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31 The result is that ‘ a listed Church of England church has a chance of avoiding demolition nearly three times better than a listed secular building ’ .
32 In 1989 the Church of England Newspaper had a banner headline informing its readership that ‘ One New Church a Month ’ was being planted .
33 The role of England captain had a lot to do with the split .
34 This latter objective is also covered by visiting companies and talking about the requirements of HCIMA membership to encourage a link between their recruitment and training policies and the HCIMA membership criteria .
35 The early fakers of marble statuary used a variety of treatments to tone down the too obvious freshly carved surfaces , ranging from cold tea to the more sophisticated repeated acid bath treatments used by more recent fakers .
36 Professor Kagan of Harvard University studied a group of children at 21 months and again six months later .
37 In its first year of publication Kwetu had a circulation of one thousand , rising to three thousand by the early 1940s .
38 Obviously the lenient system of law enforcement constitutes a kind of opportunity structure denied to those subjected to higher rates of prosecution and the imposition of severe sanctions .
39 We used degenerate oligonucleotide probes designed from the peptide sequence common to all three peaks of GGF activity to screen a number of cDNA and genomic libraries and initially isolated a single bovine genomic DNA .
40 What is the evidence for some microenvironmental differentiation of rain forest supporting a diversity of species , each in the case of trees with very specific requirements in terms of nutrients , soil water content and so on ?
41 ‘ At about ten o'clock on May 20th , ’ he began , ‘ a man driving a petrol tanker on the north to south highway of Stowerton by-pass saw a car overturned and in flames on the fast lane of the south to north track .
42 Scientists will now decide whether to try again if the weather improves or attempt to shepherd the whales out of Scapa Flow using a flotilla of ships .
43 A company has been fined two thousand pounds for allowing almost fifty gallons of diesel fuel to pollute a river .
44 The discipline and profession of town planning became a beneficiary of this wider frame of social concern .
45 It was a plaintiff in the landmark 1969 US Court of Appeals decision to deny a Mississippi television station license renewal because of racial discrimination in its programming .
46 An attachment of earnings order requires a debtor 's employer to deduct monies direct from the debtor 's wage packet and pay off the debt over a period of months .
47 Sgt. Jolly of Rose Section claimed a share in shooting down the Ju88 , but his aircraft was also hit by A.A. splinters , whilst Jeffries aircraft was hit in the port wing by return fire .
48 In turn , similarity of sclerite structure suggests a link between halkieriids and the Coeloscleritophora , a diverse Cambrian group that includes siphogonuchitids , sachitids and chancelloriids .
49 Traditional methods of newspaper production involved a number of key processes ( see Fig. 4.4 ) .
50 With an air of disdain Gesner proffered a hand on a take-it-or-leave-it basis .
51 Other work can be seen as ‘ pure ’ landscape — stubble burning or fields of oilseed rape surrounding a standing stone .
52 This is followed by a consideration of bone breakage using a number of indices developed for this purpose .
53 The silos , which were built almost exclusively for the storage of milling wheat have a capacity of 33,000 tons .
54 The fourth largest lake in Iceland , it lies in the middle of an area of intense geothermal and volcanic activity , and its thirty-seven square kilometres of water surface provide a summer home to large numbers of waterfowl .
55 7 Locus standi ( to whom is the duty owed ) Leaving aside the question of duties of third parties who receive confidential information which is dealt with below , the question of locus standi to bring a claim for breach of confidence has not often come before the courts .
56 Section 2(1) of the Sale of Goods Act defines a contract of sale of goods as : ‘ a contract whereby the seller transfers or agrees to transfer the property in goods to the buyer for a money consideration , called the price . ’
57 Section 61(1) of the Sale of Goods Act defines a warranty as ’ … an agreement with reference to goods which are the subject of a contract of sale , but collateral to the main purpose of such contract , the breach of which gives rise to a claim for damages , but not to a right to reject the goods and treat the contract as repudiated . ’
58 Police Gen. Sawaeng Thirasawat , the police director-general , announced on May 16 , 1990 , that a 100-member police commando unit would be deployed in the south-eastern province of Chon Buri following a wave of violent crimes linked to business disputes .
59 Last week a Department of Environment inspector heard a planning appeal seeking to change it into a nursing home .
60 As an ideology of movement antislavery proposed a purification of social morality and socially ordained authority on the assumption that the result would be more stable .
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