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

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1 I wish to move a petition signed by four hundred and one people organised by the Hikehams Community Association asking the full county council to freeze its decision on of the Hikehams and Moat er merger issue .
2 Now when Simon saw that the spirit was bestowed through the laying on of the apostles hands , he offered them much money , saying , give this authority to me as well , so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit .
3 Now when Simon saw was bestowed through the laying on of the apostles hands , he offered them money saying , give this authority to me as well so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit .
4 When Simon saw that the spirit was bestowed to the laying on of the apostles hands it was n't just something he conjured up in his imagination .
5 Next came the grafting in of the Preomnor , the second stomach seated within the chest that would let a Marine eat poisonous victuals , if need be , and nourish himself upon mere roughage .
6 Suppose that the capacitor C in this circuit is initially uncharged and , at switch on of the bias supplies to the operational amplifier , the positive feedback drives the output into positive saturation , .
7 Second , the political response to a rapid deterioration in the economy implies a greater probability of a coup d'état or a battening down of the hatches by the government .
8 The most obvious moral interpretation of the assimilation of monk and merchant does not lie in the drawing down of the merchant to the level of the monk so much as in showing the monk to be transgressing the bounds of his special profession by entering into the commercial market place to procure a whore for himself .
9 The Armenians for their part reported attacks on villages by Azeri forces , with that on Kazanchi resulting in 27 deaths on March 4-5 , and the shooting down of a helicopter evacuating civilians from Nagorny Karabakh to the Armenian capital , Yerevan , on March 3 , with 17 deaths .
10 The UNMLO deployment went ahead despite the shooting down of an EC monitors ' helicopter on Jan. 7 .
11 In the meantime , reliable and authoritative sources placed further blame on the Vincennes for the shooting down of the airbus .
12 First make sure that you have enough stitches to allow for the drawing in of the work .
13 Bear this in mind when you are working out a design that has ribby tendencies , since ribs do cling and you will need , not only extra stitches to cover the drawing in of the cables , but extra width to stop the fabric from clinging , should you want a fashionable over-sized baggy look .
14 In light of the prohibitive estimates received for the fencing off of the play area and the laying of rubber slabs around the sand pit the nursery staff have decided to go ahead with their own restricted plans .
15 There were ways of treating prisoners properly , and of recognising that they had certain claims upon their captors ; there were also rules about the taking , sharing , and disposing of booty and pillage ; there were signs of formal war , such as the unfurling of banners or the setting off of a cannon at the start of a siege , which informed all those present that a certain legal situation now existed , hostilities having been formally declared .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 Aspects of divination , such as the drawing up of a horoscope .
19 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 ?
20 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 ) .
21 Running concurrently with this , was the drawing up of a policy statement about staff and parents working together .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 Arab intervention to halt the bloodshed resulted in the drawing up of the Taif accord for national reconciliation [ see p. 36986 ] , elements of which were formally written into the Lebanese Constitution in September 1990 [ see p. 37729 ] .
25 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 .
26 The ‘ lifting up of the face ’ speaks powerfully and movingly of reconciliation , more so than our grey ‘ accept ’ ever can .
27 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 ’ .
28 So is a speeding up of the process through biotechnology really any different ?
29 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 .
30 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 .
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