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1 The principal difficulty I have on this aspect of the case is that in Mr. Lester 's submission reference to Parliamentary material as an aid to interpretation of a statutory provision should be allowed only with leave of the court and where the court is satisfied that such a reference is justifiable : ( a ) to confirm the meaning of a provision as conveyed by the text , its object and purpose ; ( b ) to determine a meaning where the provision is ambiguous or obscure ; or ( c ) to determine the meaning where the ordinary meaning is manifestly absurd or unreasonable .
2 Of course I failed on all counts and so I was ignored most of the time — passed over .
3 If this is so , can you please let me have one of the two data only copies I requested on 14 February ( Ref. 020 ) ?
4 Four times I went on long visits to the St Jerome , his finest work .
5 The only wheel I found on this trip is still very much in business , grinding corn on two pairs of stones .
6 You could , for instance , try differing lengths of harness lines or changing the amount of weight you place on each foot .
7 Getting some information on our actions and the effect we have on other people can also be very useful feedback .
8 ‘ We can never measure the effect we have on other people , ’ he said , although he , more than most , had a fair idea .
9 You know — right or wrong — the effect we have on each other .
10 ‘ Do n't underestimate the effect we have on each other .
11 Even the songs they sang on such occasions had a defiance in them , always remembering of course they had a drink in them at the time .
12 They put up a prize at the awards ceremony they 're prepared to do all the art work for nothing or at cost price for the awards ceremony they laid on this evening for us now if three people turn up at their evening they gon na say as we putting our money in the right organisation
13 I 'm gon na read from verse thirty five , just the paragraph there , the last paragraph in that chapter it says on that day when evening had come Jesus said to them let us go over to the other side and leaving the multitude they took him along with them just as he was in the boat and other boats were with them .
14 But what was very enthralling about the jury service argument was the effect it had on older people themselves .
15 It never again had quite the effect it did on that day when Grom the Paunch of Misty Mountain was driven from the field , and , in truth , Gambo could n't quite remember that recipe to his dying day .
16 You also have to think of the effect it has on other people , how er if you just let people get away with it , it does n't mean you hate them , loathe them and damn them but er you 've got to make them realise that for other people , for everybody .
17 Thus the function of the family is the effect it has on other parts of the social structure and on society as a whole .
18 The anecdote is instructive for the light it throws on changing relationships with clinicians .
19 Imagine how much time and effort would be required if each speaker had to establish the denotation of each term he produced on each occasion of use .
20 Of the speeches he made on these occasions we have such various descriptions it is impossible to be sure what he actually said .
21 At intervals throughout the next months he worked on this material , in preparation for his show at the Lefevre Gallery in September 1951 and for other exhibitions .
22 We thank Ilana Machover , one of our qualified teachers , who is also qualified in the Alexander Technique , for the most interesting session she gave on this subject .
23 We thank Ilana Machover , one of our qualified teachers , who is also qualified in the Alexander Technique , for the most interesting session she gave on this subject .
24 Even at home she put on smarter clothes .
25 Ad we tied on these bunches on the cross .
26 Dr Nancy Harrison , RSPB marine policy officer , said : ‘ Any information about the use of gill nets and the effects they have on marine life , will help us to understand the true extent and nature of the problem , and to identify any trouble spots . ’
27 The public silence was broken early in 1987 by Marxism Today , who can seldom resist a bandwagon , even if they often fall under the wheels in the process ; and the particular bandwagon they joined on this occasion was the one about what the Tories had labelled ‘ Loony Left ’ councils .
28 It is to the importance of this often underestimated ‘ Anglo-Saxon world ’ and the influence it had on English Nonconformity that we shall now turn .
29 Last month PHILIP VANN looked at artists who had come up from the mines to become artists ; in this issue he concentrates on those artists who went down to the pit to paint
30 What is most remarkable about the talks and lectures he gave on this trip is the extent to which America now revived in him the memories of his childhood .
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