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1 Francis Pym went to Defence ; Peter Walker to Agriculture ; Sir Ian Gilmour also to the Foreign Office ; Norman St John-Stevas became Leader of the House .
2 ( n contrast both to the genetically based view of literary history which tends to ignore questions of form , and to other formally-biased approaches which tend to ignore history , the Russian Formalist view is that it is history itself which allows the specificity of literature to be established .
3 With a cable break close to the ground there is always plenty of room ahead for the landing .
4 Chamberlain fitted the following regression equation separately to the observations for each futures contract : where Vol t represents the volume for day t , and M t is the maturity on day t .
5 The carbon deposit was thought to come from car exhaust fumes from a large car park close to the church .
6 Apparently it had been reported hopping about in a car park close to the village .
7 Stowage for a Danforth-type anchor is provided in the starboard side deck close to the shroud anchorage .
8 In exchange for support from civil servants in resisting the cuts of the Treasury or in presenting its investment programme sympathetically to the government , an enterprise might refrain from padding out its capital applications ; again the electricity industry provides an example ( Hannah 1982 : 44 ) .
9 It was resolutely opposed by the opposition parties even to the extent of provoking a new constitutional crisis by disrupting work within the Senate .
10 The siting of the Roman Ermine Street just to the west of Stamford prompted Francis Peck in 1727 to suggest that Stamford was formerly the important Roman town of Durobrivae , originally called Doorebriff He supported the claim with some incoherent etymology that related the name to the Saxon word ‘ Welland ’ , irrespective of the fact that the gentle Welland does not rage or boil ( according to Ekwall 's English River Names , Welland means ‘ good stream ’ ) .
11 It happened behind the ice rink in Oxford off Oxpens Road close to the Oxford Canal .
12 Since 1970 , the Venezuelan government has encouraged the Piaroa to form larger communities in downriver positions closer to the administrative centre .
13 Not only has this phenomenon led to a concomitant spread of branches of the major search firms overseas to the major world capitals — which will be discussed at greater length in Chapter 6 — but also the pressure on multinationals to employ local executives has caused a worldwide reverse diaspora .
14 Crude advertising discrimination has tended to be directed at the socialist rather than social-democratic press , thus exempting the mass-circulation , pro-Labour papers that have flourished ; … small circulation publications further to the left which have tended to be poor advertising media , judged by the commercial criterion employed by advertising agencies , have probably also suffered as a consequence of overt political discrimination .
15 Shortly afterwards T. reiterated her opposition to a blood transfusion both to the midwife and to a doctor .
16 Their bodies were later found washed up on a northern Natal beach close to the Mozambique border .
17 This old Methodist Church hall is an impressive building with a red and mellow brick facade standing in this pleasant side road close to the heart of Oxford and within easy walking distance of the city centre University and Polytechnic .
18 I did not usurp power but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power , in other words this is the modesty part I acted for the public welfare , I acted for the common wellbeing of all our people whenever and in whatever manner was necessary unless prevented by direct constitutional or legislative prohibition Roosevelt suggested that the president subject only to the people of the United States and he identified himself with Andrew Jackson and with Abraham Lincoln .
19 A joint campaign to get the updated healthy eating message across to the general public is being planned by the Consumer 's Association , National Federation of Women 's Institutes , Coronary Prevention Group , Guild of Food Writers and others .
20 The addition of three roof windows close to the eaves of this upper roof-slope at a slightly shallower pitch than this surface ( Plate 10 ) .
21 The addition of three roof windows close to the eaves of this upper roof-slope could then augment the daylighting of the upper-level studio that enters through the newly-glazed original eaves-level pitching hole of the east elevation .
22 This combination of uses is suggested by the existence of a dormer-roofed pitching hole close to the roof eaves at the north end and the two high-level square ventilation openings which are closely associated with it ( Plate 6 ) .
23 And the Jockey Club can not be accused of headlong profligation of its long held principals , though Caulfield accuses them now of handing the rule book straight to the animal welfare groups .
24 Application for admission to the first year of these courses should be made on the University 's direct entry form directly to the University of Ulster .
25 If you are likely to be using the camcorder near the car , it might be worth taking one of the special leads which enable you to feed power from the car battery directly to the camcorder ; however , this is obviously not a practical option for general holiday use .
26 The above items will be sent to you ( one per booking ) with your travel documents which include our specially prepared Holiday Guide which contains everything you need to know before departure ( including details of hotels and car parks close to the airport ) .
27 Fill in the tear-off slip and SEND IT WITH YOUR RENEWAL PREMIUM either to the Office address shown at the top of the renewal notice or to your insurance adviser .
28 club house just to the left .
29 club house just to the left .
30 Smith himself died 10 years later , buried in Highgate Cemetery close to the grave of Karl Marx .
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