Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] of the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The producer may have to insist that Production Company A is more suitable to make the film than Production Company B. Perhaps because of the show-business nature of producing for TV , creative teams can want to take charge which can prove a disaster . |
| 2 | In this case it seems that the structure of the drama has made it too easy for the children — perhaps because of the non-confrontational role adopted by the teacher as messenger early on , when he was excited and enthusiastic about the railway and its effect on another town . |
| 3 | They have also never been perceived by the state as a threat , perhaps because of the revolutionary pedigree of some of their élite . |
| 4 | However , although his bust shares a place of honour in the apse of Westminster Abbey with that of Darwin , commemorating him as a great co-pioneer of rational science , elsewhere his memory is largely eclipsed perhaps because of the premature breadth of that dream . |
| 5 | Pupils in most schools spend a considerable amount of time practising the manipulation of fractions , perhaps because of the mistaken belief that such skills are useful . |
| 6 | Perhaps because of the symbiotic requirement for such exploitation , phytophagy is restricted within the animal kingdom as shown in Table 6.1 . |
| 7 | Perhaps because of the long-standing provision of special clinics , the large majority of cases of sexually transmitted disease are seen in such clinics , in contrast to other countries , where less than 20 per cent of cases are seen in hospitals . |
| 8 | It is perhaps because of the unpredictable nature of the outcome that few cases come to court on ultra vires conditions . |
| 9 | Despite these various influences we should also recognize that , perhaps because of the growing differentiation of law as a separate discipline ( a process recognized by Ginsberg and associated with a positivist outlook ) , the methods of the social sciences are often not rendered explicit in the functionalist style in public law . |
| 10 | The employer may only opt to use the patented invention in his business , perhaps because of the specialised nature of the invention and the business itself . |
| 11 | Apparently because of the public nature of policing activities , the House of Lords has held that in a tort action for false imprisonment the question of whether the police acted reasonably in arresting a person suspected of having committed an arrestable offence is to be judged according to public law principles of reasonableness . |
| 12 | This study , however , had to end prematurely , apparently because of the high relapse rate in the fibre rich group . |
| 13 | One national paper reports its readers seven to one against closer ties with Europe ( such polls tend to attract more of the antis ) and a respected columnist bemoans the fact that cooked meats and pies are no longer sold at his favourite deli stall on Leeds market , apparently because of the dead hand of Europeanisation . |
| 14 | They say their new ball is aimed mainly at the middle and high handicapper and , though nice and soft on the clubface , actually spins less because of the larger dimpling on the Zylin cover . |
| 15 | Very serious accident indeed er two people died from falling masonry er in fact one of the bodies is still in there somewhere , they have n't found him yet and twenty nine people died from large doses of radiation erm erm and others will die prematurely because of the large radiation dose that they got , mainly the emergency workers who went in to erm sort out the er er the problem . |
| 16 | The wave of interest in the rediscovery of Celtic music is particularly important , and not merely because of the Celtic-Scottish influence on Leonard 's family ( an aspect that the Montreal Gazette highlighted regarding Lyon Cohen 's Gaelic accent recently ) and American eclecticism — often little more than a slavish following of European forms — which found itself in the development of ‘ pop ’ music , notably of ragtime around 1900 and jazz around 1918 . |
| 17 | For both men and women , of course , the differences in real income between the university and the school group are greater than those shown by money income alone because of the better fringe benefits provided in professional and middle-class occupations . |
| 18 | The money we shall earn will just about keep us in clothes and stamps , so that we 'll never be able to afford holidays together because of the huge train fares . |
| 19 | The areas designated in the EEC Council Directive 75/268 extend to 34.28 million hectares ( m ha ) and are of significance in all countries of the EEC Nine not only because of the overall proportion of land but also because of their importance in animal production ( Table 1 ) . |
| 20 | However , such arguments will be more successful in a hearing before the European Commission on Human Rights ( and not only because of the European Convention ) , and may provoke even greater interest amongst academic lawyers attempting to overcome the limitations of the dominant positivist approach to legal problems , and amongst the wider non-legal public . |
| 21 | Our view then , which is undiminished today and is at the centre of the debate , is that it ought not to be the function of the social security system to support students , not only because of the administrative burden placed on the Department 's local benefit offices and local authorities , but because there already exists a maintenance system for those in full-time education . |
| 22 | In so far as it was possible to control the number of children they had , a significant number of Victorian parents were beginning to do so — if only because of the simple fact that the fewer sons and daughters there were , the more could be done to give each of them a good start in life . |
| 23 | But only because of the awful calamity of Hillsborough and only because a man of the intellect and vision of Lord Justice Taylor was asked for his opinion . |
| 24 | A growing number of the population , not just the younger generation and not only because of the superficial conversion of the Labour party , want that process . |
| 25 | It was his first double-century in any form of cricket , and he told a congratulatory gathering of Pressmen later that he was playing only because of the magical treatment on his injured knee administered by 76-year-old Dr Mohammad Aslam . |
| 26 | It seems the weakness has arisen not only because of the excess capacity built during the Central Electricity Generating Board 's dying years , but also because the competition for business between the regional distribution companies , the generators , the Scottish companies , Nuclear Electric and the French is so strong , and also because of recession . |
| 27 | The property was purchased for investment purposes , and is still owned only because of the current property slump . |
| 28 | Whilst computational methods are an essential tool in building maps , if only because of the sheer volume of data , at present human intervention is still needed to resolve inconsistencies . |
| 29 | Perhaps it was only because of the narrow range of human activities which fell within the orbit of the ECSC that the member states had been willing to cede potentially substantial powers to the body which was the fundamental supranational element of the new organisation . |
| 30 | Differentiating modes of access seems relevant only because of the covert assumption that different ways of knowing feel different — that is , what it is like to have those experiences is different . |