Example sentences of "[adv prt] of an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Continuing anti-US feeling in Iran and the associated strength of the radical Islamic political forces resulted from the US refusal to make a more comprehensive effort to compensate Iran for the shooting down of an Iranian airbus in the Gulf by the USS Vincennes warship in July 1988 [ see pp. 36169-70 ] , and from the fact that it continued to hold , according to official Iranian estimates , some $12,000 million in assets frozen since the 1979 Iranian revolution [ for agreement in November 1989 to release assets see p. 37053 ] . |
| 2 | ( One widely held theory was that Iran had paid Jabril US$1,000,000 to blow up PA 103 in retaliation for the July 1988 shooting down of an Iranian airbus by the USS Vincennes [ see pp. 36169-70 ] ] ) . |
| 3 | The Government gave the go-ahead despite last week 's shooting down of an Italian relief plane . |
| 4 | Professor Ivan Smith was prompted to make his accident findings public after the recent shooting down of an Italian plane over Bosnia . |
| 5 | The section is dealing with contraventions or apprehended contraventions of section 3 , i.e. the carrying on of an unauthorised investment business . |
| 6 | If the site chosen is in the opinion of the local authority not suitable for the carrying on of an offensive trade , being for example too near to residential properties then consent may be refused , or granted for a limited period or subject to conditions . |
| 7 | The South Korean government remained optimistic that reform would take place in North Korea , and on Jan. 16 , 1990 , announced the setting up of an economic co-operation fund of up to 300,000 million South Korean won ( approximately equivalent to US$440 million as at Jan. 15 , 1990 ) to subsidize companies which traded with North Korea or entered into joint-venture agreements . |
| 8 | Team sizes can be varied but they are always made up of an odd number of competitors . |
| 9 | If necessary complaints will be decided by a special committee ( called a Service Committee ) made up of an equal number of health practitioners and members of the public , with a chairman who is not a health practitioner . |
| 10 | Well the fear of boring you because I 've said it before , I think that either a Trustee made up of an equal balance of members from the various interested groups which is very difficult to achieve in practice and additionally independent trustees certainly in our case , we believe would have stopped it happening because the movements in the direction it went was clear now that we have the information in front of us to the Trustees , it was quite clear what was gon na happen and nothing was done about it . |
| 11 | On April 20 the government signed two accords with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) for the repatriation of an estimated 1,000 Surinam refugees from French Guiana and the setting up of an official UN office in Paramaribo . |
| 12 | Heath and his colleagues next abolished the parliament and constitution of Northern Ireland in defiance of all Commonwealth constitutional precedent and despite the fact that the action was a unilateral tearing up of an international treaty registered at the League of Nations . |
| 13 | By 1907 ITF activity was regarded by the shipowners as sufficiently serious to justify the setting up of an International Shipping Federation " to combat the growing forces of socialism and aggressive trade unionism " , but in reality it had made little progress in establishing international standards and the British market for seamen was still being substantially undercut by lower rates of pay of foreign labour . |
| 14 | The ANC continued to press for the setting up of an interim government during the constitutional negotiations , whereas some other groups , including the Democratic Party and the Zulu-based Inkatha movement , favoured the current government staying in power during the transition period . |
| 15 | The admission of Britain , Denmark and Ireland led to the setting up of an effective system of Community ‘ own resources ’ , independent from the finance of the Member States . |
| 16 | Moreover , the fact that France 's African possessions stretched in an unbroken line from Morocco in the north to Gabon in the south led to the setting up of an entire series of relay stations transmitting centrally produced programmes and news bulletins . |
| 17 | It was this need that led to the setting up of an annual programme of three two-week radio training workshops , which WACC has supported for the past two years . |
| 18 | It is made up of an outer sheet of cells which forms a particularly thick structure — the apical ridge — at the tip , with an inner mass of loosely packed and rather dull looking cells . |
| 19 | Moreover , the functions it took on within the capital — including the setting up of an armed militia , the publication of an uncensored newspaper , the imposition via the printers ' union of its own form of censorship , and above all the coordination of strike action — gave it the appearance of rivalling the authority of the government itself . |
| 20 | The Petersburg Soviet took on quasi-governmental functions , including the setting up of an armed militia . |
| 21 | Smith was a leading figure in the local and national movement to promote technical education , beginning with the provision of a new Mechanics ' Institute in Keighley in 1870 — he was secretary of the building committee — and continuing , after a formative visit to France , Germany , and Switzerland in 1872 , with the setting up of an associated ‘ trade school ’ , providing technical and art classes . |
| 22 | One of the main outcomes of all this introspection was the setting up of an environmental and communities department to translate Roddick 's beliefs and concerns into practical projects . |
| 23 | Amongst its duties would be the setting up of an environmental Geneva Convention — to decide how environmental regulations should apply in wartime . |
| 24 | Yes , I 'd like to support Michael in the setting up of an environmental protection agency . |
| 25 | The report proposes reforms of the CSRS itself ; a drastic decentralisation and the setting up of an interministerial committee ( the relevant ministries are Research , Foreign Affairs , and the recently merged Culture and Education ) . |
| 26 | The study builds upon four recent small studies of the Norwich economy , financed under the ESRC Open Door Scheme , and undertaken from the University of East Anglia : by Moseley on unemployment , by Sapsford on the local government provision of sites and premises , by Seddon on the building up of an industrial data base , and by Townroe on the employment of 16 and 17 year old school leavers . |
| 27 | The plant — hospitals , equipment , surgeries — being state-owned and state-administered , those changes do not come about by a gradual process made up of an infinite number of individual decisions : they happen in lurches , of which the most visible form is not the provision of new plant but the discontinuance of old plant . |
| 28 | The sum of the probabilities for space to which records have not been allocated , P EMPTY , is : The rest of the total file area must therefore hold home records , i.e. ( Note : The proportion of the file area that contains home records is calculated indirectly rather than directly , because the sum of home record probabilities is made up of an infinite series , while that of the empty positions is finite , as is clear from equation ( 6.13 ) . ) |
| 29 | A GROUP of 60 securities specialists brought together by the Royal Bank of Scotland will propose the phased introduction of a three-day , rolling securities-settlement system and the setting up of an institutional shares clearing house . |
| 30 | A further recommendation is for the setting up of an independent body of journalists that would abide by an agreed code of conduct . |