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1 Before the start of talks , Federal Defence Minister Gen. Veljko Kadijevic agreed to implement the Oct. 18 ceasefire [ see p. 38513 ] , which included Croatian agreement to lift the blockade of federal barracks inside Croatia by Nov. 8 .
2 Needless to say , before the actual commissioning I got to know the Brooke Marine Yard and staff very well , and made many friends there .
3 The Presidential Council initially appeared designed to supplant the CPSU central committee politburo as the main centre of political decision making in the Soviet Union .
4 Everyone has come to see the Radio 1 Roadshow and be entertained .
5 At the 1989 Annual Conference in Bournemouth it was resolved to support the RAF Benevolent Fund 's 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain Appeal , and Branches were asked to provide support at local level for what became known as the ‘ Reach for the Sky ’ Appeal .
6 Thirty five thousand visitors are expected to attend the show this weekend to see a collection of classic American gas-guzzlers.Mike Dolan reports .
7 ‘ I hear you tried to swim the Severn last night ’ he chortled .
8 At about the same time he helped to found the Liverpool Medical Library and the Liverpool Blind Asylum .
9 She banged her empty glass down on the desk , as though she had expected to find the surface several centimetres lower than it actually was .
10 Cholesterol 7α-hydroxylase is considered to catalyse the rate limiting reaction in the biosynthesis of bile acids , converting cholesterol into 7α-hydroxycholesterol .
11 As one of the UK 's largest botanical libraries , it is also open as a reference library to any member of the public who needs to consult the specialist botanical literature which it holds .
12 Following this line of reasoning , we have recently defined a series of DNase I hypersensitive sites flanking the class II MHC locus and have shown that these sites are specific to cell lines which are developmentally programmed to express the class II MHC gene products ( i.e. B cell lineage cell lines ) , or to those actually expressing class II MHC at the cell surface ( 26 ) .
13 We will seek to privatise the Docklands Light Railway during the lifetime of the next Parliament .
14 The anti-Hoxha demonstrations were put down by the police and troops with increasing force , and on Feb. 23 it was officially reported that two demonstrators and a policeman had been shot dead when a crowd reportedly tried to storm the Tirana military academy ( the opposition claimed up to 30 dead , and attributed some of the shooting to clashes between rival pro- and anti-reform factions within the army ) .
15 Heseltine needs to win the leadership this year .
16 The three types of codons UGA , AUA , and CUN were modified to fit the E.coli genetic code and the corresponding ORF , cloned in the bacterial expression vector pDR540 ( Pharmacia-PL ) , was expressed under the control of the tac promoter .
17 ‘ So long as he promised to give the heroine more character and personality , that is .
18 The suggested proviso under clause 9.21 is designed to give the tenant some comfort in respect of paragraph 3.1.1 , which could otherwise be disruptive .
19 To satisfy my pride I tried to give the soldier some grounds for his suspicions .
20 I want to do the things other girls do . ’
21 You want to do the things other girls do , like making yourself cheap , going to discos , letting those louts paw you ?
22 we could manage to do that one day , if it 's fine this afternoon we might do something like that this afternoon , but if it rains it wo n't be any use , I also want to do the garden this afternoon
23 The former Northern Ireland international announced his decision after talks with Wigan chairman Stephen Gage and is expected to leave the English second division club immediately .
24 We want to give the children positive memories which they can draw on during the difficult times at home to build a better country .
25 I want to give the horse some water , woman .
26 There ca n't be many hill-lovers who want to climb the Cairnwell seven times .
27 What is good about the current production is that it does not seek to tilt the play either way : it allows us to decide where we stand .
28 If we want to study the way some material absorbs infrared radiation we can put it into a cell fitted with diamond windows .
29 We may need to read the poem several times to appreciate the way in which an effect of spontaneity is achieved within an extremely rigid verse form .
30 He tried to force the number one player in the world to make his shot .
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