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1 Little relative movement between the Indian and Eurasian Plates seems to have occurred between the Middle Eocene and Early Miocene , but isostatic readjustment of the presumably thickened crust resulted in a withdrawal of the sea on the adjacent Indian continental lowland .
2 Three and a half years ago I described my experience of a meeting I attended for briefing on the brave new world of budget holding , the wild card of the recently published NHS Review .
3 MUST FOR fans of the now re-showing cult telly series .
4 The ultimate sanction of oppositional nationalism is to claim legitimation for its own armed force against the armed force of the allegedly containing state .
5 In a similar study , Lawani & Bayer found that 14% of the highly rated papers in their study of cancer research were not highly rated by peers , and that only 2.3% of their highly rated papers were never cited .
6 To put teeth into it , Pomgol was chaired by M. I. Kalinin , who was to become president of the newly formed USSR in December 1922 .
7 Ottaviani continued to believe that ‘ error has no rights ’ and argued for repression ; Cardinal Augustin Bea , President of the newly created Secretariat for Christian Unity , shared Pope John 's judgement that ‘ condemning errors ’ was not the best way to open up a conversation ( or dialogue ) with other Christians or the modern world .
8 On his release in 1977 Shekhar was appointed president of the newly created Janata Party .
9 The seal was set on his career in 1771 when he was elected president of the newly established Society of Civil Engineers , an exclusive ‘ club ’ admitting by invitation only the most eminent members of the profession .
10 The integration of the Bed-Pan service with Thameslink operation from 1988 onwards , allowed dual voltage use of the similar , brand-new Class 319 units , dispatch of the 317s to the Great Northern and London Midland , and closure of the recently modernised Cricklewood maintenance depot into the bargain .
11 Eighteen days later Lord Keith saw another opportunity to help Mr. Dundas , for a number of new appointments were made in consequence of the commissioning of another captured French vessel , the Carmine , and George Dundas found himself Flag Lieutenant in the Minotaur in place of John Stewart who had been appointed acting commander of another vessel , whose commander in turn had assumed command of the newly commissioned ship .
12 ‘ It is intended to enable parents to dovetail their career and family commitments and thereby to ease recruitment problems which are already being felt in all areas of commerce as a result of the steadily falling number of school leavers and graduates . ’
13 Unhampered by demanding males , the ladies were free to control the city 's social life , which burgeoned forth as a result of the suddenly acquired wealth of the inhabitants .
14 That is one of the problems exercising the mind of the socially striving Hyacinth Bucket ( pronounced Bouquet ) in the new BBC video compilation from Keeping Up Appearances .
15 The first four heads of the newly created patriarchate were members of the Sokolović family .
16 The book of the Gospels is laid on the shoulders of the newly chosen bishop , and opened at random , and a finger laid on the page — ’
17 The sombre threat of the cannon is contrasted with the distant view of buildings at which it is aimed , its potential destructiveness negated by the stasis of the rigidly controlled composition .
18 One of the less savoury aspects of the recently concluded World Cup has been a revival of the old xenophobic clichés .
19 The God who had made him get off the trike and stand still at the side of the grassily banked hill .
20 It has the most potent effect of the naturally occurring prostaglandins in inhibiting platelet aggregation , being 30–40 times more potent than prostaglandin E 1 and 10 times more potent than prostaglandin D 2 in vitro ( Gryglewski et al , 1976 ; Moncada et al , 1976a ) .
21 In 1861 he was appointed manager of the Cowlairs works of the Edinburgh and Glasgow ( later North British ) Railway and in 1865 locomotive superintendent of the newly formed Highland Railway at Inverness , where he rebuilt existing locomotives to make them more suitable for use over its heavily graded lines .
22 The 1,400 sq.m roof of the recently completed research and development building for Rank Xerox in Welwyn Garden city was covered with Sarnafil .
23 By policing the mental and the physical borders of the newly formed Germany the Völkisch ideologists wanted to create a new and pure German identity .
24 The lights attracted male mosquitoes , which mistook the humming of the newly installed transformer for the sound of the female 's wings .
25 The return to action of the highly regarded John Rae Collective should have launched the concert in style , but they were decidedly lacklustre after an extended layoff , and showed only occasional flashes of the energy and invention which made them Scotland 's best and most creative jazz outfit .
26 Geoffrey Elton has consistently argued that this revolutionary new strategy was the brainchild of the recently appointed secretary to the privy council , Thomas Cromwell , who should thus be seen as the sole architect of the Henrician Reformation .
27 The apparent molecular weight of the bacterially produced proteins in SDS gels are as follows ; Jun1-193 , 17 kDa ; Jun-Core , 14 kDa ; Fos-Core7 ( Fos , amino acids 124-200 ) 12 kDa .
28 In 1891 he also became , socially speaking , the central figure of the newly founded Rhymers Club .
29 It is salutary to be reminded that during its early years the processions of the newly created Salvation Army were often the subject of violent attack from other protesters , sometimes hooligan groups , who formed a counter-force called the Skeleton Army .
30 At the same time there was a good deal of variation in the ways in which the Bible was understood and interpreted by different groups of reformers , and this led to a further fragmentation of the previously unified world of Christendom .
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