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1 EIGA reckons its plan will appeal to UK and European businesses ranging from hoteliers trying to set up in Moscow to oil giants eyeing the vast energy resources of Kazakhsthan .
2 Nahum told her that a teacher 's needed for one of the permanent Romany camps set up in Kent by a preacher .
3 Set up in Newcastle by two mountain climbers , Berghaus makes the best in tough rucksacks for the skywardly mobile .
4 The first commission of sewers was set up in Lincolnshire by Henry de Bathe in 1258 .
5 On a constitutional point , does my right hon. Friend agree that if an assembly were set up in Scotland with responsibility for health , trade and industry , and taxation north of the border —
6 An Expert Committee on Compensation and Betterment had been set up in January under the chairmanship of Mr Justice Uthwatt with terms of reference ‘ to make an objective analysis of the subject of the payment of compensation and recovery of betterment in respect of public control of the use of land ’ .
7 Among other stories , it was rumoured that a gallows had been set up in Düsseldorf with a picture of the Führer hanging from it .
8 An emergency food committee was set up in Moscow on Sept. 7 , because of the " catastrophic " situation of food supply in the city .
9 Ludwig first proposed to the then Soviet authorities that a Museum of Modern Art should be set up in Moscow in 1987 .
10 The federation had been formally set up in Paris on Sept. 22 by leaders of the pro-democracy movement who had fled China , including leading economists Yan Jiaqi and Chen Yizi , and Wan Runnan , head of China 's biggest private company , the Stone Co. [ see also p. 36815 ] .
11 Consultative groups for Kazakhstan and Kirgizstan would be set up in Paris on Dec. 14 and 15 , and pre-consultative groups for Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan on Dec. 16 .
12 Goldmine UK , a six person outfit , was set up in April by former Sybase colleagues Malcolm Neill and John Rodford together with Brian Clarke , one of the originals at Pyramid UK .
13 A public clepsydra was set up in Rome in 158 BC by Scipio Nasica .
14 The pay unit is being set up in Edinburgh by Yorkshire Health , formerly the Yorkshire Regional Health Authority , which won the £210,000 contract .
15 Interest in the subject having thus been aroused among learned men in western Asia , a scientific institute was eventually set up in Baghdad after the Muslim conquest of much of that region .
16 As a matter of interest and as a direct result of our attendance at five of these Auctions — a total of 37 unweaned foals and ponies were rescued , and a small FOAL SANCTUARY has just been set up in Burnley for their rehabilitation .
17 Police sources said the use of bombs little heavier than a packet of butter could herald a new tactic aimed at beating the roadblocks that have been set up in London for the first time .
18 Excluding the lay fraternities , 280 private chantries were set up in London during the fourteenth century , the heyday of the movement .
19 In 1962 , the Institute of Directors ( IOD ) established a Retirement Advisory Bureau ; and the first private retirement consultancy was set up in London in 1965 ( IPM 1965 ) .
20 When the present archival system was set up in Whitehall in the 1950s , it was envisaged that the person responsible for records work in departments , the departmental records officer ( DRO ) , would be a person of some standing .
21 In Spain the Archive of the Indies , which had great importance for some aspects of foreign policy , was set up in Seville in 1781 .
22 In addition , among several projects for livestock improvement and marketing promoted by the HIDB 's Livestock Improvement Working Party , a lamb marketing scheme was set up in Lewis in 1978 for the transport of store lambs to the mainland and their sale at auction .
23 Ten model farms have been set up in Poland as a showcase for alternative production methods .
24 Timex was set up in Dundee in 1946 .
25 I was Secretary of the miner 's support group that was set up in Blaenau during the year long miner 's s strike where we collected a lot of food and twinned with a town down in South Wales and made a lot of new friends .
26 The Basque government will also endow a new foundation that will be set up in Bilbao with the equivalent of £27 million ( $47.25 million ) , which is to be used to buy works of art for the new museum .
27 A legation was set up in Berlin in 1837 and another in St Petersburg twenty years later .
28 A main office will be set up in Bonn with a branch office in Washington .
29 The national meningitis trust was set up in Stroud after an epidemic of the disease in the mid nineteen eighties .
30 A WELLY bank to recycle kids ' old boots has been set up in Gloucester by the local council and rubber firm Dunlop .
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