Example sentences of "[art] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , the EC Commission lays emphasis on a number of other changes which should contribute to the speeding up of the legislative process . |
| 2 | Doubtless the timing of the revolt can be partly understood in terms of the flaring up of the Young King 's dissatisfaction at Limoges . |
| 3 | The winding up of the New Town Development Corporations began in the mid-1980s , and in December 1986 the Minister for Housing said that all of the New Town Development Corporations would have gone by 1992 . |
| 4 | Following the winding up of the Political Prisoners Release Committee , Caughey became secretary of a small group called Irish Union , which , in its personnel , provided a link between the NICCL and the later Wolfe Tone Societies and NICRA . |
| 5 | They have been punished by being stripped of their ability to claim benefit and by the pushing down of the real value of their training allowance . |
| 6 | Tamar had allowed Victoria to stay up late to watch the leading in of the last load , which was a ritual joined in by all the estate workers . |
| 7 | More significantly , on 17 September Castro announced a new economic course , signifying the phasing out of the mixed economy and the agrarian and redistributive stage of the revolution , and their replacement with a new socialist order , emphasising statism-collectivism and industrialisation . |
| 8 | Does the Minister appreciate that , with the phasing out of the student-related element of university research funding , the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals is actively canvassing the introduction of top-up fees ? |
| 9 | ‘ The UK lamb market experienced some uncertainty caused by the phasing out of the variable premium for domestic lambs , ’ was his only comment . |
| 10 | A coalition of national and regional bodies servicing networks of community and voluntary sector groups has been formed to respond to the phasing out of the Urban Programme . |
| 11 | 2.4 The detailed timescale involved in the transition to the new system and in the phasing out of the old are summarised in narrative and diagrammatic form in Annexes to this paper . |
| 12 | The hostility of the army to the republic increased with the Catalan autonomy statute which represented to them the breaking up of the Spanish nation and a threat to national pride . |
| 13 | And an ordinary lightning flash is simply the breaking down of the insulating properties of air which discharges a momentary electric current to those clouds . |
| 14 | It is , once again , realism that demands the slowing down of the little waves in a studio tank to simulate the big waves of the ocean , or stretching the fall of a toy-sized car off a desk-high ‘ cliff ’ to the time of a real car falling of a real cliff . |
| 15 | The most significant change in this respect is the slowing down in the 1980s of the decline in urban populations compared with the previous decade ( Champion , 1987 ) . |
| 16 | The main differences between the 1978 and the 1983 lists were definitional ( the splitting up of the middle-income group ) and political ( South Africa expelled from the industrial group and relegated to the upper-middle-income group and replaced , incidentally , by Spain ; Taiwan expelled altogether from the list and the People 's Republic of China integrated into the low-income group at number 21 ) . |
| 17 | BR issued a prospectus for the handing over of the entire Settle & Carlisle line to private enterprise . |
| 18 | The Chart parser thus fulfills the architectural requirements outlined above and , in addition , reflects the paring down of the graph-searching task to its barest requirements with few restrictions on how the graph should be constructed and explored . |
| 19 | Indeed , an important aspect of the Piaroa ‘ complex of peace ’ is the erasure of most marked divisions among people in the playing out of the social life of the community . |
| 20 | Today with the shaking up of the post-war world order the terms migrants , refugees , borders , national identity , have become part of the cultural agenda in Europe and North America . |
| 21 | Westmore James sat quietly in the dock during the summing up on the last but one day of his trial at Oxford Crown Court . |
| 22 | They included the delivering up of the two named individuals for trial , recognition of responsibility for acts , willingness to pay compensation , the disclosure of information relating to the IRA and renunciation of terrorism . |
| 23 | 120 ) , commitments to improving living and working conditions ( Arts 117 and 118 ) , and the laying down of the general principles for implementing a common vocational training policy ( Art . |
| 24 | Thus , shortly after the Electricity Act received the royal assent , in September 1947 , Attlee appointed Gaitskell as Minister in his place , and it therefore fell to him to carry through the Government 's work of nationalisation by completing the appointments to the Boards and the working out of the new relationship of Ministry and BEA . |
| 25 | One problem remained to be settled , which was the working out of the electoral pact . |
| 26 | So we come back again and again to the notion of the rare catastrophic happenings playing a major role in the working out of the stratigraphic record as we find it today . |
| 27 | Similarly , the significance of friendship as a means of exercising influence was appreciated by youth workers , as it would be after 1910 in the working out of the juvenile labour exchange , vocational guidance and after-care schemes . |
| 28 | Subservience becomes a habit , and to step outside it is indeed a going out into the unknown , a going into a wilderness , where there are no clear paths forward , where life is precarious , and survival itself uncertain . |
| 29 | But there was no going back for the impoverished Miss Theodosia Kyte . |
| 30 | After four years of economic boom , 1990 saw a slowing down of the Spanish economy , as a result in part of the impact of the Gulf crisis on oil prices but due also to the government 's restrictive monetary policy , which was designed to bring Spain 's currency and rate of inflation more into line with those of other members of the European Communities ( EC ) . |