Example sentences of "the [verb] [adv prt] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the first level was concerned with the stamping out of political regionalism and other local attitudes that limited central authority . |
| 2 | Glen Lyons , consultant trichologist at the Philip Kingsley Clinic , says : ‘ In the last five years I 've noticed a dramatic increase in the number of women suffering from hair and scalp conditions , particularly the speeding up of genetic hair loss . |
| 3 | In addition our study included only patients over 60 years , specifically to maximise the pick up of cardiac abnormalities . |
| 4 | For example , with the creation of hospital trusts , with the opting out of schools , with the contracting out of local government services . |
| 5 | In part , these demand changes reflect broader issues regarding the contracting out of local authority services . |
| 6 | The paper included plans to privatize British Rail and London buses , to increase competition for the Post Office , to expedite the contracting out of local authority services to the private sector , and to shorten waiting times for hospital admissions . |
| 7 | This takes two forms : the contracting out of clinical work to private hospitals and competitive tendering for the provision of non-medical services such as cleaning , catering and laundry services . |
| 8 | Although the using up of old stock may be one reason for this practice , watchcase-makers were probably also reluctant to use Britannia silver because it is a softer alloy than sterling . |
| 9 | In the last few years these problems have also been intensified by the housing changes described in chapter 7 , namely the accelerated contraction of the private-rented sector , the winding up of New Town Development Corporations and other official overspill schemes , the cutback in Treasury funds for new public-sector house-building in general , and the sale of council houses to tenants with ‘ Right To Buy ’ discounts ( Brittan , 1986 ) . |
| 10 | He also referred to section 229(2) in the group of sections concerned with the winding up of unregistered companies . |
| 11 | Ozone is itself a form of greenhouse gas — helping to retain the sun 's reflected heat in the atmosphere - , and its destruction may be allowing more heat to escape than was hitherto thought , compensating for the increased heat retention caused by the build up of atmospheric carbon dioxide and other " greenhouse gases " . |
| 12 | The build up of cytosolic calcium inhibits further release through its inhibitory effect on the release channel and the cytosolic calcium is removed by being pumped back into the stores or out of the cell ( Fig. 4 d ) . |
| 13 | Overlays can aid the build up of complex subjects . |
| 14 | Of course , there is nothing to guarantee that the authorities will stick by the same decision rules : they could become so agitated by public concern over the build up of inflationary pressure that they could jettison their employment objective and opt for contractionary demand management policies . |
| 15 | The speed at which these pulses returned told environmental experts at the town hall about the build up of dangerous exhaust fumes on High Row . |
| 16 | But he 's had to close some of the deeper galleries which only pot holers use , because of the build up of toxic gasses . |
| 17 | ‘ Generating electricity causes serious environmental damage by contributing to acid rain , to the build up of radioactive waste and to the threat of global climate change . |
| 18 | Leaving gaps in the base of the wall near ground level will prevent the build up of excessive water in the soil behind . |
| 19 | The account in Table 2.3 of the build up of independent study across the Course would be an example of a course-wide policy which is permissive progressively permeating the Course as a whole . |
| 20 | The cleaning kit will also remove the build up of magnetic oxide which collects on the head . |
| 21 | A similarly timid attitude had to be taken with regard to strikes by ASLEF , the train-drivers ' union , and the bailing out of British Rail . |
| 22 | The bailing out of weaker building societies must come to an end . |
| 23 | They may have had a function in aiding the picking out of broken threads on the loom . |
| 24 | It is the pouring in of new wine , but the bottles must also be new or they will burst , and this is exactly what Mr. Alexander 's treatment does . |
| 25 | States such as Italy with a preponderance of coalition government or with marked factional organization within political parties have seen the phenomenon of the parcelling up of different parts of the state administration among different parties or factions ( e.g. Donolo 1980 ) . |
| 26 | This in turn explains why the infinitive can evoke both the wide range of all possible realizers ( as in To visit the poor is a Christian obligation ) and the narrowing down of this range to one particular spatial support ( for instance , to the speaker as in Oh to be in England … ) . |
| 27 | Studies on the impacts of the reform of corporation tax and the phasing out of accelerated depreciation allowance on UK investment have been undertaken by Sumner ( 1988 ) and Devereux ( 1989 ) . |
| 28 | Although nobody really argues about what needs to be achieved , there are disagreements about how the phasing out of mental handicap hospitals should proceed . |
| 29 | Proposals for a worldwide carbon tax and the phasing out of coal-burning generators appear to have been ruled out . |
| 30 | The Soviet Union and the United States in January and February concluded three preliminary agreements on the levels of their forces stationed in Europe , the phasing out of chemical weapons and the inspection of each other 's nuclear arsenals . |