Example sentences of "[adv] because of [art] absence [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some partnerships have endured only because of the absence of one , most usually the husband , on business trips or , at least , his lack of presence in the house during the day . |
| 2 | Though they appear green and contain abundant chlorophyll , productivity of these mats is generally low : much of their material is moribund , and persists only because of an absence of decomposers . |
| 3 | No wonder , it may be thought , that the broadcasters were unanimous to finding these restrictions too severe ; some argued that the Commons itself , by these restrictions , was giving a false and misleading impression to the audience , especially because of the absence of reaction shots ; Anne Lapping , the editor of A Week In Politics , said ‘ the more freedom you let the cameras have , the more good it does to the Mother of Parliaments ’ . |
| 4 | Milan , who faltered at the weekend with a 3-0 defeat at the hands of the current league leaders , Napoli , have slipped to seventh place , partly because of the absence of van Basten and his compatriot , Ruud Gullit , who is seeing a doctor on Monday about his cartilage injury . |
| 5 | Despite the agreement on the attributions to Rolle in the manuscripts , his authorship has been questioned , partly because of the lack of certainty about the authority of scribal attributions , partly because of the absence in the texts of that sense of joy springing from an inner knowledge of the reality of redemption which generally characterises his work . |
| 6 | There are musty bookcases , vases , various paintings and pieces of sculpture , but it is impossible to see anything clearly because of the absence of electric lights . |
| 7 | It is tacit not simply because of the absence of a binding ( legally enforceable ) agreement , but because of the absence of any explicit agreement whatsoever . |
| 8 | An overwhelming majority of those who still baulked at actual sacking favoured return to uniform , with the view that ‘ CID officers who are lazy and incompetent were so primarily because of the absence of the eventual sanction of removal from specialist duty . ’ |