Example sentences of "[art] [v-ing] [adv prt] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trinity House was ordered to remove the navigation buoys from the Thames estuary ; the militia in the south-western counties was called out , seriously disrupting the bringing in of the harvest ; Essex , Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire between them raised 22 troops of cavalry who occupied Hounslow Heath ; while the foot from Kent and Surrey were mustered at Blackheath . |
| 2 | He successfully reformed the service on the Continent , setting up fixed and regular posts for the speeding on of the portmantle or packet , in place of the irregular messengers and carriers who had travelled the whole distance . |
| 3 | Tests conducted in southern India by Dr Singh , head of the Department of Botany at Annamalai University , resulted in the speeding up of the movement of protoplasm in plant cells by the application of harmonious music from various instruments two metres from the plants for half an hour . |
| 4 | The stepping down of the government followed resignation calls from all five of East Germany 's minor political parties , and from a deputy minister of culture . |
| 5 | Wherefore your petitioners pray that your honourable House halt the contracting out of the maintenance of the Royal Parks . |
| 6 | But he said the RMT were still opposed to the contracting out of the fencing and tree lopping work . |
| 7 | Corporatist arrangements may be given effect to formally by statute ( as in the case of the complex system of structured self-regulation established by the Financial Services Act 1986 ) or by contract ( as in the case of the contracting out of the running of the register of fighting dogs ) ; or they may operate purely by way of informal agreement . |
| 8 | The only remedy available to the holders of the subordinated debt in the event of default is to petition for the winding up of the company . |
| 9 | The Court of Session agreed on the issue of unfair prejudice but did not accept that , because unfair prejudice had not been found , it would be inappropriate to make an order for the winding up of the company . |
| 10 | no resolution may be passed or order made for the winding up of the company ; |
| 11 | any outstanding petition for the winding up of the company is dismissed ; |
| 12 | no resolution can be passed or order made for the winding up of the company ; |
| 13 | Preference shares normally carry no rights to vote except on a resolution for the winding up of the company , or to modify the rights attaching to the shares . |
| 14 | A clause achieving this would be as follows : As regards voting in general meetings the holders of the Preference Shares shall be entitled to receive notice of , and to attend at , general meetings of the Company but shall not in respect of their holdings of such shares be entitled to vote upon any resolution unless : ( A ) there shall have been any Arrears on any Preference Shares or Preferred Ordinary Shares for more than two months on the date of the notice convening the meeting ; or ( B ) the Company , on any of the Redemption Dates under sub-paragraph ( d ) ( i ) below of this Article 2.2 , shall have failed or been unable to redeem all or any of the Preference Shares falling to be redeemed on any such Redemption Date ; or ( C ) the resolution is one which directly or indirectly varies , modifies , alters or abrogates any of the rights , privileges , limitations or restrictions attaching to the Preference Shares or " A " Ordinary Shares ; or ( D ) the resolution is for the winding up of the Company , the reduction of share capital , the approval of the giving of financial assistance or the purchase by it of any of its shares . |
| 15 | In on the fourteenth of July of nineteen ninety three the defendant took out a summons with a view to having all the outstanding matters resolved and er this summons came before erm deputy master on the twelfth of August nineteen ninety three and he gave various directions including an enquiry in relation to how the surgery premises er ought to be dealt with as in court in the winding up of the partnership and that matter went before Mr Justice long in December and he decided those issues and gave directions in relation to and how the premises are to be sold , the effect of the directions very vaguely , is that the premises have to be offered to the partners , if only one of the partners shows any interest then there is provision in the relevant deed for ascertaining the price and this is put to that partner at that price , if more than one partner wishes to buy the premises then there is provision for a fixing of a minimum figure and then each of the partners has to put in sealed offers er and the premises will be sold to the partner , the former partner who put in the last offer , that broadly speaking I think is the substance of Mr Justice order . |
| 16 | Slightly less obvious but essential to the winding up of the nerve endings is Michael Carr 's neglect of his wife . |
| 17 | ‘ For the purposes of sections 60 , 61 and 62 of the Banking Act 1987 the definition of deposit in section 5 of that Act shall be treated as excluding any sum to which a person becomes entitled ( otherwise than by operation of law ) , or comes to be treated as entitled for the purposes of sections 58 and 60 of that Act , after a petition is presented by the winding up of the institution , or , in the case of an institution in respect of which such a petition has been presented before the date on which this Order comes into force , 30 July 1991 . |
| 18 | Where after a full dissolution the winding up of the practice is in the hands of some only of the former partners an allowance may be made to them in recognition of their efforts before the net profits are determined for the purposes of this section or otherwise . |
| 19 | From its inception in 1983 to the winding up of the programme in 1987 the government through the Training Agency ( formerly the Manpower Services Commission ) will have committed close on 1 billion to TVEI . |
| 20 | His mild reaction to the tearing up of the Treaty of Versailles was perhaps explicable by the fact that he saw such events as inevitable and because the Foreign Office was locked into a policy of appeasement . |
| 21 | Those who believe that the growth of planned economy brings with it the possibility ( on the narrow basis of the dying out of the law of value ) of acting just as one pleases , do not understand the ABC of economic science . |
| 22 | Then follows the pushing through of the course of action despite buffetings and any opposition . |
| 23 | At the going down of the sun and in the morning |
| 24 | At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them . ’ |
| 25 | The freedom in the growing up of the child allows a fixation to the pregenital phase and facilitates regression to it . |
| 26 | This experience is referred to many times in the Cantos : what its author most values in theory , the weighing of syllables in the line and the leading on of the reader 's breath from one syllable to the next . |
| 27 | A Cabinet decree published on May 19 provided the framework for the phasing out of the system by which workers laid off due to lack of raw materials continued to receive 80 per cent of their salaries . |
| 28 | Surrey County Council is to become the first local authority to sign the Peatland Protection Charter , and to commit itself to the phasing out of the use of peat in the council 's public parks , gardens and other landscaping activities . |
| 29 | Some single people too will need to gain special compensatory measures , although the phasing in of the proposal will do much to minimize any losses . |
| 30 | More commonly , the parties ( or the court ) may consider that the matrimonial home should stand in the sole name of the wife but that the husband should be compensated by the payment of cash , or ( if cash is not available ) that the husband should have a charge on the property for a fixed amount ( as opposed to an interest in the equityas to which see Chapter 6 ) , the calling in of the charge being deferred until a specific time or happening of a specified event ( eg death of wife , remarriage of wife or youngest child attaining the age of eighteen years ) . |