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1 From the clinical database of 75 trials held by Glaxo , who manufacture sumatriptan , 375 asthmatics have been identified who had been treated for 1214 migraine episodes .
2 More complex techniques have been developed for approximate string matching , allowing for possible spelling or recognition errors in the input word ( Hall and Dowling , 1980 ; Kashyap and Oommen , 1984 ) .
3 The perspector comes complete with full instructions for use and has been developed for fine art use .
4 We have also not mentioned the many different styles of analysis which have been developed for special parameter ranges .
5 Altogether she followed up 345 white American children who had been referred to the child guidance clinic for anti-social behaviour , 130 other referrals and 100 individuals who had attended neighbouring elementary schools who had not been referred for any specialist help , and who therefore provided a comparison group .
6 Several methods have been reported for isolating plasmid DNA for sequencing , for example alkaline lysis ( 1 ) and boiling ( 2 ) .
7 In contrast with what has been reported for cervical cancer patients , the lifetime number of sexual partners has not been found of significant , independent importance in the few case-control studies of anal cancer published so far .
8 Coun. Grant said he and Colburn parish council had been pressing for improved pedestrian safety at this point .
9 EUROPEAN funding for the Highlands worth £20 million a year could cover health initiatives — the first time that spending on health has been considered for such grant aid .
10 The hardwearing rubber outsole has been designed for hard court play .
11 In the past eight years , some 5,400 police officers have been freed for operational policing duties by civilianising posts which do not require the powers or skills of a police officer , representing an efficiency gain of around £100 million per year .
12 Experimental tests of the Hashin-Shtrikman and Hill-Walpole bounds , which lie , of course , within the Voigt and Reuss bounds do not appear to have been made for single polymer systems but , as discussed later in this chapter , they have been applied to a styrene-butadiene-styrene system and to a composite of glass beads and epoxy resin ( Arridge & Crowson 1979 ) .
13 Imaginative provision has been made for wheelchair-bound bird watchers at the Rutland Water Nature Reserve .
14 No provision has been made for any taxation liability that would arise is these assets were disposed of at their revalued amount .
15 London 's Victorian railway stations have been at the centre of the , now declining , spate of property development in the capital , as conveniently located derelict land and industrial/warehouse buildings have been exploited for new office accommodation .
16 The polytechnic which has already been commissioned for significant consultancy work into the performance of roofs , will conduct the statistical analysis assessing life-span criteria across a full spectrum of roof systems .
17 Many of the seafront hotels on the long esplanade have become nursing homes or been demolished for cliff-like apartment blocks with their individual balconies looking out to sea .
18 PLATO has been used for other library user education applications such at teaching the use of online catalogues ( see Chapter Three ) .
19 Lying to the south-west of Worcester city , St Wulstan 's had not historically been used for mental health services .
20 Centres have been used for cooperative curriculum development planning ( what in America would be called " curriculum workshops " ) , teachers in similar subject fields from a number of neighbouring schools meeting together to share inspiration , experience and effort .
21 These tests have been used for individual student assessment and as instruments for the product evaluation of instructional programmes .
22 This relatively simple wetland agriculture , Bloom suggests , would have required far fewer labourers than has been envisaged for raised field cultivation in Maya areas .
23 For years , people have been calling for sixth form studies to be broadened and updated , but now the pressures for change have become urgent .
24 ATWO-HOUR reduction in the working week , from 39 to 37 hours , has been negotiated for 3,000 North-east workers in the most significant break in the engineering strike since it began a fortnight ago .
25 ‘ We have been asking for this specialist help at the Memorial hospital for a long time now , but there has been no movement from the health authority over this matter . ’
26 An in vitro transcription assay has been used previously to probe a variety of drug-DNA interactions ( 10 ) and has been utilised for bidirectional transcription footprinting of drug sites on DNA ( 11,12 ) .
27 Five other Western nationals had been arrested for alleged border offences in August and September [ see pp. 39069 ; 39116 ] .
28 Writs have been served for outstanding advertising fees amounting to £16,000 , and it seems unlikely they will be paid — bailiffs were sent to the firm 's place of trading , but nothing of any value was recovered .
29 Now the case has been adjourned for social inquiry reports .
30 Inner Cities Minister Sir George Young declared the Herculaneum Dock has been earmarked for Private Finance Initiative cash , which will speed up the hunt for a private sector developer .
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