Example sentences of "[noun] up of [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He is unlikely to have supervised personally the drawing up of every document — he had staff for that — but he did have the duty of dating the solemn privileges which were issued .
2 The measures include the withdrawal of the right to belong to a trade union at GCHQ ; the drawing up of a poll tax register ; and , under the Local Government Act of 1989 , the restrictions placed on the political activities of all local government officers earning over £13,500 a year .
3 Aspects of divination , such as the drawing up of a horoscope .
4 Does my hon. Friend agree that the secret of contracting out is the drawing up of a contract between those who buy a service and those who supply it , and that , together with independent inspection , that is an essential ingredient to ensure that quality and standards are maintained in the public 's interest ?
5 One such followed the 1919 Indian Jails Committee report , and another came shortly after Independence ; many of the new leaders had spent time in gaols , and devoted some attention to the problem in the 1950s ( including the drawing up of a Model Prison Manual in 1959 ) .
6 Running concurrently with this , was the drawing up of a policy statement about staff and parents working together .
7 The regulation of aviation comprises many different activities but perhaps the most significant is the drawing up of a set of rules and regulations and the establishment of an organisation to ensure their enforcement .
8 The key function none the less lies in the drawing up of the legislation ; deciding what should go into a bill and what should be omitted , and how the proposals should be drafted .
9 Also , the way we are told that the plan was connected with Swegen 's first visit to Essex suggests that he had been there again since this occasion and the drawing up of the confirmation .
10 The ‘ lifting up of the face ’ speaks powerfully and movingly of reconciliation , more so than our grey ‘ accept ’ ever can .
11 More generally , the emphasis was on securing a ‘ speeding up of the system ’ and ‘ to ensure that development is only prevented or restricted when this serves a clear planning purpose and the economic effects have been taken into account ’ .
12 So is a speeding up of the process through biotechnology really any different ?
13 Here we see Bukharin repeating his argument for a speeding up of the circulation of commodities , which he said would provide a greater surplus out of which investment of all types could be increased .
14 This ‘ wasting asset ’ has received much criticism , and the Environment Committee , in its 1987 report , recommended that resources be provided ‘ forthwith ’ for a speeding up of the programme .
15 The addition of these features permitted increased legibility , a lessening of ambiguity and a speeding up of the writing process .
16 Not only for myself as it 's been a particular project close to me for many years , but for the break up of a team , a team that has a long time to build up and a team that worked very well together and who were very committed .
17 At its simplest this involvement is little more than preserving the bridge which exists between home and school , giving support to children and their parents at moments of personal crisis ( like a death , or the break up of a family ) .
18 The mul , and the Duchess of York will become a multi-millionairess , in her own right , as a result of the break up of the marriage to Andrew we can reveal today .
19 Chief executive , Tim Cordy , is reported as saying that the enforced break up of the Council meant that there was no longer a " national voice for nature " .
20 The major impact was the break up of the family unit .
21 Singleton sees the break up of the family , with single women raising their children , as a source of much of the disintegration of values amongst young men .
22 In 1977 I visited Lesotho and worked together with colleagues in the Ministry of Education to recommend a possible strategy for primary school curriculum change in conjunction with the setting up of a Curriculum Development Centre funded by the World Bank and a parallel UNICEF programme to assist in the processes of syllabus and materials production and implementation .
23 In its 1969 report , the Committee on the Enforcement of Judgement Debts chaired by Mr Justice Payne recommended the setting up of a Court Enforcement Office , the functions of which would include assisting the creditor to obtain from the debtor ‘ as much as he can properly afford ’ , to liquidate the debts as soon as possible and to protect the debtor against undue hardship or harassment .
24 Mr Hardman was renowned for his sense of humour , as his contribution to an April Fool 's Day edition of Moneybox , shows : ‘ There 's case law , so far as the setting up of a trust for a cat is concerned , or a dog , or a parrot or a monkey , but you do n't have to have specific legislation in the Taxes Act because the normal rules follow .
25 The Minister announced the setting up of a helpline for the homeless .
26 Attempts to regulate such services in 1988 led to the setting up of a compensation fund to pay the bills of unsuspecting parents .
27 A major initiative was the setting up of a degree course in Church Planting and Evangelism at Spurgeon 's College .
28 Britain also , of course , now has sizeable ethnic minorities and there has been considerable concern about their educational achievement , resulting in the setting up of a government committee of inquiry .
29 The conference recommended the setting up of a fundraising committee .
30 Where such restrictions exist , the setting up of a subsidiary may be the only way around them .
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