Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scudamore interprets present-day embalming as ‘ a treatment consisting fundamentally of the injection of some suitable disinfecting preservative into the vascular system , augmented by the relieving of the blood from the superficial vein , and such cavity , cosmetic , and derma-surgery treatment necessary to achieve a pre-mortem appearance , aseptic condition and preservation ’ . |
| 2 | He successfully reformed the service on the Continent , setting up fixed and regular posts for the speeding on of the portmantle or packet , in place of the irregular messengers and carriers who had travelled the whole distance . |
| 3 | This informal remark shows an inescapable attachment to a character epitomizing one of the most fascinating , longest-lasting , and most potent aspects of Eliot 's work : its binding together of the savage and the city . |
| 4 | The stepping down of the government followed resignation calls from all five of East Germany 's minor political parties , and from a deputy minister of culture . |
| 5 | The role of platelets in the process ( which has resulted from the work of several groups : ( Chandler & Hand , 1961 ; Murphy et al , 1962 ; French , 1966 ; Ross et al , 1974 ) as put forward by Ross and Glomset ( 1976 ) is really a bringing together of the Virchow and Rokitansky hypotheses of more than a century ago in that platelets may themselves contribute to vessel injury , thrombosis and atherogenesis ( Mustard et al , 1983 ) . |
| 6 | Trinity House was ordered to remove the navigation buoys from the Thames estuary ; the militia in the south-western counties was called out , seriously disrupting the bringing in of the harvest ; Essex , Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire between them raised 22 troops of cavalry who occupied Hounslow Heath ; while the foot from Kent and Surrey were mustered at Blackheath . |
| 7 | Here too they follow Richards , who used the same term to characterize the ‘ bringing in of the opposite , the complementary impulse ’ ( Richards 1967 : 197 ) , which he held to be characteristic of all great poetry . |
| 8 | It is true that Hastings ' own gains in this period were modest , consisting only of the mastership of the mint , but his interests were respected . |
| 9 | It is true that Hastings ' own gains in this period were modest , consisting only of the mastership of the mint , but his interests were respected . |
| 10 | Construction of hydroelectric dams not only removes the opportunity for adjacent populations to interbreed , it also utterly changes the characteristics of the river , with siltation and often stagnation occurring upstream of the barrier . |
| 11 | Had the laundries been at the Riviera end all the detritus from the other businesses , the discarded vegetables and smashed fruit of the greengrocers , the scales and fish heads and guts deposited on the street by the two fishmongers , would have passed by and probably soiled some of the clothes as the intermittent hosing down of the street caused all this muck and filth to edge its way slowly down towards the Bay . |
| 12 | That 's where the fuel tanks are located and though it seemed likely that the partial tearing away of the wing had also ruptured the fuel lines and spilled the fuel , there was no way of being sure and no one , again as far as I know , has ever come up against the problem of what happens when an oxyacetylene jet meets a fuel tank under water . |
| 13 | Temperature was talked of in the context of some hundreds of millions of degrees Centigrade , necessary for the stripping away of the electron from the hydrogen atom , vital for the removal of the hydrostatic repulsive forces of the nuclei , leaving them free to collide . |
| 14 | The EC favoured further opening up of the customer equipment market ; a separation of the regulatory and operational functions of the telephone authority ; a more cost-oriented pricing of services ; the major network and a small number of basic services would remain the monopoly of the telecoms administration . |
| 15 | His mild reaction to the tearing up of the Treaty of Versailles was perhaps explicable by the fact that he saw such events as inevitable and because the Foreign Office was locked into a policy of appeasement . |
| 16 | ‘ These include a fishing boat haven at the lough , woodland walks and the general sprucing up of the look of the place , such as taking away all overhead electricity wires and putting them underground and getting a new street lighting system . |
| 17 | Area fisheries officer Vaughan Lewis said : ‘ The Wye has a healthy trout population but silting up of the river bed can be a problem . |
| 18 | The only remedy available to the holders of the subordinated debt in the event of default is to petition for the winding up of the company . |
| 19 | The Court of Session agreed on the issue of unfair prejudice but did not accept that , because unfair prejudice had not been found , it would be inappropriate to make an order for the winding up of the company . |
| 20 | Indeed today in the High Court a petition is being presented for the compulsory winding up of the company . |
| 21 | no resolution may be passed or order made for the winding up of the company ; |
| 22 | any outstanding petition for the winding up of the company is dismissed ; |
| 23 | no resolution can be passed or order made for the winding up of the company ; |
| 24 | ‘ Those extensive powers are conferred upon the court for the beneficial winding up of the company , for sometimes it happens that the liquidator is unable to obtain from unwilling persons the information which he requires . |
| 25 | Preference shares normally carry no rights to vote except on a resolution for the winding up of the company , or to modify the rights attaching to the shares . |
| 26 | A clause achieving this would be as follows : As regards voting in general meetings the holders of the Preference Shares shall be entitled to receive notice of , and to attend at , general meetings of the Company but shall not in respect of their holdings of such shares be entitled to vote upon any resolution unless : ( A ) there shall have been any Arrears on any Preference Shares or Preferred Ordinary Shares for more than two months on the date of the notice convening the meeting ; or ( B ) the Company , on any of the Redemption Dates under sub-paragraph ( d ) ( i ) below of this Article 2.2 , shall have failed or been unable to redeem all or any of the Preference Shares falling to be redeemed on any such Redemption Date ; or ( C ) the resolution is one which directly or indirectly varies , modifies , alters or abrogates any of the rights , privileges , limitations or restrictions attaching to the Preference Shares or " A " Ordinary Shares ; or ( D ) the resolution is for the winding up of the Company , the reduction of share capital , the approval of the giving of financial assistance or the purchase by it of any of its shares . |
| 27 | These powers are : ( i ) to make any compromise with creditors or persons claiming to be creditors ; ( ii ) to bring or defend proceedings ; ( iii ) to carry on the business of the bankrupt so far as may be necessary for the beneficial winding up of the estate ; ( iv ) to accept payment in the future on the sale of any property comprised in the estate . |
| 28 | From its inception in 1983 to the winding up of the programme in 1987 the government through the Training Agency ( formerly the Manpower Services Commission ) will have committed close on 1 billion to TVEI . |
| 29 | ‘ For the purposes of sections 60 , 61 and 62 of the Banking Act 1987 the definition of deposit in section 5 of that Act shall be treated as excluding any sum to which a person becomes entitled ( otherwise than by operation of law ) , or comes to be treated as entitled for the purposes of sections 58 and 60 of that Act , after a petition is presented by the winding up of the institution , or , in the case of an institution in respect of which such a petition has been presented before the date on which this Order comes into force , 30 July 1991 . |
| 30 | Where after a full dissolution the winding up of the practice is in the hands of some only of the former partners an allowance may be made to them in recognition of their efforts before the net profits are determined for the purposes of this section or otherwise . |