Example sentences of "[conj] of the absence of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Milan , who faltered at the weekend with a 3-0 defeat at the hands of the current league leaders , Napoli , have slipped to seventh place , partly because of the absence of van Basten and his compatriot , Ruud Gullit , who is seeing a doctor on Monday about his cartilage injury . |
| 2 | The slack periods are night shifts during the mid-week , and the boredom compounds the general dislike of night duty , the only redeeming feature of which is that formal control in the station is relaxed because of the absence of senior managers . |
| 3 | An overwhelming majority of those who still baulked at actual sacking favoured return to uniform , with the view that ‘ CID officers who are lazy and incompetent were so primarily because of the absence of the eventual sanction of removal from specialist duty . ’ |
| 4 | It will probably be easier for them to be pro-life because of the absence of party pressure on them . |
| 5 | Forest , who have monopolised this cup in the last four seasons , will be more vulnerable because of the absence of Stuart Pearce 's leadership and , more importantly , full-back expertise . |
| 6 | No wonder , it may be thought , that the broadcasters were unanimous to finding these restrictions too severe ; some argued that the Commons itself , by these restrictions , was giving a false and misleading impression to the audience , especially because of the absence of reaction shots ; Anne Lapping , the editor of A Week In Politics , said ‘ the more freedom you let the cameras have , the more good it does to the Mother of Parliaments ’ . |
| 7 | Some partnerships have endured only because of the absence of one , most usually the husband , on business trips or , at least , his lack of presence in the house during the day . |
| 8 | However , this was not to be since their drains were either late , abandoned , or non-existent , while promises of building sites were made and then had to be broken because of the absence of drains ! |
| 9 | But the Leeds manager is almost certainly on the point of making a move — and the priority is the right-back position that has been a problem all season because of the absence of Mel Sterland . |
| 10 | At the time empires were normal enough ; it was nationalism that was unusual and , if it did develop , it might easily break Charles 's empire into fragments because of the absence of linguistic or geographic unity . |
| 11 | Indeed , as regards literacy , he has argued that ‘ there is more ambiguity in written texts — though possibly in certain styles greater explicitness — because of the absence of disambiguating prosodic information ’ ( 1981 c , p. 95 ) . |
| 12 | Private sector use of the SDR as a unit of account or the basis for international transactions has been very limited because of the absence of SDR-denominated assets which could be purchased with SDR-denominated deposits . |
| 13 | There are musty bookcases , vases , various paintings and pieces of sculpture , but it is impossible to see anything clearly because of the absence of electric lights . |
| 14 | The government 's full majority of over a hundred was difficult to muster because of the absence of Irish MPs , and the effective majority was gradually reduced by constant harassment . |
| 15 | The Great War also caused the appointment , for the first time because of the absence of men in the Forces , of lady teachers to the staff . |
| 16 | In the course of four decades almost half a million pounds were produced for the king by clerical taxation , and in fact its burden was all the more concentrated because of the absence of demands in the 1360s . |
| 17 | Although the book will be published in a jurisdiction with literary proceeds legislation , the report indicates that the author may not be deprived of his royalties because of the absence of an identifiable victim . |
| 18 | The judge had taken the view that , because of the absence of any improper conduct causative of B making his admission and because his psychotic state was not known to the police , section 76(2) had no part to play . |
| 19 | It is tacit not simply because of the absence of a binding ( legally enforceable ) agreement , but because of the absence of any explicit agreement whatsoever . |
| 20 | It is tacit not simply because of the absence of a binding ( legally enforceable ) agreement , but because of the absence of any explicit agreement whatsoever . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Although the railways were crucial to tea-growing and marketing from Ceylon — because of the absence of other suitable forms of transportation — tea was successfully brought out from Assam by elephant , ‘ country boat ’ , and steamer for several decades before the arrival of the railway . |
| 23 | There is general disgust at the short non-custodial sentences that are being passed because of the absence of space in prisons of various sorts . |
| 24 | A number of issues arose that emphasised the difficulties that safety committees encounter because of the absence of trade union representation . |
| 25 | Also , because of the absence of any significant physical evidence , the case against Noriega was expected to rely heavily on the testimony of self-confessed drug criminals who had reached plea bargaining arrangements with the US authorities in return for giving evidence . |
| 26 | This agreement unexpectedly failed to obtain the required two-thirds majority in the Volkskammer on Aug. 9 because of the absence of some members of the coalition parties ( the vote was 258-63 ) . |
| 27 | Around 11,600,000 people , nearly 50 per cent of the electorate , voted to elect 76 members from a list of 100 candidates ; voting did not take place in seven constituencies because of the absence of candidates . |
| 28 | On Sept. 4 , 5 and 7 , because of the absence of deputies from Khodjent , there was no quorum to confirm a Sept. 2 resolution by the Supreme Soviet Presidium on removing Nabiyev from power , Nabiyev having gone into hiding at the end of August after demonstrators invaded the Presidential Palace , demanding his resignation . |
| 29 | Increased fasting gall bladder volume during octreotide might be a result of decreased gall bladder muscle tone or because of the absence of interdigestive gall bladder contraction , which takes place in the fasting state , in close association with the intestinal migrating motor complex . |
| 30 | However , in monopoly markets X-inefficiency could arise , because of the absence of competitive discipline . |