Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] [verb] [conj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cases where favelados have moved to new housing schemes , they have been unable to meet the payments , which are periodically increased because of inflation and , therefore , had to return to the favelas . |
| 2 | Many rocks are composed of a high proportion of echinoderm debris , which is easily recognized because of this optical property . |
| 3 | The teenage element of the community have one inadequate youth club which does not have the facilities to provide the required range of activities and no amount of proposed refurbishment will entice the majority to attend a club which is badly situated and of dubious reputation . |
| 4 | ‘ The new syllabus is required because marketing is highly dynamic subject which is now regarded as of key importance to many disciplines other than advertising and sales . |
| 5 | ‘ If you 're only agreeing because of the tape and the report , then I 'd rather you refused . |
| 6 | Not to sort of well you , you ca n't be blamed because I mean yo , in the innocent you were actually going because of the concert . |
| 7 | And she is wholly believed because of that . |
| 8 | The events of the last year had left her mentally drained while she was physically exhausted because of her chronic illness . |
| 9 | Her life is described over at least two pages and is very dramatic — she lived in Italy where she was much courted because of her great beauty but she eventually married ‘ the very worst of those who sought her hand ’ — Paulo Neroni . |
| 10 | DAVID HUME in 1757 wrote ‘ There is a universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves and transfer to every object those qualities with which they are intimately acquainted and of which they are intimately conscious . ’ |
| 11 | Thrips or thunder flies as they are sometimes called because of their tendency to fly in clouds when thunder threatens — are minute midge-like flies that like to get into buds just as the bud scales ( sepals ) are opening and lay their eggs there . |
| 12 | They were so named because of their comfortable leather seats on the lower deck . |
| 13 | Or maybe they were more aroused because of the flashing light , or maybe the light was affecting their visual system in some way . |
| 14 | It is instantly appealing because of the Minoans ' delight in grace , movement and natural forms — in short , their delight in life . |
| 15 | Inside it is richly decorated and of the typical open style dictated by the Jesuit Order . |
| 16 | The smallest of all the pigs , the bullet-shaped pygmy hog lives in the tall grasslands of northern India , where it is highly endangered because of the practice of agricultural grass-burning and , lately , armed rebellion ( see ‘ Pigs in distress ’ ) . |
| 17 | An inquiry has indeed been set up by Gwynedd county council , but I understand that it is currently suspended because of police investigations . |
| 18 | The statue is much bigger than it looks ; it is always foreshortened because of the need to look sharply upward , and is actually over 4 metres high . |
| 19 | It was particularly made because of the role of the conference in diffusing results of the ESRC Changing Urban Regional System Initiative ( 1985-7 ) . |
| 20 | What is often overlooked because of Cuba 's active ( although never particularly substantial ) support for armed struggle in Latin America later in the 1960s is that , initially , the Castro regime made consistent attempts to build diplomatic relations with its hemispheric neighbours . |