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1 If you are using stocking stitch for the main part , or any double bed pattern knitted using a 1x1 setting , then a 1x1 rib will probably be the one you choose .
2 After work in Scotland , Christina moved to London and became research officer for the General Federation of Trade Unions .
3 Now he writes computer software for the National Blind League but needs a proper job .
4 The studio contracted with the firm to provide maintenance support for the entire aircraft fleet during the filming , no small feat given the diversity of the equipment and the logistical requirements .
5 It would be interesting to have research into the period of initial onset of the illness and the ability of families to obtain specialist advice for the sick family member , particularly as in this illness the patient has rarely the insight to see the need for medical assistance .
6 In 1904 they opened the first Poor Law farm colony , in Essex , to provide work training for the unemployed .
7 Over the next few months the government will be deciding whether to freeze Child Benefit for the 4th year running .
8 One of the factors widely deemed as critical to Miyazawa 's chances of short-term survival was the need to obtain Diet approval for the 1992 budget by April 1 , the beginning of the fiscal year .
9 This would especially be the case , it would seem , if a company were contemplating a move to total quality control for the first time .
10 Balfour 's Act moreover transferred to those same county councils the duty to provide rate support for the denominational schools , which nevertheless kept a considerable degree of autonomy and their particular religious character .
11 If it is not the Women 's Tennis Association , spurred on by the vocal support of Martina Navratilova and Monica Seles demanding equal prize money at Wimbledon and the French , then it is the voices on the men 's side who want prize money for the top tier of their tournaments doubled to $2m .
12 When the future Cardinal Richelieu entered government service for the first time in 1616 he found available so little essential documentation on foreign policy that he had to ask French representatives abroad to send him copies of the instructions they had been given : without this he could not know even what the policies of his immediate predecessor had been .
13 what is required in Latin America is a policy that will stimulate food production for the domestic market and the raising of income levels of the rural poor .
14 ‘ You 're satisfied I 'm not going to sabotage your chances of becoming world champion for the second time ? ’
15 In Europe , AT&T plans to add to its existing network management centres here in the UK and in the Netherlands by installing systems in key European commercial centres to provide the service for multinational customers in the UK , France , Germany , Spain , Italy , Belgium , Switzerland , the Netherlands and Sweden , and plans to hire or redeploy more than 650 technicians and sales personnel in Europe to provide customer support for the new services that are to be available in 1994 .
16 But one does not have to go so far as to support child benefit for the qualitative demographic effect it may or may not have .
17 The new acquisitions come as Manchester and North Wales stockbroker Henry Cooke , Lumsden express concern that the group 's businesses require investment in excess of operating cash flow for the foreseeable future .
18 Sunday 17 May saw the final slewing of the track and train operated point installation for the new Welshpool Station .
19 Vaizey began writing art criticism for the Financial Times in 1970 and was delighted with the rate of 5 guineas an article ; in 1974 she signed a contract with the Sunday Times to produce forty-six articles a year for £4,500 and in 1980 became a staff member with pay pegged to NUJ rates .
20 Muriel opposed planning permission for the new community centre opposite her flat .
21 Designing a proper health financing system will be a major challenge and the most important decision for guaranteeing health care for the entire population .
22 It will provide investment management for the non-American fixed income investments .
23 ( f ) The new partnership agreement Whilst agreements on particular matters should be set down in writing as soon as they have been concluded , that should not be regarded as an adequate substitute for a properly drafted partnership agreement for the new firm to be in place from the outset of business .
24 If I had used mail order for the larger items I could have easily shaved off a further 10% of these costs and come well within my allotted amount .
25 The Prime Minister has announced that Britain could provide air cover for the proposed land corridor for relief supplies , but has ruled out deploying any land troops .
26 Meanwhile , back in Alton , Flowercraft , in Market Street , are running a window competition to help raise money for the next trip in September , which Christian and Mark both intend joining .
27 If this is anywhere near the true figure , would n't it be nice if Mr Dobson made a substantial donation to help fund treatment for the three-year-old handicapped boy , say £2,500 , plus another £2,500 for the echocardiograph appeal ?
28 There have also been symbolic measures ( such as restoring pay beds in NHS facilities ) , minor cuts ( such as withdrawal of supplementary benefits in vacations for students ) , some marginal privatization ( from 1986 employers were made responsible for paying sickness benefit for the first 28 weeks of an employee 's absence from work ) , tougher criteria ( people have to be ‘ actually seeking work ’ to be entitled to receive unemployment benefit and since 1 988 housing benefit is paid to fewer households ) , and an increase in the numbers relying on private medical insurance ( from 4 to 8 per cent since 1979 ) .
29 Perhaps those advising Mr Lamont consider the objective has been achieved by the high drilling success rates in recent years and there are enough oil and gas finds to sustain development work for the immediate future .
30 While Miller was preparing the Kalendar , he was told of the ‘ ungenerous intention ’ of others to use Dictionary information for the same purpose , ‘ upon which I was the more intent to have it published before such a design could be accomplished by any other hand , which was not very difficult for me to do , having a complete Diary of my own , so that I had little more to do than to transcribe my loose papers and dispose them into the method wherein they are here presented to the world . ’
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