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1 Of even greater strategic importance to the review was a condition set down by the Chancellor at the very beginning .
2 A committee set up by the accountancy profession believes that the data protection registrar will have to cope with 10 times the volume of work , with less than half the staff .
3 Yesterday , though , the independent committee set up by the Government to look at the admissibility of pre-trial video interviews of abused children called for radical changes .
4 Proposals for qualitative improvement in new dwellings came from a committee set up by the Local Government Board ; chaired by Sir John Tudor Walters , an MP and Director of the Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust , it dealt with matters relating to building construction and the provision of dwellings for the working class .
5 The de Mazia Trust alleges that the Barnes 's current contract with the New York publisher Alfred A. Knopf was signed only after Lincoln received a $2 million gift from the Samuel I Newhouse Foundation , a philanthropy set up by the family of Knopf 's owner .
6 Duncan Graham was the first boss of the council set up by the Government to decide what should be taught in schools .
7 Chatichai Choonhaven , the Prime Minister deposed by the military in the February 1991 coup [ see p. 38003 ] , was now allied with the Samakkhi Tham party , which was supported by the National Peace-Keeping Council set up by the military after the coup .
8 He now works in a group set up by the Bishop of Ely to work on a better understanding of market forces than that shown in Faith in the City , he says .
9 Banbury is certainly a planted town set up by the Bishop of Lincoln between 1123 and 1138 .
10 Through the condensation set up by the intake of cooler air into a warm-blooded animal , a dolphin receives a supply of fresh non-salt water when breathing .
11 It is not that case that er er the auditing practices board is a body set up by the statute .
12 Stephen Owen of the Commission of Resources and the Environment , a body set up by the province 's government to reach a consensus on forestry issues , has called for the area to be designated a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve , covered by the Biodiversity Treaty .
13 Klebeck , 86 , had never faced trial for his many alleged crimes in the Alderney camps because the British government had not released relevant classified documents even to the war crimes inquiry set up by the government in 1988 [ see p. 36190 ] .
14 RENFE , according to one estimate , had seen some forty study commissions by the early 1980s ( Nueva Empresa , no. 193 , 15 October 1983 ) , and a major commission of inquiry set up by the government reported in 1984 ( CEFE 1984 ) .
15 There was even a Christmas tree set up by the altar .
16 Patricia Whitaker-Dowling , David Wilcox , Christopher Widnell and Julius Youngner at Pittsburgh University have shown that interferon can prevent viruses from getting inside animal cells , and they believe that this might be the first line of defence set up by the interferon system in response to viral attack ( Proceedings of the U.S .
17 The first high-level index set up by the software is called the cylinder index in ISAM files , or the seek area index in some ICL 2900 series systems .
18 Before her conversion , she would doubtless have insisted on waiting for the results of a number of studies being conducted by an international panel on climatic change set up by the World Meteorological Organisation and the United Nations Environmental Programme .
19 Any approval by Cork County Council will be appealed to the new Appeals Authority set up by the Minister for Local Government ;
20 A few computers allow the programmer to create his own iterated instructions by providing an " iterated execute " or " repeat " instruction , which operates as follows : Execute the ( perhaps modified ) target instruction Update an index register or the execute modification field Conditionally repeat Again the conditional repeat is based on a count set up by the repeat instruction , or on the setting of a flag by the target instruction .
21 On Feb. 13 , 1989 , President dos Santos dismissed Industry Minister Henrique de Carvalho dos Santos " Onambwe " , responsibility for Industry passing to Domingo das Chagas Simoes Rangel , who had been appointed to the Internal Trade portfolio on Jan. 13 [ see p. 36481 ] , as well as heading a new industrial management commission set up by the President .
22 Not far from Digital a firm set up by the Rehabilitation Institute employing 60 people , some of them handicapped , supply packaging to Digital .
23 A detailed study of the White Paper proposals is being made by the ARPS Legislation Committee and also by a special Privatisation Sub-Committee set up by the Association of Independent Railways .
24 The somewhat less imposing Noah 's Ark Pet Shop in Northfield , Birmingham , is also listed by FIND the Film Information National Database set up by the commission at a cost of £500,000 .
25 It would be displayed in a special gallery in the Palace of Arts and the proceeds from the small fee charged for admission would be added to the fund set up by the Queen for the benefit of her many charitable concerns .
26 A social fund set up by the government with the World Bank would provide US$400 million for sectors of the population most vulnerable to the effects of economic reform and would help create employment for workers displaced by the Gulf War .
27 The Indemnity Fund set up by the Law Society is not concerned with overseas practices for which no compulsory arrangements of a similar nature have yet been devised .
28 Governments of 32 countries have agreed to restructure and enlarge the Global Environment Facility ( GEF ) , the fund set up by the World Bank and UN agencies in 1990 to handle transfers of money from industrialized countries to developing countries for environmental protection measures .
29 A special unit set up by the Government has now traced more than half the cash which was spirited away by the late Robert Maxwell .
30 The Financial Management Unit set up by the Treasury and MPO in order to disseminate useful lessons and good practice , and to bring common problems to the attention of the central departments .
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