Example sentences of "[adv prt] of the [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Then follows the pushing through of the course of action despite buffetings and any opposition . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Regiments of Elf spearmen and archers are made up of the citizen-soldiers of Ulthuan . |
| 9 | Regiments of Elven Spearmen are made up of the citizen-soldiers of Ulthuan . |
| 10 | His mild reaction to the tearing up of the Treaty of Versailles was perhaps explicable by the fact that he saw such events as inevitable and because the Foreign Office was locked into a policy of appeasement . |
| 11 | They are made up of the Polytechnic of Wales ; three national institutions in the shape of the Welsh College of Music and Drama , at Cardiff , and the College of Librarianship of Wales and the Welsh College of Agriculture , both at Aberystwyth ; six colleges or institutions of higher education ; and thirty-six other establishments ( Figure 7.1 ) . |
| 12 | As we have seen , higher education in the Principality has assumed a quite different form from that which existed in 1970 so that we now have ten institutions of higher education made up of the Polytechnic of Wales , three national colleges , and six colleges and institutes of higher education . |
| 13 | The text of the book is made up of the scripts of programmes broadcast in a radio series and then edited and developed . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , there is no contemporary account of the setting up of the archdiocese of Lichfield . |
| 15 | Yet the problem of central control over wartime production was not solved until 1943 with the setting up of the Office of War Mobilization under the direction of James Byrnes , formerly a Supreme Court Justice and a future Secretary of State under President Truman . |
| 16 | Then I remembered someone who could : the person could not stand cash , but was maybe prepared to put something up of the value of £500 . |
| 17 | Tests conducted in southern India by Dr Singh , head of the Department of Botany at Annamalai University , resulted in the speeding up of the movement of protoplasm in plant cells by the application of harmonious music from various instruments two metres from the plants for half an hour . |
| 18 | The setting up of the Bank of England in 1694 was a major step in the foundation of a sound system of public credit , but the secondary effects of its establishment were at least as important for the development of the eighteenth-century economy . |
| 19 | The Reform movement of the eleventh century was behind the building up of the college of cardinals and its privileges . |
| 20 | Here we see Bukharin repeating his argument for a speeding up of the circulation of commodities , which he said would provide a greater surplus out of which investment of all types could be increased . |
| 21 | The practical effect of this provision is that if an MNP is formed by , say , a merger of a foreign legal firm and an English firm , the firm name used by either may be adopted as the name of the MNP if it is made up of the names of present or former principals who are or were lawyers ; a new name may be used derived from the names of one or more present or former principals of either firm ; a name previously approved by the Council may be used ; or application may be made for approval in writing by the Council of a name which does not otherwise comply with the requirements of rule 11(1) ( A ) . |
| 22 | The informants were then given a list of 50 items made up of the names of writers and book titles , arranged in alphabetical order . |
| 23 | The greatest collection of letters to have survived from post-Roman Gaul , however , is made up of the poems of Venantius Fortunatus , many of which are verse epistles . |
| 24 | A rentcharge is the right to receive an annual sum out of the income of land , usually in perpetuity , and to distrain if the payments are in arrear ; the owner of the land is also personally liable to pay , and further remedies against the land have been given by statute . |
| 25 | At every stage new groups of showmen sprang up out of the maelstrom of society . |
| 26 | A believer in market forces , she differs from Thatcher in her interventionism , and it is a safe bet that what the French euphemistically call ‘ positive actions ’ will be brought to bear to shake the best out of the likes of Thomson . |
| 27 | This was indeed an English performance straight out of the text-book of over-ambition being thwarted by grim reality . |
| 28 | The membership of the League of Nations from 1919 to 1939 never exceeded 54 countries , whereas some 160 nation states , covering almost the entire globe , are members of the present United Nations , and the numbers are still increasing as new nations arise out of the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union . |
| 29 | At last , a jazz influenced band who do n't try to look as if they 've just stepped out of the pages of Kerouac . |
| 30 | Amongst the dust and waste , characters who might have stepped straight out of the pages of Dickens or Mrs Gaskell bloomed . |