Example sentences of "[adv prt] of [noun] and [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was all over bar the peeling off of clothes and the mopping up of mascara . |
| 2 | As I say , it needs cleaning up of graffiti and a little bit of adjustment and |
| 3 | The context for the drawing up of plans and the management of on-going change proved quite different . |
| 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 | The ‘ enterprise culture ’ , the opening up of markets and the need to survive competition all place businesses under great pressure . |
| 6 | They adopted a Krakow Declaration , stating that the three countries would act for union with a united Europe and that their security would best be served by integration with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) , and recognizing the dangers posed by the breaking up of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | The ability of the Bank to operate through such systems is largely through the historical building up of relationships and the ingrained tradition of the banks to accept such a system because of their desire to be watched over by ‘ one of their own ’ . |
| 8 | In 1886 they ran out of money and the bank foreclosed . |
| 9 | IT IS bad enough having your birthday when everybody has run out of money and the spirit of giving is distinctly thin . |
| 10 | The builder ran out of money and the it was just a shell . |
| 11 | To the garage the beast and I unsafely struggled , a place straight out of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : Bad Karma Department . |
| 12 | Her mind swam in and out of sleep and the fire burned lower . |
| 13 | He added : ‘ It is clear the North-East is well set to lead the country out of recession and the UK , I believe , will be one of the countries that leads the world out of the recession . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Like the HBF we believe that the Government should target key sectors that can lead the economy out of recession and the housing market should be on the top of the list . ’ |
| 15 | One of the four diesel generators that would power its computer controls in the event of a blackout was also out of service and the reactor was threatened with shut-down . |
| 16 | A source at the US Embassy in London dismissed the whole affair as one that has got out of proportion and a diversion from a packed agenda . |
| 17 | Light : Good light , but not too strong , as the plant will otherwise grow out of water and the whorls of leaves above water will drop off . |
| 18 | These bouts of manifesto madness , U-turns , and broken promises , not only frustrate business confidence but also lead to public disillusion so that authority dribbles out of government and the legitimacy of the overall system is called into question . |
| 19 | However , Jenkins also identified a far larger third group ‘ ordinary kids ’ who fitted neither of these two extremes and developed a range of survival strategies in and out of work and a pragmatic acceptance of their position . |
| 20 | Tainted by the worst recession in 60 years , a record 1.05 million people out of work and a perception that Labor was fatigued after ten years in office , few had expected Mr Keating to scrape in . |
| 21 | It 's hurtful when you see good actors out of work and the way in which their confidence is corroded by the system . |
| 22 | Er Madam Speaker I I entirely agree with the sentiments which have been expressed by Black and Decker and I have to say to members opposite that when companies like Mercedes are starting to source outside of Germany , with companies like Volkswagen are starting to look er outside Europe and Peugeot and others , alarm bells should be ringing for those members who are genuinely concerned about jobs because there is no doubt that the social chapter is driving people out of work and the longer that members opposite adhere to it er then the the greater will be the er the possibility o of er people er in Europe er embracing policies which will make those countries in Europe less competitive and less able to provide employment . |
| 23 | As he reached the bottom the whole boat suddenly heaved away from him , so that the washboard at the top rolled out of sight and a quite new reach of sky appeared . |
| 24 | The horizon was a dark terracotta colour , the top of the dying sun just visible for a few seconds before it dropped out of sight and the sky doused the remaining light like a heavy black blanket . |
| 25 | The lid had been battered out of shape and the locks no longer met , but a leather strap held the whole thing together . |
| 26 | As the visiting speaker told his tale , others chipped in with humorous stories about the nose-picking chairman : failed English ‘ O ’ level seven times … sent his car for a Ministry of Transport Test with both headlights out of order and no brakes … a complete nut-case . |
| 27 | The ears can be made out of felt and a small tail can be made of cotton wool . |
| 28 | However , these plans were falling out of favour and a clear opportunity existed to replace it with a product that offers a capital guarantee . |
| 29 | They will have some feeling that the sacred books of the religions are really fairy stories , that religious people are out of date and a bit silly , that the clergy are figures of fun . |
| 30 | In his summing-up , Mr Justice Caulfield could not have evinced a more robust hostility to the Official Secrets Act , sharing a widely held belief that it was long out of date and an intolerable interference with freedom of speech , and that it provided a justification for prosecutions ranging from the serious to the grotesquely ridiculous . |