Example sentences of "[adv prt] of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the essential feature of structured techniques is the breaking down of a complex problem into smaller manageable units in a systematic ( disciplined ) way . |
| 2 | All training in kung fu begins with the laying down of a solid foundation . |
| 3 | Regional nerves have been strained by a plan to cut off water from Syria and Iraq for a month , and by the Syrian shooting down of a Turkish civilian plane in October . |
| 4 | However , the watering down of a basic and principled commitment , within Labour or any other libertarian party , especially in response to intimidation by newspapers of such a spurious morality , could prove deeply discrediting . |
| 5 | but the melt down of a cast-iron relationship |
| 6 | 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 ] . |
| 7 | ( 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 ] ] ) . |
| 8 | The Government gave the go-ahead despite last week 's shooting down of an Italian relief plane . |
| 9 | Professor Ivan Smith was prompted to make his accident findings public after the recent shooting down of an Italian plane over Bosnia . |
| 10 | Changes in rights of audience may well result in a slimming down of the practising Bar . |
| 11 | So this damping down of the sensory input when attention moves elsewhere can occur very early in the pathway from the sense organ to the brain . |
| 12 | In general , too , rhythmic and temporal features of speech are ignored in transcriptions ; the rhythmic structure which appears to bind some groups of words more closely together than others , and the speeding up and slowing down of the overall pace of speech relative to the speaker 's normal pace in a given speech situation , are such complex variables that we have very little idea how they are exploited in speech and to what effect ( but , cf. |
| 13 | Current expenditure was to be curtailed — involving , among other things a scaling down of the civil service . |
| 14 | On the morrow of Marshal Ogarkov 's removal as Chief of the General Staff , Western press comment included speculation that his policy stance had come to obstruct the reassessment of arms control and East-West policy sought by the leadership ; according to one respected newspaper , senior Western military attachés in Moscow were tipped by Soviet army officers that the Kremlin blamed Ogarkov for the disasters of the SS-20 deployment and the shooting down of the Korean airliner off Sakhalin Island . |
| 15 | They have been punished by being stripped of their ability to claim benefit and by the pushing down of the real value of their training allowance . |
| 16 | C.P.V.E. , T.V.E.I. , G.C.S.E. , A/S levels will lead to a breaking down of the traditional patterns of provision at 16+ . |
| 17 | But the fact that the legislature refrained from creating a jurisdiction to make orders against a third party under section 6(3) and ( 4 ) does not justify a cutting down of the ordinary meaning of section 6(2) . |
| 18 | 120 ) , commitments to improving living and working conditions ( Arts 117 and 118 ) , and the laying down of the general principles for implementing a common vocational training policy ( Art . |
| 19 | The observation of slowing down of the orbital rotation of the binary pulsar 1913+16 is also discussed . |
| 20 | Other documents to which Shaughnessy was given access included a series of DIA Defense Intelligence Terrorism Summaries ( DITSUMs ) issued in the second half of 1988 warning against renewed threats of attack on US interests , particularly as a consequence of the shooting down of the Iranian Airbus in July . |
| 21 | After four years of economic boom , 1990 saw a slowing down of the Spanish economy , as a result in part of the impact of the Gulf crisis on oil prices but due also to the government 's restrictive monetary policy , which was designed to bring Spain 's currency and rate of inflation more into line with those of other members of the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 22 | And an ordinary lightning flash is simply the breaking down of the insulating properties of air which discharges a momentary electric current to those clouds . |
| 23 | The Chart parser thus fulfills the architectural requirements outlined above and , in addition , reflects the paring down of the graph-searching task to its barest requirements with few restrictions on how the graph should be constructed and explored . |
| 24 | This breaking down of the large molecules to smaller ones is the job of enzymes . |
| 25 | If my theorising is correct , then the " Cenomanian transgression " was in part due to wearing down of the Hercynian and perhaps later ranges ( as in the western United States ) together with marginal sedimentation . |
| 26 | Having given you a run down of the main events , you can see how harmful rejection and repression can be to a vulnerable sixteen year old girl . |
| 27 | Moreover , while there are good reasons for concern about the availability of services for ‘ revolving door patients ’ during the run down of the old psychiatric hospitals and while doubts remain over the capacity of district general hospital units to provide appropriate care to people in crisis , the relocation of the long stay population of psychiatric hospitals is achieving some successful results . |
| 28 | In human play there is concentration on preparation for social life through symbolic play , that is play where there is a breaking down of the limiting distinction between the real and the imagined . |
| 29 | It is , once again , realism that demands the slowing down of the little waves in a studio tank to simulate the big waves of the ocean , or stretching the fall of a toy-sized car off a desk-high ‘ cliff ’ to the time of a real car falling of a real cliff . |
| 30 | This week 's talks may lead to some reductions in American troop levels in the South , even to a scaling down of the military exercises that so infuriate the North , but it 's unlikely anything will happen about the border itself , which will remain the most heavily fortified in the world . |