Example sentences of "[adv prt] of [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This all signifies a breaking down of powerful interest groups such as trade unions and large corporations . |
| 2 | At the other end of the scale are Stephanus Heidacker and Peter Chevalier , whose paintings are based on a revision of classicism , and the Frenchman Philippe Cognée who aims at the breaking down of figurative painting . |
| 3 | Many belated advocates of a Lib-Lab agreement argue that it must also encompass both the standing down of Liberal Democrat candidates and negotiation of a full-scale policy for coalition government . |
| 4 | We know , therefore , that the frequency of landslides is quite enough to account for a major part of the wearing down of new mountain chains . |
| 5 | The immediate cause was a mountain of surplus coal , generated by two mild winters and a slowing down of economic growth : coal stocks had quadrupled from 7 to 31 million tons since 1957 . |
| 6 | Yet within the space of only a few years , all this optimism , not for the first time , was in tatters — against a world backdrop that was also changing : the waning of American economic strength ; the rise of Japan ; the rapid expansion of decolonialisation ; new superpower hostility with the Cuban missile crisis ; the slowing down of economic growth and indications of problems to come . |
| 7 | The UK division of FoE produces the Good Wood Guide , a simple run down of tropical hardwood products and their alternatives for consumers and manufacturers alike , so that all interested parties can be sure of buying hardwood that has come from sustainable sources . |
| 8 | The overall costs of implementing RMI are also beginning to be a worry and it seems likely that there will be a slowing down of large-scale implementation with a preference being given to smaller more gradualistic approaches to providing information needs . |
| 9 | Whole curricular thinking was inhibited by the need to preserve the first ; the breaking down of professional isolation by the need to conceal the latter . |
| 10 | This was because of de-stocking and running down of high volume , low margin brands , and a change of year end at the Schenley offshoot last time . |
| 11 | Closing down of Foreign exchange after losses |
| 12 | There is more likely to be a gradual wearing down of viral disease , with a wide variety of drugs becoming increasingly effective against specific types of virus . |
| 13 | We have made mention in passing of mobility within the context of a family 's history : both the ups and down of social mobility according to circumstance , and the more obviously-apparent geographical moves people made to ensure their own survival or to better their lot . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Swearing in of civilian President |
| 16 | If he remained at liberty , he could authorise the calling in of outside help — hence , as insurance , the coup leader 's attempt to destroy the President s reputation by connecting him to the cocaine trade . |
| 17 | Ten more minutes or so went by until she was ready for the net , one scoop followed by some frantic throwing in of excess tail which did n't want to go into the net and she was ours . |
| 18 | The main variations are caused by the phasing in of major re-equipment programmes : Polaris in the latter half of the 1960s ; RAF re-equipment in the early 1970s ; Army re-equipment in the mid-1970s ; the Tornado programme in the mid-1980s , and the start of the Trident programme in the late 1980s . |
| 19 | They were they had a a board in of white kitten , free to good home . |
| 20 | As part of the settlement to last year 's National dispute , the phasing in of Extended Opening Hours was agreed as follows : — 10.00am–4.00p.m. with effect from 1st May 1992 ; 10.00a.m. –4.00p.m. from 1st January , 1993 . |
| 21 | Sabbatical leave , further training for teacher trainers themselves , and the buying in of linguistic expertise could only go part way in breaking the vicious circle . |
| 22 | And Somerset Maugham wrote in Of Human Bondage in 1915 : |
| 23 | Nujoma 's policy statement — Swearing in of National Assembly and Council of Ministers |
| 24 | Well you do know th th that you 're saying that they want to make a particular point strongly and er that that might involve erm an elephant in of bad taste in order to make it striking and to make people look at it and think about it . |
| 25 | Life for me would be empty and not life , a mere dragging on of weary time , perhaps not that . |
| 26 | But the prohibition on the carrying on of unauthorised investment business is also underpinned by new civil remedies . |
| 27 | By way of shorthand I will refer to third parties who , with the requisite knowledge , were concerned in the carrying on of unauthorised investment business as responsible third parties . |
| 28 | But if they were knowingly involved in the carrying on of unauthorised investment business that provides the rationale for orders against them under section 6(2) . |
| 29 | The treatment of the short-sleeved belted chit on of light material is assimilated in the taste of the time to that of the heavy chit on ( figs. 73–4 , 76 ) , though the structure of the garment is quite different . |
| 30 | ‘ The newspaper and television campaign in Germany over the imminent handing over of certain art treasures is gamesmanship to exert pressure on public opinion during the talks . |