Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [conj] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've no intention of standing by and watching Emma get hurt because of a deadly man-trap like you . ’ |
| 2 | In some way , those trade figures reflect that recession ; they 've improved because of a drop in imports while exports are still rising . |
| 3 | Although the combined turnover of both businesses has doubled in the past two years to £500,000 , ANTA 's American sales have fallen because of the fall of the dollar . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Salaries and associated costs have risen because of a 9% salary increase on 1st April 1991 , and because of increases in staff of one executive to service the PCC and the Sex Discrimination Committee , two additional supporting staff in the Chairman 's Office and the Fees Collection Department , and by the employment of temporary staff . |
| 6 | The movement in organization theory from scientific management towards the humanization of work have occurred because of the costs of the former in absenteeism , turnover , reduced productivity , poor quality , and so on . |
| 7 | 140 birds have arrived because of the cold weather . |
| 8 | We must study the gap closely and we must realise that , in many of the homes that have come on to the market , on which there has been significant capital outlay by people moving into the private sector , the costs have escalated because of the massive increase in interest rates . |
| 9 | There are no exact figures for the numbers of Salvadoreans who have been forced to leave their homes because of the civil war , Some are economic refugees , but the great majority have fled because of the repression . |
| 10 | The results so far are encouraging , although problems have arisen because of the requirement for business people to operate under the inflexible and bureaucratic financial controls to which government agencies have become inured over the years . |
| 11 | Problems have arisen because of the belief that none of the well-known and loved musical settings could be used in the new rites . |
| 12 | My focus here will be upon those issues which have arisen because of the challenges being made to pre-existing ideas about : |
| 13 | 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 . |