Example sentences of "[noun] up of [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instructions to the boundary commissioners were revoked and amended so that they would be able to consider economic interest as well as population and community in the drawing up of the new constituencies ; this was regarded as vital by the Unionists , for it seemed likely that the merging of the small boroughs into the county constituencies would take away the last of the agricultural seats . |
| 2 | Under the banner of industrial democracy various changes have been proposed in the structure of the organisation , decision-making and ownership of companies , involving things such as compulsory councils and co-determination at the shop-floor level , the representation of workers on the board , and most recently ( in Sweden and Holland ) the setting up of a union-controlled wage-earners ' fund by capitalising a percentage of pretax profits , with the newly issued shares being placed in the fund and used to acquire interests in other companies and to supplement wages in the lowest-paid jobs . |
| 3 | Of crucial importance in the period of transition to democracy was the setting up of a specific negotiations commission under Cyril Ramaphosa , secretary-general of the ANC . |
| 4 | Among the projects carried out by ERA-WACC during the year were : a colloquium held in Moscow on the MacBride Report , entitled ‘ Europe speaks to Europe ’ ; a conference on communication ethics ( also held in Moscow ) ; a worship workshop for TV producers in western and eastern Europe ; and the setting up of a European Women 's network . |
| 5 | A GROUP of 60 securities specialists brought together by the Royal Bank of Scotland will propose the phased introduction of a three-day , rolling securities-settlement system and the setting up of an institutional shares clearing house . |
| 6 | An early example of the recognition of the residual problem was afforded by the setting up of the Unhealthy Areas Committee by Addison in 1919 . |
| 7 | The Gay News Defence Campaign may not have won the case for the paper , but it helped the community maintain a sense of strength and it led to the setting up of the Gay Activists Alliance . |
| 8 | He was Treasury Solicitor — the head of the government legal service — from 1971 to 1975 , and in his career in the Treasury Solicitor 's Office he was involved in the setting up of the intricate Prices and Incomes Acts of the 1960s and the formation of the new departments of Environment and Trade and Industry . |
| 9 | Where the sequence of information is important to the understanding of a given topic ( for instance , the origins of the Unification of Italy or the setting up of the National Governments , 1931–39 ) you must develop a system that clearly but succinctly shows the connections between events and ideas and also pinpoints continuities/discontinuities in a line of development . |
| 10 | If I could draw members attention to the supplementary papers erm and it 's page three which is the second report and it will become I will make it clear with regards to the er linking up of the two reports , both museums and Essex committee linked up to the museum registration . |
| 11 | Leaving aside social legislation , the most important of these factors was the opening up of the grain-bearing areas of North America , refrigeration , and acceleration of maritime transport . |
| 12 | Perhaps the opening up of the secret police files , once Mr Krenz 's little empire , was the final shove , combined with the resignation of all the security chiefs and the placing under house arrest of his former boss Mr Honecker . |
| 13 | According to ecologists it is impossible to predict the long-term impact of tapping into the area 's subterranean reserve , but ratification of the water district plan could result in the drying up of the natural springs in the Death Valley National Monument in California , destroy verdant valleys throughout the West and kill rare fish species such as the Moapa dace , which has survived since the ice age . |