Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The incisors are lost first , with the break up of the anterior part of the premaxilla , and then the molars are lost as the alveolar border becomes damaged . |
| 32 | After the break up of the famous ‘ Emanuel ’ partnership and subsequent liquidation of the company , Alison-Jayne decided to return home and use her knowledge and skills to set up her own couture bridal and evening wear business in Northern Ireland . |
| 33 | The brains of its victims are found to contain areas in which the death of nerve cells is accompanied by demyelination ( the break up of the fatty sheath surrounding nerve fibres , which is essential to their correct functioning ) . |
| 34 | The success of this measure led to the deregulation of local bus services in 1986 , involving the break up of the National Bus Company and the introduction of private sector competition . |
| 35 | The major impact was the break up of the family unit . |
| 36 | Singleton sees the break up of the family , with single women raising their children , as a source of much of the disintegration of values amongst young men . |
| 37 | I can dimly recall the challenges of testing a router photograph , and using it to create the November 1989 cover , while the picture of Mark Wilkinson 's treehouse made the February 1990 cover one of my favourites , especially as the references to Czechoslovakia and East Germany coincided with the break up of the Eastern Bloc . |
| 38 | It follows that the break up of the ancien régime and the impact of the Enlightenment gave rise to a radical transformation of the nature of objects in society . |
| 39 | As Laffin and Young ( 1985 ) observe , the break up of the post-war consensus , coupled with the passing of the earlier period of growth and the increased politicization of local government , has made the officer 's professional stance increasingly difficult to sustain . |
| 40 | As 1993 approaches we are conscious that factors like the expansion of the European Community , the emergence of the Eastern European democracies and the break up of the Soviet Union , not to mention events nearer home , will present us with new challenges and opportunities . |
| 41 | During a brief visit on Oct. 12 , 1989 , as part of a tour of Latin America , President François Mitterrand of France stated that the break up of the International Coffee Agreement ( ICA — see above ) " seemed to confirm Colombia 's isolation in its fight against drug trafficking " . |
| 42 | Chief executive , Tim Cordy , is reported as saying that the enforced break up of the Council meant that there was no longer a " national voice for nature " . |
| 43 | John Marchbanks of the NUR , representing an active Right Wing minority in the Party leadership , saw the campaign as an attempt at " engineering the break up of the Labour Party , and paving the way to the creation of a new party , in which Liberals and progressives of all political shades will be enrolled " . |
| 44 | A lot has happened since then and the eyes of the world have been diverted elsewhere to the Gulf , the Kurds , the break up of the Soviet union . |
| 45 | Crawford Beveridge , SE 's chief executive , said the foundations for business had been laid by trade missions organised since the attempted coup in 1991 which led to the break up of the former Soviet Union . |
| 46 | The mul , and the Duchess of York will become a multi-millionairess , in her own right , as a result of the break up of the marriage to Andrew we can reveal today . |
| 47 | I was struck too by the way in which we started the programme by considering the dangers of the situation and there 's no doubt that that 's correct , but it is important to say , perhaps the most important thing is that the end of is n't in the Soviet Union and the break up of the Soviet Empire is an enormously positive event for all of us , for the citizens of the Soviet Union and for us in the West it gives the opportunity for much greater stability , real stability , peace and prosperity then ever existed under the old regime . |
| 48 | Already in the 1850s , Roman catholic bishops attacked the setting up of the ‘ model schools ’ , intended for the pursuit of educational experiments within a multi-denominational setting . |
| 49 | He was Treasury Solicitor — the head of the government legal service — from 1971 to 1975 , and in his career in the Treasury Solicitor 's Office he was involved in the setting up of the intricate Prices and Incomes Acts of the 1960s and the formation of the new departments of Environment and Trade and Industry . |
| 50 | From about 1864 on , much of Marx 's time and energy was spent in connection with the setting up of the international association of working men , the first International . |
| 51 | Similar thinking lay behind the setting up of the British National Film League in 1921 to ‘ encourage the production and exhibition of British-made films ’ . |
| 52 | Some stop-gap funding was provided immediately for British Lion and this was followed , in April 1949 , by the setting up of the National Film Finance Corporation which the Board of Trade provided with a revolving fund of £5 million ( expanded to £6 million in 1950 ) . |
| 53 | The defeat of Wilhelmine Germany in the first world war led to the setting up of the Weimar Republic in 1919 , a constitutional settlement many believe was doomed . |
| 54 | That proposal led to the signing of a treaty during the following year , and the setting up of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization — N.A.T.O . |
| 55 | The setting up of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization caused the U.S.S.R. |
| 56 | Chairman Mao , the very dominant Communist leader of China , was so annoyed at Khrushchev , particularly over his co-operation with the U.S.A. over the setting up of the hot-line , that he called the U.S.S.R. |
| 57 | The setting up of the European environment agency has stalled because of a lack of agreement over where its headquarters should be . |
| 58 | The first six paragraphs described events leading to the setting up of the Select Committee and the reasons for the choice of witnesses . |
| 59 | Thus , at the global scale , the International Council of Scientific Unions ( ICSU ) has endorsed the setting up of the International Geosphere Biosphere Project ( IGBP ) to ‘ describe and understand the interactive physical , chemical and biological processes that regulate the total Earth system , the unique environment it provides for life , the changes that are occurring in that system and the manner by which these changes are influenced by human actions ’ ( Report of ad hoc Planning Group for IGBP 1986 , quoted in IGBP 1988 ) . |
| 60 | The report on this work Teacher Placement Programme 1988 was presented to the DTI in December 1988 and provided the basis for the setting up of the Teacher Placement Service in April 1989 . |