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1 The nature of immunisation programmes as a means of preventing infection is determined according to the prevailing circumstances of a particular country and readers in countries other than the UK should supplement this section with relevant local information .
2 While city agencies have argued that the encouragement of higher income groups into a low- or moderate-income area has a stabilising effect , the lobbying efforts of an apparently unrepresentative group , which also counted amongst its achievements the zone enforcement in respect of unlicensed multi-occupancy property and the installation of street furniture with public funding in character with the prestigious Deutschland Square development , raise the question of stability for whom .
3 As Liverpool have been all Greek to most First Division clubs for a decade , Swansea 's chances do not seem that brilliant , but … and that ‘ but ’ is the delight of the FA Cup .
4 There are illustrations and instructions for attractive lace edgings and several knitting patterns for a variety of lace garment styles , with a final section on how to design and work out your own patterns .
5 Bristol was so satisfied by what it had achieved in Queen Square after 1701 — a series of dull brick houses in a style that can be charitably described as Quaker 's Baroque — that the city 's builders virtually ignored the Palladian classicism that was sweeping the rest of England .
6 He leaned forward and patted Chuck 's arm encouragingly as the suit brought the malabar ponies to a halt outside Cholon 's biggest covered market .
7 In April 1992 the IRA bomb in St Mary Axe which destroyed the Baltic Exchange and caused about £300m damage led to the preparation of contingency plans as a result of which the consequences of this April 's bomb in Bishopsgate were to some extent mitigated .
8 The Offtackle Plan of November 1949 referred to the need to retard a Soviet advance , but the Americans continued to refine their contingency plans for a fighting retreat to such peripheral positions in or around continental Europe as proved tenable against a Soviet offensive .
9 They called for monthly limits for Nox emissions from a variety of solid fuels , with the highest being 400 mg per cubic metre .
10 She joined the Garter knights for a reception and lunch before the ceremony before deciding not to join them for the service at St George 's Chapel .
11 I do n't know what rugby coaches tell their try scorers before a game … let's hope in Gloucester 's case it 's something good because the Cherry and Whites are chasing the championship … we start our weekly roundup with them : here 's Mark Kiff
12 Difficulties arise with such techniques when it is necessary to choose both the objectives and constraint forms for a design condition that contains a large number of conflicting requirements .
13 In 1952 , Stevens argued that two inscriptions from Hadrian 's Wall , recording building operations by a levy from the Civitas Durotrigum Lendinienses , indicated a subdivision of the tribal territory , and that Ilchester was the obvious candidate for it– administrative centre , given its identification with the Lindinis of the Ravenna Cosmography .
14 A footnote in the report of the select committee records that there were 2,927 mandatory life sentence cases in a period of slightly more than 23 years , an average of 127 a year .
15 Paul Benson , who is aged 39 , will take over from John Goldsworthy at the 175-bed hospital , which is now one of the largest West Sussex employers with a staff of some 500 people .
16 Here one may be using negotiating skills within a relationship , with a home help organiser for example , and using counselling skill in deciding how far to push the claims of one particular client .
17 Feeding Apple Snails presents no problems ; algae and duckweed cleared from other tanks are rapidly disposed of ; and lettuce , cucumber and kitchen scraps of a vegetable nature are all eagerly taken .
18 It will also mean that Ulster patients will no longer have to be sent to English hospitals for heart operations in a bid to shorten the waiting list .
19 Tractor-mounted rotovators are expensive to buy and to operate , but small , manually controlled machines are useful for garden and inter-row field cultivations on a smallholding .
20 Colleges have also recognised the potential of HCIMA Certificate programmes as a means of helping the short term unemployed .
21 The new VMSclusters fully supports the use of FDDI as a network backbone interconnecting clusters nodes , and support for native FDDI adaptors as a cluster interconnect is promised .
22 Significant improvement in weight , haemoblobin albumin , calcium , and alkaline phosphatase values after a year on the diet also occurred .
23 * About 40 Greenpeace protesters cut off rail shipments to a Du Pont chemical plant to protest about the company 's production of CFCs .
24 A clerk lusts after a woman who is married to a merchant .
25 One problem in this area is that of the patient who for religious reasons objects to a blood transfusion .
26 Superantigens do this by bypassing the normal route of intracellular processing and binding directly as intact proteins to class II MHC molecules at a site distinct from the peptide binding groove ; they also bind to most allelic forms of class II molecules rather than to restricted alleles as do conventional peptide antigens .
27 It is already working with Ingres and Oracle on prototype databases for its server , which will be able to cope with SQL queries from a variety of sources including OpenVME systems and DRS6000 Unix boxes .
28 And then the it goes on about setting up the single but dynamic standards a setting system it 's called , divided into local level groups like a tier system , you get the Managing Director on the top and the ones at the bottom .
29 The traversal algorithm will visit the link objects in a frame in the order of their priorities .
30 For n moles of a gas the equation is
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