Example sentences of "[v-ing] up of the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ These include a fishing boat haven at the lough , woodland walks and the general sprucing up of the look of the place , such as taking away all overhead electricity wires and putting them underground and getting a new street lighting system . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The bulk of remaining works consists of beach clearance and removal of access roads , concrete finishing and tidying up of the ECB between MHs 14 and 21 and landscaping at Outfall 1 and hte stretch MH24 to MH27 . |
| 6 | This applied to many houses in the street , presumably brought about by the making up of the road with gravel over a long period . |
| 7 | Your policy already provides cover against damage by Subsidence ( sinking of the ground beneath your home ) but not against Heave ( swelling up of the ground beneath your home ) . |
| 8 | The legitimacy of this claim is shown by Nicaragua 's subsequent commencement of proceedings against Costa Rica and Honduras in which Honduras alleged that the Nicaraguan claims constituted an ‘ artificial and arbitrary ’ dividing up of the tension within the area . |