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1 An index of selected projects carried out under the Alvey programme is being prepared .
2 Lorryloads of blooms rolled up to the Bel Air mansion where Liz , 60 , lay in bed , surrounded by her doctors .
3 Some systemically-desirable information , although part of the wider system , was not relevant to the actual activities carried out in the EPH .
4 Margaret had one of the first major heart operations carried out in the UK more than 27 years ago in Edinburgh .
5 Under guidelines drawn up by the US government last August , a company called Systems and Applied Sciences Corporation was due to supply the equipment .
6 SEVE Ballesteros has his eyes fixed firmly on the Ryder Cup clash at The Belfry in September — and is determined to play more match-play golf .
7 Cars skimmed past on the Earls Court Road , their headlights drawing his shadow again and again across the back of the booth .
8 Many of the biggest cities dated back to the Tokugawa period .
9 Its European outlet , Pinnacle Data Systems UK Ltd , is currently in talks with a European manufacturer to get its products made locally for the UK and continental markets .
10 This perhaps accounts for the expenditure on news media such as newspapers , teletext etc , and the continuous radio and television news programmes operated commercially in the USA , and planned for the UK. * the need to have an aesthetically pleasing environment , and to get rid of ugliness , pollution etc .
11 The third part , " Hiroshima Collection " , is a meticulously photographed series of artefacts from the 6,600 articles gathered together in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum .
12 Matters developed slowly in the Odiham Agricultural Society .
13 Of the 297 monitoring visits carried out by the ACCA in the year to 30 September 1992 , only 134 firms ( 45% ) were found to be satisfactory ; 139 firms ( 47% ) failed either because they had poorly developed quality controls over audit work or because some of their audit opinions were questionable ; and a further 23 firms ( 8% ) were considered to be ‘ potentially in breach of audit regulations or the ACCA 's professional conduct rules , to such an extent as to warrant immediate action ’ .
14 Louis moved down the Rhine by ship from Worms , Charles with his horsemen travelled overland across the Hunsrück ( " a difficult route " on which the benefits of hard training showed ) , to meet up at Koblenz on 18 March .
15 The rifle is one of two AK47 's used in the attacks carried out by the Ardoyne IRA unit which is believed to number up to 18 .
16 On April 14 a report on the attacks drawn up by the UN offices in Tehran and Baghdad was submitted to UN Security Council .
17 Silicon Graphics maintains it is still a technical , rather than a commercial Unix supplier and has its sights set firmly on the Cray Y-MP and Convex Computer Corp user community with its latest offerings .
18 In at least one other case the changes in organizational responsibilities brought about by the NHS and Community Care Act have weakened commitment to these expensive , difficult-to-serve clients and there is the prospect of return to cheaper , poorer-quality care in spite of the benefits experienced by individual clients .
19 Earlier figures given out by the US Army in January said that 23 US soldiers had been killed ( later amended to 26 ) and 323 wounded .
20 Much of what we now know about the tool-using behaviour of wild chimpanzees has come from the remarkable long-term studies carried out at the Gombe Stream Reserve in Tanzania by British primatologist Jane Goodall .
21 However , despite these encouraging figures , marketing studies carried out in the USA show that most home-gym equipment goes unused and only around 10 per cent of American adults engage in brisk , regular exercise .
22 On the basis of studies carried out in the UK , Europe and the US , the report concludes that car drivers are regularly exposed to levels of pollution up to 18 times higher than cyclists .
23 The products are said to prevent cancer , but studies carried out by the Us National Cancer Institute repudiate these claims .
24 Gas chromatographic methods for the determination of herbicides , for example Simazine and Atrazine , are being developed for use in groundwater-pollution studies carried out by the BGS 's Hydro-geology Group .
25 Widely publicized claims that quicklime can destroy the highly toxic pollutants , polychlorinated biphenyls ( PCBs ) are false , according to the results of experiments carried out by the US Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) .
26 As the years passed , a rabbi from the New York yeshiva was imported to instruct the Reichmanns ' children in a rigorous six-day schedule of studies based largely on the Talmud .
27 The administrative structures set up by the Colebrooke-Cameron Reforms , though subject to some change in the nineteenth century , remained largely intact until the early twentieth century .
28 ‘ Nobody can predict what will happen over the next decade , particularly with all the agricultural changes brought about by the EC , but East Anglia can grow some of the best and cheapest grain in Europe and we are well placed to benefit from that ’ .
29 She emphasised that only a small proportion of the 30 million eggs eaten daily in the UK would be affected .
30 Middlesbrough were well beaten 22–7 at Birkenhead in the ASA 's Plate competition for teams knocked out of the ASA 's club senior championship .
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