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31 Oh yes , if you want to know our assessment read New Scientist 20 January , p 160 .
32 Yesterday at Lord 's the Test and County Cricket Board announced separate deals involving both Sky TV and British Satellite Broadcasting for the transmission of a large segment of the domestic game for the next three years .
33 Yesterday at Lord 's the Test and County Cricket Board announced separate deals involving both Sky TV and British Satellite Broadcasting for the transmission of a large segment of the domestic game for the next three years .
34 In the United States the State of California 's Air Resources Board announced new regulations for petrol on Nov. 24 , requiring a 30 per cent cut in emissions of air pollutants by March 1996 .
35 Then she dawdled through the mews where the milk-horses were shod , and the blacksmith made new railings to put in front of the houses .
36 In an argument no doubt intended to be attractive to Manchester 's merchants and employers — local abolitionists had specifically asked him to write on the impolicy of slavery and the slave trade — he declared that freedom produced cheaper labour than slavery .
37 Neither pairing produced conclusive evidence , such was the low key nature of United 's approach .
38 Neither pairing produced conclusive evidence , such was the low-key nature of United 's approach — and Ferguson refused to say which twosome he would go for .
39 In Saphery , even then a realm famed for its sorcerers , Wizard Prince fought Wizard Prince .
40 The New Zealand Toxic Substances Board produced two reports in 1989 in which they compared consumption in 33 countries and prevalence in 20 advanced-economy countries over periods between 1970 and 1986 .
41 Dutch ban polluted British water
42 A closer look revealed many discrepancies , the most serious being that the selection procedures had obscured certain factors of the disease itself , and its progress .
43 At each of the 40 junctions the driver made two judgments .
44 The position would have been very different in the case of a payment made some years before which was sought to be recovered because a court in another case had ruled that the regulation under which the demand had been made had all along been ultra vires .
45 When the college closed in 1797 the building housed several city departments , and now houses the chamber of commerce .
46 He was thus encouraged to believe that the Cambridge Board entertained some doubt over the strength of its case for unilateral action and was therefore anxious to reach a negotiated agreement with the WEA prior to making any application for additional Chapter III providing powers .
47 He did n't want money made that way ; he did n't want the humiliation .
48 We found that the course effected major changes in five of the six women .
49 The Sunderland board met last night when the ticket distribution was the main item on the agenda .
50 An important part of that letter which impinges directly on new clause 5 , and makes it essential that the new clause is accepted , was that the right Hon. Gentleman said that before British Rail made any investment plans for rural areas is should consider bus substitution .
51 As I argued in the previous chapter , boxing was the first sport in which institutional arrangements permitted a black presence : almost every weight division produced black boxers of such brilliance that they were virtually without equals ( see Henderson , 1949 , 1970 ; Maher , 1968 ) .
52 Leonard himself was enthused to make his own music , an inspiration which developed from being induced to learn the piano as a young boy with Miss McDougall , in which he said that neither he nor his sister made any headway .
53 Where they could , they increased the proportion of their wholly or majority owned foreign affiliates between 1977 and 1982 ( Contractor , 1990a ) .
54 British Aerospace announced 3,000 losses and the closure of its Hatfield plant .
55 So the Guardian made some inquiries .
56 Beldam LJ reviewed the authorities and stated that deciding whether the defence applied involved answering two questions .
57 The taxpayer owned 560,500 shares ( allowable cost £214,602 ) in C Ltd , which in turn held 75,328 shares in Lasmo .
58 The GMB union claimed today the industrial tribunal 's decision revealed double standards .
59 On the same day the Moldovan parliament passed four laws on military affairs and on March 18 Snegur became C.-in-C. of the Moldovan armed forces .
60 Nor could the citizens of Northern Ireland claim that the agreement gives them a legal right ( although possibly a moral or political right ) to a referendum before the British Parliament passed pertinent legislation .
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