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1 The last time these clubs met was at Wembley in the 1983 FA Cup final , a game that needed two bites for United before they finally ran out winners .
2 Other such thematic surveys completed during the year included the DOE-funded Falkirk project , the results of which were presented at a one day seminar for planning officials , where the practical value of the 36 thematic maps produced was demonstrated .
3 What these cities shared was fast growth and great prosperity in the second half of the nineteenth century , leading to extremes of poverty and wealth and the establishment of a large number of hospitals , either as a result of private philanthropy or of government intervention .
4 Twenty of the 50 garages checked were giving sub-standard tests , using poor equipment , lax testing procedures or passing cars in a dangerous condition .
5 The only African states invited were Ethiopia , the Gold Coast , Liberia and the Central African Federation : this White-dominated state came up with the sole refusal .
6 Among the top riders invited were world uphill champion Tim Gould , his team mate Fred Salmon , the men 's Raleigh team and team Raleigh lady professional Caroline Alexander .
7 The institutions involved were Eagle Star Investment Managers , Foreign & Colonial Ventures , Ivory & Sime Development Capital , NatWest Ventures and Rothschild Ventures .
8 The policies pursued were not always pleasing to Washington , and showed that the British could have a mind of their own .
9 Instead the 20 District Health authorities involved were asked to come up with a £9,000 each by tomorrow afternoon .
10 At the end of the year l9X1 it was found that actual production overhead costs amounted to £160,000 in cost centre X and £138,000 in cost centre Y. The total direct labour cost in cost centre X was £144,200 and the machine hours used were 18,000 in cost centre Y during the year .
11 The phrasing of the questions and the scales used were as in Study 1 .
12 The monoclonal antibodies against integrin chains used were anti-α 1 mAB TS2/7 ( T-Cell-Science ) , anti-α 2 mAB Gi9 ( Immunotech , Luminy , France ) , anti-α 3 mAB VM2 ( gift of VB Morhenn , Menlo Park , CA ) , anti-α 4 mAB P4G9 , anti-α 5 mAB P1D6 , and anti-α v mAB AMF7 ( Telios Inc , San Diego , CA ) , anti-α 6 mAB GOH3 ( donated by A Sonnenberg , Amsterdam , The Netherlands ) , anti-Β 1 mAB 4B4 ( Coulter Clone , Krefeld , Germany ) , anti-Β 2 mAB MHM23 ( Dako , Hamburg , Germany ) , anti-α 3 mAB SZ.21 ( Immunotech SA , Luminy , France ) , and anti-Β 4 mAB 3E1 ( Telios Inc , San Diego , CA ) .
13 Other skills involved were the planning of time , the allocation of tasks , drawing up a questionnaire to be used to cover local facilities , telephoning and interviewing local licensees and decision-making in relation to the selection , organization and editing of information gathered .
14 However , both the research projects mentioned were dependent on aggregate published statistics , and although they provide useful overviews , they measure the impact of planning only indirectly .
15 Other objects found were a purse and pottery and coffin nails .
16 In areas where cattle stealing was highly organized and ransoming common it is likely that the proportion of cases reported was very much smaller .
17 Top of the four clubs involved were Preston , who earned 28 votes , followed by Tranmere with 25 , Wigan with 15 and Stockport County with 2 .
18 On the clay the woods visited were predominantly mature mixed deciduous or coppice , and often damp .
19 alright , there were no , there were very few production targets , if there were production targets , erm , er , they were very low , essentially the support that Eastern European car manufacturers got was , was not coupled right , to production .
20 I am in favour of somewhat greater powers of disposal being given to some of our national museums and galleries so that if an item was clearly surplus to a collection there would be power to dispose of it , provided that the funds realised were reinvested in the acquisition of other , perhaps contemporary material .
21 In these rebellions , the main grievances voiced were fiscal , although it is not certain how far the taxation itself was the real cause of discontent and how far merely the last straw which could not be borne in a time when land was becoming scarce and real wages were in decline [ A.1 ] .
22 After extensive washing with equilibration buffer , the proteins retained were eluted by adding 10 ml a 0.1–1 M KCl gradient in Tris-HCl pH7.4 .
23 The probes used were against human CFTR exons 1–6 ( a-c and g-i ) or the hisD vector sequences ( d-f and j-l ) .
24 The EMSA and the DNA probes used were performed exactly as described in [ 14 ] .
25 But after a four-month investigation , the State has charged that the methods used were abusive , worthy only of Cruella de Vil , Walt Disney 's Dalmatian-murdering villain .
26 There has also seemed to be a tendency among excavators either to cling rigidly to the date of a coin , or in the case of a pottery assemblage , to aim at an average date ; perhaps in some of the excavations of the thirties , the methods used were not refined enough for a director even to be sure that all the pottery came from a particular stratified layer , and if , therefore , a few sherds appeared which were out of dating context with the main assemblage , they could be put aside as ‘ intrusions ’ and ignored .
27 A description of the methods used was later revised and issued by the Centre for Library and Information Management .
28 However , the parties involved were prepared to have their heads hit together to arrive at a solution .
29 Than Shwe , the SLORC Vice-Chair , officially announced that the SLORC would not transfer power to the Assembly elected in May 1990 , on the grounds that the parties involved were " unfit to rule " .
30 In terms of the industrial relations context , the relationships found were not always those expected .
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