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1 Basil 's Notes for a Teachers ' In-Service Course at Hoyland Teachers ' Centre February 1953
2 Farmer Jack Gibson submitted plans for a visitors ' centre , caravan site , holiday cottages , log cabins and homes for sale at Hall Hill Farm , near Lanchester , which attracted 20,000 visitors to open days last year .
3 John Major juggled a pledge to privatise the rail and coal industries with plans for a citizens ' charter to guarantee public services .
4 Although there has been considerable support for a Teachers ' Council , the proposal has made little headway .
5 A new telephone hotline will be established by York City Council to deal with parking problems in the Barbican area under new revised proposals for a residents ' parking scheme .
6 Specimen memorandum of association for a solicitors ' incorporated practice which is a company limited by shares
7 Specimen articles of association for a solicitors ' incorporated practice which is a company limited by shares
8 Specimen memorandum of association for a solicitors ' incorporated practice which is an unlimited company having a share capital
9 Specimen articles of association for a solicitors ' incorporated practice which is an unlimited company having a share capital
10 Scott for a farmers ' forum at Stockton Cricket Club on Thursday .
11 If this is so , then the issue should be formulated as one of whether the existence of corporate power is sufficiently objectionable to defeat the prima facie justificatory force of a rights ' claim .
12 Service companies The attractiveness of service companies in the administration of a solicitors ' practice will by and large depend upon the perceived fiscal advantages at any particular time ( see Chapters 5 and 10 ) .
13 It is not the purpose of this or the following chapter to present a comprehensive guide to the administration of a solicitors ' practice or to advise as to the ways in which its profitability can be increased .
14 In addition , in February 1974 , these interlocking groups had special reasons for wanting a Conservative government returned apart from the fear of a miners ' victory leading to anarchy and national bankruptcy .
15 When that will was vitiated either by the monarch 's evil counsellors or , as the later theoreticians of military indiscipline were to maintain , by the corrupt operation of Parliamentary institutions run by a clique of national ’ politicians , then it could be salvaged by the heroic gesture of a general or the conspiracy of an officers ' mess .
16 Twenty years old as she was , Ella had beaten her big sisters to the altar : Alice Maud , the eldest , waited a further two years before marrying Frank Foote , a clerk in Godsell 's Brewery in Stroud , Gloucestershire , in which town she herself had served an apprenticeship with a ladies ' hairdresser in High Street .
17 THE BEATLES and other former pop stars are set for a new royalties bonanza under an artistes ' rights deal agreed by the EC yesterday .
18 It would prevent our living in a fools ' paradise of false prosperity .
19 ( Now thanks to Nancy Barclay 's resourcefulness and the generosity of her employers we are storing books for Christian Aid in a lawyers ' office until Mrs. Paton 's cellar is ready again ) .
20 Last week I gave a talk to a parents ' committee in one of our schools on how to make a constitution — I felt I was contributing to the growth of grass roots democracy in South Africa .
21 They are now recognised as a branch of the British Conservative and Unionist Party , but only thanks to a peasants ' revolt within that party , and no thanks at all to the mandarins of Central Office .
22 Unfortunately this constitutes only the assessment of a candidate 's suitability for entry to an interpreters ' qualifying course .
23 THE body of a new-born baby was found yesterday in a locker at a girls ' grammar school .
24 Namibia requested some US$270,000,000 for each year of its 1990-92 reconstruction programme at a donors ' conference in New York on June 21-22 .
25 STARS & STRIPES became Stars & Gripes yesterday , as her crew made no attempt to conceal their disgust at an umpires ' decision which cost them their race against Bill Koch 's Kanza .
26 I thought of Compton Mackenzie 's brave words at a Nomads ' Club dinner where I was his guest about the mystical experience of people loving their countrymen through loving their country and , by re-creating themselves , re-creating their nation .
27 Another possibility worth considering is taking articles with the clerk of a magistrates ' court with a view to this type of appointment .
28 There still remains the primary need for all agreements , however limited in scope , which affect the partners to be set down clearly and exhaustively in writing to avoid subsequent dispute : such writing may range from the proper minutes of a partners ' meeting to a separate manual describing a firm 's management process as a guide , in the largest firms , to enable every partner and every employee to identify the person responsible for any particular aspect of the firm 's administration .
29 He was RTS television reporter of the year in 1977 , when the award was first introduced , for his coverage of a mercenaries ' trial in Angola .
30 This demonstration was the first independent action on the part of a teachers ' association ; previously , they had been government controlled .
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