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1 The neutralisation technique has been validated by double blind randomised trials , including food trials showing its effectiveness in preventing symptoms.Studies that failed to show effects evaluated the provocation of symptoms by food extracts ( not part of the standard technique ) ; that cited by Kay was also faulty in many respects and gave a wrong definition of the end point .
2 In recent years , moreover , a growing proportion of total grant has been contributed by specific grants ( 17.6 per cent in England , 1981 /2 ; 25.6 per cent in 1987/8 ) , which — being tied , unlike block grant , to specific services — leave authorities with less discretion to determine spending priorities .
3 The measures , including the abolition of petroleum revenue tax , on new oil and gas projects has been welcomed by British Petroleum which said that the changes should encourage investment in large fields , such as its recent find west of Shetland .
4 Chief executive , Bryan Sanderson , said that the ‘ necessity for cost reduction has been accelerated by deteriorating petrochemicals environment ’ .
5 Thus research into colonic motor function remains a challenging and potentially rewarding area where progress has been facilitated by recent technological advances .
6 A Sunday shopping offensive has been launched by major stores across the region .
7 This finding has been supported by various other firms and factories .
8 That oldest of disciplines has been neglected by 20th-century educationalists .
9 Since then , while the shares have had a spectacular progress from 707p to a high of over £16 earlier this year , the resort has been burdened by heavy start-up costs , high French interest rates and recession in Europe .
10 EXPLORER Sir Ranulph Fiennes ' polar trek has been delayed by bad weather .
11 In recent years , however , analysis based upon a given concept of ideology has been complemented by other projects , some of which also analyse buildings as repressive mechanisms or authoritarian representations ( e.g. Foucault 1977b ) , but whose overarching concepts such as ‘ power ’ or ‘ discourse ’ imply a still greater distance between interests and representations , and thereby a greater commitment to objectivism .
12 According to information obtained by Survival International — and recorded on a BBC TV film by journalist George Monbiot — more than 10,000 hectares of the Arara Indian reserve has been destroyed by illegal logging and the activity of settlers , who are following newly-cut logging roads into the forest .
13 Like all Chinese bikes , it is an all-purpose workhorse : so strong it will probably go on and on , until like most other bikes on the road its seat leather is worn right through and every part has been patched by street-corner bike repairers .
14 Over the sub-basin large thicknesses of Carboniferous sediments can be identified from the seismic data and their presence has been confirmed by well control .
15 Pinpoint monitoring has been provided by British Coal 's Coal Research Establishment at Stoke Orchard in Gloucestershire
16 Pinpoint monitoring has been provided by British Coal 's Coal Research Establishment at Stoke Orchard in Gloucestershire
17 Mr Ritchie has been told by legal counsel that this new evidence in their opinion provides substantial grounds for Mr Lang to order a retrial or a full reinvestigation of the case , but assessment of the appeal documents is at an early stage .
18 Monday May 11th saw the new timetable introduced and with the withdrawal of InterCity from Shrewsbury , a basic hourly service from Birmingham to Shrewsbury has been provided by Regional Railways to Shrewsbury with alternate services onwards , one going to Aberystwyth and the other to Chester .
19 The drug has been developed By British Biotechnology in Oxford and is undergoing tests on Breast cancer patients in Manchester .
20 The need to be extra vigilant at all times has been stressed by terminal operations manager Roy Beardall following a security alert at Sullom Voe in August .
21 However , what began as an eccentric country pastime has been transformed by trained winemakers like Stephen Skelton in Tenterden , Karl-Heinz Jobner , formerly at Lamberhurst but now based in Germany , Hans Schalfer at Denbies and John Worontschak at Thames Valley .
22 For instance , Townsend writes that : ‘ the concepts of retirement [ and ] pensionable status … have been developed in both capitalist and state socialist countries in ways which have created and reinforced the social dependency of the elderly ’ ; and Walker believes that : ‘ dependency at both ends of the age spectrum has been enlarged by social and economic developments over the course of this century ’ .
23 A similar result has been obtained by other workers who grafted the polarizing region from an aborted human embryo into the chick .
24 This exciting and varied steam programme has been organised by Regional Railways , Flying Scotsman Services and The Steam Locomotives Operators ' Association , with sponsorship from local district councils .
25 A national lowland heath programme has been launched by English Nature to arrest the spread of trees on to what was once open heath .
26 Betjeman 's poem ‘ Original Sin on me Sussex Coast ’ makes a point unwillingly learnt from his old tutor when it depicts the sheer wickedness of children bullying one another , unseen by the sentimental eyes of the mother whose mind has been washed by modern advertising techniques and the vacuous optimism of the age :
27 An elaborate fraud has been uncovered by sharp-eyed staff sifting through student paperwork .
28 Instead the Japanese drug industry has been shaped by national health policy , whose primary goal was to create a stable supply of up-to-date drugs .
29 The once-thriving motor industry has been hit by steady recession .
30 The usefulness has been removed by modern cases , which have held that partial abuse of an authority does not render everything done under it unlawful ( Elias v Pasmore [ 1934 ] 2 KB 164 ) .
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