Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] of a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A service done out of friendship such as helping out at a barbecue or because of a threat is not within s.1 . |
| 2 | The Committee took the view that lawyers are unapproachable because of the inaccessibility of premises and their unwelcoming nature , because the methods of work do not tie in with the needs of clients , and because of a lack of response to the needs of linguistic minorities . |
| 3 | The initial loss of this response produced by presenting the stimulus repeatedly alone will occur both because of habituation and because of a decline in the value of α , each of these changes influencing one of the reflexes that contributes to the observed behaviour . |
| 4 | And because of a decline in the number of knights in the English army by 1450 , it was upon those of lower social status that many of these commands devolved . |
| 5 | As far as property damage is concerned , the provisions are really aimed at the consumer market , so , if you buy a home computer as a Christmas present for your uncle and because of a fault it catches fire and causes £1,500 of damage to his house , then your uncle will have a claim under the 1987 Act against the manufacturer of the computer for the damage to the house and furniture . |
| 6 | Doctors told her she needed an emergency hysterectomy , but because of a bed shortage she had to wait in agony for three-and-a-half hours . |
| 7 | But because of a break-down in communication , the Probation Service , which could have warned-off the St. Lazarus group , was unaware that he had joined the organisation . |
| 8 | The initial interest of political researchers into the question of what to do with the regions came about , it must be said , not out of concern for neglected political interests in the periphery ( what Tarrow refers to as ‘ regionalism as peripheral defence ’ ) but because of a trend thought to have been observed in modern politics which seemed to go to the heart of the functioning of modern political systems . |
| 9 | But because of a contract signed by Darlington Borough Council and the hotel 's former leaseholders in 1974 , the rent paid by the company running it is only a fraction of its market value . |
| 10 | Social services say the action was ’ not satisfactory ’ , but because of a shortage of staff , Mr Chandler was put in the trolley to stop him wandering off . |
| 11 | Finally , with regard to cl 10 , it should be noted that no obligation to permit alteration of the goods to make them non-infringing is imposed on the buyer , and that the obligation to return infringing goods , subject to a refund of the price , is only imposed on the buyer where it arises not at the option of the seller but because of a judgment or settlement relating to the claim of infringement ( which is presumably not entirely within the seller 's control ) . |
| 12 | British films are too rarely good , not because of national character , but because of a production system that is inadequate to the task of generating a regular output of full-blooded films . |
| 13 | It was timed to explode just 30 minutes later but because of a blunder the detonator failed to explode — the capital 's second lucky escape in just 16 days . |