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1 The 38 bulls sold averaged £1,738.57 compared with £1,665.24 last year and four steers were sold for an average of £475.13 .
2 Many of the older houses and walls are built of cobbles from the sea shore , and there is a fair amount of new building to accommodate young people and those who wish to retire here .
3 There was very little sign in this report of constructive planning to use social work skills to support old people and their carers .
4 ( 1983 ) investigated the speculative efficiency hypothesis using weekly data for six dollar-exchange rates ( pound , mark , lira , French franc , Canadian dollar and Swiss franc ) .
5 Many asylum seekers are middle class , but one need only visit Brick lane to see Bangladeshi people who are suffering a great deal because they are poor .
6 My own first research experience using biographical data was when I was studying the history of housing management in Britain and , inevitably , I looked into the work and times of the great nineteenth-century housing management pioneer , Octavia Hill .
7 A CLEVELAND town 's crime prevention panel is to get a £1,000 boost to help launch a range of projects helping young people to fight crime .
8 The narrow street that led into the town was lined with tall , thin houses painted pale fruit colours — apricot , rasp-berry and greengage .
9 Nowadays , multimedia means a computer using different media , such as a laser disc , a CD-ROM , cable TV and who knows what else .
10 The decision to include married people in this was both practically and theoretically crucial .
11 Moreover , attempts to classify self-reported data into disease categories are notoriously unreliable , and a disease-specific measure of need is required since the costs of treatment differ so widely .
12 The strike at the Royal Mail Research and Development centre in Swindon involves technical staff .
13 In childhood Crohn 's disease , attainment of remission using dietary means is particularly attractive , as the growth retarding effects of steroids can be avoided .
14 NEC Corp has new MIPS Computer Systems Inc R4000 RISC-based servers and workstations : two new models in its SuperServer UP4800 series and three new models in the EWS4800 workstation series .
15 Many local authorities fund crossing-patrol staff , who see children across the road outside schools , from budgets held by the police committee .
16 A joint money laundering steering group was convened to revise UK money laundering guidance notes for the financial sector and examine how a new statutory requirement for employers to train relevant staff in recognising and reporting suspect transactions will be met .
17 The steering group , under the chairmanship of of the Bank of England , is considering how the regulations ' statutory requirement on employers to train relevant staff will be met and will oversee production of centralised training packages .
18 Groups representing disabled people were horrified at the proposals .
19 Allsop 's auction was a record sell-out , with all but two of 111 lots sold for a total of £6.3 million , and other auction houses reported successful sales with average prices well above the guides .
20 Ward learning is however a gradual process , and the student can easily overlook the value of discussions of patients ' progress , the care supervised by a senior nurse and the opportunity to observe experienced people at work .
21 Thereafter the Board has considerable means at its disposal to implement these schemes , and is empowered to acquire land and buildings to promote activities and enterprises ( including the provision of grants and loans for these ventures ) and to offer advice and training .
22 The cumulative effects of off-duty allocation on the whole unit should be identified so that contingency plans to meet unexpected staff shortfall can be formulated .
23 Very often they just need the opportunity to meet other people in a similar situation , and in so doing learn to form new relationships again , but in a safe and caring atmosphere .
24 By living in a private house the student can be independent while having the opportunity to meet British people and to live in a British environment .
25 Just as the catechism sets out the substance of the faith for the lay people , so Primers , specifically designed prayer books to enable lay people to share in the liturgical offices of the Church , incorporated it into a series of devotions that daily and poignantly remind man of the cycle of salvation .
26 Mormons remain devout people .
27 The YPLL panel study asked young people : Where do you go and what do you do if you just want to be alone to think ? ’
28 Home recordings produced physiological data from 34 of 61 patients during subsequent clinical events .
29 English Nature , which advises the Government on wildlife issues , has embarked on an ambitious programme to restore endangered species .
30 In America banks including First Chicago , BankAmerica , Fleet Financial and Chase Manhattan have in recent months made cut-rate sales of property assets with a nominal value of $1 billion or so .
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