Example sentences of "[art] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the first level was concerned with the stamping out of political regionalism and other local attitudes that limited central authority . |
| 2 | Glen Lyons , consultant trichologist at the Philip Kingsley Clinic , says : ‘ In the last five years I 've noticed a dramatic increase in the number of women suffering from hair and scalp conditions , particularly the speeding up of genetic hair loss . |
| 3 | The deal will be funded by a $150m loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development , earmarked for the Catching up with European Higher Education Project . |
| 4 | Over her eleven year premiership the only substantial issue of penal policy in which Mrs Thatcher played a decisive part was the privatization of prisons and remand centres , and the contracting out of certain criminal justice services . |
| 5 | In part , these demand changes reflect broader issues regarding the contracting out of local authority services . |
| 6 | The paper included plans to privatize British Rail and London buses , to increase competition for the Post Office , to expedite the contracting out of local authority services to the private sector , and to shorten waiting times for hospital admissions . |
| 7 | For example , with the creation of hospital trusts , with the opting out of schools , with the contracting out of local government services . |
| 8 | This takes two forms : the contracting out of clinical work to private hospitals and competitive tendering for the provision of non-medical services such as cleaning , catering and laundry services . |
| 9 | Although the using up of old stock may be one reason for this practice , watchcase-makers were probably also reluctant to use Britannia silver because it is a softer alloy than sterling . |
| 10 | In the last few years these problems have also been intensified by the housing changes described in chapter 7 , namely the accelerated contraction of the private-rented sector , the winding up of New Town Development Corporations and other official overspill schemes , the cutback in Treasury funds for new public-sector house-building in general , and the sale of council houses to tenants with ‘ Right To Buy ’ discounts ( Brittan , 1986 ) . |
| 11 | He also referred to section 229(2) in the group of sections concerned with the winding up of unregistered companies . |
| 12 | A similarly timid attitude had to be taken with regard to strikes by ASLEF , the train-drivers ' union , and the bailing out of British Rail . |
| 13 | They may have had a function in aiding the picking out of broken threads on the loom . |
| 14 | The picking out in black paint of the window surrounds and pediment was also instigated by the Georgian rector , and is very much in the Welsh tradition . |
| 15 | As long as the volume of work undertaken by house-building firms is dependent either upon local authority contracts or upon the doling out at yearly or half-yearly intervals of a meagre number of individual licences , so long will increased productivity , and the gearing to it of the output of the building materials industry , be impossible . |
| 16 | It is the pouring in of new wine , but the bottles must also be new or they will burst , and this is exactly what Mr. Alexander 's treatment does . |
| 17 | States such as Italy with a preponderance of coalition government or with marked factional organization within political parties have seen the phenomenon of the parcelling up of different parts of the state administration among different parties or factions ( e.g. Donolo 1980 ) . |
| 18 | Does the growing up on fragile ice create , if you like , metaphorical value in your cancer work ? |
| 19 | Studies on the impacts of the reform of corporation tax and the phasing out of accelerated depreciation allowance on UK investment have been undertaken by Sumner ( 1988 ) and Devereux ( 1989 ) . |
| 20 | Although nobody really argues about what needs to be achieved , there are disagreements about how the phasing out of mental handicap hospitals should proceed . |
| 21 | Proposals for a worldwide carbon tax and the phasing out of coal-burning generators appear to have been ruled out . |
| 22 | Several other countries have either scaled down their original expansion plans for nuclear power , delayed the continuation of their nuclear power expansion or begun to look seriously at the phasing out of existing nuclear power stations . |
| 23 | The Soviet Union and the United States in January and February concluded three preliminary agreements on the levels of their forces stationed in Europe , the phasing out of chemical weapons and the inspection of each other 's nuclear arsenals . |
| 24 | This is the latest step in the sequence of changes that followed the phasing out of authorised principals and the introduction of the training office system in 1983 . |
| 25 | In September 1988 the situation worsened with the phasing out of free school meals for 500,000 children whose parents were in receipt of family credit . |
| 26 | ‘ The updated video will have new sections on the terminal 's safe system of work , the COSHH ( Control of Substances Hazardous to Health ) regulations and on the use of fire extinguishers , following the phasing out of portable Halon extinguishers on site . |
| 27 | Thirdly , it is the intention of AIB Bank Management to introduce a reduction in Staff Costs by the elimination of special payments , by the reduction of London and Large Town Allowances , by the reduction of the standard of flights home and the phasing out of Overseas Allowance . |
| 28 | It urged governments to speed up the phasing out of ozone-destroying chemicals , however . |
| 29 | Given these disturbing facts , the phasing out of nuclear power and phasing in of renewable technologies makes sense . |
| 30 | The change was widely reported as bringing into question the government 's commitment to the phasing out of nuclear energy by 2010 , as approved in a 1980 referendum [ see pp. 30335 ; 30994 ; 34831 ] . |