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1 Thus for BrF the first band shows a splitting of about 0·32 eV and is clearly due to a level largely localized on Br ; in IBr ( Fig. 6.18 ) the first two bands show splittings of 0·58 and 0·36 eV and are assigned to lone-pairs mainly localized on I and Br , respectively .
2 A few of the songs here appeared on Setzer 's ‘ The Knife Feels Like Justice ’ records , but this new LP is still probably worth checking out for the rumbling ‘ ( Do n't Sell My Daddy ) No More Whiskey ’ .
3 We used to treat our coral cuts with iodine , unaware that the coral polyps which had entered the wounds normally thrived on iodine which they extracted from seawater — and were now extracting from our blood .
4 Finance ministers from the Group of Seven industrialized countries also met on April 14 in preparation for their meeting on April 28 .
5 Islands around the world have often hosted odd dwarf forms of mainland creatures : pony-sized elephants once lived on Malta ; and it was reported by Adrian Lester of Cambridge University , in a recent Nature article , that red deer from the last Ice Age evolved into a dwarf form in less than 6000 years after being marooned on the island of Jersey .
6 At the time of the First World War the Shorthorn was described as the most widely distributed of all the breeds of cattle , both at home and abroad , and it far exceeded other purebreds in Britain while the great majority of commercial crossbreds also relied on Shorthorn blood .
7 On March 6 , 8,500 maintenance workers also went on strike , supported by the pilots .
8 Thousands of doctors , nurses and other health workers also marched on Nov. 17 in protest at government restrictions on health service expenditure and over pay .
9 Banks now opened on Saturdays because the building societies had gone on the attack .
10 Five of his associates also went on trial .
11 Rutskoi also declared on Sept. 28 that while there was no cause to change Yegor Gaidar as Prime Minister , " the more radical ministers in his Cabinet should be changed as soon as possible " .
12 The fulling mills still survived on site , although Stratford Mill 's involvement in the cloth trade drew to a close around 1738 , the first on the Painswick Stream to do so .
13 The cost of introducing new products at Inex Visions also impacted on margins and the profits from that side were adversely affected .
14 The ground has only one entrance , so long queues developed , and although the players all arrived on time , one of the staff was stranded at the back of the queue .
15 Six other Medellín cartel leaders also surrendered on June 20-21 : Gustavo González , Valentín Jesus Taborda , John Jairo Velázquez Vázquez , Carlos Aguilar Gallego , Otoniel González Franco and Escobar 's brother Roberto Escobar .
16 Iraqi forces also landed on Bubiyan and Warba islands .
17 Many great players never smiled on court but were great people off the court — as Steffi is .
18 When the Surrey militia descended on Rye and Winchelsea in 1793 , the local publicans promptly went on strike and the only answer was the construction of special barracks .
19 The police always looked on top in an eventful first half and translated their superiority into goals just before half-time .
20 Admiral Habib Olahi and some others finally escaped on foot across the mountains into Turkey .
21 EC Finance Ministers also agreed on Oct. 19 on measures providing for a minimum of 14 weeks ' maternity leave to be paid at a rate at least as high as statutory sick pay regardless of how long a pregnant woman had worked for her employer .
22 EC Foreign Ministers also met on July 5 in extraordinary session and decided to dispatch the ministerial troika ( the Foreign Ministers of Luxembourg , the Netherlands and Portugal ) to Yugoslavia again , to impose an arms embargo , and to freeze EC financial aid ( worth ECU 807,000,000 — about US$915,000,000 ) .
23 Rots also increased on recipient tubers when the donors were heavily infected but were free of gangrene lesions .
24 The women also called on church leaders to stand by the tenets of truth and justice , and be willing to accept criticism of their own policies .
25 Women also sat on school boards ( which were responsible for state elementary schools prior to 1902 ) , and the first generation of such women — elected during the 1870s — was particularly active .
26 Talks accordingly began on Jan. 11 , 1990 , on a similar programme to that discussed a year before , based on providing a broader social dimension to the government 's economic policies .
27 Apart from this venture , which took place on 6 August 1952 , the Coronations never operated on Dickson Road , Lytham Road or Marton .
28 His mother Shelley faces a huge repair bill after the raiders also turned on taps and flooded the house in Shoeburyness , Essex .
29 Pilgrims then came on foot and horseback for hundreds of miles across many countries to pay homage to these relics and churches were erected along the routes to such pilgrimage centres .
30 Forecasts for sales and overheads previously ran on Lotus 1-2-3 , explains general accounting manager Andy Round .
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