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1 Others , such as the fault that let down the great thickness of Mesozoic in Cardigan Bay ( to the west of Wales ) must have been much later , though they served to define basins that were presumably already there .
2 What the strategy does do , is to formalize and focus the analysis in a way that gives everybody concerned the essential basis for developing and judging good advertising — the two aspects that take up the next two chapters .
3 Good examples of this are the genes that give rise to the histones ( proteins that make up the chromosomal superstructure ) , the ribosomal RNA , the immunoglobulins and many others .
4 Rick Bateysifts through the veritable medley of classic influences that make up the latest sepia-tinted offering from Chandler in San Francisco …
5 The need in the case of the Oedipus myth to resolve the contradiction between two pieces of knowledge that are in conflict can be comfortably taken as the signified that lies behind the significations that make up the various versions of the myth .
6 There are many different types of institution that make up the financial sector , from banks to building societies to various institutions in the City of London .
7 However , it can be used if you can ‘ read ’ your card and work out the maximum number of tucks or loops you will be collecting .
8 Maggie looked at him ironically and the dark eyes were turned fully on her , inspecting her face until she had the mad urge to shut her eyes and block out the intent gaze .
9 ‘ We 're hoping to get some sort of fail-safe mechanism written in so we can take control of the club and sort out the legal matters after that , ’ he said .
10 Her aim was simple ; to head up the coast under cover of the bushes and seek out the first help she could .
11 General practitioners are well placed to diagnose effusion and carry out the necessary surveillance .
12 You 'd do something more likely to reap a financial return , such as throw it off the top of Blackpool Tower in a Force Nine gale and run down the 763 steps to see if you could catch any of it before it blew away .
13 Look at figure 1 at the end of this chapter and cover up the last column .
14 I had to learn to cut off the rotten celluloid and splice together the usable bits .
15 It came like throwing paint over the car and paint up the front door and stuff like that , which really annoyed me .
16 The fried bread surrounding the bacon in the hot plate was simply to create effect and mop up the excess fat .
17 She watched him slide behind the wheel of the Jag and start up the powerful engine .
18 The problem always is to identify myths that support a mature life from those which distort the quality of living and mobilise only the less than adult , managerial capacities and capabilities of individuals in their work roles .
19 Today , five hundred million years after those jawless armour-laden creatures began to wag their tails and blunder over the muddy bottoms of the ancient seas , the fish have evolved into some 30,000 different species .
20 Parenting education might begin in schools and continue over the first few years of married life ( Pound et al. , 1985 ) .
21 I retrace my steps and walk up the righthand arm of the T , where the roadway is closed by a second set of iron gates .
22 From the same console , log in to the other two servers and follow exactly the same procedures , except that you type login rbg-2/supervisor and login rbg/supervisor , using the other passwords supplied .
23 To a large extent the prison numbers crisis , and many of the problems that are associated with it , are the unintended outcome of a series of uncoordinated decisions taken , independently , by the various institutions that make up the criminal justice system in England and Wales .
24 You will also gain the skills that back up the actual cooking , such as catering accountancy , stock control , planning your menus and the care of food in storage .
25 But the London and East Midlands electricity boards are involved in field trials using frequencies that cover almost the entire spectrum available for mains signalling .
26 I always thought the dropping of litter showed a lack of environmental relationship awareness , but could it also be linked with the " defacing " thing in that cities , streets with paving-slabs etc. are sensed by the human as too perfect and devoid of the texturous imperfections that make up the multi-levelled human life experience ?
27 In such circumstances , the recommended course of action is to mass-produce module headers that contain only the minimum information required .
28 Mr Kinnock 's preference for his successor to be in place by the end of June proved impossible to meet , as the party 's rules decree that there must be at least 12 weeks in which to consult the three groups that make up the electoral college — MPs , constituency activists and the unions .
29 Examine the Minoan exhibits in the Archaeological Museum or wander round the ancient port .
30 Yet even the most productive thoughts and even the bravest of responses to the new dimensions of my predicament could not wholly keep the chill out of my bones or push away the icier gloom from above my head .
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