Example sentences of "the [noun] [conj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've been stopped from coming into the Park because of people throwing paper and things on to the ground . ’ |
| 2 | It seemed he held all the cards — there were other agencies who could handle his business , and if he denied Grantham and Marsh the opportunity because of her stubbornness how could she explain it to Sebastian ? |
| 3 | But unfortunately , they are not getting the opportunity because of er some of the management failings means that they 're not actually getting the contracts to which they 're entitled . |
| 4 | The central theme of all these conversations was the same : " the advisability of uniting the Falange and the Requeté and of constituting a single party " . |
| 5 | ‘ I was at the NME because of punk rock really , ’ he says blandly . |
| 6 | He is not impressed by the Prince because of who he is , but because of the man he is : because of his gift for talking to people , his tenacity and his courage in confronting problems that other men would shy away from . |
| 7 | At the same time , formal sector employment , never very large , has fallen some 10 per cent since the mid-1970s because of economic stagnation , and the informal sector is now overcrowded and income therefore low . |
| 8 | Stress alone can be more harmful than cigarette smoking and has been proven to operate indirectly against the fetus because of the woman 's behaviour under stress . |
| 9 | The treatment of the problems of the emperorship and of the political state of kingdoms , such as England , and comtés , such as Toulouse , showed the pope as a world leader in a novel way . |
| 10 | The Model Contract Conditions set out fairly and succinctly the principle obligations of the solicitors and of the authority . |
| 11 | For much of the period and up to the First World War , the targets of the largest movements of national liberation were the two great empires of Eastern and Central Europe — that of the Romanovs in the Russias and of the Habsburgs in Austro-Hungary . |
| 12 | Equally , Mailer 's reflections on the similarities between the condition of the writer and of the boxer ( 'There is a support system but you are alone … ‘ ) led you to a parallel which the programme tactfully left unstated . |
| 13 | A well-written and crafted letter which is professionally presented will present a positive image both of the writer and of the organisation . |
| 14 | Then , in missing the trial because of my collarbone injury , I thought I might have missed my chance because Greig Oliver played very well in the trial . |
| 15 | One other patient withdrew from the trial because of development of a painful rectum during radiotherapy . |
| 16 | from this to explore probable future patterns of constitutional and political development in the British Isles as a whole , especially in the context of the EEC and of American involvement . |
| 17 | A chess Grand Master is aware not only of the current state of the board but of past positions and of the probability of any future move . |
| 18 | If Cooke P. had been aware of the true position he could not have denied to the petitioner an appeal to the Board as of right on the ground that the cancellation issue remained alive . |
| 19 | Alan Noble , another former Darlington director , said he would not rejoin the board because of business commitments . |
| 20 | Vice chairman Alan Noble resigned his seat on the board because of business commitments , but that was n't the last of him . |
| 21 | was describing , an analysis that would permit the surety to avoid the contract with the creditor because of undue pressure brought to bear by the debtor , or some misrepresentation by the debtor as to the extent of the risk , or some other impropriety of the debtor , all unknown to the creditor , would be inconsistent with the commercial purpose of the contract . |
| 22 | If the heir was a child , he was in wardship to the lord : the lord was his legal guardian and had control of the estates and of the person of the ward until he came of age . |
| 23 | Cultivate the affairs of the heart and of the soul . |
| 24 | Mary Law had felt she might refuse the money because of this problem : |
| 25 | The accused may , however , be guilty of theft of the money or of obtaining the money by deception . |
| 26 | Hungarian lawyers before the war were proud of the fact that Hungarian civil law was a non-codified body of law based on the ‘ common custom of the realm ’ and crystallized in decisions of the Curia and of the five appeal courts . |
| 27 | such important guest this evening she 's let him into the banquet and of course the guys are dying at this stage . |
| 28 | find , for small y , a pulsation of frequency corresponding to the detuning and of amplitude y , imposed on the y = 0 value I 2C + 1 I of x . |
| 29 | A number of explanations for urban economic decline are based on the assumption that jobs and/or industrial investment have moved out of the cities because of prevailing production costs and the problems associated with the older urban cores . |
| 30 | Consideration by Ministers of the member states at the Research Council is likely to follow at the end of December and it is hoped that this will produce a ‘ common position ’ , that is agreement on the proposal possibly as amended in the light of the comments of the Parliament and of the advisory bodies to the Council . |