Example sentences of "drawing up of " in BNC.

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1 Here took place the famous séries , five to a season , each one lasting eight days , when 80 guests were invited at a time and it was in the drawing up of these guest lists that the Empress deployed all her social skills .
2 The DET also plays a leading role in the drawing up of syllabuses and work programmes , the setting and marking of exams , and the approval of textbooks and other materials .
3 One of the main starting points is therefore the drawing up of a time-plan dependent on the consultative structure to be used .
4 Whatever the public disclaimers of those in authority , many of the mechanisms set up by the ERA seem to teachers to be specifically designed to reduce themselves as professional people to the status of paid servants , to leave them as little margin for discretion as possible and therefore to reduce ‘ curriculum management ’ to technical trivia : the drawing up of timetables and the efficient disbursement of limited resources .
5 A very important function appears to be the discussion and rationalisation of conflicting demands for materials made upon local councils and the drawing up of agreed minimum lists of equipment .
6 Aspects of divination , such as the drawing up of a horoscope .
7 In this climate , various groups of individuals who had been involved in the conferences and activities of the preceding few years were to move into the drawing up of detailed proposals for curriculum development and the search for funds with which to implement these . [ … ]
8 The regulation of aviation comprises many different activities but perhaps the most significant is the drawing up of a set of rules and regulations and the establishment of an organisation to ensure their enforcement .
9 One such followed the 1919 Indian Jails Committee report , and another came shortly after Independence ; many of the new leaders had spent time in gaols , and devoted some attention to the problem in the 1950s ( including the drawing up of a Model Prison Manual in 1959 ) .
10 The key function none the less lies in the drawing up of the legislation ; deciding what should go into a bill and what should be omitted , and how the proposals should be drafted .
11 He encouraged Sir Warren Fisher , the permanent secretary of the Treasury , and other senior civil servants to busy themselves with the drawing up of constitutional memoranda which came near to being ultimata .
12 Instructions to the boundary commissioners were revoked and amended so that they would be able to consider economic interest as well as population and community in the drawing up of the new constituencies ; this was regarded as vital by the Unionists , for it seemed likely that the merging of the small boroughs into the county constituencies would take away the last of the agricultural seats .
13 The President signed the committal warrant which was given to the tipstaff as his authority for conveying M. to prison and the governor 's authority for receiving and detaining M. The drawing up of the formal order that M. be committed to prison was left to the court staff .
14 The context for the drawing up of plans and the management of on-going change proved quite different .
15 This clause and the adoption in Wihtred 's laws of the West Saxon term gesith for noble in place of the eorlcund of the laws of Aethelberht , Hlothhere and Eadric perhaps strengthen a possibility that some degree of collaboration attended the drawing up of these codes .
16 We showed how although such questions allowed a wide range of possible approaches to INSET , even within the context of a central provision , and despite the market research which preceded the drawing up of each year 's programme , the Authority tended towards a particular combination of imprecise targeting , top-down views of teachers ' needs , and external agents adopting training or instructing roles .
17 The measures include the withdrawal of the right to belong to a trade union at GCHQ ; the drawing up of a poll tax register ; and , under the Local Government Act of 1989 , the restrictions placed on the political activities of all local government officers earning over £13,500 a year .
18 Indeed the years immediately before 1789 saw in some of the greatest European monarchies ( most notably in Prussia ) a growing demand for the drawing up of fundamental laws which would prevent the ruler from behaving in an arbitrary manner , particularly by increasing the importance of legal institutions .
19 Running concurrently with this , was the drawing up of a policy statement about staff and parents working together .
20 Does my hon. Friend agree that the secret of contracting out is the drawing up of a contract between those who buy a service and those who supply it , and that , together with independent inspection , that is an essential ingredient to ensure that quality and standards are maintained in the public 's interest ?
21 It also outlined a number of proposals that states might take into account in the drawing up of a global action plan at the February 1990 special session , including , among others : increased public information and education ; the possibility of a UN decade against drugs ; the establishment of a UN capability to provide training and equipment for national anti-drug forces ; relevant measures to prevent the laundering of drug monies and the establishment of a UN facility to gather information on this ; and development and technical assistance programmes aimed at strengthening local economies and legal systems against drugs .
22 Intervention by the Arab League to halt the ensuing fighting resulted in the drawing up of an " accord for national reconciliation " , which was approved on Oct. 22 , 1989 , by a majority of Lebanese MPs meeting in Taif , Saudi Arabia [ see p. 36986 ] .
23 Arab intervention to halt the bloodshed resulted in the drawing up of the Taif accord for national reconciliation [ see p. 36986 ] , elements of which were formally written into the Lebanese Constitution in September 1990 [ see p. 37729 ] .
24 The programme 's main points concerned ( i ) the required " readjustment " of the Marxist MPLA-PT 's theoretical foundations ; ( ii ) the " urgent " introduction of enabling measures for a multiparty system ; ( iii ) the depoliticization of the army ; ( iv ) revision of the Constitution ; and ( v ) the drawing up of electoral rolls prior to the holding of a general election .
25 Some agreement was reached over controlling the import of arms , the drawing up of buffer zones and the release of prisoners and hostages .
26 The new law described the " Corsican people " as " part of the French people " ; established a regional executive council with its own powers , and provided for the drawing up of a new electoral register .
27 They called into question various electoral procedures including the drawing up of electoral lists and the issuing of ballot papers .
28 He is unlikely to have supervised personally the drawing up of every document — he had staff for that — but he did have the duty of dating the solemn privileges which were issued .
29 Because he was literate , it was he who helped with the drawing up of wills or testaments , and , in more recent times , it was he who wrote references or testimonials and signed applications for passports .
30 Also , the way we are told that the plan was connected with Swegen 's first visit to Essex suggests that he had been there again since this occasion and the drawing up of the confirmation .
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