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1 WHEN John Boorman took on the job of co-editing this anthology , which is intended to be an annual event , and writing the chronicle of 1991 which comprises almost half its contents , he can not have imagined that he would be revealing so much about the reasons for his own creative decline .
2 Given that so much of the enthusiasm for ‘ law and order ’ in Britain has been marshalled by the Conservative Party during the late 1970s , a simple impression of how different things were ( or were not ) twenty years ago can be gleaned from the business of Conservative Party conferences in the two periods .
3 The British tendency to choose to limit the size of families over the past 20 years , and the need to move around the country in search of better job prospects , has done little to increase the sense of community and neighbourliness which once absorbed so much of the responsibility for mutual support and so-called ‘ informal ’ care in the post-war years .
4 Delegates also expressed concern over the success of the anti-fur trade campaign , which had effectively shut down many of the markets for one of the Inuits ' principal exports .
5 ‘ If we have another couple of the big shires , they should be able to paddle down enough of the snow for the rest to follow on foot . ’
6 The financial criteria are contained on the Key Card reproduced earlier in the chapter and the substantial changes in eligibility introduced in 1979 took away most of the grounds for the criticism that they were pitched too low .
7 Lewis had n't made up his mind whether to sell Wyvis Hall after he had smartened it up a bit and with the proceeds buy a bigger and better London house and a country cottage or to keep the Hall and sell off some of the land for agriculture .
8 Thus , quite a lot of early mammalian development is devoted to setting aside most of the cells for extra-embryonic structures rather than the embryo itself .
9 I could probably dig up some of the rules for the 90 Mins one if anyone is really interested .
10 Now when the was opened , er it was decided to er to put in a line , erm just near to connect with , and pick up some of the trade for the for Railway , cos the or the had already decided to get some from that end as well .
11 Clearly much of the credit for this is due to a very generous and grateful public .
12 In this chapter I have been concerned to draw out some of the implications for socialist politics of the analysis of capitalist property relations given earlier .
13 ‘ I shall be sorting out some of the applications for Miss Grimes 's job this morning , ’ Mervyn said .
14 The grants announced yesterday cover about half of the funding for the higher education sector .
15 As expert systems are designed for use by persons who have some general understanding of the knowledge domain , it is reasonable to assume that the user will take at least some of the responsibility for the output obtained .
16 Although it is again not possible to attribute developments definitely and exclusively to the project , the project must take at least some of the credit for the business-like way in which some school libraries now operate .
17 It would only be reasonable to give at least some of the credit for this successful adaptation to de Gaulle 's incessant proselytizing about the necessity of modernization .
18 Fortunately all of the electronics for the servo amplifier is usually contained within custom designed integrated circuits and interested readers should refer to the data sheets and application notes for the Signetics NE 544 , the Plessey ZN 409 and the Exar XR-2264 for further information .
19 Well the fact that we had certainly at point six which is in the centre of the urban area which is where we clearly we 're mainly concerned about is where most of the accidents for example are happening .
20 Both national survey data and smaller in-depth studies now enable us to document at least some of the financial effects of care-giving on women , although we still know very little about the consequences for women who begin or continue to give care in their own old age , or about the experiences of Black women carers .
21 We know that black elderly people , for example , have very little contact with formal social services but we know far too little about the reasons for this .
22 This track is an extended 12-bar workout in two tempos , and John comes very much to the fore for 60 bars playing what is more of a solo than a bass part , though he does still strongly outline the changes , as we will see .
23 Erm , I 'm not in a position to add anything very much to the article for next year , I spent most of Friday afternoon with the Tech last week , erm , but there 's still obviously a good deal of uncertainty about programmes for next year , erm , what I think has been very positive is that we have now er , this year for the first time since the Tech 's formation , they 've started to discuss some of the issues about the programmes with a group of providers .
24 Craig Chalmers reckons that much of the credit for making the new men feel part of the Scotland set-up is down to Hastings .
25 We have already traced the development of CD information media from their origin in CD Audio but it is important to re-emphasise that much of the prospects for multimedia 's future success lies in the established and fast-growing base of CD Audio players .
26 Currently most of the impetus for developing efficiency and effectiveness measures arises out of recent legislation to expand the traditional role of the auditor ( see chapter 6 ) .
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