Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adj] [conj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | At school they had once heard of some animal which had become extinct because of its huge flat feet . |
| 2 | By the late 1830s the existence of this unseen planet had become undeniable because of discrepancies approaching one arcminute between the observed and computed orbits of Uranus , attributable to gravitational perturbations . |
| 3 | Furthermore , it suggest that those people who had become unemployed because of a temporary job coming to an end were just as likely to be unemployed for only a short spell and then to go back to work , and that they were less likely to have been continuously unemployed throughout the following year ( Moylan/Millar/Davies , 1984 ) . |
| 4 | The confidence debate heard claims by Mr O'Malley that the coalition had become unworkable because of a lack of trust in the cabinet engineered by Mr Reynolds . |
| 5 | The German engineers last week agreed that they had met problems with the clay earth , which had proved unstable because of burrowing by rodents , and because it dries out in the summer . |