Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [subord] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , yields have always been low because of the climate . |
| 2 | The merging together of different financial institutions in this way to form ‘ one-stop multi-service financial supermarkets ’ would not have been possible but for the relaxation of certain types of regulatory barriers . |
| 3 | Many of the new innovations have only been possible because of the company 's commitment to total quality management ( TQM ) . |
| 4 | An aspect of the purported effects of the political system is the policy co-option argument — that the extreme right , at least in recent years , has been unsuccessful because of the ease with which some of its appeals ( or some attenuated version of them ) can be adopted by major parties , after the former parties have shown themselves unable to break into the political system . |
| 5 | so far this year , packed chlorine sales are running at 160% of budget and ICI Watercare have been able to supply new overseas markets which had previously been impossible because of the shortage of packages . |
| 6 | Her early education had been poor because of the misconception amongst her teachers that language ability and intelligence were somehow different facts of a single concept , and it was only in later life , with the help of her husband , that she 'd been able to make up on the intellectual deprivation of those early years . |
| 7 | As for Unix , here Cognos has been able to make use of third parties ( it has no direct sales force for Unix products ) but says the going has been tough because of the recession as a PowerHouse Unix sale tends to occur with the new purchase of a Unix box with applications . |
| 8 | For sexually active people outside a long-term monogamous relationship , safe sex has always been important because of the danger of sexually transmitted diseases ( STDs ) — most commonly genital warts , syphilis and gonorrhoea . |
| 9 | If it was merely voidable vis-à-vis the Hammonds , it can not have been void as against the building society . |
| 10 | But this would have been difficult because of the problem of creating the ideal pre-birth environment . |
| 11 | Ironically , the number of old people who were poor would have been greater but for the action of the Attlee Government . |
| 12 | Hostility to the Jewish State has been unremitting except in the case of Egypt since 1977 . |
| 13 | ( b ) She was 34 weeks pregnant and must have been anxious as to the health of her baby . |
| 14 | So many amputations had been necessary because of the lack of facilities for sophisticated vascular surgery . |