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1 MIND is now a large ‘ direct-care ’ organization , that is , it receives money in grants from NHS and local authorities to provide some of the elements of the total service described in Chapters 7 and 8 , and it employs a large number of staff to support and enhance the work of the volunteers .
2 When digits are presented in pairs to left and right ears , there is an almost universal tendency ( Broadbent , 1954 ) for subjects to report all of the items presented to one ear before reporting those items presented to the other ear .
3 Because he took over his new duties in the close season Love has not had too many opportunities to meet many of the players , but the squad have had two nets at Moray House College , Edinburgh , the last two Fridays and Love has been impressed by the effort put in by the players at these sessions .
4 Members enthusiastically supported the retiring national chairman 's Birthday Scheme to raise funds to give each of the widows and ex-servicemen £5 and a birthday card .
5 This chapter attempts to highlight some of the ways that policy considerations affect the provision of materials in academic and public libraries .
6 This section attempts to highlight some of the ambiguities involved in just two of the criteria by which the success of urban policy is commonly measured .
7 Here , then , was an important area of government intervention , pushing local authorities to tackle some of the problems of their own areas .
8 During the meeting with the dialogue partners , as it became clear that the USA expected Pacific countries to meet some of the costs involved in such an initiative , this initial enthusiasm waned .
9 One approach would be to create separate offences to cover many of the situations in which violence occurs , and to single out those situations in which there is some element of aggravation , such as attacks on law-enforcement officers .
10 Therefore in 1879 when the Company were solicited by the Charity Commissioners to nominate some of the Governors under the new Scheme they declined to do so .
11 Homoeopathy , with its remedies drawn from the mineral , plant and animal kingdoms , may well hold within its materia medica the stereo-specific , or shape-specific , keys to unlock many of the blocks which can occur in our internal functioning — our metabolic processes .
12 In the days when BR 's grant was allocated to over 300 individual services , a participant observed attempts to load some of the costs of main line services onto subsidized ones .
13 However , Winchester did make attempts to rebut some of the allegations contained in the notice itself .
14 contract with other services , and private and voluntary organisations to obtain some of the components of punishment in the community .
15 At the Trooping of the Colour it is manifestly impossible for the troops at the back of the massed formations to understand any of the words uttered by the OC parade on the opposite side of Horse Guards .
16 Their attempts to abandon many of the ideas and ideals of classical democratic theory were immediately challenged by other theorists ; while their celebrations of actually existing democracies founded on lukewarm politics and " a mainly passive electorate " were countered by the marked revival of popular activity and radical commitment which was already taking off in the late 1950s when these texts were being written and published .
17 And the Director General of Fair Trading was given the powers to exercise most of the functions earmarked by Crowther for the Credit Commissioner .
18 The fact that they tapped in to the rapidly expanding European market undoubtedly helped the giant US firms to offset some of the effects of slow domestic growth .
19 Even after legislative efforts to remove some of the anomalies , the complexity of the system was apparent in the number of authorities existing at a local level .
20 Available now on the Macintosh with a PC version due by early June , it represents a major upgrade from previous releases and attempts to satisfy many of the demands made by its users — Aldus claim an installed base of around 150,000 worldwide .
21 At the level of legal theory the natural-entity model of the company attempts to encapsulate many of the features of the corporatist countervision .
22 Accordingly , we reduced the sensitivity of our scanning sonars to eliminate most of the signals from fish , to the point where only larger fish registered in the surface layers , and the calibration fish , the 330-g trout , was barely detectable at 25 m .
23 When will he take steps to reduce interest rates to give some of the companies in Britain an opportunity to survive , fight and compete internationally ?
24 The university teacher in Britain , thinking of producing a tape-slide sequence to explain a particular concept or process to his students , may well need only to consider , with a production assistant , the learning objectives , the structure of the process to be considered , the best ways to exemplify this in the photographs to be taken , the graphics to design , and the commentary to write , and then turn it all over to the producer to put into effect , with his guidelines and help .
25 This explained why LGS was not used by mothers to treat many of the cases of loose stool presented by children , since the mothers ' diagnosis was of one other than daeria .
26 I helped the girls to wash some of the sherds and then wandered down to my favourite spot by the river .
27 He walked around the block a number of times to check all of the approaches , any possible escape route , then he picked up some hot coffee and a sticky croissant and settled in a doorway to watch .
28 The plan for the evacuation to be in groups of three had to be abandoned , as it would have taken 40 hours to get all of the men out and the gas collecting near them made it imperative that the exercise be completed in much less time .
29 This chapter , then , attempts to review some of the problems in environmental monitoring and prediction , describes some of the relevant scientific and organizational activities and looks ahead to what is likely to happen next .
30 We will consider , firstly , the question of omission ; then we will examine the issues concerned with bias in the statistics ; and thirdly we will look at attempts to overcome some of the problems with the official criminal statistics .
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