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1 The remainder each had ten sentences with a line underneath where a continuation was to be written .
2 In part this reflected religious scruples since mechanical explanations for our behaviour were incompatible with religious teaching .
3 In the general election of Feb. 26 , 1988 , the government and the opposition each won 23 seats ; the remaining seat was the subject of numerous recounts .
4 The account of habituation offered in Chapter 2 held that dishabituation would occur after a retention interval when the input failed to match the ( partly forgotten ) representation of the stimulus — when the subject failed to recognize the test stimulus .
5 In practice this meant medieval mystery plays at York , madrigals on the river at Cambridge , and the Edinburgh Festival .
6 In practice this included compulsory attendance at either company Bible class or Sunday school , but the unique feature of the BLB was its adherence to life-saving drills ( fire , water , and stretcher ) , with an emphasis on gymnastics , swimming , first-aid and hygiene , in order to ‘ prepare for helpful service to others ’ , while simultaneously training the body in ‘ healthful vigour ’ and ‘ moral discipline ’ .
7 Such life or death issues are fundamental to our society , and the cases discussed in Chapter Six challenged long-established prerogatives held by the medical profession and by parents and families .
8 And it gives support to the idea that treating the colic is important , because the children in the study all had serious health problems as a result of their sensitivity to milk — problems that might have been avoided if they had been taken off cow 's milk at an earlier age .
9 Our analysis of television news content in Chapter 4 showed that controversy reached a peak on television in the third week of the campaign .
10 Chapter 4 considered this training cycle , noting a tendency for some libraries to regard the problems inherent in small or falling establishments as insurmountable .
11 Study 5 had two conditions , one set of drivers described fully all the salient information in a film , a second set of drivers described specifically the types of risks that were present in the film .
12 FIG. 1 MOST image at 843MHz of the pulsar and supernova remnant 1706–44 observed 11 July 1992 .
13 You know his mouth all went crinkly crrkkkk I 've never seen a jaw
14 The different bodies mentioned in chapter 3 followed different routes to the objective of a free-labour world .
15 This chapter first reviewed older forms of sociology , including the Chicago School of Urban Sociology .
16 In the field of investment advice , the Financial Services Act 1986 gave legal backing to the principle of self-regulation by industry practitioners .
17 From here the guard each did two stages of 1 hour 15 minutes ( from 8 pm to 6 am ) patrolling the bridge .
18 Those who found the election campaign interesting gave personal conversations high ratings for all purposes .
19 The House UnAmerican Activities Committee had been sitting before McCarthy and it went on after him and in the long run this damaged more people .
20 After recording , innervation was assayed by double staining with anti-HRP and anti-fasciclin III ( see Fig. 1 legend ) ; anti-HRP revealed innervation , anti-fasciclin III revealed normal zone of RP3 innervation .
21 The School Teachers ' Pay and Conditions Act 1991 received Royal Assent on 25 July .
22 The answer to the third is that the Criminal Justice Act 1991 introduced new guidelines which can be passed from the magistrates to the social services to ensure that from October this year juveniles can be remanded in custody under certain conditions not previously available to the courts .
23 Finally , the Legal Aid Act 1979 made special provision for ‘ assistance by way of representation ’ in certain situations and this development is considered further below .
24 Reg. v. Morris [ 1984 ] A.C. 320 involved two cases of price label switching in a supermarket .
25 The Finance ( No 2 ) Act 1975 made sweeping changes to the law and placed both the contractor and sub-contractor in such a position that tax avoidance was virtually halted .
26 Neither the Beveridge Report nor the National Insurance Act 1946 intended state-pension provision unnecessarily to remove able elderly workers from the labour market .
27 The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 introduced new principles and procedures for the management of the rural environment embodying the preferred solutions of the National Farmers ' Union and the Country Landowners ' Association to conflicts between agriculture and conservation .
28 The wording with which section 2 of the Homicide Act 1957 introduced diminished responsibility is rather unsatisfactory , but judges , counsel , doctors , and juries have approached it with a compassionate pragmatism rather than with the rarefied verbal analysis too frequently encountered in English criminal law .
29 His Plan 17 rejected any form of defensive strategy , claiming that the French national character was more suited to attack , in the manner of Napoleon .
30 The St Mark 's score , change in sigmoidoscopic grading , and histology all showed significant improvement in both groups ( table IV ) .
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