Example sentences of "[adv prt] of [adj] [noun] " 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 | Vukovar and Vinkovci south of Osijek were bombarded on Aug. 25 on a scale unprecedented in the conflict , possibly in retaliation for the shooting down of two air force jets by Croatian forces in the area on Aug. 24 . |
| 3 | Subsequently , selected documents were released from the presidential archives , apparently implicating Gorbachev in taking part in or in concealing information about various episodes of Soviet history , including the shooting down of Korean Airlines flight KAL-007 in 1983 [ see pp. 32513-7 ] , the order for the invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979 , and direct orders from Stalin for the murder of Polish officers in 1940 ( the Katyn massacre — for April 1990 Soviet admission of responsibility see pp. 37383-84 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The underlying desire , which it disguises but feeds on , is ‘ for a new for a breaking down of environmental barriers , for an aesthetic which is not limited to the sphere of the ‘ artistic ’ ’ ( ibid : 36–7 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Those who were educated prior to the mid-1970s may well believe that history has little to contribute to education in the 1990s because they believe it still to be predominantly concerned with narrative chronology with much copying down of dictated notes . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | These seemed to arise from the process of urbanization , the breaking down of traditional practices , and what was seen as a conflict between the old morality and the new . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She made an effort to feel some true sympathy , but it was difficult — she supposed that she would n't be able to experience compassion in a deep and real sense until she 'd had some children , since only matters like the putting down of young greyhounds brought tears to her eyes . |
| 16 | Erm , yes , as you know I 'm a member of the Essex traffic group and we did state at the time there will be no looking into or no pulling down of any type of property or building , yeah , but it , erm the Council went ahead and looked at Wordsworth Road |
| 17 | Because we 've said , we 've stated that there be no pulling down of any type of building . |
| 18 | Last year 's figures include the IRA Teebane massacre in Co Tyrone , the UFF slaughter at Sean Graham 's bookmakers on Belfast 's Ormeau Road , and the gunning down of three people at Sinn Fein 's Belfast headquarters by rogue cop Alan Moore . |
| 19 | 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 … ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They did n't want to be press barons , says Miles , they wanted a community paper , and it had n't even been easy to find an editor amongst the founding group , preoccupied as they were with art galleries and bookshops , theatre companies and poetry , and preoccupied also with that sense of freedom , and the breaking down of national barriers which had accompanied the explosion of travel in the 1960s . |
| 22 | His view was that the breaking down of large organizations was delayed only by the political power of European governments and workers ' movements . |
| 23 | Implementation is for planning and installing hardware and software , producing documentation and training , a handover to new systems and winding down of old systems . |
| 24 | Some commentators have ascribed the rise in the number of homeless mentally ill people to the run down of psychiatric hospitals and have called for a halt to the policy of closure . |
| 25 | Closing down of Foreign exchange after losses |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Having given you a run down of both books , you can see one obvious connection — the use of telekinetic powers . |
| 28 | These contracts covered the breaking down of damaged aircraft considered beyond economical repair to salvage repairable and reusable components . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The study involved the writing down of English glosses for the signs , and the fact that deaf people had poorer recall overall may result from this cross-modal task . |