Example sentences of "[subord] of [art] [noun] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sports centre in north Oxfordshire has had to close today because of a leakage of almost one thousand litres of potentially hazardous chemicals . |
| 2 | At body weights close to the required minimum women may still have anovulatory cycles even if they are menstruating because of a lack of peripherally produced oestrogen in adipose tissue . |
| 3 | It is strange that that point is being made because of a shift of about 1,000 votes in a constituency . |
| 4 | Because of a combination of so many unknowns , we , or should I say they — Pete and Dick did all the work , I just made the bikes — made a total cock-up of ability and distance . |
| 5 | ‘ That was mainly because of a lot of niggly little injuries . |
| 6 | and again because of the recession over there le learning English is , is one of the things that , you know , gets put , put back on the |
| 7 | However , I feel there should be two grades because of the difficulty of actually getting the game started with one service in some areas of junior or park tennis . |
| 8 | Did the Secretary of State read in the memoirs of Dr. Garrett FitzGerald that during the negotiations on the Anglo-Irish Agreement the Government had been prepared to allow judges from the courts in the Irish Republic to sit on the Bench in Northern Ireland as part of what are described as mixed courts , but that that was stopped because of the resistance of then then Lord Chief Justice , Lord Lowry ? |
| 9 | This has n't grown so well this year compared to previous summers , probably because of the lack of really bright sunshine . |
| 10 | Because of the cliff over there . ’ |
| 11 | There are likely to be some nationally based organizations which will be deviant cases in terms of some or other dimension of the imperatives , if only because of the effects of more specific organization contingencies of size or technology , neither of which are considered here . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , some men and women have , since the middle 1960s , benefited from the expansion of university education , from the growth of law faculties in universities , and from the wider availability of this education and , with little private income , have been able ( largely because of the increase in publicly financed legal aid ) to make a living at the bar . |
| 13 | [ Though well received by the public schools , the scheme never came into effect , mainly because of the unwillingness of either central government or LEAs to take responsibility for payment of the grants . ] |
| 14 | On Jan. 2 Lithuania 's President Vytautas Landsbergis announced that Lithuania 's offer to suspend its March 1990 independence declaration was being withdrawn because of the failure after more than six months to convene negotiations on Lithuania 's status . |
| 15 | This meant that the effect of factors ( for example , female activity rate ) which might be extremely important in particular instances could be lost simply because of the impact of much more general variables ( such as low density of manufacturing employment ) . |
| 16 | Was it because of the commitment of both Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain to the process of appeasement ? |
| 17 | To suggest that the dicynodonts and the rhynchosaurs disappeared because of the decline of basically similar Gondwana arborescent plants would seem to indicate a rather simplistic view of both animal-plant in relationship , and plant evolution in general . |
| 18 | A marriage is so voidable if it has not been consummated because of the incapacity of either party , or because of one party 's wilful refusal to consummate it ; if the marriage was entered into without the consent of either party ( e.g. by reason of duress , mistake , or unsound mind ) ; if at the time of the marriage one party was suffering from mental disorder of such a kind as to render him or her unfitted for marriage , or from venereal disease ; or if the wife was at the time of the marriage pregnant by some other person than her husband . |
| 19 | For sexually active people outside a long-term monogamous relationship , safe sex has always been important because of the danger of sexually transmitted diseases ( STDs ) — most commonly genital warts , syphilis and gonorrhoea . |
| 20 | This quick decline in trade union power appears to have occurred because of the combination of both internal weakness and external pressure . |
| 21 | Because of the need for both liquidity and profitability , banks tend to hold bills and bonds of varying maturities and yields . |
| 22 | Ball and Halwachi ( 1987 ) have recently argued that performance indicators can not be effectively employed within British higher education because of the absence of clearly specified institutional goals . |