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1 The brewery was closed by Brent Walker in 1989 but a management team bought the site and restarted brewing a year later .
2 A communiqué signed by the then Soviet Foreign Minister Boris Pankin included a denunciation of the Soviet Army 's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and a commitment by the Soviet Union to assist the postwar restoration of Afghanistan .
3 Andy Russell put the home side in front but a mistake by Kingstonian keeper Adrian Blake allowed Tony Adcock to grab the equaliser .
4 Open war was declared against Scotland in 1542 and against France in 1543 ; campaigns were mounted against the Scots in 1542 , 1544 , and 1545 ; a small expedition was sent to Flanders in 1543 and a large one to France in 1544 .
5 His provision of seventy hides of land for Benedict 's new foundation in Wearmouth in 674 and a further forty hides for his parallel foundation in Jarrow in 681 associated him with the two houses , which were to become pre-eminent in Northumbrian monastic culture and scholarship .
6 The next village just down the road Lartington stayed loyal to the Church of Rome which led to a spot of tension now and then The Church of England established their place of worship in 1796 then built St Cuthberts in 1881 and a school in 1894 .
7 He joined as an assistant malting manager at Ipswich , and was made head maltster in 1968 and a director of in 1973 .
8 Already a common councilman for Queenhithe ( since 1711 ) and a well-known opponent of the great Whig financiers who dominated the City 's upper court , he became alderman for the Tory ward of Castle Baynard in 1722 and a leading City critic of Sir Robert Walpole .
9 The Federative Republic of Brazil became independent from Portugal in 1822 and a federal republic in 1889 .
10 Pending the finalisation of the selection scheme additional applications have had to be made for approval of an interim scheme for entry in 1992/93 and a developed scheme for 1993/94 .
11 In 1905 there appeared in Cardiff an unregistered union noted by the Board of Trade as the " British Stewards , Cooks , Butchers and Bakers " which had three branches in 1907 and a membership of a little over 2,000 .
12 In October GCE and Fiat merged while Renault 's share cross-holding with Volvo was accompanied with the prediction in November 1990 of 2,500 job losses in 1991 and a further 5,600 job losses in 1992 .
13 For example , foreign electronics firms have pre-empted the creation of a domestically-owned electronics industry in all but a few countries .
14 The USSR became a regular participant in international conference diplomacy at the Genoa Conference in 1922 ; initially hostile to the League of Nations , describing it in 1919 as a ‘ Holy Alliance of capitalists for the suppression of the workers ' revolution ’ , the USSR became a member in 1934 and was in turn a founding member of the United Nations in 1945 and a prominent member of its Security Council .
15 I believe that music-lovers are deluded when they claim to find artistic pleasure in any but a fraction of this music .
16 Schools in all but a few pockets of the county are expected to find enough people willing to stand for election in September when 1,600 governors are due to be appointed .
17 He joined Hampshire in 1970 and a couple of years later the selectors were enquiring after him , but he chose to await his chance with West Indies .
18 To have faced only one Mrs Gould in eleven and a half years shows how much , not how little , television let Mrs Thatcher get away with .
19 Jean Rhys virtually disappeared as an author between 1939 and 1966 , and Flann O'Brien 's At Swim-Two-Birds passed similarly through a penumbra of neglect between first publication in 1939 and a popular reissue in 1960 .
20 He was created baronet in 1895 and a privy councillor in 1906 .
21 Seven of these cows and one of the bulls , along with two bull calves , were taken into the care of the Ministry of Agriculture 's senior livestock officer for Scotland in 1958 and a nucleus herd was gradually built up and monitored , with the practical support of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust in due course .
22 His attack on a prominent Jesuit and his expansion of natural magic to embrace the allegedly miraculous powers of sacred relics led to denunciation by the Louvain medical faculty in 1623 and a subsequent appearance before the Spanish Inquisition .
23 Active in local affairs , he was mayor of Tunbridge Wells in 1895 and a member of Kent county council for fifteen years .
24 He joined the Architectural Association in 1885 and was elected an associate of the RIBA in 1888 and a fellow in 1909 .
25 If the kitchen climate is changing , it 's because working conditions have lost the barrack room brutality which once characterised what was a pretty sordid job in all but a handful of restaurants and hotels .
26 This presupposes co-operation between services ( p 15 ) , yet workers in all but a handful of local authorities could attest to resources and personnel not being made available to effect the good working links advocated in official reports .
27 They need , above all , to become familiar with the British role model for a school teacher in general and a language teacher in particular .
28 One of Beto 's constant themes is that classification is something which can be carried out properly only by staff who have both human insight in general and a specific knowledge of the prison system and the background of most of its clients .
29 In 1967 an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease decimated the herds of Cheshire in particular and a small group of local farmers restocked with imported Holsteins , because they were cheaper than British Friesians , and continued to import from North America in larger numbers .
30 Mr Reed rose quickly through the bank , becoming an assistant director in 1976 and a director in 1979 , before being appointed head of the corporate finance department in 1984 .
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