Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went often , partly because I enjoyed dancing and partly because we were offered the most delicious cakes , of a sort that was almost impossible to obtain except on the black market . |
| 2 | They also appeared to smell and taste ‘ damp ’ , probably due to baking technology which allows far more water to be added than in the traditional method in order to produce artificial volume and a longer shelf life . |
| 3 | he is an officer or employee of that company or a related company who has access to unpublished price sensitive information which ought not reasonably to be disclosed except for the proper performance of his duties ; or |
| 4 | he is in a professional or business relationship with that company or a related company and has access to unpublished price sensitive information which ought not reasonably to be disclosed except for the proper performance of his duties |
| 5 | Both insisted that any bilateral talks should wait until after the international conference , for which a date had at last been set : President Roosevelt issued a statement on 4 September inviting the nations of the world to a conference on international civil aviation to be held in Chicago in November . |
| 6 | In Extract 7 , from B-4 , on the other hand , the overlapping talk does not commence until after the first part of Brenda 's Creole stretch . |
| 7 | Leila and Quincx are tackling if from the wrong angle . |
| 8 | Children with non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma were included because of the current understanding , based on immunological studies , that acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma represent opposite ends of the same spectrum of disease . |
| 9 | ‘ Pieter Huistra , Dale Gordon and Oleg Kuznetsov are n't included because of the three foreigner rule but we still have four non-Scots , so one will have to make way . |
| 10 | This was included because of the different sensitivity of the top and bottom of the optical RAM . |
| 11 | The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95 occurred because of the Japanese desire to establish a presence in the kingdom of Korea and the Chinese attempt to thwart this ambition . |
| 12 | Job losses additional to ‘ structural shifts ’ occurred because of the relative status , and often age of product , of branch factories within their respective multi-plant firms , and only rarely because of their absolute location in Britain . |
| 13 | This interaction occurred because of the very fragmentation experienced by the country . |
| 14 | If you were strong you would put up with it , even if you had to cough and splutter because of the bad air around you . |
| 15 | They contributed because on the one hand , they were asked and understood that what they had to say was important , and also because too many of them grew up in a world without such books . |
| 16 | SCO said it felt no need to formally resign because of the loose construction of the initiative . |
| 17 | Hammam said Jones was a Sheffield United player at the time the video was compiled and that Wimbledon were unjustly being made to suffer because of the suspended sentence . |
| 18 | The humans are slowly dying because of the radioactive dust caused by a human war . |
| 19 | That 's the bit that people fe find a bit hard to er to accept because in the real world it does n't actually happen because there 's always some other force like air resistance , friction , road resistance from your tyres and , and it grad it always stops eventually . |
| 20 | The choice between searching for the least or most distant neighbours may depend on the experimental ( or even presentational ) needs because in the former case the algorithm finds more detailed and possibly informationally redundant order of probes , while in the latter case it finds a minimal set of probes connected by clones spanning large regions of the genome . |
| 21 | This area was specifically targeted because of the high level of involvement of people living there in road accidents . |
| 22 | A slight shift in the age distribution would be expected because of the increasing prevalence of non-operated peptic ulcer patients in the population . |
| 23 | Secured stock has the advantage that a lower yield will be expected because of the lower risk , but it may have an adverse effect upon gearing and the offeror 's ability to borrow . |
| 24 | Short-wave radio communications are disrupted and the positional accuracy obtainable from satellite navigation systems is degraded because of the disturbed state of the ionosphere . |
| 25 | If a country was facing a payments deficit , then short-term capital outflows would tend to increase because of the potential capital gains accruing to holders if that country devalued its currency . |
| 26 | The significance of the Carmelite school has been greatly exaggerated because of the widespread misunderstanding that the Carmelite Whitefriary stood on the site of the hospital , an important monastic site with a splendid fourteenth-century gate . |
| 27 | Unfortunately the CIG meeting on 14 July , at which it had been planned to discuss the revamping of the Infopack , had to be cancelled because of the large number of apologies due to holidays and sickness . |
| 28 | Unfortunately the CIG meeting on 14 July , at which it had been planned to discuss the revamping of the Infopack , had to be cancelled because of the large number of apologies due to holidays and sickness . |
| 29 | Teachers in ordinary schools need to be aware that some visually handicapped pupils may have these social needs while at the same time encouraging positive and enjoyable social interaction between pupils within the full range of vision . |
| 30 | These two photos might seem like Then and Now exercises as on the facing page . |