Example sentences of "[adv prt] of [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the grievances of some of the rural rebels in the sixteenth century were complaints about the enclosure of lands by lords — this occurred in the north-west sector of the Pilgrimage of Grace , and the casting down of hedges marked the start of the Norfolk rising of 1549 . |
| 2 | Joint administrative receiver Murdoch McKillop said cuts were part of a scaling down of production to meet reduced demand . |
| 3 | Not to mention a rapid passing on of mortgage cuts to bedraggled flocks of existing homeowners ; who are less than thrilled to see the first helping of crumbs go in instant cheap deals to first-time buyers . |
| 4 | 19–2 A meeting of the Water Committee was held at which the principal business was the handing over of money collected . |
| 5 | Conciliation is the working through of ideas to produce an internally consistent view of the material . |
| 6 | Of course , switching on and off of genes does not in itself result in developmental change ; switching genes on and off acts by changing which proteins are made and this in turn alters cell behaviour by pathways that , to repeat , may be quite tortuous . |
| 7 | My son had to stop off of work to see to the t two children . |
| 8 | Again we have done a little rounding off of figures to avoid decimal points . |
| 9 | In other words , a trade off of sorts does exist after all : it is a trade off between the unemployment rate and the rate of change of the actual and expected rates of inflation . |
| 10 | Operational deposits make up approximately a fifth of bankers ' balances held at the bank , the remainder being made up of non-interest bearing cash deposits that banks are required to keep at the Bank of England to provide it with an income . |
| 11 | IV Winding up of companies registered under the Companies Act |
| 12 | Also on the Bank 's agenda are the setting up of companies to manufacture clean-up equipment and loans to strengthen existing environmental agencies responsible for overseeing environmental matters . |
| 13 | All the build up of delight shrivelled and stripped Jay to lonely self-scourging . |
| 14 | Each kieve has a false bottom made up of interlocking slotted plates which prevent the mash being sucked away when the sweet worts are run off . |
| 15 | Later astronomers made extensive alterations , and added new groups made up of stars stolen from the existing 48 . |
| 16 | I have expressed the view held by the whole of the committee , which represents countries with Governments of various political colours and is made up of members belonging to various political parties . |
| 17 | Praps they were just getting a little fed up of Wilko selling players for nothing when he decided he did nt want them any more ? |
| 18 | Its narrative is largely made up of women talking to one another . |
| 19 | THE Queen 's showpiece meeting at Ascot next week has been rescued by a £1 million loan made up of money deducted from betting shop punters . |
| 20 | The pressure of steam is controlled in a rather haphazard way by bleeding off excess pressure so that the build up of steam does not cause the boiler to explode . |
| 21 | Councillor Mrs Brereton stated that planting of trees and bulbs and tidying up of paths had been carried out in Bloomiehall Park b ) the Railway Inn would be closing on the expiry of its lease and c ) further planning applications had been made by Lorimer House . |
| 22 | The group is made up of residents determined to make Heighington a nicer place to live . |
| 23 | The latest episode in this story is that we have found that the proton and electron are made up of quarks held together by bonds of the order of 10 9 eV . |
| 24 | Cos I 'm fed up of stuff going all bubbly ! |
| 25 | The opening up of broadcasting has developed across thirty years , but we are still left with huge room for improvement . |
| 26 | But that is in part contingent on the peculiarities of political power in the US , which gives what we would regard as disproportionate political power to constitutional courts , made up of persons chosen by the president . |
| 27 | The bottling up of emotions loosens the hair roots . |
| 28 | Sound up of Dino thanking the hospital staff in English |
| 29 | So the next stage in our journey was perhaps predictable — we enrolled for a course with the NCT , which was made up of couples expecting their babies at roughly the same time . |
| 30 | Throughout 1954 and 1955 the setting up of ITV led to a great exodus of talent from the BBC , attracted , no doubt , by the higher rates of pay advertised by the commercial stations . |