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1 The first is that of Hales et al , who suggested that nutritional factors determining fetal and infant growth influence the size of vascularity of the adult pancreatic β cells .
2 Now we have to accommodate the tastes of partners of immediate family as well as our own offspring , so choice is careful indeed .
3 The mayor of Dushanbe , Maksud Ikramov , issued what proved to be a highly controversial decree on the same day allowing the removal of statues of Lenin .
4 Research methods will include visitor and other public attitude surveys , allowing the development of models of individual choice to be used as a basis for appraising future endangered habitats .
5 The day hospital facilitates prolonged observation , allowing the assessment of consistency of a patient 's behaviour and possible behavioural modification to be achieved .
6 The Protocol also grant concessions to ‘ developing countries ’ , allowing the use of 0.3kg of CFCs per person , per year , for a maximum of ten years , but does not make it clear which developing countries are eligible .
7 The ‘ organic ’ qualities are clearly important in allowing the adoption of systems of management which , in the absence of less effective leadership in gaining commitment , would hardly be viable .
8 Andrejevs , who hitherto had headed Latvia 's observer delegation to the Council of Europe , spoke of the need to " restore the independence of Latvia and the rights of the indigenous population , while … maintaining the rights of people of other nationalities " .
9 Counselling is concerned with maintaining the quality of life of older people for as long as possible .
10 The strength of the Crown during the Tory Reaction was to a large degree dependent on the fact that Charles II was at last prepared to wear the mantle of King of the Anglicans , and he was very careful in soliciting their support .
11 It is commonly argued that nationalization takes place in order to socialize the losses of sectors of capital where capitalist relations have broken down ( e.g. Fine and O'Donnell 1981 ) or to resolve an immediate crisis in a sector of the economy , as with the creation of the Italian state holding company IRI by Mussolini in response to the impending collapse of the banking system ( Maraffi 1980 ) .
12 For the most part this involves the monitoring of ratios of various types of asset and liability but may also involve judgements about the nature of particular activities and their appropriateness .
13 An issue which has also caused controversy involves the release of results of individual schools .
14 There ai n't no sanity clause ! ’ ) , but the humour of the occasion is dampened by the fact that this maelstrom of accusal and refutation , doing nothing to enhance the good name of psychology in general or the British Psychological society in particular , involves the principle of confidentiality of psychological tests coupled with the issue of a man sent to prison for a crime that — perhaps — he did not commit .
15 The Hawaiian Islands provide a classic example of a volcanic line , and the generally accepted explanation of this type of feature involves the passage of part of a plate over a sub-lithospheric thermal anomaly which , through the periodic generation of magma in the overlying crust sequence of volcanic activity at the surface ( Fig
16 Primary policy making involves the promulgation of Acts of Parliament .
17 RIGHT Archaeomagnetic dating involves the taking of samples of burnt clay : before they are lifted , the precise compass bearing is taken and marked on the sample 's container .
18 If the transaction is complicated — eg it involves the sale of part of a farm — and there are lots of easements , declarations , covenants , stipulations , etc , then it may still be more appropriate to use a conveyance , notwithstanding the fact of first registration .
19 First , it would be necessary to monitor the quantity of pollution of each firm in order to assess its tax liability .
20 In his study Sir Richard asked all 34,000 doctors in Britain what they smoked and then began to monitor the causes of death of those doctors .
21 Road transport pollution Congestion on the roads costs an estimated £15 billion a year , yet the Government continues to do nothing to curb the rate of growth of car use — estimated at 142% between 1990 and 2005 .
22 Failing compliance with these requests Sir Stafford Cripps should be informed that he no longer fulfils the conditions of membership of the Labour Party , and that in consequence he will be excluded there from .
23 It was an answer that did not mean much to me then and I confess that it means very little to me today : it is not only a rather arid and pompous definition , which seems to drain the idea of God of imaginative life , but it also seems arrogant — even hubristic .
24 This latter effect would directly influence the calculations of suppliers of commodities to the public sector , and indirectly influence other enterprises through its ‘ multiplier ’ repercussions .
25 This conclusion is supported by evidence that age does not influence the rate of recovery of quality of life after hospital care for pneumonia .
26 The procedure for ascertaining the opinion of members of the Commons and of Peers and of prominent people in the Party Organization was then conducted by persons who were later to be christened ‘ the Magic Circle ’ .
27 Presumably any G-Pt-G intrastrand crosslinks on the non-template strand do not provide a sufficient protrusion to affect the rate of movement of RNA polymerase , and are therefore not detected as transcriptional blockages .
28 As Beatson has stated , ‘ a system that uses the pragmatic approach is not using the concept of error of law as an organizing principle ’ as such , but rather as a facade behind which to weigh the relative competence of court and agency .
29 Second , the axial spin rate of the Earth 4600 Ma ago can be estimated using the principle of conservation of angular momentum by giving the Earth all the present angular momentum of the Moon plus the orbital angular momentum of the Earth and the Moon around their centre of mass : the Earth spins nowhere near fast enough to have spun off lunar material and no very plausible means have been suggested whereby the Earth-Moon system could since have lost the necessarily copious amount of angular momentum .
30 Lean times were to follow and three years later we find him using the backs of sheets of his Jedburgh map to draw a privately commissioned plan .
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