Example sentences of "[adv prt] of [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The overall costs of implementing RMI are also beginning to be a worry and it seems likely that there will be a slowing down of large-scale implementation with a preference being given to smaller more gradualistic approaches to providing information needs . |
| 2 | Whole curricular thinking was inhibited by the need to preserve the first ; the breaking down of professional isolation by the need to conceal the latter . |
| 3 | Erm , yes , as you know I 'm a member of the Essex traffic group and we did state at the time there will be no looking into or no pulling down of any type of property or building , yeah , but it , erm the Council went ahead and looked at Wordsworth Road |
| 4 | Because we 've said , we 've stated that there be no pulling down of any type of building . |
| 5 | Last year 's figures include the IRA Teebane massacre in Co Tyrone , the UFF slaughter at Sean Graham 's bookmakers on Belfast 's Ormeau Road , and the gunning down of three people at Sinn Fein 's Belfast headquarters by rogue cop Alan Moore . |
| 6 | This in turn explains why the infinitive can evoke both the wide range of all possible realizers ( as in To visit the poor is a Christian obligation ) and the narrowing down of this range to one particular spatial support ( for instance , to the speaker as in Oh to be in England … ) . |
| 7 | Closing down of Foreign exchange after losses |
| 8 | The study involved the writing down of English glosses for the signs , and the fact that deaf people had poorer recall overall may result from this cross-modal task . |
| 9 | Reports began to come in of successful strikes on other vehicles . |
| 10 | We waited anxiously as reports came in of 97-mph gales in the Pennines but thankfully the spire remained firm . |
| 11 | Another key aspect of the new courses has been the building in of planned linkages to degree provision . |
| 12 | The author is a past mistress of gushing praise to lull the reader into tabloid deification , then the quiet slipping in of neat doses of vitriol to tarnish her subject and titillate us . |
| 13 | ‘ The powers conferred by section 268 are powers directed to enabling the court to help a liquidator to discover the truth of the circumstances in connection with the affairs of the company , information of trading , dealings , and so forth , in order that the liquidator may be able , as effectively as possible , and , I think , with as little expense as possible … to complete his function as liquidator , to put the affairs of the company in order and to carry out the liquidation in all its various aspects , including , of course , the getting in of any assets of the company available in the liquidation . |
| 14 | And Somerset Maugham wrote in Of Human Bondage in 1915 : |
| 15 | The fall in of 20 dB per decade when is clear . |
| 16 | Well you do know th th that you 're saying that they want to make a particular point strongly and er that that might involve erm an elephant in of bad taste in order to make it striking and to make people look at it and think about it . |
| 17 | If you knew some of the goings on of that lot in high places . ’ |
| 18 | As Plutarch says ( Aratos xvi ) of the Akrokorinth : ‘ it hinders and cuts off all the country south of the Isthmus from intercourse , transits , and the carrying on of military expeditions by land and sea , and makes him who controls the place with a garrison sole lord of Greece . ’ |
| 19 | The significance of this to our enquiry is that , when Robertson 's order was passed on by Eighth Army to 5 Corps , it was to be taken by 5 Corps — as we shall see later — to authorise the handing over of various groups of Yugoslav surrendered personnel , including the 15,000-odd Slovene , Serb and Montenegrin troops who had surrendered two days earlier and been placed in Viktring camp . |
| 20 | That could benefit producers by allowing some inroads into carry over of frozen stocks from last year . |
| 21 | Stalin 's frank priority was the post-war reconstruction of the USSR , not the winning over of Eastern Europe to the Soviet cause . |
| 22 | The release from the obligations under the lease is purchased by an immediate surrender of the term and his handing over of one half of his goods . |
| 23 | I 'm concerned about the loss of the access of parental rights panel and the handing over of this work to the Courts and the lawyers . |
| 24 | They also extend the traditions of the area — the working over of old dumps by ‘ dressers ’ has taken place since ancient times and will , no doubt , continue to do so long after the mines close down . |
| 25 | In Germany there is a strong defensive intra-German strategy to prevent the taking over of German companies by foreigners . |
| 26 | More specifically , did he intend to order the handing over of those categories of dissident Yugoslavs represented by the 15,000 Slovenes , Serbs and Montenegrins from Viktring ? |
| 27 | This was the highest-level Soviet-Israeli meeting since the breaking off of diplomatic relations in 1967 . |
| 28 | So your gun would have been at least four and a half to five foot off of one surface of the floor ? |
| 29 | It saw the defeat of Adlai Stevenson whose demand for a suspension of tests brought an off of immediate agreement from Prime Minister Bulganin … to which Eisenhower responded by accusing the Russians of ‘ internal interference ’ in his re-election campaign . |
| 30 | The BBC 's vigorous prosecution of its commercial ends in this way is in stark contrast to such acts as the closing of The Listener , the selling off of irreplaceable books from its library and the closing of the Open University studios . |