Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Implementation is for planning and installing hardware and software , producing documentation and training , a handover to new systems and winding down of old systems . |
| 2 | A future investment activity not specifically relevant to the current context is the establishment , operation or winding up of collective investment schemes . |
| 3 | In the last few years these problems have also been intensified by the housing changes described in chapter 7 , namely the accelerated contraction of the private-rented sector , the winding up of New Town Development Corporations and other official overspill schemes , the cutback in Treasury funds for new public-sector house-building in general , and the sale of council houses to tenants with ‘ Right To Buy ’ discounts ( Brittan , 1986 ) . |
| 4 | V Winding up of unregistered companies |
| 5 | He also referred to section 229(2) in the group of sections concerned with the winding up of unregistered companies . |
| 6 | Her face is coming back to me yet again , reforming out of bouncing shadow . |
| 7 | The Progressive Democrats had been on the brink of walking out of Prime Minister Albert Reynolds ' government team over an accusation of dishonesty he made against their leader , Des O'Malley , last week . |
| 8 | Very actressy — flinging plates , storming out of other people 's dinner parties . |
| 9 | " Is everyone bidding out of future pay ? " |
| 10 | Swearing in of civilian President |
| 11 | Nujoma 's policy statement — Swearing in of National Assembly and Council of Ministers |
| 12 | This smoothing over of social and historical differences can turn discourse analyses ' political implications from productive ambiguity , to complete opacity . |
| 13 | New pop was a post-modern form generally — in its cut-up of styles and media , its genre cross-references , its use of pastiche and parody , its dressing up of mass cultural forms with high cultural claims and vice versa . |
| 14 | They may have had a function in aiding the picking out of broken threads on the loom . |
| 15 | Thirty-nine years after Roy became a schoolboy football star on the front page of the then new comic , Tiger , he is finally bowing out of big time . |
| 16 | A similarly timid attitude had to be taken with regard to strikes by ASLEF , the train-drivers ' union , and the bailing out of British Rail . |
| 17 | Control — such as it had been — was passing out of British hands . |
| 18 | In the hypothetical case of his son and daughter Gandhi would consider that he was acting out of moral considerations in taking his son 's life in order to save him from unnecessary suffering , and his daughter 's life in order to save her from the threat of violation . |
| 19 | This may be partly because there are many pigs , who are a match for the boys , and partly because the boys are acting out of reasonable necessity , and not immature impulsiveness . |
| 20 | OPERATING OUT OF DELIGHTFUL SHOREHAM AIRPORT , G-BKRA IS NOW SET TO EXPAND THE EXPERIENCE AND COMPETENCE OF MANY PILOTS AND WOULD-BE OPERATORS . |
| 21 | Station commander Wing Commander Stewart Blackburn confirmed that most of the work , apart from some specialist fitting out of new hangers , would go to local contractors . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He cleverly made use of the lowering fuel weight and bedding in of new tyres , to outwit his British challengers , Hawthorn and Collins . |
| 24 | Next afternoon , then , they set off , a cheerful host , for this was the sort of venture that appealed to most , not any long campaign or set warfare but a raid , a dash into enemy territory , a showing of the flag , a swift paying off of old scores — and with the prospect of booty . |
| 25 | States such as Italy with a preponderance of coalition government or with marked factional organization within political parties have seen the phenomenon of the parcelling up of different parts of the state administration among different parties or factions ( e.g. Donolo 1980 ) . |
| 26 | As Kaurismaki 's associate Mikko Piela describes it with equally characteristic , and refreshingly literate , hyperbole : ‘ THE MATCH FACTORY GIRL evokes such feelings of sorrow , pity and horror that the dusty bones of Aristotle himself must be clattering out of sheer cathartic pleasure . |
| 27 | Where achieving cultures are growing out of traditional ones there will inevitably be tension between the two , and the occasional conflicts will affect marketing development and growth . |
| 28 | Airlines will start pulling out of unprofitable routes rather than fighting for market share . |
| 29 | The board will usually have responsibility for long-term strategic planning , for example concerning investment in new production facilities and products , merging or making a bid for another company , closing down existing plants or pulling out of unprofitable markets . |
| 30 | SOUTHERN Water is pulling out of Stalwart , its joint venture with French-owned Saur ( UK ) in the refuse collection and cleansing service business . |