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1 In some of these cases the defendant appeared mentally normal when examined by the doctor , but the doctor was none the less willing to infer from the circumstances that there had been abnormality of mind at the time of the killing , and to write a report which brought this within section 2 .
2 For it was thought that the generalist could , whenever he wanted to , add a specialist dimension to his knowledge , but general concepts were less easy to derive from the specialist .
3 The next three-quarters of an hour were taken up with wondering why it was taking us so long to get from the airport to the Consulate , and what genius had decided to place the Consulate some hundreds of miles away .
4 It seems highly unlikely to result from the subdivision of territorial claims .
5 FROM the moment that Gary Mason announced his amiable presence at a gymnasium in London 's East End yesterday it was pleasingly evident that few fighters have been less inclined to flinch from the truth .
6 When positive wax models are used they are extremely difficult to extract from the clay and they would have been destroyed in melting them out .
7 The children and their families need a great deal of support during this time — support which it is not possible to provide from the Health Service .
8 It was not possible to know from the data available whether this was the defendants ' choice or magistrates declining to try them .
9 Later , Mr Vaz said the Chancellor , though sympathetic , ‘ was not prepared to depart from the Government 's view that there would not be any compensation ’ .
10 And one where if we 're not prepared to learn from the Europeans , whether it 's integrated transport in cities or whether it 's intercity links or wherever , we 're going to be in a great deal of trouble .
11 This is not to say that the researcher simply becomes the handmaid of the practitioner ; it is merely that the researcher who is not prepared to learn from the practitioner is arrogant and lacking in insight .
12 It is not easy to judge from the vantage-point of the late twentieth century , for in the second half of this century rural life has been more profoundly transformed than at any time since the invention of agriculture .
13 Not supposed to coach from the sidelines
14 It is not competent to appeal from the sheriff to the sheriff principal ( Troc Sales Ltd. v. Kirkcaldy District Licensing Board , cit . ) .
15 The magnitudes of dipole moment derivatives vary widely , and it is not safe to assume from the failure to observe a band that the corresponding mode is symmetry-forbidden .
16 Renamed after a chief architect of 1930s industrialization , this was the second largest city thus far to benefit from the process of restoring historic names .
17 The adverse circumstances appeared to be part of a chain of events : girls experiencing early disrupted parenting before being admitted into care were most likely to return from the institution to a discordant home .
18 Kansas , North Dakota , Minnesota and Montana were the states most likely to benefit from the legislation .
19 Later , when the interview appeared , overprinted on Miranda 's scrawly , twiddly and multicoloured impressions of the shoot , it was translated and edited to read ( though it was rather hard to decrypt from the graphics ) :
20 It would therefore be incredibly naive to conclude from the PIMS data that it is erroneous for companies to increase capital intensity — when their snapshot was taken by PIMS they might still have been waiting for their day to come .
21 Not always content to watch from the sidelines , some of them have joined in with their more confident brand of anti-lesbianism .
22 The study suggests that women under 50 with breast cancer are more likely to die from the disease if it is first picked up by mammograms than if they discover the lump by feeling their breasts .
23 The seminal thinking on this problem is much more likely to come from the periphery than the centre .
24 And if it seemed surprising to reflect that the supremely versatile Hampshire trainer has not yet struck in our Classic races , it was even more incredible to learn from the man himself that Dead Certain 's victory in the richest two-year-olds race ever run in this country was his first success in a group one event .
25 Although Germany had steel mills as early as the 1780s and a railway line by 1847 , it was still able to learn from the mistakes and avoid the dead-ends of its competitor neighbours .
26 The arbitration of right action is again much more open to influence from the world of adults and , in particular , teachers .
27 As fossil fuels become more difficult to recover from the earth 's crust , and supplies diminish , prices will shoot sky high , just as they did in the oil crisis of 1973 .
28 The 1970s are more difficult to categorize from the point of view of planning and national politics .
29 This paper is one of the most important to emerge from the Council since the consultative paper on Advanced Courses in 1987 .
30 Thirdly , it is often impossible to tell from the inventory whether a person was poor or whether he was living in comfortable retirement , having already passed on most of his estate to his children ; a yeoman with very few possessions is likely to have been in the latter category .
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