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1 WALLPAPER designer Osborne & Little has taken a pasting in France .
2 WALLPAPER designer Osborne & Little has taken a pasting in France .
3 Yes I that that does seem a bit odd .
4 That that 's got a sort of a
5 ‘ We do have to bear in mind that we need to achieve high standards of training , but we also have to recognise that this does have a cost element , ’ Mr Armitage says .
6 Above all , what is clear is that this has become a poker game only for those with the steadiest of nerves .
7 And that does include a policy fee
8 We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm i it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who are made , made redundant , going to the company and swelling their balance sheets , while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation when their pensions were not made up to the same extent .
9 We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who were made , made redundant going to the company and swelling their balance sheets while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation , when their pensions were not made up to the same extent .
10 That was a Day Centre for erm mentally handicapped people , and that 's got a reprieve .
11 Tomatoes need to go in a bag or else they 'll roll about all the over the place see if you can spot , the small-ish ones , but not like that , see cos that 's got a mark on it , we do n't want that one .
12 Each draws significantly upon previously existing courses and each attempts to fill a gap in the current national provision of undergraduate education .
13 Both pockets have two retaining straps with quick release buckles and this does mean a lot of excess strapping when the pockets are n't full .
14 There has always been some concern over levels of public spending and taxation , and this has played a part in the arguments about the scope and direction of social policy that are described in Chapter 13 .
15 ‘ We are already behind on our non-professional staff training programme and this has necessitated a review of training methods .
16 GRIST regulations ( section 9 , DES , 1986 ) allow the curriculum component of advisers ' work to be a charge against DES funds and this has released a number of posts frozen by local government cut-backs .
17 This leaves pension funds with a very wide range of powers over the selection and management of investments and this has attracted a degree of adverse attention in recent years .
18 The rule against prior restraint is designed to allow publishers to publish even if this means betraying a confidence — a betrayal which , as Lord Denning points out , may be very much in the public interest — so long as they pay any damages that may be appropriate .
19 Regarding the diabetic specialist nurse , yes , of course we would welcome a special unit , but that does seem a bit extravagant when they say they can not find enough money for one nurse .
20 But this has cast a shadow over the College .
21 While this does provide a demonstration of the sort of facilities that a drawing package could provide it is far from being a good example .
22 Whilst this does provide a picture of greater diversity of ownership ( and thus competition ) ( Table 4.3 ) , it also highlights aspects of concentration .
23 Yeah , 'cos that 's got a radio you can use with it , as well .
24 QP is part of WML and as such has made a covenant or promise to both the Collict and Meikle families to support them as they seek to serve the Lord out in Brazil .
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