Example sentences of "[v-ing] down of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This narrowing down of the focus of the original control theory seems to constitute a switch of attention from offenders to situations . |
| 4 | At the going down of the sun and in the morning |
| 5 | At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them . ’ |
| 6 | In the case of water , higher pressures result in breaking down of the hydrogen bonds which bind the water molecules in ice together in an open structure . |
| 7 | The breaking down of the lattice is obviously the reverse of its formation . |
| 8 | Dramatic examples of this occurred on Clydeside , during the First World War , in the engineering industry , but the printing and bookbinding industry had already seen the breaking down of the labour process into a number of relatively less skilled tasks . |
| 9 | Differentiation , or specialization , involves not only the breaking down of the organization into functions , but also the formation of groups to support the tasks assigned to those functions . |
| 10 | What is clear is that the mechanics of the process , that is , the breaking down of the tissue into discrete blocks , involves an increase in adhesion between the cells in each somite . |
| 11 | It was a slowing down of the spread of forest decline in the late 1980s that first pointed the CEGB scientists towards climate as the cause . |
| 12 | There were sharp cuts in government expenditure which , although they eased the deficit in the short term , also led to further slowing down of the economy as a whole . |
| 13 | We all know the prehistoric method of treating the dead , which obtains even to-day in the less enlightened parts of the country — the body hurriedly placed in the coffin , the packing with sawdust , and the necessarily precipitate screwing down of the lid . |
| 14 | In the same spirit he supervised the harnessing of the horses , the carrying down of the dressing-case and boots and clothes and papers , the safe depositing of the plate and linen and two locked trunks — it was the hour for promenading in Keswick and Mr Wood 's conducting of this orchestra was not to go unremarked . |