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1 Mr Benn got 38 of the 221 MPs ' votes cast in 1988 and , he ruefully noted this week , a much worse press .
2 In accordance with the recommendation of the Select Committee of The House of Commons ‘ on Foreign Office reconstruction' ’ , made in their Report , dated 13th July last , ‘ ‘ that a preference should be given to the successful competitors in the erection of the New Foreign Office , it is the intention of the Government to employ as the architect of the proposed building , in the event of the necessary funds being voted by Parliament in the ensuing Session , Mr. George Gilbert Scott , one of the successful competitors ' ’ .
3 The bell of St Mary Le Bow began to toll the curfew , the sign that all trading should cease , as four urchins pulled a huge yule log up to the door of one of the great merchants ' houses .
4 He 's not standing this time and has been replaced by one of the Liberal Democrats ' top backroom boys Sir William Goodhart .
5 One of the Liberal Democrats ' best chances of winning a new seat in next week 's general election lies in Hereford .
6 It remains a mystery to me why we should have had to wait as long as this for a recital disc , and why it should not have appeared on one of the major companies ' labels ( all credit to Delos ) .
7 HARD-PRESSED inner city comprehensive schools are likely to lose thousands of pounds a year under government plans to devolve financial management to heads , one of the largest teachers ' unions warns today .
8 He was sent to the remote town of Weewak — scene of one of the Japanese forces ' final stands in World War II — where a new European Hospital was being built to help the impoverished natives .
9 She had known him since he was a very small five-year-old , perched like a mosquito on one of the placid beginners ' ponies , so she told the class to carry on walking their ponies while she came to him .
10 Of the remaining three practices , one contributed for all but one of the 12 months ' data collection period , one supplied data for 10 out of 12 months , and one supplied data for eight months only .
11 Mr. J. C. Moult now became Vice-Chairman , and Mr. W.A. Kershaw was elected as one of the Old Stopfordians ' nominees on the Governing body .
12 The film was based on a saucy Twenties stage comedy by Robert Munro , better known as the late comedian Sonnie Hale , and it was not one of the Boulting Brothers ' best , despite the presence of some great British character actors .
13 One of the last Christmas ' success stories , The Bumblesnouts save the World is an ideal play for primary school children .
14 In 1989 only two of the Progressive Democrats ' six TDs were elected by votes given exclusively to their party .
15 In an effort to boost agricultural exports , the Economy Minister reached a " fiscal pact " with two of the main farmers ' organizations , the Argentine Rural Society ( SRA ) and the Argentine Rural Confederation ( CRA ) , on March 18 .
16 In all four of the six Bondholders ' Committee representatives supported the proposal .
17 ‘ We call for explicit guarantees of media and press freedom in the constitutions of all African countries as stipulated in Article 19 of the United Nations ' Declaration on Human Rights , ’ they stressed .
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