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1 In 1775 Percival Pott recognized that scrotal cancers rarely occurred except in chimney-sweeps , an observation which has become famous as one of the earliest records of an industrial cancer .
2 The 1909 Royal Commission on the Poor Laws found that for widows the first recommendation of 1871 was generally observed , some Boards of Guardians going further and insisting that the widow maintain two children by herself before any relief was given , while others refused relief to healthy able-bodied widows no matter how many children they had .
3 Harrison and colleagues found that for vessels with a residual lumen of less than 0.4 square mm in cross-sectional area , there was a high incidence of re-thrombosis . "
4 Emile Zola declared that ‘ our artists must find the poetry of stations as their fathers found that of forests and rivers ’ and the station has been securely enshrined in every aspect of art and culture .
5 In 1983 , for example , Gallup found that of voters who placed themselves on the political left and right , 22 per cent placed themselves at various ranges of the left end of the scale ( from ‘ far ’ to ‘ slightly ’ left ) , 51 per cent placed themselves on the right , and 13 per cent regarded themselves as middle of the road .
6 NGL found that with FMS stock work in progress is now being turned over 24 times a year as opposed to the previous 3.3 times .
7 Yet these same mothers found that over months there was often a gradual increase in the severity of symptoms …
8 The particular importance of housing tenure has been noted already : Townsend found that among respondents renting council accommodation only 20 per cent rated themselves as middle class while among owner-occupiers 40 per cent did so .
9 Dr Benton found that in trials , university students who sat tests two hours after breakfast performed Medical Correspondent better than those who started the day on empty stomachs .
10 A recent Government survey found that in women , the average intakes of iron from food were below the recommended levels .
11 We found that in areas of Southern Norway and Sweden , and areas of Scotland where there are hard granite rocks and thin soils , that many of the lakes and streams have shown er a progressive acidification since the industrial revolution , and that this has accelerated in recent years , until about ten years ago , when er the emissions of So2 from the U K , particularly fell , about , between about nineteen seventy and er today of about thirty or fell forty per cent drop .
12 Staerk Laursen et al estimated colonic concentrations by means of in vivo dialysis of faeces and found that in patients in steady state with inactive ulcerative colitis concentrations after olsalazine ( Dipentum ) and Asacol were almost double those seen with equimolar doses of Pentasa and salofalk ( Claversal ) .
13 Ingram reported that for children with phonological disorders , imitation tasks lead to fewer errors compared to spontaneous speech .
14 Furthermore , Cattan et al reported that in patients with atrophic gastritis , the gastrinaemia was similar for patients with slight , moderate , and marked hyperplasia of argyrophilic cells .
15 The student demonstrations against corruption occurred because of illegalities exposed as a result of his high standards of probity .
16 However , while preparing for its first congress , a split occurred because of disagreements over private ownership of the means of production and land .
17 ( A ) Recombinant RAP30 ( r30 ) and RAP74 ( r74 ) expressed and purified as in Methods were analyzed on 10% SDS-PAGE along with HeLa native TFIIF purified as in ( 24 ) and visualized by silver staining. 1 .
18 The union agreed that in cases of disagreement the final decision should be taken by SSC , not Michael Taylor .
19 I never realised that with X-rays , no news can be good news .
20 Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. announced that for reasons to be given later the court would order that W. be transferred to the proposed specialist unit and there receive treatment without her consent .
21 In 1974 the Secretary of State , Mr Gordon Campbell , announced that after discussions with the Lord Advocate , he proposed to take no further action and a year later , after a change of government , his Labour successor Mr William Ross said he was n't going to act either .
22 The ministry revealed that in experiments one pig had developed spongiform encephalopathy after its brain had been injected with BSE-infected tissue from a cow brain .
23 McGregor ( 1960 ) argued that within organisations the style of management is also important in determining how an organisation operates .
24 My right hon. Friend the Member for Llanelli ( Mr. Davies ) disputed that in terms of the cost of gas and he had every reason to do so .
25 And I believed that to others I who looked thus strangely upon them , I also was strange .
26 At Rome in the 250s a split occurred between the rigorists led by Novatian who believed that for apostates there could be no restoration in this life , and those who saw no restriction in the Lord 's committal of the power of the keys to bind and loose .
27 He added that in countries such as Italy the authorities charged double rates for the installation of such amenities as telephones , electricity and gas in second homes .
28 As civilisation evolved painters noted that near objects can overlap distant objects .
29 An expert group convened by the WHO in 1981 noted that in populations where CHD was uncommon , average adult cholesterol levels did not rise above 200 mg/ 100 ml ( 5–17 mmol/l ) .
30 It seemed that at times he wished to bolster up his psychoanalytic theories with appeals to ‘ hard data ’ in natural , biological sciences .
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