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1 By contrast , advance apportionment of costs before a dispute has arisen is illegal in arbitrations : s18(3) of the Arbitration Act 1950 .
2 If such mutations should occur in the CAG cluster of the N-Oct 3 gene it might easily lead to loss of function by aberrantly expanding the bona fide transcription activation domain , or to loss of DNA-binding if a frame shift is introduced .
3 Stuck behind Patrese , Berger had to cope with high water temperatures and a loss of power until a fuel pump failure caused retirement on lap 37 .
4 The action of a single tyrant may be more potent to inflict suffering on the continent of Europe than a combination of less powerful persons . ’
5 So it was a stroke of luck when a friend scrapping an old Volvo car gave him a complete system to fit to his tractor .
6 It is necessary to look for concentrations of finds because a handful of finds could have got onto the land in any number of ways and is not necessarily an indication of the presence of a nearby archaeological site .
7 He felt like some programmed thing with a piece of its instructions missing , battering itself repeatedly against the same piece of wall while a door stood open only a few feet away .
8 He was in the middle of smoothing one piece of earth when a shadow fell across his hands .
9 Those who argue that rape should be viewed as more a crime of violence than a crime of sex might also prefer the scope of rape to be confined in this way .
10 A fortnight ago two men were killed and eight injured on the same stretch of road when a minibus and a car crashed .
11 He told a senior colleague there was only one place on that particular fifteen-mile stretch of road where a lorry might be expected to run off it , at a bend where the camber of the road sloped to a ditch .
12 If the king-duke decided to alienate the fief , the king of France 's permission ( as sovereign ) was technically required , because he was entitled to exact the feudal payment of relief when a fief changed hands .
13 General Accident is supporting this request and have taken the decision to continue with payment of benefit when a claimant attends such a course .
14 It is the cast of mind which decrees that Henry Cotton , the most successful British golfer of the last fifty years should get an MBE rather than a knighthood , the same level of honour as a shorthand note-taker in the House of Commons or the draftsman of regulations governing haddock quotas .
15 The other event that I remember well was when my Uncle Ned could have made himself a bit of money when a bird was shot down in mistake for a grouse .
16 The time I was supposed to be going through this a lot of schools were getting a bit of stick because a lot of parents did n't like it .
17 A large number of preference pairs gives the same kind of information as a rank ordering .
18 For instance , IVF embryos can be used for a kind of surrogacy where a woman bears a child for a couple with the embryo created from their egg and sperm .
19 Graham the guitarist is still dry to the point of death , only showing signs of life when a football appears .
20 In designing a course of study where a choice has to be made between two items , how available are they ?
21 In an ideal integrated scheme , cultural controls ( changes in farming habits ) and biological controls would largely supplant pesticides ; in practice , chemical control continues to be an essential component of IPM when a pest population has to be reduced rapidly to minimise financial loss .
22 These pass on tips about jobs or lodgings , or can give a firm base of support once a migrant has crossed the border .
23 The very sky smelt of frost though a sun bigger than she had ever seen on Mars still shone remote between gold-fringed clouds .
24 One possible reason could be that in addition to a general sense of guilt associated with the organs of sex and reproduction , there is the added fact that most surrogate mothers belong to the economically disadvantaged classes ; and it is arguably a case of exploitation if a woman is driven to use her reproductive organs to escape from a state of poverty .
25 The expert clause is a clause in a contract and it will therefore be subject to the same rules of interpretation as a contract .
26 There are a number of different forms of entertainment where a licence of some sort or other is required by law .
27 A researcher sent to report back to the Jane Goodall Institute kept hearing of captive chimps under sentence of death unless a place was found for them .
28 Yet there could be no more symbolic act of defiance than a currency with a separate exchange rate against the rouble .
29 All Irish landladies , however pleasant , seemed to breathe a sigh of relief when a visitor left , and they were able to get on with the intense business of family life without interruption .
30 It all came back to that greatest of Italian national defects , which is less an attitude of xenophobia than a reflection of its people 's belief that Italy is God 's country and Italians God 's chosen .
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