the cross-listing of the community 's three current exchanges based in Jamaica , Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago .
24 The President and I agreed to establish a secure telephone link between our two offices .
25 Two teachers using a system called Hwarang-do applying a combined neck strangulation and head twisting technique .
26 on that point er would the er minister indicate whether or not the British government supports the attitude of the French government because of course the British government at the time of the Edinburgh summit were wholly in favour of the agreement to require the European parliament to meet both in Brussels and in Strasbourg and therefore I assume that there 's an identity of interest between the British government and the French government on this question since the French government are maintaining their er opposition to the er six extra seats simply because they want to see a new parliament building constructed in Strasbourg , is that a position that the British government supports ?
27 it is also extremely expensive , and only the most profligate would consider using a pure silk rug as a functional floor covering .
28 Liberal Democrat Candidate Suzanne Fletcher has received a good luck card from Essex , from a direct descendant of the area 's Liberal MP between 1918 and 1920 .
29 The Hartlepool Voluntary Development Agency has received a big cash boost from Cleveland County Council .
30 THE Lennox Lewis-Frank Bruno world title clash has received a single box office boost of nearly £28,000 for the fight at Cardiff Arms Park on
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