Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [subord] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disease diagnosis may vary both within and between communities because of differences in health care systems and structures . |
| 2 | Erm I think money is another issue a actually very strong issue that causes er people to think of divorce because of disagreement of h how to use money people go into debt . |
| 3 | Where care is provided , it is far more often in the form of advice than of assistance with physical care . |
| 4 | Therefore , the monastic reforms should be regarded at least as much in the light of co-operation as of combat between king and aristocracy . |
| 5 | Mr Kerfoot said this week that in 1988 one of his oil suppliers on the Rhine had been keen to send raw material to Britain by rail instead of road because of pressure from the German Government . |
| 6 | The Gothic imagination dwelt on the mystery , and found it more productive of nightmares than of dreams of paradise . |
| 7 | But there are still others who have no sense of conviction because of problems on a far deeper level , such as a crisis of identity . |
| 8 | If there were absentees from the gathering of Khans and Noyons which waited sycophantically in the antechamber through which they left the palace , Alexei supposed they were the result rather of an excess of celebration than of flight in the face of possible discovery or inquisition . |
| 9 | To the south , a large estate has closed off a public right of way because of vandalism in the woods where pheasant are bred for shooting . |
| 10 | It had long been a controversial issue and its approval had been delayed for years because of worries about the environmental consequences and the cost of the project . |
| 11 | A number of articles I have read all seem to indicate that rail freight will decline , for example the report that French Railways might sue for damages because of loss of freight revenue ( The Times , 30 Jan . ) . |
| 12 | In a survey of a ‘ closed ’ institution such as a prison or a firm the informants may be instructed to co-operate with interviewers because of agreement about the survey by the people in authority , but in many instances of samples from the general population no such authority exists and surveyors must try to obtain co-operation as best they can by interesting the informants in the survey and gaining their completely free co-operation . |
| 13 | Initially , church members were viewed by many with suspicion because of breakdowns in relationships ( rows over brownies and guides , etc. ) in the past . |
| 14 | In the housing field there are areas where officials ; may become aware of the existence of people with dementia because of nonpayment of rent , anti-social behaviour , poor standard of upkeep of the house . |
| 15 | Furthermore , despite the proven efficacy of warfarin in primary stroke prevention , physicians remain reluctant to prescribe oral anticoagulants for their older patients with AF because of fears about haemorrhagic complications and understandable concerns about drug compliance in elderly outpatients . |
| 16 | My baby had to remain at the nursing home , as I had no one to look after him , and he was not admitted into hospital because of whooping-cough in the nursery there . |
| 17 | The security of future energy supplies is under threat because of waste in industrial countries and growing demand in the developing world , according to the World Energy Council . |
| 18 | His party is riven by personal and ideological differences and is under fire because of allegations of corruption . |
| 19 | A new eighty million pound train service is in chaos because of leaves on the line . |
| 20 | The switch to a more deliberate emphasis on the way in which all the inhabitants of an area depend upon one another came about at least in part because of developments in social evolutionism . |
| 21 | There are problems in assessing these claims , in part because of disputes over the starting date — 1979 , when Mrs Thatcher came to office , or 1981 , the low point of the recession — and whether comparison is made with the 1970s or 1960s . |
| 22 | By 1985 at least half of them were lying idle , stored in warehouses because of shortages of skills and software programmes . |
| 23 | It was also reported that the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) was forced to halt relief operations in mid-December because of disputes with the two sides . |
| 24 | A total of $100,000,000 in aid had been frozen by the US administration in May because of lack of progress on the compensation of US citizens for property seized by the former Sandinista regime [ see p. 38957 ] . |
| 25 | The paper , a frequent subject of censorship , had been printed in Nigeria in July because of difficulties with government printers . |
| 26 | Bush had still to convince the US Congress , however , to release the US$94,000,000 in economic and military aid which it had frozen in July because of doubts about the government 's commitment to an anti-drug programme and because of persistent reports of gross human rights abuses by the military . |
| 27 | Not every reflux event detected , however , by a fall in pH to less than 4 was seen as an increase in counts because of reflux of food , and vice versa . |
| 28 | The convention meeting has been bitterly divided over proposals to ban all trade in ivory because of decline in elephant numbers from more than 1.2 million to 600,000 in the last decade . |
| 29 | I heard evidence of the one domi domiciliary visit per week of the physiotherapist had been stopped in September because of lack of resources . |
| 30 | There were 56353 discharges after a stay in hospital because of pancreatitis in Finland between 1970–89 . |