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1 Sometimes , of course , one can decide immediately if the syllable that is to be checked for pitch has the same , a higher , or a lower pitch than the part of the frame it is being compared with .
2 Held against a background of unexpectedly firm oil prices in the period since the organization 's Feb. 15 quota decision [ see p. 38794 ] , the meeting was brief and reportedly uncontroversial , ending with agreement to maintain the overall output quota of 22,982,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) .
3 OVERLEAF : Marc Cory 's distress rocket , which he intended to launch into orbit to warn the solar system of the Daleks ’ threat .
4 Towering over all , their inaccessible faces as high and massive as peaks on the moon , a gigantic range of mountains tipped with red ringed the quiet valleys .
5 Christ entered into humanity to defeat the Dark Power that oppressed us and to set us free from the corruption within .
6 ‘ Is there anything I should know in order to ask the right questions ? ’
7 The Chancellor of the Exchequer will expect to be a member of the Cabinet Committee considering important legislation in any field , including criminal justice , although if at a particular meeting the main Treasury interest lies in resource costs the Chief Secretary to the Treasury might go in his place .
8 This chapter is designed to answer a simple question — what do school librarians and teachers , with little or no experience of microcomputers , need to know in order to overcome the initial uncertainties which people have when faced with new technology ?
9 Otherwise a reasonable differential will be expected in order to justify the enhanced engine rating of the larger model .
10 The late idol 's skirt was reduced to a simple cylinder , crudely painted with a black on white slip , and the raised hands exaggerated in size to emphasize the hieratic gesture .
11 The headhunter may well feel that there is a need to bring a more general consulting focus to bear in order to solve the organisational issues before an executive search is undertaken .
12 The best answer to these requests is to ask , in turn , which less important project(s) will be dropped in order to release the required resources .
13 How should teachers behave in order to stimulate the desired learning processes ?
14 In practice this is not complete , since two additional times need to be considered in order to obtain the true picture .
15 Thus the common law must still be considered in order to gain the broader perspective of the law as it currently stands .
16 Figure 2 clearly shows that a phenomenon of adaptive cytoprotection occurred in animsl fed the oleic diet at the various levels of acid injury tested , since pretreatment with a 100 µmol pulse of HCl induced a significant shift of the curve to the right ( p<0.01 ) .
17 Cadets from military schools and a force of 1000 cossacks from outside the capital tried without success to overthrow the new government .
18 To determine whether the 174-bp RN46/RN50 PCR amplification product corresponds to cDNA lacking the IR10–1 exon , we cloned this PCR fragment in M13mp18 and determined the DNA sequence of six clones ; the IR10–1 exon was precisely deleted from each , but otherwise agreed with the nucleotide sequence of DN10 ( data not shown ) .
19 But it also varies , as we shall see in the case studies in later chapters , according to the resources that the government has at hand to defuse the political consequences of disruption .
20 Those who had come by train had the same problem as the trains for the return journey were not due for several hours .
21 For some technical reason certiorari used not to be available in such cases ; but the aggrieved party applied for mandamus to require the other parties to act on the footing that the visitor 's decision was invalid .
22 Last night police appealed for help to catch the hit-and-run riders .
23 The main menu ( fig 6 ) presents some options additional to starting the text analysis , and figure 7 shows the next screen where a request is made for input specifying the required forms of output and the text file specification .
24 Many are questioning the threat of a £400 fine , which is being imposed for failure to complete the 1991 census .
25 His conclusion is that English , if constituted according to these principles , is the university study not only best suited to produce the truly democratic individual , but the discipline which is " destined in time to become the educational centre in English speaking democracies " .
26 Pugin 's strict rules and principles were upheld in part to counteract the inordinate sadness he had suffered at the age of twenty-two , when his first wife died giving birth to their only daughter .
27 In this section some basic microeconomic theory is applied in order to analyse the likely response of local authorities to the receipt of different types of grants .
28 It is proposed to take the seven functions of budgets on pages 49/50 as the first dimension of a matrix structure to which either the rational economic or a political model can be applied in order to form the second dimension .
29 The rear end of the console can be detached in order to transform the two individual rear seats into a bench accommodating three .
30 The optimum composition for glass to be manufactured in bulk has the approximate formula ( Na2O ) , CaO(SiO2)s .
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