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1 ‘ 1(1) If a child is born disabled as the result of such an occurrence before its birth as is mentioned in subsection ( 2 ) below , and a person ( other than the child 's own mother ) is under this section answerable to the child in respect of the occurrence , the child 's disabilities are to be regarded as damage resulting from the wrongful act of that person and actionable accordingly at the suit of the child .
2 In 1954 work began on the deserted Das Island to build a base for personnel working on a mobile drilling platform in the Arabian Gulf .
3 Actually I am still in two minds about mibbe squeezing in a quick Hughes or a Heaney somehow .
4 Montagu and Duppa attacked ‘ error ’ in all its forms , whether as birds nesting inside the neglected parish church of Lancing , or too much ‘ popularising in the pulpit ’ , the hour-long sermons by Puritan clergy unwilling to toe the episcopal line .
5 All of the opportunities which exist for course monitoring in a monolithic , longitudinal course structure also exist at field level in the Modular Course .
6 This varied between authorities according to the complex needs and resources formulae then in operation .
7 ‘ But for clubs going from the fourth to the third sums between £50,000 and £100,000 are about the going rate so £200,000 from the second to the Premier does n't seem unlikely , ’ he said .
8 There 's a set up that checks a certain amount of areas and then blanks it otherwise you could be sitting there for hours waiting for a new Con activity so you just chew them off bit by bit .
9 This need was further highlighted in 1987 through the development of proposals for a Department of Trade and Industry FE pilot scheme for skills up-dating in the Glenrothes-based paper manufacture industry .
10 This will allow more room in the main section of the fair where a number of innovations will be in evidence next year : a separate section for galleries exhibiting for the first time ; a section for photography and publishers and a more spacious layout of stands and aisles .
11 Those sentenced for espionage included three people arrested in March 1989 and sentenced on Feb. 15 , 1990 , for computer hacking for the Soviet KGB .
12 By searching for flashes repeating at exactly the same rate as the radio pulses , they were able to investigate much fainter pulsations than if they had been looking for pulses occurring at an unknown rate .
13 You do n't believe all that rubbish about eyes meeting across a crowded room , and destiny and stuff , do you ? "
14 If one is to present a credible case for investment planning as a progressive development one has to consider the problems raised by the choice of criteria of operation for a national investment bank .
15 My arguments concerning the broad possibilities and constraints given by the present structure of capitalist property are not supposed to have the status of a ready-made political programme , and in discussing the possibilities for investment planning as a fruitful avenue for socialist argument I make no pretence to have identified the means of conversion of ‘ social reason into social force ’ ( to use Marx 's formula ) .
16 In a sense , history is repeating itself in that the sequence of development in the past has also contained local ‘ boom ’ elements such as kelp gathering in the 19th century or the bulb growing schemes in the 1960's , both of which foundered in response to changes in external economic imperatives , although at the outset there were high hopes that unique local resources i.e. seaweed and disease-free sandy soils , would provide enduring employment opportunities .
17 The whole procedure is initiated by a demand for data arising at the first site .
18 Primary involvement , however , defined as lymphoma developing in the oesophageal wall itself , seems to be exceptionally rare , especially in its isolated form : we have been able to identify only six cases in which patients presented with oesophageal tumour as the only manifestation of lymphoma ( five Hodgkin 's disease , one non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma ) .
19 Primary involvement , defined as lymphoma developing in the oesophageal wall itself , is rare , especially in its isolated form when it is the only focus of the disease .
20 From this perspective , electoral politics were only one aspect of the struggle , and the parliamentary leaders were considered subordinate to the leadership of the mass party , which was at the same time the leadership of the class itself Conservative and liberal parties , however much they in fact represented class interests , saw themselves as parties functioning within an established social order and a system of political institutions in which parliament was supreme .
21 Forsaken as a route of any merit in ascent , it is the obligatory way down for parties summitting from the classic South Ridge of West Face climbs .
22 The definition of ‘ keeper ’ for this head of liability is the same as that for animals belonging to a dangerous species .
23 As for animals belonging to a dangerous species , a camel has been held to be such because it may cause severe injury by kicking and biting , but strict liability was imposed for injuries suffered by falling off the camel because of its irregular gait .
24 After ultrasound scanning including a functional assessment , 220 ( 78% ) patients were found to be suitable for percutaneous cholecystolithotomy .
25 after sun soaking on the sandy Levante beach , it 's only a 200 metre walk to the hotel .
26 There were clearly changes occurring , and the borderlines between social classes , never very clear at the best of times , were probably less precise than they had been before the First World War — though class barriers were by no means collapsing in the real world of health , education and social opportunity .
27 But plans to build the hospice on a site in Upton , Wirral , were blocked after people living near the proposed development claimed the centre would cause too much disturbance and a colony of protected bats would be driven away .
28 Twelve Zekes were used as window dressing for the Akagi scenes .
29 As there is much variation in numbers of thymocytes between mice of different litters of the same age but much less between mice belonging to the same litter , the numbers of total thymocytes are shown in comparison to wild-type or heterozygous littermates in a logarithmic scale .
30 The main issues outstanding were : ( i ) the reorganization of the national finances and the respective allocations to Flanders and Wallonia ; ( ii ) voting rights for French-speakers living in the Flemish suburbs around Brussels ; ( iii ) the reorganization of agricultural support mechanisms along regional lines ; and ( iv ) the allocation of seats to the European Parliament .
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