Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [conj] of [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boys , more than girls perhaps , face the problem of ‘ street credibility ’ with their contemporaries because of the public 's perception of a church choir . |
| 2 | ‘ These people ca n't sell their homes because of the recession , so they ca n't separate and split their assets . |
| 3 | ‘ They all had it in for Jonathan and they did what they could to harm him , but they were glad enough of his money , of his custom in their shops and of the work he provided . ’ |
| 4 | difficulties in the learning of simple actions , such as learning to brush their teeth or tie their shoes because of a difficulty in imitating . |
| 5 | ‘ They probably feel they should sort out their lives because of the risk of war , ’ Maureen said . |
| 6 | PEOPLE suffering from HIV and Aids have been forced to leave their communities because of a lack of understanding , says a health promotion adviser . |
| 7 | STUDENTS hoping to begin degree courses next year face confusion over their applications because of a power struggle between polytechnics and universities , writes Fran Abrams . |
| 8 | This Australian woman was admitted to a nursing home by her relatives because of a heart condition , but managed to keep a journal , and organise her life afresh to move out to her own flat , before writing about life on the inside . |
| 9 | OLD people who need treatment for heart conditions may just be computer statistics to hospital bosses — but think how important they are to their families and of the contribution they have made to this country . |
| 10 | ‘ She 's in a terrible state and she wo n't let them give her sedatives because of the baby . ’ |
| 11 | Theorists may also be more difficult to follow in their arguments because of a current of polemic with which a reader may not be familiar . |
| 12 | R. primula from Turkestan ( 6ft — 1.8m — tall with small yellow flowers and fern-like foliage ) , and R. rubiginosa from central and eastern Europe ( an 8ft — 2.4m — thicket smothered with single pink flowers and , later , with red hips ) , are both noted for the scent not of their flowers but of the foliage . |
| 13 | Therefore , many local authorities which , as a matter of principle , refused to go out to competitive tender were extravagant high-cost local authorities , unconcerned about the good of their citizens and of the charge payer . |
| 14 | pointed out ) an effective police force requires a margin of reserve strength in order to deal with emergencies , and to employ that margin of reserve , when not otherwise required , on special police service for payment is to the advantage both of the persons utilising their services and of the public who are thereby relieved from some part of the police charges . |
| 15 | In most areas , the door would be slammed in their faces because of the housing department 's assumption that owner-occupiers can meet their own housing needs . |
| 16 | Problem drinkers will not change their habits because of a warning label . |
| 17 | If they do not express the concept of multiple points of view in a way familiar to those schooled in western ways , we might be justified in exposing the limitations of their expressions and of the thought system within which they operate , but this would not tell us anything about the individuals or groups themselves as thinkers . |
| 18 | BLUE Velvet have been forced to cancel some of their gigs because of a lack of new material . |
| 19 | Leisure centres close their doors because of a lack of sufficient funds to operate them . |
| 20 | MacLachlan successfully obtained through Milton 's aid a delay in a foreclosure by the Royal Bank , and the freeholder hoped to persuade the politician to continue to stand between him and his creditors because of the value of his vote to the Argyll interest , arguing that |
| 21 | Where the younger brother was moderate and willing to compromise , aware of the rights and claims of his subjects and of the impossibility of ruling despotically , the elder was conscious of no such limitation and , with the highest intentions , was deeply intolerant of all opposition . |
| 22 | Although the book will be published in a jurisdiction with literary proceeds legislation , the report indicates that the author may not be deprived of his royalties because of the absence of an identifiable victim . |
| 23 | ‘ Thomas Hardy called this island the isle of slingers in his books because of the way we used to defend ourselves with slings and stones . |
| 24 | However , if it is a moral decision rather than mechanical conformism or a prudent surrender to social pressures , the case remains fundamentally as before , but with an added layer ; he now takes account , not only of the effects on his parents but of the damage to the community as a whole of any successful disobedience . |
| 25 | John Donne wrote freely on the subject of dying in his poems and of the respect he wished to have shown towards his corpse by those who dressed it and those who came to view it . |
| 26 | The child is too much part of his immediate social environment to justify disregard of the effect that he has on his caretakers and of the effect that their reaction in turn will have on him . |
| 27 | The Chief Constable had decided to dispense with his services because of a report made on the probationer constable which led the Chief Constable to believe that he was not fitted to be a member of the police force . |
| 28 | The two , Marxist and Empirical Socialist , unite in their criticism of the utopian promise of his schemes and of the impracticability of his proposals for carrying them into effect . |
| 29 | The police had been sent to arrest Faky Ali Ahmat and his followers because of a land dispute over ownership of the site of the mosque . |
| 30 | In essence , schools are often reactive and the individuals within them victims because of a lack of management skills , procedures and perspectives . |