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1 The joint DES/DHSS nature of the Circular , the necessary involvement of health and social services professionals in the multi-professional assessment , and their part in providing for those with special educational needs , were apparently not seen as sufficient reason for including them in discussions .
2 Debt-free and so not hampered by high interest rates , they are nimble enough and liquid enough to take advantage of the recession .
3 Similarly , the interglacial periods have not been of the same duration and have presumably not resulted in equal melting of the ice .
4 A right not stated in justiciable terms is tantamount to a claim to exert arbitrary compulsion .
5 It goes along with the common complaint that there are areas and methods of serious investigation which are just not touched by scholastic doctrines .
6 I 'm just not used to lucky breaks .
7 As Plowden ( 1985 , p. 407 ) comments , ‘ few ministers know the first thing about running large organisations ’ whilst civil servants are generally not trained in financial and management skills .
8 Sheppard was forced to pull out of the last of the British Grand Prix qualifying meets last month , thus losing her chance to defend the sprint freestyle title at the Superfinal in Cardiff in May , and she has still not returned to full training .
9 The NII has still not reported on crucial areas such as the dangers of external hazards like fires , earthquakes and aircraft crashes , protection systems that should stop a small accident becoming a larger one , and the vexed issue of steam-generator tubes .
10 In China , although a system has been proposed and taught , it is still not used by deaf people .
11 Furthermore , areas such as wards or enumeration districts used for the collection and analysis of census data are usually not related to administrative areas used by service providers .
12 This French breed , which produces high-fat milk , was probably not distinguished from other breeds of northwest France until the nineteenth century , including the Contentin type ( later absorbed by the Normandy breed ) , which probably also came to the islands , and the now-extinct brindled Isigny draught breed of Normandy , which was also a famous butter-maker but much larger than the Léon and with horns which curved forward and inward rather than outward and backward .
13 There is no reason to suppose that these beautifully caparisoned vessels were in use only round the coast of Thera ; they were probably not intended for long voyages on the open sea , but we can imagine that very similar passenger ships plied round the coasts of Crete , gliding elegantly from bay to bay .
14 Consistent with its fluidity and lack of strength , leaded bronze is mainly confined to decorative axes requiring detailed casting which were probably not produced for functional use .
15 Five samples of 100 men each — probably not chosen at random — showed that 2–6% of Chiang Mai 's male population carry the virus .
16 It is probably not confined to black speakers alone , but is spoken to varying degrees by young white people .
17 Reimbursement is also not allowed under British private health schemes — except ( bizarrely ) when it is requested by a doctor who is , or has been , an NHS consultant .
18 While the inner metaphors of sensory experience are , as Jaynes ( 1976 ) affirms , verbal , consciousness is clearly not confined to linguistic themes .
19 Although there is no doubt that this view is supported in London — which tends to see the West in terms of an Anglo-Saxon axis and the ‘ special relationship ’ between Britain and the United States — France has reservations and it is clearly not shared by southern European nations .
20 Like moderate hyperglycaemia , significantly elevated lipid levels are often not associated with clinical features so patients need regular screening for hyperlipidaemia .
21 Here we shall briefly remind the reader of the theory of one dimension , outline that for three dimensions ( noting in passing that it can be reduced to the product of one-dimensional walks ) and then give the Markoff chain theory , which is often not included in elementary tests .
22 Although many compound feeds are designed to be fed on their own with pasture or hay , ( ie not mixed with other cereals ) some manufacturers make ‘ balancers ’ .
23 Many staff felt that their involvement had simply not increased with financial devolution .
24 The responsibility which parents have to ensure that sexual acts do not take place between themselves and their children is surely not confined to sexual intercourse .
25 What is manifestly not disorganized in disorganized capitalism as a set of social relations is capital , either in abstraction or as a ‘ system force ’ in crucial locations , but especially at the point of production .
26 I do n't happen to think bolting is in the least bit environmentally damaging ( at least not compared with other activities going on around it ) but mechanical drills are bound to give it a bad image — the message her is ‘ bolters , do your stuff in winter or at night . ’
27 Michael Palin played goody goody headmaster Jim , Robert Lindsay the deeply insecure bad guy allegedly not based on militant councillor Del Hatton — both lent the vastly ambitious saga the power and sympathy crucial to flesh out Bleasdale 's artful comic polemics .
28 These characteristics of women 's speech were evidently not chosen at random and are not value-free .
29 By its very nature , political risk assessment must be subjective , i.e. not based on numerical data .
30 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 .
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