Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] [conj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They , however , have a wholly different outlook because of transubstantiation , which sounds like a disease but is a doctrine . |
| 2 | Furthermore , the mining companies were in an extremely weak position because of the major religious significance of Croagh Patrick and the annual pilgrimage there . |
| 3 | In the former , he will find services provided in house by members of the National Union of Public Employees at extremely high cost and of poor quality . |
| 4 | In practice we know have a greater quantity of food , more choice of different foods with less seasonal variation and of better quality than every before , all at a cheaper price . |
| 5 | In patients with subaxial subluxation myelopathy may occur with only slight subluxation because of the narrower diameter of the spinal canal below the axis . |
| 6 | There can be no simple or single explanation either of the great armies of more or less organized knights or of the rabble of thoroughly disorganized folk who followed the popular leader Peter the Hermit . |
| 7 | Other authorities have held back before embarking on such highly desirable projects because of that uncertainty in the law . |
| 8 | What the New Republic was calling for was a fuller appreciation by the left of what necessarily constituted entertainment and of what Hollywood had actually achieved . |
| 9 | I retained a friendship for George Brown , although he regarded me with rather dubious approval because of my omission to drink anything at any dinner party . |
| 10 | All attempts to link the countries more closely together through the Council of Europe , the most appropriate body because of the wide spread of its membership , did not get very far . |
| 11 | Operational information is generally low grade and of low utility for the business historian . |
| 12 | Thirdly , in Britain the dynamic industries surged ahead not of a generally underdeveloped economy but of one which was in no real sense " pre-industrial " . |
| 13 | As they involved a great deal of the same work to bring them into effect — work that would have taken a considerable time — and would have imposed further contingent or actual liabilities on funds at a time when there was already considerable anxiety because of the uncertainty over the Barber judgment — |
| 14 | I was also very conscious that you had telephoned before the 6pm cheap rate because of the mackintosh nonsense , and did not want to detain you . |
| 15 | Companies , banks included , are reluctant to switch to massively parallel supercomputers because of a lack of industry standards . |
| 16 | In a noisy and at times shambolic committee , opposition MPs objected that the longer hours could create more social problems because of an increase in gambling . |
| 17 | Finally , one issue merits more detailed comment because of its implications for the entire Docklands community — housing . |
| 18 | But this was a far more spirited performance than of late by Oxford . |
| 19 | ‘ There is no doubt in my mind that I can work with Sir John Hall and the board of directors who , along with everyone else at the club , have been under tremendous pressure because of the club 's present financial position . ’ |
| 20 | According to this report , the move was aimed at discrediting Arafat , who was already under serious pressure because of his backing of Iraq during the Gulf war , by stressing that the release had been arranged by Khaled Fayoum , a pro-Syrian opponent of Arafat . |
| 21 | The heroism portrayed as necessary to triumph over the slave trade drew upon a sense of working in harmony with fellow reformers , fired in part by an ideologically convergent commitment and of acting upon that commitment in similar ways . |
| 22 | You see , the the erm wait a minute the womb is like two knuckles together like that , wh when you conceive they close like two bones you see they close , and they if you want to get rid you 've got to open it which is which is damned hard work and of course terrible pain attached to it . |
| 23 | But you can be more spot-prone pre-menstruation because of hormone levels fluctuating , and you can have spot problems after pregnancy and the menopause . |
| 24 | Thames & Hudson publishes a calendar every year as a one-off and it is always good quality and of broad interest . |
| 25 | Berndt Seite , who had taken over as Minister President in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania in March [ see p. 38822 ] , was already under considerable pressure because of the severely depressed state of Rostock 's sole major industry , shipbuilding . |
| 26 | In consumer electronics , the French have had a more than usually protected market because of the SECAM colour television standard . |
| 27 | But now they feel under derious threat because of measures announced today by Home Secretary Michael Howard . |
| 28 | ‘ We 're very concerned ; carers will be under immense stress because of inadequate support and relief , while the elderly are at much greater risk of being alone in the community ’ . |
| 29 | Obvious discussion points are based on the introduction of the mathematical names for the more common shapes and of some of their properties , but only in the simplest terms , e.g. which shapes will roll , which will slide , etc. and these discussions can be centred at one time upon the three-dimensional solid and on another occasion on the two-dimensional bounding surfaces . |
| 30 | When the election is over it will enter the folklore of Central Office and the next campaign may be a more modest affair because of it . |