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1 On the other hand , in a short-term study using the artificial pancreas , normalisation of blood glucose for 48 hours led to a significant fall in β-thromboglobulin levels ( Voisin et al , 1983 ) .
2 At Maastricht , the Germans argued for a common foreign policy for the European Community .
3 Dr Linebaugh has discovered that around 40 per cent of those hanged at Tyburn in the middle years of the eighteenth century had completed apprenticeships and a further 20 per cent had at least begun one ( see pp. 230 – 1 ) Even in London , the greatest centre of artisan manufacture , not all apprenticeships led to a skilled trade — the unfortunate climbing chimney boys for example — but it would seem reasonable to suggest that around half of the working men of the capital were to some degree skilled , in the sense of selling specialised labour .
4 In contrast , mergers led to a significant increase in industrial concentration and monopoly power in the UK .
5 Disputes under them are to be referred to arbitration , where contracts made on a particular exchange are in issue , and otherwise to the English courts .
6 Stopes 's fundamental conception of the role of the clinics led to a heated political debate during the inter-war years as the issue was fought within political parties and in parliament .
7 Decreasing COHb values led to a slight increase of SpO , as would be expected by the formula SpO= ( OHb+0.9COHb ) /total Hb100% , according to Tremper and Barker .
8 She looked like a hell cat , sloe eyes glittering , teeth bared in a terrifying rictus grin , body rigid with loathing .
9 Her teeth bared in a tight smile .
10 Provision was patchy , and professional attitudes ranged from a sensitive understanding of the issues to the blandly ignorant .
11 The manor did not disappear when the Middle Ages drew to a close , nor when the Tudors made the parish the administrative unit that was responsible for maintaining the poor and the highways and for petty law and order .
12 The catalogue raisonné is destined to become one of the finest projects devoted to a modern artist and will be the invaluable source of reference for scholarship and the trade alike .
13 Such was the rapid rate of expansion that ensued that the workforce in Britain 's mines rose from a mere 50,000 at the beginning of the nineteenth century to over 1 million on the eve of the First World War .
14 Such lack of interest in any active Turkish diplomatic relationship with the European states stemmed from a deap-seated view of the world .
15 Bodie laughed , and Ray Doyle 's eyes twinkled with a momentary amusement .
16 Murchison acted upon the recommendation quickly and the resulting influx of recruits led to a radical change in the organisation of the Survey in Scotland .
17 ‘ How was your first day as Damian 's secretary ? ’ he asked weakly , but his eyes gleamed with a new reason to live , and he listened eagerly as she told him half-truths about her new job .
18 Brown eyes gleamed in a straight face as he shrugged .
19 At each end of the bay , the steps led to a half-glass panelled front door .
20 The division of the provinces led to a great increase in extent of the boundaries between them and the imposition of duties on goods passing through them .
21 IF there was one occasion that summed up sporting attitudes in l992 , it was Carl Lewis 's bizarre attempt to set an Olympic record for the greatest number of journalists asphyxiated at a single press conference .
22 The opening of East European borders led to a massive influx of those seeking work and political asylum and to the introduction in March 1990 of visa requirements for Romanians , Bulgarians and Turks [ see also p. 37969 ] .
23 Her blue eyes glowed with a rebellious light .
24 And just as the growing dependence of European art music on written scores in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries led to a differential development of certain elements of musical language , so the replacement of popular song scores by recordings has increased the importance of performance , and with it different elements .
25 During the 1920s the discovery of hormones led to a new variant in the theory of sexual difference based on emotional instability .
26 Family remittances led to a massive increase in conspicuous consumption , largely in the form of modern villas and expensive cars rather than investment in local economic activity .
27 His impulse to clutch at her and lift her skirt and dabble with finger and thumb in her recesses led to a quick shame , and he was so appalled that he could not push her from him either but let her , still attached to his hand , mutter her compliments , in disjointed phrases falling pell mell .
28 The crashing seemed to go on forever as tiny broken fragments bounced with a dainty tinkle across the brick floor .
29 Only the phase of the Moon had an effect approaching significance : 14.6 per cent more copulations occurred during a full Moon .
30 THREE members of the same family were injured when two cars crashed on a busy Northumberland road .
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