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1 From the seven candidates eventually interviewed for the vacant headmastership , Mr. Alfred Edward Daniels was appointed .
2 From the responses just deduced for the first three Chebyshev orders it may be appreciated that , for all orders , the transfer function ripples between unity and in the pass band .
3 On this basis , the nuclear programmes still accounted for the vast bulk of the capital and turnover and such profits as there were .
4 If there are special political reasons then their use is justified to the extent that it enables individuals better to act for the ordinary reasons which apply to them .
5 The decline in the number of farm workers partly accounts for the peculiar age structure of the industry .
6 Instead of the relatively modest array of administrative buildings originally conceived for the Civic Centre , she had the imagination to propose a grandiose solution fit to commemorate the rule of Nicolae Ceauşescu .
7 In spite of the request for an immediate return , which accompanied the new pink slip , to the office or to Jean Parmiter with the required information over 60 teachers had to be contacted by telephone , a time consuming and expensive way of acquiring the figures etc. needed for the Annual Report .
8 And the DUP lost its stronghold in Ballymena , dropping two seats and giving the Ulster Unionists overall control for the first time in 15 years .
9 The Mersey building programme had continued at an impressive rate throughout 1990 with orders recently placed for the last 14 fibre reinforced composite ( FRC ) boats — due to be completed within the next 22 months .
10 Early bird catches worm : there are two programs already shipping for the still-unavailable Microsoft Windows NT-run Alpha AXP , Digital Equipment Corp says .
11 ‘ You Americans always go for the corny ones , ’ he says , but he plays it just the same , and he delivers a good strong solo at that .
12 Many former CD voters apparently voted for the Northern League , which — with the Lombardy League as its core — won 17 per cent in the north of Italy .
13 Within months , Scargill 's warnings of substantial pit closures were transformed into reality : the NUM was unable to resist — with most of its members at the affected pits rapidly opting for the generous redundancy terms — and with the privatization of the electricity-generating industry at the end of the 1980s the ability of many British mines to compete was in question ; closures were instituted even in the more productive fields .
14 Matthew , who must run 11 seconds faster to qualify for the English Schools Championships , said : ‘ It was very windy , especially on the back straight . ’
15 It is felt that sufficient services already exist for the mobile phone network .
16 The instruments already used for the special place exam were the easiest to adopt , and existing eleven-to-fourteen-year-olds took the exam for reallocation .
17 Although some of this variation may be attributed to inherent reliability problems in the computation method or original poor data quality , other geological factors probably account for the greater part of the observed variation .
18 Road we will have to consider though against other schemes also competing for the next waive of funding .
19 A good example of this well into the twentieth century is the evidence of the Women 's Co-operative Guild investigation into Maternity during the First World War , which found that pregnant working-class women often saved for the coming confinement by stinting on food , and there is plentiful evidence of similar attitudes earlier .
20 McDonald has summarised the objectives of the programmes specifically designed for the unemployed :
21 Mazda had tyres specially made for the AZ-1 to reduce unsprung weight .
22 That adjourned meeting should be so fixed as to allow those who had not timeously lodged their applications or objections to have these applications or objections timeously lodged for the adjourned meeting of the board .
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