Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [vb pp] [conj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of all the men of different nationalities I 've met and of all types , I have found good and bad in each , but my favourite still remains the Frenchman , because he can lie so convincingly . |
| 2 | All my life I have suffered because of Father being important . |
| 3 | It 's just basically classroom technique I have refined because of watching the programme . |
| 4 | Crellin , who took over at promoted Leigh from sacked Kevin Ashcroft this summer , said : ‘ I have resigned because of boardroom interference . ’ |
| 5 | My focus here will be upon those issues which have arisen because of the challenges being made to pre-existing ideas about : |
| 6 | Look at all the havoc and destruction you 've caused because of your nastiness . |
| 7 | We get upset because of preconceived ideas as to what we think should happen , what we want to happen . |
| 8 | Oil producers found themselves with large dollar surpluses which they did not wish to deposit in the USA , partly as we have seen because of the prevailing regulations but also for political reasons . |
| 9 | In some way , those trade figures reflect that recession ; they 've improved because of a drop in imports while exports are still rising . |
| 10 | undertake a range of chronological writing including some at least of diaries , stories , letters , accounts of tasks they have done and of personal experiences , records of observations they have made , eg in a science or design activity , and instructions , eg recipes ; |
| 11 | They have failed because of the tyranny which stems from a narrow curriculum rather than because the curriculum has been too broad or too diffuse . |