Example sentences of "a [verb] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then as we commissioned our team for what is at the time of writing known as the King 's Arms church we experienced a pouring out of the gifts of the Spirit on those elders and leaders who were praying for the team : it seemed everyone had a word of instruction , a revelation , a tongue or an interpretation for the strengthening of the church . |
| 2 | Mr Wood works with the South Eastern Education Board and said Northern Ireland 's Education Minister , Michael Ancram , had by contrast taken consultation seriously and announced a slowing up of the reform process to get it right . |
| 3 | It was a slowing down of the spread of forest decline in the late 1980s that first pointed the CEGB scientists towards climate as the cause . |
| 4 | After four years of economic boom , 1990 saw a slowing down of the Spanish economy , as a result in part of the impact of the Gulf crisis on oil prices but due also to the government 's restrictive monetary policy , which was designed to bring Spain 's currency and rate of inflation more into line with those of other members of the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 5 | Both these concerns were in the Tilling Group of Companies and in a splitting up of the area and districts with certain other companies , the United Counties took over most of the local services , with the Eastern National taking a minor role . |
| 6 | Not a taking up of the old ways , but she had anticipated that for at least part of the evening they would move from professional matters to personal . |
| 7 | This would seem to demonstrate not only that studies in different areas or at different times have produced different results , but that a follow through of the cases prosecuted might have found , for example , that Blacks had a different ( possibly higher ) rate of ‘ not guilty ’ pleas , with acquittal rates which might have justified them in not accepting a caution . |
| 8 | A follow up of the 278 long stay patients discharged between 1985 and 1988 failed to trace only six people , who were presumed to have become vagrants ( three had been vagrants before their admission ) . |
| 9 | To see that there is a take up of the car contract hire scheme , it constantly has to be held , or kept unde , the scheme has to be kept under review , to make sure that it is attractive and it is what er , the employees want to see , and would prefer rather than an alternate means of transport . |
| 10 | We 've had the Courage Magazine and it 's got a write up of the er the May , our craft thingy at er |
| 11 | The reign of Ecgfrith witnessed a working out of the tensions which had emerged under Oswiu . |
| 12 | In several respects this period witnessed a working out of the legacy of the Civil War , and many of the issues which were to cause political division in English society under the later Stuarts stemmed from problems which had been left unresolved by the Restoration of 1660 . |