Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [vb pp] [conj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Night-time bus services are to resume on a council estate where they 'd been withdrawn because of gang attacks . |
| 2 | My Parliamentary opponents would have been outraged if they 'd been excluded because of their colour . |
| 3 | Even so , it was equally true that huge sums had been lost in the courts and he called to mind a case from the text books , when a million dollar had been forfeited because of the misplaced comma . |
| 4 | Many lives had been lost because of Mills ’ treachery but the government was unwilling to do anything about it . |
| 5 | How many opportunities , how many loving relationships had been lost because of masked feelings ? |
| 6 | By eight weeks , three patients had been withdrawn because of adverse drug side effects while four had been transferred to other medical treatment and two had undergone surgery because of increasing pain or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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They claimed the ban had been imposed because of pressure from Dublin . |
| 9 | Saddam 's message to the American people was broadcast on Sept. 26 , saying that sanctions had been opposed because of Iraq 's rejection of " the Zionist occupation of the land of Palestine " , but that Iraq 's stance was supported by 200 million Arabs . |
| 10 | The move was interpreted as an attempt to persuade the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to release some US$500,000,000 of credits which had been withheld because of concern about the management of the country 's economy . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This had been delayed because of the November 1991 general election [ see p. 38589 ] and the resulting political uncertainty . |
| 13 | The United Kingdom , which at the 1989 conference in Malaysia had been isolated because of its opposition to a declaration calling for an intensification of sanctions against South Africa , took a lead in Harare on several issues . |
| 14 | Somehow , after calls for the resignation of the general secretary had been rejected because of support from his old shipmates on the north east coast , the union managed to take out a loan and to survive . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Sir Hugh told BBC Northern Ireland 's ‘ Inside Ulster ’ that lives had been saved because of interruptions to IRA attacks in London . |
| 17 | A profoundly deaf person felt that it was best to reveal her disability after contact had been made because of the ‘ funny ideas ’ people have about deafness . |
| 18 | The decision was seen as particularly embarrassing for Aquino as the original charge had been selected because of its severity , in an attempt to deter further coup attempts by demonstrating a new determination to punish insurrectionists . |
| 19 | In announcing his decision , Bush brushed aside questions on Souter 's attitude to abortion and civil rights , stating that he had been selected because of his " keen intellect and highest ability " . |
| 20 | A Defence Ministry spokesman said that this had been decided because of the " difficult conditions " in Armenia , Azerbaijan and Georgia . |
| 21 | The most obvious is that er an area had been inset because of the need for expansion of a settlement . |
| 22 | They said that difficulty had been created because of the uncertainty of poll tax funding and of the regime laid down by the Government . |
| 23 | Sabine Jourdain had been killed because of what she was prepared to say , Barbara Coleman had been kept out of the way because of what she knew and Rain was to be killed before she could publish the story . |
| 24 | Indeed , there were fewer patients than expected taking NSAIDs , perhaps since intake had been reduced because of chronic duodenal ulcer disease . |
| 25 | He went missing one night when she was sleeping soundly across the hut from me , being under the mistaken impression that he and his crew had been grounded because of an electrical fault in their aircraft . |
| 26 | Hospital spokesman Chris Birdsall confirmed that patients ' meals had been changed because of the visit . |
| 27 | A spokesman for Pearl said that the policy had been changed because of the increasing awareness of the dangers of smoking and passive smoking . |
| 28 | Claiming that 180 soldiers had been killed or wounded in the attacks , the FMLN said that its offensive had been launched because of the " total immunity that exists in this country for members of the armed forces who violate human rights " , and to counter the military 's " triumphalist and all-powerful " attitude to the current peace process . |
| 29 | SHe 'd heard about how gender meddling had been outlawed because of the high suicide rate among the successfully mutated . |
| 30 | Certain constitutional restrictions remained in force until March 22 , but the curfew had been lifted as of March 6 . |