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31 The coding system used to record the physical nature and condition of items issued to readers also contained an element which enabled the presence of specific types of damage to be noted where these were very evident .
32 While these authors also noted a slight decrease in the proliferative activity of the distal colon , they found that this difference remained constant regardless of the risk status of the subject ( normal controls , small or large adenomas , colon cancer ) .
33 The poor girl had gone off to her camp before she had formulated any hypotheses ; she had no idea as to what theory or concepts her work was to throw new light on , and so , to be on the safe side , she had recorded everything she could think of over a period of about six weeks and her notebooks practically filled a medium-sized suitcase .
34 Subjects correctly recalled a mean of 4.9 junctions each ( min 2 , max 8 ) .
35 Two would-be polytechnics unwittingly supplied a gauge — syllabi softer than butter , one in business studies and one technological .
36 But pale eyes often held a far-away look which he tended to associate with insanity .
37 Checking or correcting is another procedure not usually engaged in unless directed to , but discussion of methods often produced a correction to the original wrong answer .
38 CBC Regional Offices now occupied the mezzanine floor on the west side of the hotel , where Hilda Wilson was the Senior Secretary .
39 His lips even moved a little , as if he were giving himself a consultation .
40 It had further taught them that bomb casualties in Protestant districts frequently included a substantial proportion of Roman Catholics .
41 Heliotropes sweetly scented the air and were covered with tiny bees gathering pollen .
42 Many quite fluent Dyirbal speakers simply represented a dead end in that their intuitions could not be accessed .
43 There 's one gigantic computer in California , which has got access to a hundred databases there called the stores of information , compiled mainly by the publishers of journals .
44 There 's one gigantic computer in California , which has got access to a hundred databases there called the stores of information , compiled mainly by the publishers of journals .
45 A group of Czech teenagers allegedly made a few hundred copies of locally-produced computer software packages and sold them for $10 a piece , after advertising them via direct mail-shots .
46 But only a few schools completely integrated the teaching of domestic subjects and science .
47 Her face was chubby , her complexion still perfect for all her fifty-eight years , and her green eyes never missed a thing .
48 In England in 1226 it had been made clear to the king that he could not tax the clergy diocese by diocese ; such an attempt in that year had been frustrated by the request of the Salisbury cathedral chapter for consultation with the clergy of other sees ; the proctors of the cathedral and collegiate clergy subsequently attended a provincial council armed with instructions from their ‘ constituents ’ .
49 Several early computers therefore provided an instruction to manipulate the operand field of another instruction ; instructions 18 and 19 on the Von Neumann computer ( Figure 1.5 ) are an example .
50 The four gentlemen actually danced a ring-a-rosy when they regained the pavement .
51 Gurus of gossip The Hollywood Kids recently circulated a story about a hunky heart-throb labelled Pig Pen on the set of his latest film , whilst Movie Line magazine carried an item about an actress who had such a problem that her action hero leading man vowed never to work with her again
52 The Puritans — who have sometimes been given the useful alternative title ‘ the hotter sort of Protestants ’ and are now increasingly referred to by historians as ‘ the godly ’ — did not necessarily uphold different beliefs from the moderates , but their religious activities generally occupied a far greater proportion of their time and energy .
53 Although the New Criticism in its later American manifestations generally pursued a purely formal and elucidatory analysis , Gerald Graff reminds us that the original New Critics were evaluative , since they wrote as conservative Southerners who were much concerned with ideals of cultural health .
54 Although judicial business was conducted in English and followed procedure alien to pre-British Sri Lanka , people were able to adapt themselves to the new institutions and the courts soon handled a very heavy criminal and civil load .
55 The 17-minute delay after 71 minutes of this numbing exposure of Chelsea as credible Championship challengers merely prolonged the suffering of their 9,000 travelling fans .
56 Two of the Kamalians only needed a couple of metres of the wire to render him helpless and under continual self-torture .
57 But the associations only built an extra 14,500 homes in 1991 — not enough to keep pace with demand , according to Coun Dixon .
58 On Oct. 5-8 in Moscow , and again in Washington in late October , US and Soviet arms control negotiators apparently discussed a defence system which would protect the Soviet Union from ballistic missile attacks .
59 Two of the blocks together preserved a handful or words from the poem ( promptly recognised by Professor Ihor Sevcenko of Harvard University ) and all of them elaborately carved .
60 In both cases coalition governments were established in which communists swiftly assumed a dominant position .
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