Example sentences of "and [conj] of the [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 Owing to the delays that had occurred since the marketing studies were made in 1983 and because of the attractiveness of the finished scheme , it was found that considerably higher prices could be obtained for the flats than had been originally foreseen .
2 After the death of Chilperic and the revolt of Gundovald in 584 , Guntram recognized his nephew as being fit to rule in his own name , but even this did not ensure consistently good relations between the two kings , not least because of differences of opinion over control of certain cities , and because of the ramifications of the Gundovald affair .
3 Because of this case and because of the studies of the supporters of primary surgical intervention an objection , until now , was the rather short follow up periods of the larger series .
4 And because of the surfeit of accountants forced to look for work ‘ outside ’ , employers are increasingly able to offer poorer terms .
5 The solid state seemed more complicated ; and because of the problems of purity , which had plagued Crookes in his work on lanthanum and its congeners , it was very difficult to get consistent results with interesting elements like selenium .
6 There is a need , above all , for an environment in which a fledgling ( or established ) business will feel comfortable and wish to remain , because of local amenities and because of the availability of a healthy , happy , well-equipped workforce .
7 Railways are politically very exposed because the service attracts so much public attention and because of the size of the state subsidy ( e.g. SCNI 1968 : 432 ) .
8 Because of the early efforts to contain and isolate mentally handicapped people and because of the lack of distinction between the mentally handicapped and those who may be mentally ill , possibly dangerously so , considerable fears have spread through society about people who live in asylums and ‘ loony bins ’ .
9 The felling , trimming , cutting , absorbed him completely and because of the ferocity of the running chain it demanded his undivided attention .
10 As a result of the growing competition and conflict between different land uses , and because of the spirit of ‘ anti-urbanism ’ in debates over the countryside , special attention has been directed to planning in these urban fringe areas .
11 To let herself out of the back she 'd either have to clamber over the seats or squeeze out of a window , and because of the shape of the doors the windows did n't even open all the way .
12 If they did , then because of her strategic position , because of her great extra-European interests and because of the problem of filling the vacuum left by her withdrawal from the Balkans , the fate of Turkey would once again involve the interests of all the great powers .
13 When our third partner left we lost his basic practice allowance , and because of the cost of employing locums we will end up substantially out of pocket .
14 Clearly if , if the fines were more that would help , but I do think now because of the consciousness of the general public and because of the involvement of the media in , in the environment , er that firms are not keen and the third parties , whoever they may be , are not keen to be fined in court for pollution , because public opinion is such that it 's very much disapproved of .
15 Management has not been insistent on displacing the permanent/temporary worker system with job seniority procedures ( i.e. first in/first out ) because of its own sense of paternalistic responsibility and because of the flexibility of operations afforded by the employment of temporary workers .
16 The plays ' prominence with the public are assured because of a Shakespeare industry operating in theatres , in tourist boards , and because of the centrality of his work with school examining boards .
17 Because the machine is produced and factory aligned as a double bed with the needles sitting in individual channels and because of the addition of the pushing down wheels , the tuck knitting is more easily made , with its stitch formation more accurate , without the lateral distortion than can occur within the stitches made on a machine that does not have needle channels .
18 The new developments in information skills are still primarily research-led and because of the slowness of dissemination and take-up of work based on research it is not clear what the impact will be of this work on library practice .
19 Erm and because of the way of things , you do n't always get the components the same way every day .
20 They were descending a flight of stairs towards a broad main street , and because of the narrowness of the staircase Alexei was forced to drop back .
21 Leeds , in 1981 , was dominated by large areas of mugwort and wormwood , and because of the proliferation of this genus deserves to be known to botanists as ‘ Artemisia City ’ .
22 Because the recoils result from direct collisions of projectile ions , recoiled particles have high , discrete kinetic energies , and because of the energetics of the collisions , molecular fragments are not observed as direct recoils and their energies are independent of their chemical bonding environment .
23 and because of the ineptitude of the leadership of the T U C , that opportunity has been lost and what are we also seeing in the public sector ?
24 Because [ the business has not yet commenced ] [ a significant expansion is envisaged ] [ other reasons ] and because of the length of the period covered , the assumptions are necessarily more subjective than would be appropriate for a profit forecast .
25 The Plowden Report recommended that ‘ Schools with an age range of 5–11 should usually have at least three classes , each covering two age ranges ’ , but by 1976 Lady Plowden , the chairman of the Committee producing the report , appeared to have altered her views , stating in a Border Television broadcast : ‘ Since the report I have come round to thinking that small country schools should be kept open because of the social value and because of the continuity of community involvement they provide . ’ )
26 And so though we have all sinned and that circle , that perfect purpose of God for you and for me has been warped and distorted out of all recognition , the potential that God had for you and for me , it 's been dis it seems to have been destroyed because of the warping and because of the impact of sin .
27 Because of core segregation in the Earth the Moon is depleted in iron , and because of the vaporization of the outer mantle of the Earth a degree of chemical segregation is plausible by means of which the Moon comes to consist largely of materials that differ to the required extent from those of the Earth 's mantle .
28 He failed because he could not carry his sergeants with him and because of the jealousy of ecclesiastical Santiago against mercantile Corunna .
29 Any such attempts would most likely fail and possibly make matters worse because of the difficulties of predicting short-run changes and because of the variability of the time-lags with which changes in the money supply affect nominal national income .
30 But there was no chance for him to rest in seclusion , even if he wished to do so — by April his brother was dying , and because of the urgency of the situation Eliot flew to New York on 22 April .
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