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1 From this it can readily be seen that only 56 institutions are of the size advocated in ‘ Better Schools ’ and yet this 19% caters for nearly half the student population whilst 148 sixth forms ( 52% of the total ) each with less than .
2 Today nearly half of all the vines grown in the white wine vineyards of Champagne are of the Pinot Meunier variety — a practicality only possible because of Pérignon .
3 The famous ‘ spider woman ’ of Erddig duly appears on the cover of The Servants ' Hall , but most of the accounts are of the menservants .
4 The 275 acres of pasture are of the best and surround the house on all sides , undulating towards distant hills — and to Dublin airport only half-an-hour away .
5 The copies are of the Tyrannic ides , Harmodios and Aristogeiton , by Kritios and Nesiotes ( the nature of whose collaboration we do not know ) , set up in the Agora at Athens in 477/6 to replace those by Antenor , carried off to Persepolis by Xerxes .
6 These three cases are of the best , and none of them is particularly convincing .
7 Many of the matters which are discussed within this framework are of the greatest importance for social anthropology .
8 Movements of base level are of the utmost importance in understanding landforms in most parts of the world , for the earth 's surface is in an unstable period of its history .
9 The forms are of the Letter Rogatory itself , which follows the functional layout of the Hague ‘ Request ’ rather than the formal , almost supplicatory , style of a traditional letter rogatory ; a statement of Essential Information for the Addressee , corresponding to the Hague ‘ Summary of the Document to be Served ’ ; and a Certificate of execution or non-execution again on the model of the corresponding Hague document .
10 It therefore lacks the precise single end point of studies of survival after infarction but for the patient who survives an acute coronary attack questions such as whether he will be able to return to work and earn his living , to lead an active family life and to enjoy his leisure pursuits are of the greatest importance .
11 Psychoanalysis , through its work with neurotics in modern society , has found that the Oedipal conflicts are of the most profound importance for later life , and the child 's handling of these earliest sexual feelings and actions towards both parents has lasting significance on later relationships .
12 Mangolds are of the ‘ beet ’ family with the characteristic multiple seed .
13 On the other hand , after seeing what he was doing with his electrified guitar , it is entirely possible that Mr Rossi 's aficionados are of the opinion that they are getting the best of both worlds .
14 Historically , executive pension plans are of the money purchase type .
15 This is zero only if the distribution is monodisperse , that is , all molecules are of the same size , and we have which is .
16 The idea of a view and the vision of Boullee are of the same order of thought and sight .
17 Unfortunately , due to the troubled times in this area of central Europe , little survives of early Gothic building ; the great Czech monuments of the Middle Ages are of the fourteenth and fifteenth century , and even later , and are , in consequence , in the richer , more decorative Gothic style .
18 IT is , I am reliably informed by one whose manners are of the best , perfectly correct when served dinner to begin to eat even if table companions have not yet been served .
19 Where efficiency and speed are of the essence , investors will look elsewhere .
20 The combinations are of the form where C is the value of the principal component for a particular pixel , and a , b , c and d are coefficients derived from the correlations between the bands .
21 Similarly vertical parabolas are of the form where n is an even number .
22 A number of our readers are of the opinion that those who did contribute displayed a similar lack of foresight .
23 The Revenue are of the view that a taxpayer 's home ( even if a rented flat ) can be his main residence even if he does not own it .
24 I would imagine that most chairs made by craftsmen are of the spindled variety , from the Windsor to the Shaker and many shades in between .
25 These concentrations are of the same order as those found in the plasma of patients taking 5-ASA preparations orally ( 10–15 µm ) and are far lower than those required to inhibit cyclo-oxygenase , lipoxygenase , or the binding of FMLP to neutrophils ( IC 5 10 , 6 , and >5 mM respectively ) or those found within the colonic lumen of these patients ( 10–20 mM ) .
26 Today , the wines produced from the slopes below Mutigny and on the spur of the Clos des Goisses are of the highest grand cru quality .
27 All the tone controls on this preamp are of the active variety , which offer a more discernible tonal colouring than their passive cousins .
28 Most of the farm weights and unofficial weights are of the crude variety ( compared to the loom weights ) but when you add their existence to the three bronze coin weights that also came from the same field something of a picture starts to build up .
29 Some of the project management variables are of the same type as the operations data , that is , numerical .
30 My lasting impressions of Plas-yn-Rhiw are of the great clumps of Fuchsia magellanica , its soft hazes of scarlet toning so well with the grey wall ; of an old pear tree and forsythia growing through the roof of the ruined dairy ; of the superb Magnolia campbellii mollicomata , planted by the Keatings in 1947 ; and of squeezing between box hedges down narrow grass passageways and ducking under arching pink rhododendrons and car-mine camellias as I followed the curving stone and cobbled paths .
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