Example sentences of "and [adv] [conj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first this was because of high levels of youth unemployment and latterly because of demographic trends . |
| 2 | By February 1990 almost one-third of the 344,263 ethnic Turks who had fled in 1989 had returned to Bulgaria because of the unemployment and other economic hardship they had encountered in Turkey , and latterly because of the repudiation in Bulgaria of Zhivkov 's assimilation policies . |
| 3 | He 'd send them then , he every dock was numbered from one to hundred and thirty and he 'd say righto , number one so and so , number five so and so and of course when they come back to the pool , they 'd go on the end of the rota . |
| 4 | And so because of that sense of ill ease of fit , we decided that perhaps it would be appropriate for the assembly council to look at where this work ought to most comfortably go . |
| 5 | As England 's leading batsman of the 1980s he has borne a heavy responsibility and perhaps because of this has never completely fulfilled his potential ; few batsmen can have been blessed with so much natural ability , yet he often looks vulnerable until he has settled down and even then has succumbed countless times to an infuriating nibble or waft outside the off stump . |
| 6 | The bore has an evil reputation , whether deserved or not , and perhaps because of its lonely location the emotive nature of a one-and-a-half-mile hole through a hill . |
| 7 | And there is the equally striking landscape of the vanished tin-mining industry : the windowless engine-houses , the monolithic chimney stacks against the skyline , the ruined cottages of an old mining hamlet , and the stony spoil-heaps — a purely nineteenth-century landscape , and perhaps because of its setting , the most appealing of all the industrial landscapes of England , in no way ugly but indeed possessing a profound melancholy beauty ( Plate 92 ) . |
| 8 | I was the youngest member of the party , and perhaps because of my youth I had more hope than the others . |
| 9 | I told my father I was trying to get them over to the far side , to the mainland , and that the ones I had to bury , the ones which fell short , were victims of scientific research , but I doubt I really needed this excuse , my father never seemed bothered about the suffering of lower forms of life , despite having been a hippy , and perhaps because of his medical training . |
| 10 | And perhaps because of Chrysler 's ignominious retreat from our only volume car manufacturing plant , we spared the cars nothing — never once gave them the benefit of the doubt in the sort of conditions which could tear a wheel off a less rugged vehicle . |
| 11 | The needle will move up and down because of these forces . |
| 12 | er and only because of what I different pitch it is on the phone . |
| 13 | It is a group based on matrilineal descent , which means that one belongs to the group because one 's mother belonged to it and not because of the identity of the father , since this can not be known . |
| 14 | Even if one belongs to a group because of who one 's mother was and not because of who one 's father was , this in no ways implies that women have particularly high ( or low ) status in that group . |
| 15 | His logic seems to be that if he does n't give you any money , he can be sure you 're staying with him because you love him , and not because of his earning power . |
| 16 | But if anarchists are right to think that it can never be made , this is for contingent reasons and not because of any inconsistency in the notion of a rational justification for authority , nor in the notion of authority over moral agents . |
| 17 | Now you regret it and not because of the trouble I 'll get into but the trouble you 'll get into . ’ |
| 18 | If the reason for dismissal is your employer 's desire to run the business cost-effectively and not because of any reduction in the number of employees needed to carry out your particular functions , you will not be redundant . |
| 19 | Rates , however , represent a relatively small proportion of total costs for most companies , and rate rises tend to occur because of external inflationary effects and not because of local-government policies ( Midwinter , 1985 ) . |
| 20 | It concluded that most of the mistakes were simply due to lack of care all down the line and not because of untried designs . |
| 21 | It is true that during the 1991/92 presidential year a certain amount of friction occurred between Moorgate Place and the district societies , but it should be made clear that this was almost entirely due to the funding problems and not because of any breakdown in the relationship between the national president and the district society presidents . |
| 22 | And not because of Mama , ’ she finished breathlessly . |
| 23 | I 'd only once asked for a transfer and not because of any discontent or fall- out with the club . |
| 24 | Anyone who thinks that there must be , and that there must be a process of encoding a thought into a form of words , says so in spite of , and not because of , his experience of what it is to say things . |
| 25 | As a formality , and not because of any expectations , Talbot and Carrington applied their stethoscopes to each cylinder in turn . |
| 26 | A number of the tournaments to which you refer in your article had reduced entries because they are conflicted with other new events and not because of deteriorating interest . |
| 27 | After condemning the ‘ Baudelairean ’ atmosphere of the nineteenth century ( ‘ it is the triumph of romantic disorder ’ ) , and its cult of individual genius , Jacob goes on to stress the objectivity of modern poetry ( which is by contrast ‘ a universal poetry ’ ) and the fact that a work of art ‘ is of value in itself and not because of any confrontation one can make with reality ’ . |
| 28 | She asked herself whether it was possible that , after all , one or other of the Josephs had killed Sabine Jourdain and whether it happened because she knew of the drugs and not because of the Durances . |
| 29 | The phrase ‘ Boffin ’ comes from Charles Dickens ' character who was ‘ too generous — possessed of too much clemency — too good to persons ’ and not because of a back-room researcher image . |
| 30 | Her decision , she said , was taken out of loyalty to the organization and not because of the " false allegations " against her . |