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1 During gastroscopy , the folds of Kerckring are assessed for any reduction and distal duodenal biopsy specimens are taken in all patients for histological examination to look for villous atrophy .
2 Additional components beside fractions TFIIIB and TFIIIC are needed for efficient pol III transcription
3 NOTTINGHAMSHIRE are searching for financial backers for an extension to the new £500,000 William Clarke stand , at Trent Bridge .
4 MIDDLESBROUGH Reserves should have their best crowd of the season if the Central League game with Mansfield is rearranged for next Thursday night striker Bernie Slaven and midfield player Willie Falconer are in line for comebacks .
5 PVG is looking for like-minded parties .
6 Faldo is asking for less hype and a return to the days when the biennial encounter was a friendly , usually won by the Americans .
7 On one hand , therefore , McElroy is preparing for private companies to take over the reigns of the weather craft ; on the other , he is inviting other countries to become involved in what could be a link only between governments .
8 ‘ Prince Edward is destined for greater things , ’ Joan said with a tactlessness rare in her and which she was to regret .
9 Walker was jailed for nine months and banned from the driving for two years .
10 ‘ On that Sunday evening , ’ Corbett asked , ‘ do you think Lady Eleanor was waiting for this lover ?
11 King Edgar was criticised for inviting heathens into the country , some of whom were possibly poets , while Æthelred evidently patronised the skald Gunnlaug , and it was probably during his reign that the surviving manuscript of Beowulf , with its story of pagan Scandinavia , was written .
12 The Iraqi embassy in Brussels was occupied for several hours early on April 3 by Kurds protesting at the massacre of their people by Iraqi troops .
13 Defence Minister Shaposhnikov was pressing for unified command with a supreme commander in charge of all strategic and conventional forces , which would allow little room for republican armies .
14 Mrs Mandela was jailed for six years on kidnapping and assault charges but released on bail pending a yet-to-be-heard appeal .
15 David was jailed for four years after robbing a petrol station to pay for his drug habit .
16 David was trained for christian service at the Scottish Baptist College and at the BTI .
17 In the March 1990 general election ZANU-PF won 116 of the House of Assembly 's elective seats and Mugabe was re-elected for another term as President .
18 Courtney was jailed for seven years on November 30 following his conviction for two rapes and two indecent assaults .
19 England are braced for tough test
20 In this regard , it is intriguing to note that both Glu-248 and Glu-251 of c-Jun are required for optimal phosphorylation efficiency by the DNA-PK .
21 In half an hour , in eight overs , Hampshire were dismissed for 15 runs , their last scoring item being four byes .
22 Because SOEs were created for multiple reasons , most faced conflicting pressures from various constituencies and could not reconcile multiple , and conflicting , objectives .
23 Meanwhile , Tyneside is braced for more explosions after the blasts at Gateshead and at a disused Esso oil terminal at North Shields .
24 And in the unlikely event that the level of the FT-SE 100 Index should actually fall during that period , we guarantee to return the original amount of your investment provided the Bond is held for 5 years .
25 NOERC is calling for further electrification schemes , the adoption of the Continental loading gauge , a more flexible attitude towards the provision of regional freight depots through the use of grants payable under Section 8 of the Railways Act 1974 , and an early decision on the provision of regional inland customs clearance facilities to complement those at British Rail 's main Tunnel freight assembly point at Willesden .
26 Russia is appealing for Western aid to deal with the problem .
27 After her arrest , Mrs Mohammed-Holgate was detained for six hours .
28 IBM was waiting for this decision and quickly became more aggressive at home and abroad .
29 FORMER Liverpool City Council union official Tony Gavin was jailed for three months at Liverpool Crown Court for theft this afternoon .
30 As its origins suggest , UDC was designed for detailed indexing of documents and not for shelf arrangement .
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