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1 In the lower court , the Lord Ordinary had found that s 6 of the Act did not prevent the Crown from seeking a decree de plana for recovery , in October 1989 , of the tax outstanding for the years 1979/80 to 1981/82 .
2 Note that , since player II receives - , if he wishes to maximise his own expected receipts , he will aim to minimise the expected receipts of I. For example , in the problem of Section 10.3 , we can re-interpret the columns of Table 10.1 as the actions available to Firm II , and Firm II seeks to choose the column with the smallest maximum entry .
3 It looks like Labour and the Liberal Democrats are set to join forces , adding to the agony for Alan Winmill , who left Labour for the Tories last year .
4 Table 3.5 shows the numbers-of males and females unemployed for the years 1977–85 .
5 The mountain goat population was reduced from an estimated 100,000 to 50,000 between the years 1961–1981 .
6 At 31 December 1992 there were outstanding options under various employee share option schemes , exercisable during the years 1993 to 2002 , to acquire 9,668,454 ordinary shares of the company at prices ranging from £0.74 to £4.75 per share .
7 The outstanding options , exercisable during the years 1993 to 2001 , to acquire 6,658,422 shares were at prices ranging from £1.93 to £2.92 per share .
8 Mr Vargas , whose group is called the Liberty Movement , needs to win more than half of the votes next 8 April to secure the presidency .
9 Half of the patients required colostomies either due to obstructive symptoms before radiotherapy or from radiation induced fibrosis .
10 The legislature consists of a Chamber of Deputies of 254 members elected directly for four-year terms with half of the seats renewable every two years , and a 46-member Senate nominated by the legislatures of each of the 23 provinces for nine-year terms with one-third of the seats renewable every three years .
11 Her mother , although of the mentality that refuses such places because of the price of the uniform , was luckily not in a social or financial position where she could reasonably do so , and although she was often unreasonable enough , she did not like to appear to be so in the eyes of the whole neighbourhood , so she constrained her parsimony and her innate distrust in education into selecting the less distinguished of the schools available , on the grounds that the bus fare was cheaper .
12 She is , gave her some of the warnings that er
13 Blake repeats his earlier position , summoning the notion of equity between dischargers as a bargaining tactic to support his case , which seems to win the tacit approval of some of the directors present .
14 Some of the directors present were opposed to pressing for charters at that stage .
15 These grounds reflect some of the reasons some of the time for compiling records .
16 The leaflet Make Your Celebration a Historic Occasion describes some of the venues available .
17 When in Ephesians 4:3,4 Paul is sketching some of the things all Christians have in common , he has this to say : ‘ Endeavour to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace .
18 I I listened to Mr speech with some incredulity I must say , but I did listen to what he said and if what he said is true then I I find some of the things disturbing and and er I 'd like to see his figures and I I w I I that there have certainly been er two messages coming to the social services committee in in in that case .
19 The research also aims to illuminate the processes by which the ESSE/L Project was implemented by the Project team , to identify some of the conditions conducive to success in such projects , and to identify sources of resistance to such innovations .
20 They are unfit to look after such vulnerable people and some of the conditions these people are subjected to are appalling . ’
21 he played well in some of the games last year and for the bullshit of ‘ not in leeds ’ future plans ’ — i ca n't believe Wilko have said this after the good-talk he gave Frank last year .
22 Erm plans for the succession er and development of senior people and some of the plans this is going back to July er were in place then , most of the plans are in place now erm has probably most of you know are retiring in in October er their jobs have now all been allocated and are in the process of being transferred to the partners .
23 We consider some of the forms this can take , distinguishing seasonal , temporary or casual working from fixed contract working , self-employed and agency supplied temporary workers from those who are directly employed , and full-time temporary workers from part-time temporary workers .
24 In some of the cases new problems , not identified at the outset , emerged during the course of treatment .
25 On the mathematics side one of the most serious charges , parallel to the lack of interest in the writing of English , is that some of the skills such as the careful construction of graphs and geometric figures are no longer considered important by students .
26 Well I wo n't give an opinion whether I agree with the scheme or not , because I would like to see some of the drawings first before I gave a , you know , of an opinion of it , like you know everybody else around this table .
27 Some of the kennels young residents are lucky — they 're being looked after their real mother …
28 As it is a completely physiologically induced , and in that sense artificial , phenomenon , some of the criteria relevant to memory summarized at the beginning of this chapter are not relevant at this stage .
29 And if you get the private sector to finance some of the developments such as toll roads , then it has all the hallmarks of sound finance about it .
30 For some of the writers this point was taken much further : it was not just a matter of unacknowledged ideological leanings ; the causal-corrective stance came to be portrayed as a fundamentally misguided and distorting approach to the study of crime .
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