• Its judgments were dressed up as votes on committee reports and handed down in House of Lords sittings, although only law lords took part.

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  • He says that of the 12 business deals described in Gorilla, Penta took part in only six, and that it won contracts only when its bid was demonstrably the strongest.

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  • Under the last government, only two in five children took part in competitive sports within schools, with one in five regularly taking part in competitive sport with other schools, he added.

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  • "The report says only half the people that took part - and remember, 99.9% of the population did not - had some concerns, " said Paul Rylott, of the Agricultural Biotechnology Council (ABC), which represents biotech firms like Monsanto and Bayer CropScience.

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  • Only 10% of those who took part in the AA survey rated their local roads very good or excellent, with the lowest ratings going to Scotland and the Yorkshire and Humber region.

    BBC: 'Millions of cars' damaged by potholes

  • While Allen estimates that only 5% of miners who took part in the California Gold Rush felt they struck it rich, he sees the merchants as the real bread winners.

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  • Jennifer McCann of Sinn Fein asked the minister whether he thought it was only right that prison officers who took part in the exit scheme should be prevented from being reemployed in the service.

    BBC: Question Time

  • America took part in the intervention only because the Europeans had, for the first time since the euro was created, asked them.

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  • Only 30% of the soldiers who took part in the survey said that admitting avowed homosexuals to their unit would have a negative effect.

    ECONOMIST: A Pentagon report gives gays the all-clear

  • Prosecutors had originally filed felony hazing charges because the charges only required that they prove the defendants took part in a hazing that resulted in death.

    NPR: 12 Charged With Manslaughter In FAMU Death

  • Prosecutors had originally filed hazing charges because they would only be required to prove the band members took part in the hazing, not who struck the deadly blows.

    BBC: Robert Champion case: Charges upgraded to manslaughter

  • At a similar nationwide demonstration last month only former gendarmes and the partners of serving officers took part.

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  • Some banks, including Goldman, say that back in October they had enough capital and took part in the bail-out only to show solidarity with the government's plan.

    ECONOMIST: American banks

  • Only blind luck ensured that it took place in a relatively unpopulated part of the world.

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  • Only 2, 589 out of more than 23, 000 students took part in the poll.

    BBC: Glasgow University

  • George Galloway, the only other sitting MP to have taken part in a reality game show that took him away from the Commons, when he spent three weeks on Celebrity Big Brother in 2006, also faced criticism that he was neglecting his constituents.

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  • While some in the military continue to insist that the authors of MCS only took strategic realities into consideration, it is clear that financial constraints played a major part in the paring down of the transport fleet.

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  • Team GB, for which Queen Elizabeth II's granddaughter Zara Phillips helped win silver in the event, is not the only delegation to count royalty among its athletes: Prince Abdullah Al Saud of Saudi Arabia took part in the individual show jumping, coming joint 26th on his horse, Davos.

    CNN: Olympics Day 12: Golden day for the U.S.

  • The four firms that took part in a design challenge sponsored by The Municipal Art Society all said the only way to improve Penn Station would be to move Madison Square Garden from its current home atop the train station.

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  • As it happens, in the week that Jeanne Calment died, 44% of Germans who took part in a survey said they did not want to live beyond 80, and only 18% hoped to be centenarians.

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  • The researchers also stress that the figures they uncovered can only ever be an estimate - as they can never know for certain what percentage of those who took part actually stuck to the dice rules and answered truthfully.

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