Example sentences of "[adv prt] of the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Changes in rights of audience may well result in a slimming down of the practising Bar . |
| 2 | So this damping down of the sensory input when attention moves elsewhere can occur very early in the pathway from the sense organ to the brain . |
| 3 | In general , too , rhythmic and temporal features of speech are ignored in transcriptions ; the rhythmic structure which appears to bind some groups of words more closely together than others , and the speeding up and slowing down of the overall pace of speech relative to the speaker 's normal pace in a given speech situation , are such complex variables that we have very little idea how they are exploited in speech and to what effect ( but , cf. |
| 4 | Current expenditure was to be curtailed — involving , among other things a scaling down of the civil service . |
| 5 | On the morrow of Marshal Ogarkov 's removal as Chief of the General Staff , Western press comment included speculation that his policy stance had come to obstruct the reassessment of arms control and East-West policy sought by the leadership ; according to one respected newspaper , senior Western military attachés in Moscow were tipped by Soviet army officers that the Kremlin blamed Ogarkov for the disasters of the SS-20 deployment and the shooting down of the Korean airliner off Sakhalin Island . |
| 6 | They have been punished by being stripped of their ability to claim benefit and by the pushing down of the real value of their training allowance . |
| 7 | But the fact that the legislature refrained from creating a jurisdiction to make orders against a third party under section 6(3) and ( 4 ) does not justify a cutting down of the ordinary meaning of section 6(2) . |
| 8 | The observation of slowing down of the orbital rotation of the binary pulsar 1913+16 is also discussed . |
| 9 | Other documents to which Shaughnessy was given access included a series of DIA Defense Intelligence Terrorism Summaries ( DITSUMs ) issued in the second half of 1988 warning against renewed threats of attack on US interests , particularly as a consequence of the shooting down of the Iranian Airbus in July . |
| 10 | After four years of economic boom , 1990 saw a slowing down of the Spanish economy , as a result in part of the impact of the Gulf crisis on oil prices but due also to the government 's restrictive monetary policy , which was designed to bring Spain 's currency and rate of inflation more into line with those of other members of the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 11 | The Chart parser thus fulfills the architectural requirements outlined above and , in addition , reflects the paring down of the graph-searching task to its barest requirements with few restrictions on how the graph should be constructed and explored . |
| 12 | In human play there is concentration on preparation for social life through symbolic play , that is play where there is a breaking down of the limiting distinction between the real and the imagined . |
| 13 | The report , whose conclusions were due to be made public after the expiry of 21 days within which interested parties were required to submit their comments , was expected to confirm that the crash resulted from pilot error involving the inadvertent shutting down of the wrong engine . |
| 14 | Winnicott traces out how from infancy onwards individuals learn to make a space between themselves and others , and yet avoid total separation by ‘ the filling in of the potential space with creative living , with the use of symbols , and with all that adds up to cultural life ’ ( Winnicott , 1971 ) . |
| 15 | Barron 's National Business and Financial Weekly , on of the financial district 's most respected and oldest papers , in its Dec 27th issue did a major article on the subject claiming that the plane was sabotaged by either Gravier or by people whom he had swindled . |
| 16 | The second point I want to raise is the issue erm of the green belt , er which is er a constraint in Greater York erm we 've made significant progress in moving towards the statutory definition of the green belt , the green belt local plan has now completed erm its public enquiry , and a lot of the deliberations in Greater York have centred around the effect on of the green belt on development potential in Greater York , so that is a main issue , I think , in response to issues , the discussion of issues in Greater York . |
| 17 | The investment weightings of the portfolio have continued to show an overwhelming bias towards publishing , which has accounted for 75% or over of the whole portfolio since June 1991 . |
| 18 | This handing over of the Conservative party , in Denis Healey 's phrase , ‘ from the estate owners to the estate agents ’ , has been a process upper class Tories have watched with distaste . |
| 19 | MORE than 12 months after the closure of the Corporate Wardrobe and the selling off of the entire stock in a giant sale , Branch Banking 's Deputy Managing Director Bob McInnes is still searching for a solution to the uniform issue . |
| 20 | ‘ That was the first stripping off of the so-called glamour that women of my age tend to cling to , not just actresses ’ . |
| 21 | If a certain opening up of the political life could reinvigorate the economy , that would be sufficient justification for adding a new dimension to ‘ socialism with Chinese characteristics ’ . |
| 22 | Doubtless the timing of the revolt can be partly understood in terms of the flaring up of the Young King 's dissatisfaction at Limoges . |
| 23 | Coutsoudis et al also found fewer and less severe episodes of illness in a six month post discharge follow up of the supplemented group who had had measles . |
| 24 | The incisors are lost first , with the break up of the anterior part of the premaxilla , and then the molars are lost as the alveolar border becomes damaged . |
| 25 | There had been the usual time-consuming , wearying and slightly acrimonious preliminaries to the setting up of the new squad in C1 and already his mind was reaching out with relief to the solitary contemplation of alabaster effigies , sixteenth-century glass and the awesome decorations of Winchfield . |
| 26 | This success came through his rapid taking up of the new technique of spectrum analysis of Kirchhoff and Bunsen ; he noticed a green line in the spectrum of some impure selenium . |
| 27 | The reasons for the migration are hugely complex but the opening up of the New World and the Ottoman closure of Eastern Europe were crucial to it . |
| 28 | The winding up of the New Town Development Corporations began in the mid-1980s , and in December 1986 the Minister for Housing said that all of the New Town Development Corporations would have gone by 1992 . |
| 29 | The setting up of the Working Party on Civil Procedures ( The Heilbron Committee ) was an important development during the year . |
| 30 | I can dimly recall the challenges of testing a router photograph , and using it to create the November 1989 cover , while the picture of Mark Wilkinson 's treehouse made the February 1990 cover one of my favourites , especially as the references to Czechoslovakia and East Germany coincided with the break up of the Eastern Bloc . |