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1 Oxford Polytechnic 's interpretation of modular structure is analogous to a federal state , with a great deal of diversity at the subject-based periphery , and a great deal of uniformity at the administration-based centre .
2 Today 's highly competitive business world requires a great deal of capital at the lowest possible cost .
3 Oxford Polytechnic 's interpretation of modular structure is analogous to a federal state , with a great deal of diversity at the subject-based periphery , and a great deal of uniformity at the administration-based centre .
4 These changes in perception of distension at the lower end of the gut seem to be mirrored in the stomach .
5 CARL PREAN , the English No 1 , secured four wins as England qualified for the semi-finals of the men 's team event with a 4–1 defeat of Holland at the European Championships in Stuttgart last night .
6 In what seems like a big complement on our powers of imagination , Unix System Laboratories chief Roel Pieper and Chuck Reilly , vice president of operations at the Open Software Foundation have been re-writing history , claiming at Utrecht a few weeks back that the press made up the entire Unix Wars all by themselves : ‘ they never happened ’ pleaded Rielly , who did n't join OSF until 1989 , after some of the worst was over .
7 It was attended by ministerial delegates from the 13 member countries , and chaired by Jibril Aminu , the Nigerian Minister for Petroleum Resources , who had been elected President of OPEC at the last six-monthly ministerial meeting in Vienna on Nov. 26-27 [ see p. 38602 ] .
8 He has already had two sessions of surgery at the Royal .
9 There was a rattle of bolts at the stout door : it opened and a military policeman stepped in
10 Gide 's narrative of a development from the desire for self-redemption in the space of the other , through the loss of self at the ecstatic height of this existential quest , to the unresolved sense of desire itself as a kind of loss , is amenable to a similar analysis ; in Gide 's case image and fantasy do indeed figure transgressively on the borders of history and the unconscious .
11 They realized that the loss of power at the imperial centre would allow them to strengthen their position by negotiating with the imperial vassals .
12 Whereas in the past such external supports of the superego might have been strong enough to compensate at least in part for faulty superego development as a result of difficulties at the phallic-Oedipal stage and might have contributed to the unresolved Oedipal conflict expressing itself as a typical hysteria or obsessional neurosis , today , because such supports are in large part lacking , the outcome is not likely to be the same .
13 Domestic rate relief was introduced in 1967 as a result of concern at the regressive nature of the rates and the burden they were thought to impose on ratepayers .
14 Secondly , any changes that come to the primary schools must come as a result of changes at the secondary level .
15 Therefore , it proposes that as a result of computerisation at the Inland Revenue a local authority register will be established so that authorities are aware of the pensioners , those with disabilities and those on low incomes .
16 Later , when tempers had cooled , her father , Mirza Farkunda Zamal , had been awarded a pension by the penitent British authorities ; he was even given a seat of honour at the first Delhi Durbar in 1877 .
17 A study of redevelopment at the former steel plant was publicised by Archie Bethel , chief executive of the Lanarkshire Development Agency .
18 It has a long body with overlapping scales , with a concentration of fins at the hind end .
19 Questionnaires were first designed with the assistance of the Equal Opportunities Commission and sent to samples of women and men barristers and Heads of Chambers at the Independent Bar .
20 The organism has very high urease activity and it has been suggested that the production of high concentrations of ammonia at the epithelial surface could cause mucosal damage .
21 One of the major controversies is concerned with the relation between high water level and the abrupt break of slope at the inshore margin of the beach , a feature which has sometimes been called the nip .
22 In the present case we shall take the view that the perception of two distinct types of phrase here can be explained rather simply by a divergence of relation at the intensional level .
23 The key factor here therefore is efficiency — achieving a given output with the best technical mix of inputs at the lowest cost .
24 The Group retains a strong concern with the traditional macro-economic issues of fiscal and monetary policy , inflation , the exchange rates for sterling , UK trade policy and aggregate employment which its UK model was first designed to elucidate and which are still in certain respects important subjects of controversy at the analytic level ( although there seems to have been some convergence of short-term and even medium-term conditional predictions ) .
25 With a sigh , and a glance of regret at the clear , bright day outside , he settled down in his chair and took up the first of the tomes .
26 Thus gender bias is built into the principles of realism , providing a partial and distorted world-view and having considerable implications for the practice of politics at the global level .
27 The best new piece of equipment at the Royal Welsh Show this week suitable for upland farming conditions sounded as if it should have four legs rather than four wheels .
28 Many remained in the London Road End , but others established a new piece of territory at the other end of the ground where it was cheaper .
29 A telex is only a message sent electronically along a communications cable and translated into type on a piece of paper at the receiving end .
30 Gorbachev and Kohl , after talks in Stavropol , reach agreement that a united Germany is free to join whichever bloc it wishes , allowing agreement on external aspects of unification at the third round of two-plus-four talks on July 17 in Paris , which were also attended by the Polish Foreign Minister [ p. 37659 ] .
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