Example sentences of "are [adv] [verb] [subord] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In laser surgery , CO 2 lasers ( wavelength 10.6 ) are widely used because of the high absorption in water , and therefore in any soft tissue . |
| 2 | The humans are slowly dying because of the radioactive dust caused by a human war . |
| 3 | Trolls are greatly feared because of their unthinking ferocity and indiscriminate appetite . |
| 4 | The box terrapins are so called because of their ability to close the undershell or plastron at both front and back . |
| 5 | The warehouses known as the ‘ Little Germany ’ are so called because of their flamboyant architectural style . |
| 6 | Research on the influence of cultural factors on intelligence testing and test results have been conducted on a wide scale and the results are endlessly discussed because of the inextricable mixture of technical and value judgments . |
| 7 | Many of the small creditors , bed and breakfast owners , are already struggling because of the recession . |
| 8 | Gross : The adults are easily identified because of their specific location in the abomasum and their large size ( 2.0-3.0 cm ) . |
| 9 | Amazingly , though , foreign tycoons pay through the nose to hear Lady Thatcher spout her economic theories — even though , back home , businesses and homeowners are still suffering because of them . |
| 10 | Some items are inherently given because of their meaning and this generally applies not only to spoken and written English but also to most languages . |
| 11 | People are really suffering because of the church and we need Sinead O'Connor to state that fact . |
| 12 | In some cases where favelados have moved to new housing schemes , they have been unable to meet the payments , which are periodically increased because of inflation and , therefore , had to return to the favelas . |
| 13 | For perpendicular bands , due to vibrations of e symmetry , such as e' in PF 5 , the rotational selection rules are , + 1 ; , and the P , Q and R sub-branches due to different initial K values are now separated because of the change in K. The usual result is a broad band with overlapping P and R sub-branches , and a regular series of Q sub-branches , one for each value of KΔK . |
| 14 | It was also close to the end of the shift and this legal reduction prevented them having to ‘ go over ’ , as well as getting them out of considerable paperwork later , and road traffic accidents are particularly disliked because of the amount of paperwork they involve . |
| 15 | Thrips or thunder flies as they are sometimes called because of their tendency to fly in clouds when thunder threatens — are minute midge-like flies that like to get into buds just as the bud scales ( sepals ) are opening and lay their eggs there . |
| 16 | The constraints imposed upon the State by the interests of the nobility are sometimes overlooked because of its apparent collective vulnerability to state interference . |
| 17 | The Sava and Drava rivers , which feed the Danube , are heavily contaminated because of the destruction of factories and sewage works and river water poses major health risks . |
| 18 | The isolation is getting me down a bit — I have had to seek to be pretty resilient spiritually with George in , and so the extra resources are pretty deplete because of that . |
| 19 | Plants are never chosen because of a passing fashion , but because of their constant worth . |