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1 The Church Commissioners also handle the stipends of the diocesan and suffragan bishops , as well as stipends for the deans/provosts and two residentiary canons at all but two of the cathedrals .
2 The objectives of these committees are to facilitate an exchange of views between the police and the wider community on issues of local concern ; to help resolve conflict between the police and dissenting sections of the community ; to encourage self-help and crime prevention activities ; and to educate or inform the public regarding everyday police matters ( Morgan , 1989 ) .
3 The social movements of the 1960s were relatively unsuccessful in producing such doctrines in a coherent form ; and the student movement , in particular , came to an end in a welter of conflicting views about the agencies and objectives of radical social change , beset by arguments about its own relation to the working-class movement , about the importance of cultural as against economic and structural changes in society , and about the role of violence in movements for social change .
4 Even if these criteria were generally accepted as determinative , there is no evidence that all ( or even any ) of these factors were present in the contracts between the creditors and the Tin Council .
5 Discussions between the inspectors and manufacturers were a trade secret , but the Inspectorate tried to avoid placing ‘ an undue burden on manufacturing industry ’ .
6 Mr Nick Mitchell , the head of personnel for the signals and telecommunications section , said the board had come to certain conclusions about pay and conditions for its 7,000 S&T engineers after a review of manpower and reward systems .
7 But the reasons for the origins and growth of headhunting in the USA are significantly different from those which explain the establishment and continued development of the search industry in Britain .
8 Reasons for the successes and failures of these attempts are discussed in the light of the principle that in order for a treatment to be widely used , it must be inexpensive , freely available and acceptable to the population that it is designed to help .
9 It should perhaps be mentioned that there are also accounting exemptions for medium-sized companies ( annual turnover not exceeding £5750000 ) but these are modest and are barely worth the effort and expense of preparing separate accounts for the shareholders and filing with the Registrar of Companies .
10 Management at Digital wanted employees to change jobs and develop skills as the products and the production process developed .
11 We decided therefore to further characterize the DNA-protein contacts between the oligonucleotides and F9 nuclear proteins using dimethylsulfate interference analysis .
12 DNA sequence recognition is achieved largely by hydrogen-bond contacts between the bases and amino-acid side chains located on a β -ribbon , a mode of recognition previously hypothesized on the basis of modelling of idealized β -strands and DNA , and mutagenesis of the Salmonella phage P22 repressors Arc and Mnt .
13 The clause among the Fourth Lateran Council decrees that proposed regulated taxes for the churches and provinces of Christendom suggests as much .
14 Obviously not only the sequence neighbouring the position for a modification but also other determinants in the tRNA influence the interactions between the tRNAs and most tRNA-modifying enzymes .
15 Research has been initiated , both land-based on interactions between the birds and sand-eels , and at sea into the life-cycles of the fish themselves .
16 He flipped back through the book looking at his entries , neat , and pages of notes about the pheasants and the weather and the times he 'd been up there .
17 His arrogance , his pompous manner , and the way he trades on his friendship with Major has offended colleagues perhaps jealous of his natural talents as a Commons and Whitehall performer .
18 We need pairs for the canoes and if you 're a no-show we have a disappointed guest .
19 I 've seen the plans for the houses and they 're peculiarly insensitive — more suitable for Milton Keynes . ’
20 While the history of the press has been marked by cleavages between the rulers and the ruled , radio had been under the control of colonial administrators .
21 Ciaran Fitzgerald says that the purpose was to standardise fitness programmes for the players and avoid repetitious work , and to seek to avoid clashes with provincial and national squad sessions .
22 He did say that by concentrating on types of labourers , and learning from the studies of life he admired so much in work by Gavarni , Daumier , Dore , De Groux , and Rops , he hoped one day to produce acceptable illustrations for the magazines and newspapers , and bring in a small income .
23 Abbreviated definitions for the commands and statements in BBCBASIC(Z80) are given at the end of the explanation for each keyword .
24 In addition to the 14 Japanese competitors , there were 17 training partners and coaches for the men and 11 for the women — and most were past Olympic or world champions .
25 This is another aspect of demographic change which has attracted considerable attention and triggered alarmist projections about the burdens and costs of care .
26 Poor Father O'Hara had contracted cholera and died shortly after the withdrawal to the banqueting hall ; when his body had been heaved over the ramparts for the jackals and pariah dogs ( the only way that remained for disposing of the dead ) , a number of heavy metal beads , crosses , Saints and Virgins had been discovered in his effects .
27 After several meetings between the members and the JCPT it was decided that the hospital should not close but should offer specialist services , such as psychogeriatrics and academic research .
28 In general Mrs Bottomley has set clear boundaries and timetables for the decisions and told the relevant authorities to work out their own salvation within them .
29 It was characteristic that he stuck into his scrapbook not only the programme of that performance and the rave review from Dance News , but also such memorabilia as publicity photographs and sketches about the clothes and accessories which all the women in the company were given as ambassadors of British fashion , and , significantly , the handsome illustrated brochure of Balanchine 's School of American Ballet .
30 The Commission is outside a sensible structure of democratic accountability and has shown a tendency to impose a Euro-synthesis at micro-level — silly proposals for the nooks and crannies of our life that antagonise the man and woman in the street .
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