Example sentences of "[adv prt] of the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the crisis over Nato modernisation in March to the casting down of the Wall in November stretch an astonishing nine months in which Germans on both sides have reached out with increasing boldness to take their destiny into their own hands . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Some , at least , of the graptolitic black shales are what we can recognize , with the hindsight of plate tectonic theory , as the deposits laid down of the edge of the continental shelf , in a truly oceanic environment . |
| 4 | This narrowing down of the focus of the original control theory seems to constitute a switch of attention from offenders to situations . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When reports came in of the spread of an eye disease in Cuba that was caused by malnutrition , they rushed to send packets of vitamins . |
| 10 | Note the filling in of the middle of the harmony by the violas , which gives solidity to the structure . |
| 11 | Reports came in of the landing of Iraqi military personnel on the uninhabited Kuwaiti island of Bubiyan . |
| 12 | At different times during the war , reports came in of the need for jet fuel . |
| 13 | As executive producer of the mini-series version of Shogun , broadcast in the '70s , he ensured that each episode began and ended with a shot of the paperback edition on of the novel with his name in big letters . |
| 14 | Even if the consumer can cover the risk by insurance , the position is much more complicated for him , and his insurers are going to be less likely to waive their rights of subrogation , without which his assumption of liability and his taking on of the insurance for the risk will not work . |
| 15 | On 30 April 1991 , the applicant , the chairman and managing director of a company , was charged that between 1 January 1985 and 29 April 1991 he had knowingly been a party to the carrying on of the business of the company with intent to defraud its creditors , contrary to section 458 of the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 16 | ‘ between 1 January 1985 and 29 April 1991 in the City of London and elsewhere was knowingly a party to the carrying on of the business of a company called Wallace Smith Trust Co . |
| 17 | The primary purpose of this research is to develop a methodology capable of analysing these complex interrelated issues , focusing in particular on the economic pressures created by the handing on of the business from father to son and from the purchase of land . |
| 18 | Before this Board the commissioner advanced two main submissions , namely : ( 1 ) that the business of the bank was one and indivisible since all the profit earning operations were directed from Hong Kong by staff therein employed , no overseas branch of the bank was involved and the funds employed in the purchase of the certificates of deposit arose from the carrying on of the business in Hong Kong ; and ( 2 ) that in any event , even if the sale and purchase of certificates of deposit failed to be treated as separate operations , nevertheless the profits from these operations arose in Hong Kong . |
| 19 | ( 3 ) In this Act references to the rules of a self-regulating organisation are references to the rules ( whether or not laid down by the organisation itself ) which the organisation has power to enforce in relation to the carrying on of the business in question or which relate to the admission and expulsion of members of the organisation or otherwise to its constitution . |
| 20 | Provision similar to those in a share sale for the carrying on of the business in the period between signing and completion . |
| 21 | However , as foreign ambitions and the dragging on of the war in China increased the threat of Japanese action in neighbouring territories , the implications for European colonies and nationals , as well as for the broader Asia — Pacific region , forced the industrialized West to take notice . |
| 22 | A French term , used in poetry to indicate the carrying over of the sense from one line or couplet to the next . |
| 23 | One is the handing over of the child to the mother . |
| 24 | Orthodox theories argue that the turn over of the dust at the lunar surface has produced the observed uniformity of track densities . |
| 25 | she sez she crawled over of the rubble towards a man in a white nightshirt who looked like a ghost but was a Home Guard . |
| 26 | she sez she crawled over of the rubble towards a man in a white nightshirt who looked like a ghost but was a Home Guard . |
| 27 | Taxi proprietors were discussing the problem with senior Huddersfield police early on Tuesday evening when news came through of the stabbing of Mr Andrew Brown , aged 24 , of Birds Edge , near Penistone , South Yorkshire , at Three Star Taxis ' office in Beast Market . |
| 28 | Then follows the pushing through of the course of action despite buffetings and any opposition . |
| 29 | Towards the end of a long and tiring night shift , when news was coming through of the murder of another member of the RUC , one policeman in particular decided to put the field-worker through a test of trust . |
| 30 | I could have done a little the papers let them off of the hook for years ! |