Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] up of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great strength of the British , its mental agility , was the drive behind the building up of the greatest Empire the world has known . |
| 2 | Waves formed by these northeast winds are responsible for the marked angle at the far point and for the building up of the recurved end so that it faces north-east . |
| 3 | Much bargaining is tacit and informal , but at times it may become formalized into tripartite arrangements involving government , unions and enterprise management ; a rare example in the British context was the drawing up of the 1974 ‘ Plan for Coal ’ ( Burgi 1985 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The President signed the committal warrant which was given to the tipstaff as his authority for conveying M. to prison and the governor 's authority for receiving and detaining M. The drawing up of the formal order that M. be committed to prison was left to the court staff . |
| 6 | After the break up of the famous ‘ Emanuel ’ partnership and subsequent liquidation of the company , Alison-Jayne decided to return home and use her knowledge and skills to set up her own couture bridal and evening wear business in Northern Ireland . |
| 7 | As 1993 approaches we are conscious that factors like the expansion of the European Community , the emergence of the Eastern European democracies and the break up of the Soviet Union , not to mention events nearer home , will present us with new challenges and opportunities . |
| 8 | A lot has happened since then and the eyes of the world have been diverted elsewhere to the Gulf , the Kurds , the break up of the Soviet union . |
| 9 | I was struck too by the way in which we started the programme by considering the dangers of the situation and there 's no doubt that that 's correct , but it is important to say , perhaps the most important thing is that the end of is n't in the Soviet Union and the break up of the Soviet Empire is an enormously positive event for all of us , for the citizens of the Soviet Union and for us in the West it gives the opportunity for much greater stability , real stability , peace and prosperity then ever existed under the old regime . |
| 10 | During a brief visit on Oct. 12 , 1989 , as part of a tour of Latin America , President François Mitterrand of France stated that the break up of the International Coffee Agreement ( ICA — see above ) " seemed to confirm Colombia 's isolation in its fight against drug trafficking " . |
| 11 | I can dimly recall the challenges of testing a router photograph , and using it to create the November 1989 cover , while the picture of Mark Wilkinson 's treehouse made the February 1990 cover one of my favourites , especially as the references to Czechoslovakia and East Germany coincided with the break up of the Eastern Bloc . |
| 12 | The brains of its victims are found to contain areas in which the death of nerve cells is accompanied by demyelination ( the break up of the fatty sheath surrounding nerve fibres , which is essential to their correct functioning ) . |
| 13 | The incisors are lost first , with the break up of the anterior part of the premaxilla , and then the molars are lost as the alveolar border becomes damaged . |
| 14 | John Marchbanks of the NUR , representing an active Right Wing minority in the Party leadership , saw the campaign as an attempt at " engineering the break up of the Labour Party , and paving the way to the creation of a new party , in which Liberals and progressives of all political shades will be enrolled " . |
| 15 | Crawford Beveridge , SE 's chief executive , said the foundations for business had been laid by trade missions organised since the attempted coup in 1991 which led to the break up of the former Soviet Union . |
| 16 | As Laffin and Young ( 1985 ) observe , the break up of the post-war consensus , coupled with the passing of the earlier period of growth and the increased politicization of local government , has made the officer 's professional stance increasingly difficult to sustain . |
| 17 | The success of this measure led to the deregulation of local bus services in 1986 , involving the break up of the National Bus Company and the introduction of private sector competition . |
| 18 | The setting up of the Working Party on Civil Procedures ( The Heilbron Committee ) was an important development during the year . |
| 19 | Hence Lawson also chaired an ad hoc group of Ministers which led to the setting up of the Serious Fraud Office . |
| 20 | The setting up of the Serious Fraud Office was an important development , as were the increased powers of the Department of Trade and Industry under the Financial Services Act 1986 and the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It is a very bad situation as loyalist paramilitaries feel that violence will pay , as they believe it has done for the IRA through the setting up of the Anglo-Irish Agreement . |
| 23 | It is a very bad situation as loyalist paramilitaries feel that violence will pay , as they believe it has done for the IRA through the setting up of the Anglo-Irish Agreement . |
| 24 | The setting up of the European environment agency has stalled because of a lack of agreement over where its headquarters should be . |
| 25 | There had been the usual time-consuming , wearying and slightly acrimonious preliminaries to the setting up of the new squad in C1 and already his mind was reaching out with relief to the solitary contemplation of alabaster effigies , sixteenth-century glass and the awesome decorations of Winchfield . |
| 26 | Horror stories abound , originally fuelled by the publication of Ruth Harrison 's Animal Machines ( 1964 ) , a book which in Britain directly influenced the setting up of the first parliamentary inquiry into the new methods of animal husbandry under the chairmanship of F.W.R. Brambell . |
| 27 | The trial of Bradlaugh and Annie Besant in 1876 for republishing one of Knowlton 's pamphlets gave the birth-control movement wide publicity and created the demand for more information , and led to the setting up of the first organisation to campaign on birth control , the Malthusian League . |
| 28 | It seems that the traumatic events surrounding the over-throw of the primal hordes and the setting up of the first fraternal hunting clans produced in our ancestors a central psychological conflict of such huge and all-engulfing proportions that all subsequent generations have to some extent or other felt its effects . |
| 29 | In Nigeria however , the discovery of the Koko dump led to the setting up of the Federal Environmental Protection Agency — a new initiative in environment policing . |
| 30 | It also led to the setting up of the 1992 tournament in Italy . |