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1 Table 1.1 lists six items from the DBQ which appear to imply some form of memory failure .
2 None the less there is a need to consider three countervailing social control forces , which appear to have some effect on persons contemplating ‘ conventional ’ crimes , to see if they act as brakes on persons contemplating corporate crime .
3 Mark Poster has recently suggested that ‘ historians and social scientists in general have gone astray by viewing the family as a unitary phenomenon which has undergone some type of linear transformation ’ .
4 One of the ideas mooted which has won some support is the introduction of leaflets at outdoor gear retail outlets .
5 A different sort of exhibition which has had some success in attracting attention , and thus newspaper coverage , is the prize competition .
6 The main example of the first is Habermas ' Theory and Practice ( 1974 ) , which has had some influence in this country mainly on education , social work and the ‘ caring ’ professions , particularly at the radical edge .
7 This century has seen a remarkably rapid secularization of British society ( with the exception of Northern Ireland ) which has had some effect upon the decline in voluntary action .
8 There is a problem with gripping which has shown some improvement but which is apt to be most problematical when , for instance , she is concentrating hard at her computer .
9 You feel that you 're a bit of burden on your friends , perhaps , because you ca n't go to the pub and buy a round of drinks , because you 're bit of a drag on a lot of activities which involve spending some sort of money .
10 During the autumn and winter keep the compost from drying out completely , which means providing some kind of protection over the plant .
11 In Africa , some of the nations which have emerged from colonial rule are socialist in diverse styles , but others , created by independence movements in which there was an important populist or socialist strain — as in Ghana — and which aimed to achieve some form of ‘ African socialism ’ , developed subsequently under military rule .
12 The majority of votes , however , were cast for parties which do want some form of accommodation , if only on different terms .
13 This problem is highlighted by the studies of Linton and Wagenaar which do make some attempt to sample a range of autobiographical events , both of which while showing slight memory improvements for emotional items appear to show memory impairments if the items were regarded as unpleasant .
14 If sulphur dioxide is giving rise to the principal health threat during a smog , then banning the use of petrol-powered vehicles ( which principally emit hydrocarbons , oxides of nitrogen and carbon monoxide as well as contributing to the formation of ozone ) will make little or no difference to sulphur dioxide levels compared with banning diesel-engine vehicles which do emit some sulphur dioxide .
15 The two sides engaged in talks on Jan. 25 , which appeared to go some way towards healing any rift caused by the referendum .
16 She left then , and Edouard , amused by her words , which had touched some chord in him , looked at the room with new eyes .
17 The other officer was Gerhard Junack of the Bismarck 's engineering staff , who helped dispel a myth which had gained some credence in the Royal Navy that it was British torpedoes and shells exclusively that had sent the allegedly unsinkable Bismarck to the bottom .
18 This phenomenon affects all areas of the travel industry : the airlines , most of which had introduced some sort of business class travel by the mid-seventies , now sell about 50 per cent of all scheduled flight tickets to business travellers .
19 During the course of this session , I repeatedly reminded her of the fact that she was seeing something which had happened some time ago and that time had proved her recovery to be complete — something which had been born out by the numerous examinations and X-rays she had since undergone .
20 Every now and again , without a word , he would point at some object , a chair perhaps , or a sideboard or a marquetry table which had graced some Krishnapur drawing-room , and his henchmen would dart forward , seize it , and carry it away .
21 Before proceeding to discuss quantitative analysis at this more general level , we shall look in 6.8.2 and 6.8.3 at two specific issues which have received some attention in the sociolinguistic literature .
22 There are perhaps forty different local education authorities in Britain which have done some work with different community languages .
23 That 's why badgers which have spent some time recouperating need a home of their own .
24 Choosing what to include took some time , though I wanted to give it an artistic flavour . ’
25 Deciding what to feed requires some thought and knowledge of the various feeding methods and dietary preferences .
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