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1 Some women have acquired status as heroines ; Rosalba Carriera , Angelica Kauffmann , Rosa Bonheur , Berthe Morisot , Paula Modersohn-Becker and Käthe Kollwitz have found places in a pantheon of major talent from which there ought never to have been any question of their exclusion .
2 A charter in 1033 , granting the manor of Patrington to the Archbishop of York , describes the boundaries of the manor which , except on the south where changes have taken place along the river Humber , appear to coincide with the present boundaries of the parish .
3 Negotiations over the land , which includes a sports field , have taken place between the MoD and US naval authorities during the past year , but enterprise agency officials feel the delay in obtaining the land is hampering progress .
4 Eight thefts of cycles have taken place with a £500 mountain cycle stolen from Barnard Street , two cycles worth £400 from Hewitson Road and a Shogun Trailblazer worth £400 from Polam Road , for example .
5 Discussions have taken place with the Shropshire County Council Leisure Services Department with regard to the setting up of a Museum and they have given much helpful advice including a visit to the proposed building .
6 This consensual relationship was revealed in the remarkable absence of overt conflict and the high degree of union co-operation in the major changes in employment and working practices that have taken place on the railways over the past decades ( Hyman and Elger 1981 ) .
7 Nearly all transfers have taken place on the initiative either of prospective landlords or of mainly Conservative local authorities .
8 Since the ban was imposed by Margaret Thatcher , campaigners have argued for the restoration of union rights , and three secret meetings have taken place at the Cabinet Office , the last of them this afternoon ended in breakdown .
9 Since the ban was imposed by Margaret Thatcher , campaigners have argued for the restoration of union rights , and three secret meetings have taken place at the Cabinet Office , the last of them this afternoon ended in breakdown .
10 All these rebuffs by the electorate have taken place during a year in which Major has played the role of world leader : the Gulf war ; the Soviet coup ; the chairmanship of the G7 countries ; the Maastricht treaty on European economic , monetary and political union .
11 There are various Norman features , and a number of alterations and restorations have taken place over the centuries .
12 The original school was opened in 1913 by the Sisters of Our Lady of Evron , and although many changes have taken place over the years , the school continues to thrive and would like to mark this milestone by celebrating the life of the school across the decades .
13 We will now briefly examine each category , outlining the developments which have taken place since the beginning of the decade .
14 The very large collections of rocks , minerals and fossils from many parts of the world demonstrate the succession of changes that have taken place throughout the Earth over the vast span of geological time .
15 Over the last decade major changes have taken place in the structure of higher education and in the interconnections between its main components .
16 Changes that have taken place in the Highland Zapotec region of Oaxaca , Mexico , are a good example .
17 In the past decade , important changes have taken place in the leadership of Western and Eastern European states .
18 Since December 1989 peaceful demonstrations have taken place in the capital , Ulan Bator , in support of political and economic reforms .
19 The relatively small amount of movement in the national population total since the early 1970s , however , masks the considerable changes that have taken place in the composition and structure of the population .
20 After all , hundreds of fundamental revolutions involving the whole and almost completely illiterate populace of countries have taken place in the history of civilization .
21 This is partly because of a number of important changes that have taken place in the scale of the protest , the targets against which it has been directed , and the tactics that have been employed , but particularly because of some fundamental changes in the broader political social and economic context in which the protest is now taking place .
22 Speaking for the Socialists , the largest single group in the assembly , British MEP David Bowe ( Cleveland and Yorkshire North ) said ‘ We should all be conscious of the scandals which have taken place in the past , whether it be the dumping of waste in the Third World or the scandalous sham recycling of some waste so that it is disposed of in extremely environmentally unfriendly ways ’ .
23 Most of the changes have taken place in the past 200 and many in the past 50 years .
24 A number of Lions reunions have taken place in the past , but this will be the first one to be held in Ulster .
25 We are all aware of the considerable changes which have taken place in the University in recent years , particularly since 1981 .
26 Tell me , what are the changes that have taken place in the University over the past few years ?
27 Massive changes have taken place in the location and scale of investment , especially in manufacturing , since the middle 1960s ( Chapter 9 ) .
28 The determination or disposal is treated as a transfer of value by the beneficiary and the rate of tax payable is arrived at by reference to the total of it and any previous chargeable transfers by him unless the determination or disposal took place before 10/12/74 when , in implement of the undertaking in the White Paper ( Cmnd 5705 ) that in these circumstances any tax chargeable would be no greater than that which would be due if the trust were an individual who had made chargeable gifts equal to the capital becoming chargeable , the rate is arrived at by reference solely to the total of the determinations or disposals which have taken place in the trust since 25/3/74 , if by so doing the amount of tax payable would be reduced .
29 Paul Marsh , Chairman of the Property and Commercial Services Committee of the Council , said today ‘ The strategy reflects the enormous changes which have taken place in the profession over the last three years and the absolute need for firms of solicitors large or small to provide legal services to the public in the form which the public want those services supplied . ’
30 In the second place , it can be argued that similar changes have taken place in the relationships between parents and children .
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