Example sentences of "[adv prt] of [art] [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was the writing down of the poems of Homer and Hesiod that led scholars to ask , for the first time apparently : ‘ How far was the information about their gods and heroes literally true ? ’ . |
| 3 | Originally the rules linked the old and new owners with the land itself by the " delivery of seisin " , the handing over of a clod of earth on site . |
| 4 | Taxi proprietors were discussing the problem with senior Huddersfield police early on Tuesday evening when news came through of the stabbing of Mr Andrew Brown , aged 24 , of Birds Edge , near Penistone , South Yorkshire , at Three Star Taxis ' office in Beast Market . |
| 5 | Then follows the pushing through of the course of action despite buffetings and any opposition . |
| 6 | On this hypothesis one would expect the eastern spit , Sandbanks peninsula in the case of Poole Harbour , to be in a state of decay due to the cutting off of the supply of material by the breach . |
| 7 | Sinatra stormed off of the set of Carousel on the first day of shooting because it was to be shot in both the new CinemaScope 55 format and the standard ‘ flat ’ ratio , meaning everything had to be shot twice . |
| 8 | There had been weakened competitiveness , endemic balance-of-payments problems , cyclical stop — go movements in the economy , and a falling off of the rate of capital accumulation . |
| 9 | The main points in the communique which was immediately issued included , a ) parallel statements by each government regarding the status of Northern Ireland b ) the setting up of a Council of Ireland c ) the setting up of a joint committee to consider the creation of a law enforcement area covering the whole island d ) consultation on , and coordination of , policing . |
| 10 | Somerset 's governmental changes included the legalization of the English language as the official medium , the introduction of English currency , the setting up of a council of advice , and attempts to ameliorate the treatment of slaves in accordance with new policies laid down in London . |
| 11 | These zones may be made up of a mixture of land uses . |
| 12 | Inactivation of the X chromosome is random so that the early embryo is made up of a mixture of cells in which one or other of the X chromosomes is inactivated . |
| 13 | The Situationist Scrapbook includes only two synoptical essays , the rest being made up of a selection of documents produced in various parts of Europe and Britain from the fifties to the eighties , some of which predate the founding of the Situationist International ( henceforth the ‘ SI' ) . |
| 14 | Each spreadsheet page is made up of a grid of columns and rows . |
| 15 | My face seemed to be made up of a mass of needles or electrical impulses . ’ |
| 16 | My face seemed to be made up of a mass of needles or spikes or electrical impulses . |
| 17 | Interactionists would question that implication , and argue that they are made up of a plurality of values and norms , which may often conflict . |
| 18 | Imagine a hollow tube made up of a layer of cells just one cell thick with contractile filaments located near the outer surface . |
| 19 | Well I think the the overall housing figures which were contained in the approved structure plan , made up of a range of sites and allocations . |
| 20 | The Certificate is made up of a range of foundation units with specialist options . |
| 21 | Thus there is no evidence as yet for any imaginative creation , development and writing up of a range of stories within the English fabliau corpus . |
| 22 | Cell walls are made up of a variety of substances of which only one , cellulose , is truly fibrous in the sense of being filamentous or threadlike . |
| 23 | What they had said was at the end of the war they aimed at a safe and lasting peace , and to obtain that they demanded a setting up of a League of Nations . |
| 24 | But even the grand measures had their component parts , were made up of a multitude of successes and failures : the outcome of the co-operative movement in Ajdabiya depended on a variety of judgements — by officials , by shopkeepers and by customers — and hence on the social relation which affected them . |
| 25 | We 're not a , our our physical body 's not made up of a multitude of hands or a multitude of feet there are feet , and the feet has one function , the hand has another . |
| 26 | In societies such as colonial Sri Lanka , in which criminal law was made up of a set of rules , under this definition it is not normally difficult to determine whether or not an action was criminal . |
| 27 | The regulation of aviation comprises many different activities but perhaps the most significant is the drawing up of a set of rules and regulations and the establishment of an organisation to ensure their enforcement . |
| 28 | The authorities ' ‘ second diversionary thrust ’ involved the setting up of a Tribunal of Inquiry under Lord Widgery . |
| 29 | King Birendra also announced the setting up of a commission of inquiry to look into allegations of police violence and a commission on constitutional reform . |
| 30 | An ability is made up of a repertoire of skills and is thus a higher level skill . |