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1 The cash-and-carry transactions used to determine the CTD bond for a given futures price can also be used to determine the fair price of the futures contract once the price of the CTD bond is known .
2 In both cases too , those private choices in some cases bring about the tragedy of the commons ( Hardin 1972 ) .
3 Through the network of INSET courses , inspectors , advisory teachers and personal contacts hunt out the names of schools where outstanding work is taking place or schools that have a reputation for being generally good .
4 Along the road , another glimpse of the Buller of Buchan : they claim that in stormy weather the waves crash over the top of the Buller , a full two hundred feet .
5 Moreover , while there are good reasons for concern about the availability of services for ‘ revolving door patients ’ during the run down of the old psychiatric hospitals and while doubts remain over the capacity of district general hospital units to provide appropriate care to people in crisis , the relocation of the long stay population of psychiatric hospitals is achieving some successful results .
6 Doubts remain over the fitness of striker Ian Baird and midfielder Derek Ferguson , both of whom are suffering from hamstring injuries .
7 Disputes wage over the issue of whether or not nuclear families today are isolated from their kin .
8 the shifting legs prop up the hundredweights of dark .
9 Gallus himself died in 551 , and at his death the local clergy put forward the name of the priest Cato ; the bishops officiating at the burial of Gallus offered to consecrate Cato there and then , and to square the appointment with the king , who was only a minor , subsequently .
10 The followers of Eufrasius resorted to simony , backed by the financial support of the Jews , but the clergy put forward the name of Avitus .
11 How many English readers know even the title of anything he wrote ?
12 The following paragraphs set out the response of the University of Oxford to the HEFCE 's invitation in circular letter 17/93 to submit information on its strategic plans and financial forecasts up to 1996–7 .
13 Sound waves bounce off the sides of the channel as though they had hit solid walls , focusing the sound along the channel .
14 Alcohol-soaked cherries sum up the bouquet of this unusual Dornfelder .
15 In many sectors worries exist over the sufficiency of the mutual recognition approach .
16 After some 200000 words , there 's a confrontation as various parties struggle over the fate of the galaxy ; despite mental strife , group minds and energy screens this still consists of people sitting down to discuss the big situation .
17 Augmented by informal photographs , the contemporary words conjure up the feel of life in the 1930s , when cricket seems somehow to have been more wholesome and felicitous .
18 It is possible that efficiency considerations dominate once the nature of transactions is given , but that power is important in explaining their nature .
19 Captain McArthur said , ‘ Typewriters have n't the romance of Shopgirls .
20 However , there are also genuine grounds for the move towards abolition : the fact that some companies are virtually unauditable , especially those cash businesses under the control of a powerful sole proprietor ; the withdrawal of the Example 6 audit certificate , which gave the auditor some protection ; problems with PII cover where the level of small company audits was considered dis-proportionate ; clients ' complaints at the cost and disruption caused by the audit ; examples of overseas jurisdictions where audit is not mandatory ; and the general feeling among auditing firms that the small company audit risk/reward factors are out of balance .
21 Sharing and co-operation between siblings can be observed , and if fights break out the method of handling by the parents provides on-the-spot evidence of management skills .
22 His views show how the proponents of national efficiency linked together a concern for a renewal of leadership qualities with the generation of a cultural mystique through education .
23 The other isotopes mess up the workings of the nuclear reaction .
24 Some 126 companies make up the membership of the BSIA .
25 In Guyana 's interior , forest-dwelling Indians make up the majority of the population .
26 If English is to be dropped , parents worry over the ability of their children to hold their own in the jungle of career-making , where a knowledge of English carries a premium .
27 Data on the class background of both British and senior American judges show clearly the dominance of the upper classes .
28 As their national borders are currently defined , and as this book has decided to define the Pacific , thirty-three countries lie around the margins of the Ocean .
29 On Sulawesi , these lizards dig up the eggs of the increasingly rare maleo , a bird which buries its egg in the hot sand to hatch out .
30 The tanks are directly connected to one another by a balance rope attached to the centre of each tank and passing over pulleys set about the centre of each plane .
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