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1 During early system evaluation it was found that experts much preferred a simple direct dialogue style that presented basic diagnostic information such as test point values and component values , whereas the inexperienced required more directed problem analysis and advice .
2 Rebate-only plans apparently offered a free pension , as all the money came from the Government .
3 If they were relatively inactive and presented their demands through what the councillors defined as the " proper " ( private ) channels then their demands rarely secured a favourable response .
4 Magnus was a great orator whose rousing speeches soon created a massive following among the common folk of the Empire .
5 Her face went blank , but this time Guy saw the effort it cost her to regain that air of remote calm , and her eyes still held a mute appeal that stabbed him to the heart .
6 Little by little , however , the force of this long glen beneath the austere greyness of the Five Sisters touched Johnson , and he moved his position from that of first considering the political role of such remoteness , and the opportunities it gave for military strategies and subsequent escapes — Glenshiel had been the scene of a battle fifty-four years earlier in which local Highlanders unsuccessfully reinforced a Spanish invasion force — to being lulled by the sight of so many waters , brooks , burns , and silver rivulets , ‘ which commonly ran with a clear shallow stream over a hard pebbly bottom ’ .
7 One persuasive argument says that many dinosaurs probably needed a high metabolic rate when they were not fully grown , since they had to grow , as we have seen , at a great pace .
8 The Hospital Infection Society Working Party 's guidelines also suggested a two tier approach and gave a list of 16 inoculation risk categories of patients .
9 While these authors also noted a slight decrease in the proliferative activity of the distal colon , they found that this difference remained constant regardless of the risk status of the subject ( normal controls , small or large adenomas , colon cancer ) .
10 The poor girl had gone off to her camp before she had formulated any hypotheses ; she had no idea as to what theory or concepts her work was to throw new light on , and so , to be on the safe side , she had recorded everything she could think of over a period of about six weeks and her notebooks practically filled a medium-sized suitcase .
11 But pale eyes often held a far-away look which he tended to associate with insanity .
12 It had further taught them that bomb casualties in Protestant districts frequently included a substantial proportion of Roman Catholics .
13 Many quite fluent Dyirbal speakers simply represented a dead end in that their intuitions could not be accessed .
14 A group of Czech teenagers allegedly made a few hundred copies of locally-produced computer software packages and sold them for $10 a piece , after advertising them via direct mail-shots .
15 In England in 1226 it had been made clear to the king that he could not tax the clergy diocese by diocese ; such an attempt in that year had been frustrated by the request of the Salisbury cathedral chapter for consultation with the clergy of other sees ; the proctors of the cathedral and collegiate clergy subsequently attended a provincial council armed with instructions from their ‘ constituents ’ .
16 The four gentlemen actually danced a ring-a-rosy when they regained the pavement .
17 In both cases coalition governments were established in which communists swiftly assumed a dominant position .
18 Police Court trials usually included a miscellaneous collection of well-known ne'er-do-wells picked up over the weekend and arraigned on Monday morning to face drunk and disorderly charges .
19 CIYMS 13 The visitors clearly demonstrated a greater determination in the opening stages and in particular their pack was decisively impressive forcing Portadown unto the defensive .
20 West Indian plantations also provided a growing demand for fish , grain and timber which was met by North America .
21 Some patients who used potent corticosteroids also used a mild compound for the face , in which case only the potent steroid was monitored .
22 The inexperienced technicians also employed a standard diagnostic approach as a result of using the expert system .
23 The two companies also signed a joint marketing agreement , under which IBM promotes OLAS .
24 At Easter , visitors even included a senior executive of Euro Disney with his wife and kids in tow .
25 HUNGARIAN reformers narrowly averted a fatal split last night just two days after the birth of their new Socialist Party when they elected a compromise leadership .
26 But the remaining rural areas actually experienced a net loss of 2 per cent , while one rural district — Norham and Islandshires — had a 12.5 per cent loss .
27 When challenged on this point , employers always produced a unanimous chorus to the effect that this was what women wanted , because they would not stay long in the trade before they married .
28 The ambiguously worded agreement effectively permitted the involuntary repatriation of Vietnamese " boat people " who had been screened out as " economic migrants " , by providing for the repatriation of those who " while not volunteering to return , are nevertheless not opposed to going back " and according to some officials thereby created a fresh category of " acquiescent non-volunteers " .
29 Impressive statistics , yes , but a chilling reminder that the detections only represented a mere trickle in the rising tide of illegally imported drugs which could be pouring through our controls .
30 His own officials meanwhile conducted a further loyalty check on government employees , and Vice-President Nixon boasted " We " re kicking the Communists and fellow travellers … out of the government not by the hundred but by the thousands . "
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