Example sentences of "[adv prt] of [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Government 's watering down of Monopolies and Mergers Commission proposals to weaken big brewers ' grip on their pubs has persuaded Whitbread to drop ideas of selling its breweries . |
| 2 | The Team for the Assessment of Psychiatric Services has been evaluating the run down of Friern and Claybury Hospitals in north London . |
| 3 | The overgrazing of livestock and cutting down of brush and trees for firewood are held responsible . |
| 4 | The idea of the New has always been a crucial part of pop 's rhetoric : the idea that the future is going to be a improvement on the past ( that sixties ' feeling of being on the brink of a whole new order , the beginning of an endless breaking down of barriers and limits ) . |
| 5 | However , the change in safety regulations and the harder line taken is not sufficient compensation for the curtailing and running down of health and safety inspections , nor the differences in health and safety regulations which exist between companies operating on land , and those , such as contractors on off-shore oil rigs who are at sea . |
| 6 | The provision in respect of the write down of oil and gas assets [ £232 million ] , the net releases of tax provisions [ £78 million ] and the loss on sale of Ultramar 's downstream business [ £302 million ] partly offset by profits on other disposals [ £30 million , net of tax ] have been treated as exceptional items . |
| 7 | As he spoke , details continued to pour in of demonstrations and police brutality matched only by the harshly-suppressed 1953 uprising . |
| 8 | At trial the judge will have to decide whether his award of damages and interest exceeds the payment in of damages and interest . |
| 9 | TDC officials believe that TDC is less badly affected than other prison administrations with respect to the smuggling in of narcotics and other drugs . |
| 10 | And as if on cue , reports have just come in of tracks and sightings of live rhinos in two Sumatran reserves — Way Kambas and Berbak Game Reserve in Jambi — where they were believed extinct . |
| 11 | I ca n't remember everything exactly — there are already large gaps in the tying in of facts and diagnosis . |
| 12 | This squeezing in of lymphocytes and blood vessels is itself very destructive to the normal architecture of the tissues , and in rheumatoid arthritis even erodes the bone until the joint is completely destroyed , causing crippling deformities . |
| 13 | This week London audiences gave ET their verdicts on Of Mice And Men , adapted from John Steinbeck 's novel , and The Waterdance . |
| 14 | The inscription crudely cut into the sarcophagus is in the old langue d'oc of southern France and reads ‘ Here lies Ben a / Obat daughter of En Ram on of Baréges and of Madame Na Hera . |
| 15 | The stationery cupboard had not provided paper similar to that used for the note and when Richard Beales left a systematic search was still going on of shelves and desks where some might have been overlooked . |
| 16 | The approach that I have called theoretical as opposed to practical must have as a major part of its aim not merely the passing on of facts and formulae but the inculcation of critical and speculative habit . |
| 17 | Not the splashers on of paint and not the witty designers of operatic sets , not those who claim to have their fingers on the pulse of things and not those who shut themselves up and ignore the world . |
| 18 | First came the preliminary soundings ( the trabajos ) and the winning over of officers and sergeants by a small activist group in touch with civilian conspirators ; then the compromisos by which accomplices were bound to action ; finally the chosen leaders set off the last stage by the cry — the grito . |
| 19 | Alcoholism , pollution ( through misuse of pesticides and careless dumping of waste ) ; shortages of proteins and dairy products ( diluted milk , denatured baby formula ) ; the siphoning off of drugs and anaesthetics into the illegal second economy all take their toll . |
| 20 | In Hyderabad up to 80 people were killed by mounted police on May 26 while protesting against a lengthy period of uninterrupted curfew and the cutting off of water and electricity . |
| 21 | It was all over bar the peeling off of clothes and the mopping up of mascara . |
| 22 | She said : ‘ Overall the loss to the taxpayer due to the write off of debt and injection of cash is £1.291billion . |
| 23 | Michael 's problem was that he saw the glamour in Frank 's position : the love of liberty ; the excitement in the free pursuit of truth ; the shaking off of convention and mere conformity ; the feeling that religion was a ‘ stuffy valley ’ out of which he had grown . |
| 24 | like most of these these have , erm what I want to know is er why , when I was disposed of as you like as a useless article , why I am suddenly called upon by this government to be one hundred per cent , not fifty per cent responsible , but one hundred per cent responsible , not only for my children which I 'm quite happy to do , but one hundred per cent responsible to keep my wife off of benefit and one hundred per cent responsible if she should ever want one , t for her partner . |
| 25 | The danger is of a breakdown , in the disorientation of excess of information , the compass needle going wild as multiple pulls drag it hither and thither , and then a self-defensive shutting off of information and lapse into irrationalism . |
| 26 | Rank Travel was made up of Wings and OSL in 1985 , while British Airways Tours included the Enterprise , Sovereign , Flair , Alta ( Speed Bird ) , and Martin Rook holiday names as well as its own airline company , British Air Tours . |
| 27 | The trust consists of about 15 ‘ guardians ’ , made up of management and staff . |
| 28 | The opening up of BBC and ITV to independent producers and the ending of closed shops is already undermining the power of those who work within broadcasting : this could affect their ability to influence content , and also the training and employment practices of the broadcasting institutions . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | As I say , it needs cleaning up of graffiti and a little bit of adjustment and |