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1 Preliminary estimates suggest that insurance claims could reach between £200 million and £300 million after taking into account the damage to buildings , the cost of reconstruction and loss of business both in the City and at Staples Corner .
2 We suggest that surface electrogastrography may offer a non-invasive means of screening patients with suspected neuromuscular disease of the gut causing persistent vomiting and episodes of functional obstruction .
3 These findings suggest that bile salts may play an important part in the control of colonic endocrine function and may explain the increased circulating concentrations of colonic regulatory peptides that are seen in malabsorption states and after small bowel resection in humans .
4 These findings therefore suggest that bile salts may play a role in the mediation of the ‘ ileal brake ’ mechanism and that the ‘ ileal brake ’ may be mediated by several factors which may include bile salts and regulatory peptides such as PYY .
5 A PIONEERING study into why so many young men are unsafe drivers suggest that driver training should focus on attitudes and relationships as well as mechanics .
6 I suggest that Mr Paul will feel better for having tried this on , and failed , and that his second book will be the one this could have been .
7 These and other examples suggest that engineering design may impose some rather loose constraints on structure , and may in some cases impose precise quantitative constraints on shape ( e.g. the shapes of bird 's wings are very accurately adapted to particular modes of flight ) .
8 Some estimates suggest that wind power could save 5–10 per cent of the fossil fuel used by the Electric Corporation .
9 These results suggest that R&D agreements will generate the highest social benefits where they concentrate on R rather than D , which will in addition reduce the perceived risk that competition in the markets created by the innovations will be blunted .
10 Our results suggest that cholera toxin may serve as a secretory model in the human jejunum which might allow testing of new antisecretory agents .
11 Mr Scully adds that security considerations may limit what data an individual can look at — London , for instance , can not look at the accounts specific to Hong Kong .
12 DID YOU KNOW THAT COOKING SALT CAN HELP YOU FEEL FIT AND WELL ?
13 DID you know that UK readers can become members of an Irish railway society and attend some of their meetings which are held in London .
14 ‘ Did you know that Mr Azadi may have connections with an Iranian terrorist organisation ? ’
15 His enthusiasm was not matched by representatives of those industries and it is expected that EC countries will remain the main export targets .
16 Kelly had expected that Jack Butler would live up to the image she had painted of him in her mind .
17 By May 1913 it was expected that Emmeline Pankhurst would die from hunger and thirst strikes .
18 One must recognise that Sunday business can account for about 25 per cent .
19 Alexandra thought of calling her back , explaining that Mrs Chamberlin might regret her kind invitation to dine with them on Christmas Day if Alexandra were to upstage the Rectory family in such a way , but then she reflected on the goodness of Mrs Chamberlin 's heart and the necessity of living up to at least some of Lyddy 's expectations of her .
20 Whereas the West German government maintained that East Germans should have automatic access to the Schengen agreement area , its four partners regarded the territory covered by the agreement as extending only to the eastern boundary of the Federal Republic .
21 Trojanowicz , Director of the National Neighbourhood Foot Patrol Centre in Michigan , is so enthusiastic that he has claimed that community policing can help in the policing of international terrorism ( Trojamowicz 1988 ) .
22 It has been claimed that Mr Gooderham may have had financial problems .
23 Margaret Thatcher , the Prime Minister , yesterday underlined that UK rates would remain ‘ as high as necessary for as long as is necessary to keep downward pressure on inflation ’ .
24 The report by Ramaphosa and others to Tambo said that Mrs Mandela had participated in the beatings of Stompie and other youths , and that the Crisis Committee had decided to demand that Mrs Mandela should produce Stompie and disband her private bodyguard , the so-called Mandela United Football Club .
25 I realise that group endeavours can lead to strange proprietary claims to data sets , but I wonder if … did n't refuse to be associated with this gibberish . ’
26 People here say that fish farms will pollute the lake . ’
27 You should have seen her reaction when I mentioned that Delia Forbes might have been round to see her the day she was killed . ’
28 In such a context , then , it is not surprising to find that skill sharing will occur more frequently and easily , and that job rotation may be used to facilitate both formal skill sharing and informal learning amongst employees ( Koike , 1981 ) .
29 Further suggestions found that Base ATC could have been more alert , and that the ATC controller should have been prompted into immediate and determined action .
30 The research found that alpha rays may cause damage to cells which only becomes apparent much later when abnormal chromosomes appear .
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