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1 The Swedish giant fitted 83 cars with computers which simulated motoring problems by lighting dashboard warning lights , changing speedo and other readings , causing strange noises and even showing blue flashing lights in the rear-view mirror .
2 The Scottish Examination Board says that word processors/ calculators which correct spelling mistakes are posing ‘ some problems ’ .
3 An agreement between two or more competing manufacturers whose combined market share exceeds 20 per cent of the market for the appropriate products in the EC or a substantial part of it would not however be exempted under the 1985 block exemption ( though it might benefit from an individual exemption ) .
4 Two of these schools whose senior management teams have adopted contrasting teamwork styles will be studied in greater depth over a full year .
5 A further major problem associated with the use of the network variable is that it is most readily operationalized to study speakers whose networks are of a relatively closeknit type and can not easily handle socially and geographically mobile speakers whose personal network ties are not predominantly dense or multiplex ; yet , such persons make up a substantial proportion of the population in a post-industrial society .
6 To reinforce the point the BTA is to spend £2.5 million telling foreigners what good value Britain now has to offer .
7 The accounts which local sign theorists have given of what might loosely be called the ‘ experience ’ of localisation have , in the main , been variations on three themes .
8 For example , as we explain in the Case Study on pp. 199–207 , the European Court has condemned rules imposed by a number of member states which required insurance undertakings to do business in those states through persons established in those states .
9 All we can say is that girls do as well as boys at the mathematical skills which primary teachers value , such as computation , but that the APU surveys , and the analysis of other researchers such as Hilary Shuard ( 1986 ) , have picked up differences in the performance of girls and boys which mathematics educators regard as significant .
10 In theory , items can be devised to test the more sophisticated thought processes listed in Bloom 's Taxonomy such as knowledge of trends and sequences , or skills of analysis , but such item writing demands not only a high degree of skill , not often available , it also requires a considerable sophistication in language and comprehension skills which second language learners are unlikely to possess .
11 As schools shifted generally from a dependence on informal contacts to role specialization , delegation , and a greater investment in formal procedures , so they were forced to acquire the vocabulary and skills which formal decision-making dictates .
12 There was one minor injury recorded during an incident at The Forge and four cases which required hospital treatment in Bromley , Kent .
13 Having impounded these two sets for the time , we give our full attention to such influences as the inducements which good fishing wages will offer to sailors to stay in their fishing homes for a year or two , instead of applying for work on a ship .
14 Other brave souls fought regulations and anti-capitalist prejudice to produce wire , cosmetics , costume jewellery , doors and windows , spectacle frames , potato crisps — all cheap consumer products which big state companies overlooked or made badly .
15 Especially well known is Willis 's Learning to Labour , a study of cultures which working class children construct for themselves at school .
16 The use of the test as a prelude to intervention will depend very much on the extent to which it is regarded as important to direct remediation at the specific linguistic functions which this test addresses .
17 It looks at the impact a nation 's economic performance has on the economies of other nations ' ( ‘ spillover' effects ) and at the strategic policy responses which such spillover effects may induce .
18 The Birdfood Standards Association has , with the help of the BTO and the RSPB , agreed a series of birdseed mixes with a balance of ingredients which common garden birds will relish .
19 The group wants to try to open an inquiry in the House of Lords , have a full parliamentary debate , and gather evidence from other European countries which still use benomyl .
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21 The package is expected to allow all Hong Kong residents who qualify — officials , security staff and leading businessmen — to be given automatic British residence status , although Whitehall is keen to avoid loopholes which other Commonwealth citizens might exploit .
22 They ca n't go up there , we 've got to do the best we possibly can , and the Government is doing all it possibly can to help by providing subsidies for housing associations by providing ninety five per cent of the rent rebates which this City Council gives , so on and so forth .
23 Many companies whose latest accounting period started on 1 November will therefore be affected as this period will end after the appointed day .
24 Secondly , a recent comparison between rates of imprisonment in England and Wales , and Australia ( two countries whose criminal justice systems are not too dissimilar ) offers even firmer evidence that differences in the use of imprisonment between the two jurisdictions are largely the outcome of decisions for which the courts themselves are responsible .
25 So , with some limitations , I was allowed to choose new Directors whose short training films I 'd seen , or who 'd maybe done a couple of other jobs in serials , and get them to prove their mettle .
26 The cry by 1901 was for educated men ‘ of good social standing ’ to become ministers : ‘ Such men … are more needed now than before Board Schools provided hearers whose improved education demands preaching of a higher order than formerly . ’
27 The Court said that it was not easy to see in the circumstances what other inquiries Savory Milln could have made .
28 minimum commissions offered by brokers which limited price competition .
29 It was subsequently reported that the amnesty had disrupted production at a number of important factories which used prisoner labour .
30 Yugoslavian Foreign Minister Loncar visited all the principal capitals of the region with proposals on behalf of the Non-aligned Movement , essentially reflecting ideas which Algerian President Chadli had advanced in December [ see p. 37927 for Saudi refusal to discuss these ideas with Chadli ] , envisaging guaranteed Iraqi access to ( and perhaps a leasing of ) Warba and Bubiyan islands and talks on financial issues with Kuwait after an Iraqi withdrawal .
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