Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [conj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A modified version of the southern mountain route has been examined because of the resolution . |
| 2 | And er the all-nighters have been stopped because of it . |
| 3 | Although his initial interest had been aroused because of the connection between current problems and events which may have taken place in a former life , he became so enthralled by the topic that he took it up for its own sake . |
| 4 | If necessary , considerably more complex calculations are justified because of the speed of internal storage operations , and because use of such a calculation allows the unbroken key sequence to be exploited . |
| 5 | The remaining work has been delayed because of problems encountered with the render and the removal of the existing paint . |
| 6 | His visit , the first by a senior East European official since the collapse of communism there , had been delayed because of political turmoil in China and Poland , according to a Polish official . |
| 7 | This had been delayed because of the November 1991 general election [ see p. 38589 ] and the resulting political uncertainty . |
| 8 | At the moment erm because of the extra time we 've got available because production investment has been delayed because of ministerial decisions , we 've set in train three further studies and they will look collectively at alternatives , comparison in combat modelling and also in the numbers and if I could describe those three very briefly because I think they 're the they 're relevant to what we 're talking about . |
| 9 | Teachers and other academics have been persecuted because of their chosen area of research . |
| 10 | Their heightened expectations for educational progress had not been realised because of low investment and poor management . |
| 11 | The number of bidders on AFCAC 300 is thought to have been limited because of the amount of money needed to pursue it . |
| 12 | The Vulcans have recently been withdrawn because of their age . |
| 13 | By eight weeks , three patients had been withdrawn because of adverse drug side effects while four had been transferred to other medical treatment and two had undergone surgery because of increasing pain or ulcer size . |
| 14 | Night-time bus services are to resume on a council estate where they 'd been withdrawn because of gang attacks . |
| 15 | Nine players — Goram , McPherson , Robertson , McCall , Durrant and McCoist ( all Rangers ) , McStay ( Celtic ) , McLeish ( Aberdeen ) and Malpas ( Dundee United ) — have been withdrawn because of injury . |
| 16 | If you are insulted because of the name of Christ , you are blessed , because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you . |
| 17 | Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness , |
| 18 | Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness |
| 19 | Themes cover everything from the sorry state of the environment to how money corrupts on to how people are persecuted because of their appearance . |
| 20 | A large number of cases are received because of the short-term illness or confinement of the mother . |
| 21 | Like many readers before and since , the author of The Cloud identified Mary the contemplative with Mary Magdalene and with the woman who had anointed the feet of Christ , washed them with her tears and who was told by Jesus that her sins had been forgiven because of her great love . |
| 22 | The UK Department of Transport 's plans to build a road through rare water meadows in Herefordshire have been rejected on environmental grounds after a public inquiry — reportedly the first time that a road project has been halted because of environmental concern . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The UK gives the least subsidies of any major marine manufacturing country and only warship yards are regarded as of strategic significance . |
| 25 | Parental support and co-operation are regarded as of paramount importance and to facilitate this the school is open until 9 p.m. on one evening each week during term , when parents meet heads of departments and/or class teachers according to a system of appointments . |
| 26 | Various self-help groups have been formed because of dissatisfaction with the help that professionals provide or a realisation that such help is limited . |
| 27 | The Congress ( I ) claim to form a government headed by V. Vaithilingam was accepted by the Lieutenant-Governor , Har Swarup Singh , on June 22 but a government had not been formed as of early July . |
| 28 | The programme for Causewayside Phase 2 has been revised because of delays due to weather and ground conditions and completion is now expected in June 1994 . |
| 29 | This must lead us to consider whether the differences in theistic belief between Near Eastern traditions like Judaism , Christianity , and Islam on the one hand , and Indian traditions like Hinduism on the other hand , have been exaggerated because of language . |
| 30 | There is reference in paragraph two point two to the local ombudsman and I , I , I should perhaps add that during the year in question , there is one current matter er which er with the subject of the referral to the local ombudsman and that of course has not been included because of definition reasons in this report . |