Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] down of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the morrow of Marshal Ogarkov 's removal as Chief of the General Staff , Western press comment included speculation that his policy stance had come to obstruct the reassessment of arms control and East-West policy sought by the leadership ; according to one respected newspaper , senior Western military attachés in Moscow were tipped by Soviet army officers that the Kremlin blamed Ogarkov for the disasters of the SS-20 deployment and the shooting down of the Korean airliner off Sakhalin Island . |
| 2 | Other documents to which Shaughnessy was given access included a series of DIA Defense Intelligence Terrorism Summaries ( DITSUMs ) issued in the second half of 1988 warning against renewed threats of attack on US interests , particularly as a consequence of the shooting down of the Iranian Airbus in July . |
| 3 | Moreover , while there are good reasons for concern about the availability of services for ‘ revolving door patients ’ during the run down of the old psychiatric hospitals and while doubts remain over the capacity of district general hospital units to provide appropriate care to people in crisis , the relocation of the long stay population of psychiatric hospitals is achieving some successful results . |
| 4 | But the fact that the legislature refrained from creating a jurisdiction to make orders against a third party under section 6(3) and ( 4 ) does not justify a cutting down of the ordinary meaning of section 6(2) . |
| 5 | Having given you a run down of the main events , you can see how harmful rejection and repression can be to a vulnerable sixteen year old girl . |
| 6 | Changes in rights of audience may well result in a slimming down of the practising Bar . |
| 7 | C.P.V.E. , T.V.E.I. , G.C.S.E. , A/S levels will lead to a breaking down of the traditional patterns of provision at 16+ . |
| 8 | In human play there is concentration on preparation for social life through symbolic play , that is play where there is a breaking down of the limiting distinction between the real and the imagined . |
| 9 | Current expenditure was to be curtailed — involving , among other things a scaling down of the civil service . |
| 10 | This week 's talks may lead to some reductions in American troop levels in the South , even to a scaling down of the military exercises that so infuriate the North , but it 's unlikely anything will happen about the border itself , which will remain the most heavily fortified in the world . |