Example sentences of "[adv prt] of [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the increasing toleration of ‘ fringe ’ med-icine , orthodox doctors are hesitant to dismiss the laying on of hands as flim flam and the positive results merely the result of the placebo effect . |
| 2 | When planting a new church , therefore , follow the Acts 13 pattern of the laying on of hands with prayer and fasting , and commission clearly the team for the work to which God has called them . |
| 3 | He hated definitions of apostolic succession which made it sound as though a lot of laying on of hands from century to century was a bit of magic by which God preserves his Church . |
| 4 | The eco-labelling scheme is voluntary and decentralised with the Commission setting standards through a regulatory committee made up of experts from members states . |
| 5 | Apparently the Mayor last year or the Mayoress er was rather keen and organized a match between the Dulwich Club and her team nominally which turned out to be made up of masters from Dulwich College . |
| 6 | However , he is still with us , and his contribution from the Dispatch Box was in his usual style , as if this House was not made up of Members of Parliament , but delegates , all with their blue rinses and red necks , applauding to the rafters when he makes one of his roustabout speeches to the Conservative party conference . |
| 7 | Under the terms of the peace agreement , 50,000 troops made up of members of FAPLA and FALA were to be trained and incorporated into the FAA . |
| 8 | The number of frauds has led to calls for tightening up of audits of investment businesses , and particularly a reduction in the number of many thousands of auditors who examine investment firms so that the ones left can develop greater expertise . |
| 9 | We have seen the market during any period of time as made up of decisions of market participants . |
| 10 | They are phoney devices built up of strips of card or other material to give an appearance of genuine binding . |
| 11 | The British government has announced measures to control the digging up of hedgerows by farmers , which has been a major focus of concern for conservationists for many years . |
| 12 | This proposes that a force made up of soldiers from Pacific countries be invited to Bougainville to restore peace . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's made up of anarchists in part and in part middle-class softies . |
| 14 | Another example would be a picture made up of shades of grey , when you could accompany a grey or silver frame with a pale mount , perhaps dove grey in colour , with a dark charcoal backing which would show off all the silvery grey leaves and white flowers in the design . |
| 15 | A committee under J. H. Whitley proposed the establishment of joint industrial councils made up of representatives of employers and workers , operating on national , district and works level to resolve peacefully industrial disputes . |
| 16 | Mujjaddedi had proposed instead to transfer power to the interim Islamic Jihad Council ( IJC ) , made up of representatives of mujaheddin groups and headed by Mujjaddedi himself . |
| 17 | They are made up of modules in areas such as flower design and arrangement , care and identification of plants , stock control and selling skills , customer contact and payment . |
| 18 | The role of governments was also strengthened at Paris by the formal creation of a ‘ European Council ’ , made up of heads of government and foreign ministers to meet three times per year . |
| 19 | Another well-documented foreign garrison in Egypt ( this time directed against trouble from the south as well as subversion from inside ) was made up of contingents of Jews stationed in Upper Egypt at Edfu ( Elephantine ) , at the Third Cataract of the Nile . |
| 20 | On the other hand , the Soviet Union have good cause to be worried about the military build up of troops in Saudi Arabia . |
| 21 | An obvious problem is that a text is not made up of collections of sentences , but of sentences organised into a coherent whole . |
| 22 | Many of these questions fit very comfortably within that group of activities we call " librarianship " : the building up of collections of information materials , their organization for retrieval and use , the provision of suitable areas and facilities for prolonged study , the development of lending and reservation systems , of co-operative interlending procedures and networks , and the provision of full bibliographic and reference guidance . |
| 23 | Take correcting and the locking up of formes for instance : Margaret Irwin regarded women as precluded from some of these tasks by physical incapacity . |
| 24 | Beating expectations Asda rang up of profits of £46.1m against Pounds 10.1m last time . |
| 25 | Industry will especially be looking to the polytechnics to provide a further and much needed stimulus to innovations already taking place in higher education ; in particular , in the development of mixed degree courses , modular courses coupled with practical experience , and of the sandwich system of education and training generally , and in the opening up of opportunities for women in all branches of higher education , not least science and technology . |
| 26 | Through the manipulation of doles in times of dearth , the putting up of prizes for sports and the supplying of beer for calendrical and special festivities , together with an elaborate and conscious " social theatre " of ceremony , the gentry were able to rule and distance themselves from the consequences of their own exploitation . |
| 27 | He went on to assert his first mature , outrageous , filmmaking style with a D. H. Lawrence adaptation , Women in Love ( 1969 ) , The Music Lovers ( 1970 ) , covering the life of Tchaikovsky , and The Devils , an extraordinary collage made up of images of ecstasy , violence and cruelty . |
| 28 | Laser Transport was followed by French airfreight carrier Transports Prevost on what appeared to be a regular run from Paris to Heathrow , and then the official convoy made up of vehicles from Portugal , Italy , Belgium , the Netherlands , Greece , Spain , Ireland and Germany . |
| 29 | Formalization goes beyond the clear documentation of casual status , to include the building up of lists of people who are available for such work and the provision of training for certain skills , particularly higher grade " waiting " skills . |
| 30 | One of the best collections of Russian books outside the country , now housed in Harvard University library , is made up of books from libraries of the Tsarist country estates , often with the author 's dedicatory inscription . |