Example sentences of "the [adj] [verb] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its precise effect on the allocation of investment resources would depend on the detailed working out of the disciplines , and the Treasury certainly took no chances on a complete return to the free market in investment capital . |
| 2 | This has had major impacts on occupational structure and the social make up of the town , on lifestyles , culture and politics . |
| 3 | However , even those murders in real life that rise above the simple snatching up of the kitchen knife in the middle of a husband and wife row are much , much less cunningly contrived than that . |
| 4 | The Marquess of Salisbury had become Prime Minister in 1895 , and in 1889 his government introduced death duties which were to lead to the gradual breaking up of the wealthy estates , which previously had passed from father to son — or some other relative — without any loss . |
| 5 | This has resulted in the gradual piling up of the Himalayas . |
| 6 | The gradual phasing out of the married woman 's option has been accompanied by the introduction of credits towards the basic state pension for those who are out of the labour market because of home responsibilities . |
| 7 | Similarly behind the ebb and flow of wars , regime changes and sporadic technological advances , Marx and Engels emphasized the ever-present working out of the dialectic in history , following the predetermined sequence of modes of production . |
| 8 | Indeed today in the High Court a petition is being presented for the compulsory winding up of the company . |
| 9 | For modernists , and here critics as far apart as Adorno and Clement Greenberg have a large area of common ground , most important in determining aesthetic value is the systematic working through of the possibilities of a given aesthetic material . |
| 10 | I was interested to read Susanna Rance 's Letter from La Paz ( Resistance in a ghost town NI 197 ) in which she seemed to be be-moaning the closure of the Catavi and Siglo XX mines in Bolivia and the consequent breaking up of the communities there . |
| 11 | What is more , any forecast about the way in which industry will develop within the United Kingdom and the European Community in the remainder of this century suggests that national prosperity will depend to an increasing extent on the successful skilling up of the national work force to meet the new demands that will be made by industry , technology , the professions and academia . |
| 12 | He suggests that the sense of the aesthetic arises out of the extremely rapid and continuous focal comparisons of data made during perception . |
| 13 | The mean follow up of the 73 living patients was six years ( range 4–12 ) . |
| 14 | Had the laundries been at the Riviera end all the detritus from the other businesses , the discarded vegetables and smashed fruit of the greengrocers , the scales and fish heads and guts deposited on the street by the two fishmongers , would have passed by and probably soiled some of the clothes as the intermittent hosing down of the street caused all this muck and filth to edge its way slowly down towards the Bay . |
| 15 | ‘ Spinal Tap ’ may have been the ultimate send up of the genre but ‘ Spinal Tap ’ is most metal fans ' favourite film . |
| 16 | Noting the slow take up of the high-end RIO , Specialix says RIO was ‘ over engineered ’ and brought to the market before its time , saying it will have to wait until multi-processing technology takes off before it sees any real installations . |
| 17 | I appeal to the Government to think again , this is going down the wrong road , we do not need these appointed , these appointees appointed by the Home Office and they know how it 's done , they know this new method , but there is the list of the greater the good , and if there 's of course there will be a bias one way or the other arising out of the very method by which it is done . |
| 18 | ‘ Those extensive powers are conferred upon the court for the beneficial winding up of the company , for sometimes it happens that the liquidator is unable to obtain from unwilling persons the information which he requires . |
| 19 | These powers are : ( i ) to make any compromise with creditors or persons claiming to be creditors ; ( ii ) to bring or defend proceedings ; ( iii ) to carry on the business of the bankrupt so far as may be necessary for the beneficial winding up of the estate ; ( iv ) to accept payment in the future on the sale of any property comprised in the estate . |
| 20 | The minimum follow up of the three survivors was 28 months . |