Example sentences of "[subord] of [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were the usual number of new faces to get used to , but they all seem a bit vague to me now , except of course for the one face that greeted me on my arrival in the Guard Room . |
| 2 | It is up to you to decide which set of shapings you want to follow , but remember that as the garment is symmetrical , the shaping will be carried out on both ends of the work , except of course in the case of the sleeve tops that I mentioned earlier . |
| 3 | Except of course from the landowners , many of whom find having an SSSI on their land not a privilege but a curse . |
| 4 | But this contact I am talking about is a terrifying , although of course in a way wonderful , but also terrifying , form of … er … contact . ’ |
| 5 | Such arrangements , although of advantage to the enterprises concerned , are clearly damaging to the rest of the economy . |
| 6 | Just in case you fail to deduce , for example , that war is more a matter of narcissistic games-playing than of honour for the play 's young soldiers , they helpfully tote around personal full-length mirrors in the court scenes . |
| 7 | Fundamentally , bargains on wage and skill flexibility and training were struck locally , and reflected the market position and relative efficiency of particular plants rather than of Pilkingtons as a whole . |
| 8 | If there were absentees from the gathering of Khans and Noyons which waited sycophantically in the antechamber through which they left the palace , Alexei supposed they were the result rather of an excess of celebration than of flight in the face of possible discovery or inquisition . |
| 9 | The reason for the relatively less prevalence of pre-S1 than of pre-S2 on the liver cell membrane during active hepatitis B virus replication , as shown in Table II , is not clear . |
| 10 | Cos of uncertainty about the arrangement over long period , decided to opt for one-year-only subscription . |
| 11 | Bilal and Samir returned home to Lebanon , but doctors feared there would be a setback in their recovery because of conditions in the Bourj al Barajneh refugee camps and the lack of medical facilities there . |
| 12 | The year 1988 was another difficult one for OPEC , not only due to problems over quotas but also because of signs of a possible sequel to 1986 . |
| 13 | Because of the varied nature of this sector and because of criticism of the term informal sector , itself , other attempts to clarity and analyse this area have been made . |
| 14 | ( There is still uncertainty as to whether this clause has any practical effect on schools , because of vagueness in the wording of the amendment . |
| 15 | Attention has been given to predicting admission to long-term care because of concerns about the processes and mechanisms by which places are allocated . |
| 16 | However , because of concerns about the long-term efficacy and safety of class I drugs in patients with advanced and progressive structural heart disease , we no longer use these agents alone in cardiac arrest survivors in the absence of an ICD . |
| 17 | It was agreed in principle by the 16 NATO and seven Warsaw Pact countries at a conference in Ottawa , Canada , in February 1990 [ see pp. 37259-60 ] but then stalled because of concerns by the Soviet Union and its disintegration . |
| 18 | It pointed out that a prolonged period of profits growth at ISC had ended because of insistence by the auditors that ISC adopt more conservative accounting policies on long term contracts . |
| 19 | We do not demand a ban on all sterilisation just because some women are forced to be sterilised , we do not even attack the whole concept of a well are state just because of abuses like the cohabitation rule , so why oppose pay for childcare solely because it might be abused ? |
| 20 | Common costing books : in some industries where there may be variation in the form of the finished product because of variation in the buyer 's specifications ( for example , industrial engines , building services ) a book may be circulated by a trade association which shows how the overall cost of the specific product variant can be calculated . |
| 21 | They believe their children have asthma because of emissions from the two plants . |
| 22 | Three previous attempts by Scargill to get a strike declared ( in 1981 , 1982 and 1983 ) failed because of splits within the union . |
| 23 | The number density of ions in the torus varies , presumably because of variations in the volcanic activity of Io . |
| 24 | As a whole , argyrophil cell densities were smaller in 1989 than three years earlier , which may be a true time-related change in pernicious anaemia patients or a methodological failure caused by different staining intensities in different years and because of variations in the counting procedure of the cells in spite of the presence of the same observer . |
| 25 | That is not just because inflation is raging less fiercely than it was in the early 1980s , but also because of improvements in the way the labour market works . |
| 26 | If an individual claims to have suffered injustice because of maladministration by a local authority , the Commissioner for Local Administration may investigate the complaint on his behalf . |
| 27 | The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw some redistribution of the population , for the towns grew faster than the villages because of immigration from the countryside . |
| 28 | In his City of London speech traditionally delivered at the Mansion House , but staged this year in the Guildhall , because of refurbishment of the usual venue the Chancellor endorsed Norman Lamont 's plans to raise £10bn over the next two years by slapping VAT on home fuel bills and raising National Insurance contributions . |
| 29 | In his City of London speech traditionally delivered at the Mansion House , but staged this year in the Guildhall , because of refurbishment of the usual venue the Chancellor endorsed Norman Lamont 's plans to raise £10bn over the next two years by slapping VAT on home fuel bills and raising National Insurance contributions . |
| 30 | The delay was partly because of disagreements over the allocation of contracts for the construction of 36,000 apartments for returning soldiers at a cost to Germany of DM7,800 million . |