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1 Three main questions were therefore addressed : did non-fundholders reduce their rate of referral outside the boundaries of their local district health authority ? did first wave fundholders reduce their referral rates to NHS outpatient clinics and , if so , which specialties and which patients were affected ? did the proportion of patients referred by fundholders to private clinics increase and how many private referrals were paid for out of the NHS budget ?
2 Extra-curricular activities continued as before , probably the most memorable being the rambles in the Peak District organized by masters such as Mr.A.South and Mr. H. D. Smith .
3 Our analyses of voters ' information levels and their changing political preferences confirm and even strengthen that finding .
4 Sweden recognised the problem well over a decade ago and began legislation to limit the allowed dose ; it has the most advanced testing programme in Europe with well over 70000 homes measured and over 2000 remedied .
5 For those who like a time check once in a while , it was now 9.30 hours to go and still counting down .
6 Unofficial estimates varied wildly , with some experts suggesting that as many as 100,000 or 150,000 Iraqis might have died during the war .
7 Some experts reckon that up to DM1 trillion will be needed to bring the ramshackle east up to western scratch .
8 Some experts say that even if the eruption stopped today , the sheer pressure of lava piled up behind for six miles would bring debris cascading down on to the town anyway .
9 Although it is a great advantage to be just inside your weight category , some contestants forget that even a glass of water can tip them over .
10 Ivanov was capable of using his considerable social skills to cultivate and subsequently exploit successfully the acquaintance of a susceptible person engaged in strategic work .
11 However , performance deficits were only noticeable after 2 hours sleep or less for one night , and after 5 hours or less for two successive nights , showing some evidence of an accumulation of sleep debt potentiating the otherwise rather slight effects of reduced sleep .
12 Ferguson : Can you imagine it New Years day next year , 0 –0 v the scum at Old Trafford , 2 minutes to go and on comes Fergy junior .
13 There was a greater emphasis on the concept of spending needs which had to be costed out and in some cases justified and even evaluated .
14 In the , in the current Middle East erm so this pattern certainly applies to Judaism , not to all religions , he 's not saying that all religions have to undergo persecution in order to as it were flourish , but some religions do and perhaps the characteristic Judaism or at least this kind of monotheism is these kind of religions tend to be intolerant and single-mindedly , tend to say that we know the truth , everybody else is wrong and consequently they tend to persecute others and get persecuted and this leads to these periods of suppression , but there 's a tendency for this kind of return of repress just as Mike was saying , his very brilliant analogy he suggested the French Revolution when the students put the barricade up in the same place or so the erm Freud 's idea is that the things that happened in that first traumatic period back in Ancient Egypt and for example erm he said this is why the modern erm Jews insist on circumcision because the Ancient Egyptians did and this is , this is correct .
15 Several rioters were killed during an attack on a mill using them at Salford in 1812 , but few manufacturers had as yet introduced them , or were intending to in the near future , and disturbances were intermingled with food riots and political agitation .
16 According to the London-based Africa Confidential newsletter of May 22 , the delay came at the insistence of the opposition , which , while claiming that the rainy season would create transport problems for delegates , was in fact concerned that comparatively few parties had as yet been granted legal status .
17 A study published by Age Concern Scotland asserts , that , ‘ to be dependent is to face the danger of being less than fully human because to be dependent is to live with the prospect of having our bodies cared for but our personal and social lives neglected or even dismissed as irrelevant . ’
18 The important question is not how popular cultural sensibilities shift but why they do .
19 Some economists calculate that only a small part ( perhaps a quarter ) of the appreciation of the exchange rate is attributable to oil but that the government deliberately pushed up the exchange rate ( which appreciated 40 per cent between 1979 and 1980 ) by raising domestic interest rates and thereby weakening industrial competitiveness .
20 For what else could so many well-connected old buffers do if not manoeuvre themselves into and around the Senate ?
21 The group also discussed certain issues related to the implementation of panel reports , while on Dec. 7 Bangladesh proposed various measures in favour of LDCs ( although some participants argued that generally dispute settlement rules should apply equally to all GATT members ) .
22 Some bands think that just playing gigs will be enough to attract a following .
23 While Roderick et al ( 1982 ) in their study of English universities report that only 25.9% of unqualified mature students obtain a ‘ good ’ degree , this is a percentage of all entrants rather than graduates , and is therefore not directly comparable with Bourner and Hamed and Walker 's figures .
24 And he got some packages made but unfortunately he did n't patent the idea because what he actually was made what he actually made was random access memories .
25 It took him only a few weeks to realise that not all saddles hurt , but he never stopped being difficult in his mouth and was rarely eager to please .
26 The grim 132-page report names British nationals arrested but never prosecuted for child sex crimes in the Phillippines .
27 The reports prepared by the local authority 's social workers indicate that initially all the children made good progress with the foster mother and at one time their adoption by her was contemplated .
28 His letters evince the excitement he felt at undertaking this journey , one which few Europeans had as yet made , and his anticipation of getting plenty of big game hunting on the way .
29 So you are essentially assuming that there 's no skill in football pools , that it 's essentially a random process and sometimes some teams win and sometimes they do n't , but there 's no overall skill in it .
30 Certainly , there were texts of some plays printed and obviously plays were originally written in some sense .
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