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1 If in any particular case because of a failure of the court to follow the rules or the well established practice there is a likelihood that injustice may have been done … a case should be relisted for hearing . ’
2 During the First World War a number of Ministries set up regional offices and the newly created Ministry of Health set up nine regions — an experiment to be rudely terminated in 1921 as an economy measure .
3 The break-up of Pangaea ( Fig. 2.16 ) generated a considerable length of passive continental margins and analysis of the palaeomagnetic record of the continents and the subsequently created ocean floor has given us a fairly good idea of the timing of most of these rifting episodes .
4 It is tempting to see the House on the Hill at Vasiliki as a half-way stage in development between the informal village plans and the rigorously organized plans of the temples .
5 With , depending on your tyre sizes , Range Rover 3.54:1 diffs and the already fitted overdrive .
6 They are attempting to chart a career path through the foggy waters of appraisal , Special Responsibilities and the radically changed scenario of personal and school-based staff development .
7 But the Japanese soon realised the commercial potential of whaling and , adopting steamships and the newly invented harpoon gun , their fleets grew .
8 There were two side aisles and the centrally arranged seating consisted of wooden benches aisles and the centrally arranged seating consisted of wooden benches with cast-iron frames .
9 There were two side aisles and the centrally arranged seating consisted of wooden benches aisles and the centrally arranged seating consisted of wooden benches with cast-iron frames .
10 In this film it was at Carnforth Station in Lancashire , amid the bustle of comings and goings and the steadily hardening rock-cakes of the buffet , that the entwined lives of that most English and most gentle pair of lovers Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson reached crisis point .
11 They were not the only respondent of the survey who identified another clear advantage of headhunting , especially for the most senior positions : that staff who were prepared to move jobs actually prefer to be headhunted , rather than face the time-consuming task of ploughing through advertisements or the slightly demoralising task of putting their names down with agencies .
12 It is expected that the process will make it possible for rare and fragile mummies and other bodies such as the European bog bodies and the recently discovered Ice Man to be accessible to the public without putting the originals at risk .
13 By this time it was only the bullards and the newly created orders of masons that held the knowledge of the bull .
14 Her wig , a soft gold colour , was dressed to sit high on her head , emphasizing once more the high cheekbones and the slightly slanting eyes .
15 With a little help from your friends and the specially adapted boats , you can do just about anything .
16 Success or failure was in their own hands and the outward bound instructors acted only as safety supervisors .
17 A simple , single school-room with an entrance porch on the east side , it catered for the children of Shawell and the surrounding villages until after World War I. It is significant that even such a simple building as this was not immune from the stylistic preferences of contemporary architects and the steeply pitched roof-slopes of the schoolroom are ‘ stratified ’ with bands of alternating plain and fish-scale pattern tiles in true ‘ High Victorian ’ fashion .
18 The house next door , Number 3 , was let out as three flats , as can be seen from the three bell-pulls and the much worn doorstep .
19 In anticipation of an army coup , Croatia and Slovenia had placed on alert the security forces under their control — the police and the newly formed gendarmerie , the so-called specijalci .
20 A wide range of people were interviewed , everyone from mothers to children , the local police and the recently formed tenants ' association .
21 She sniffed with pleasure the fresh , clinical smell of the Scots pines and the newly creosoted palings .
22 For all his wayward impulses and the much documented erraticism of his '80s career , this contradictory figure has — through cunning , imagination and sheer force of will — constantly reassessed and reasserted himself as the most focused member of the old guard .
23 Their proposals are subject to the official sanctions of the ( European ) Council of Ministers and the democratically elected members of the European Parliament .
24 Many thousands of men were transported and housed in specially built camps , drawn from places as diverse as the sparsely populated Scottish highlands and the densely populated conurbations of Britain .
25 From Berwickshire and Bathgate he found rare specimens of at least four fossil land amphibians including the earliest known ancestor of frogs and salamanders ; millipedes and the earliest known harvestman spider .
26 These differences are to be explained in terms of those contexts and the socially agreed constructions of how these institutions should operate rather than in terms of any supposed intrinsic qualities of writing .
27 The contrast between these recommendations and the then enfeebled state of planning practice was striking .
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