Example sentences of "[vb pp] [subord] [prep] the [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter practice was discouraged because of the damage it could cause to the roof of the tunnel . |
| 2 | In this experiment as in the other loan choice questions , people must have gathered that both APR and total credit cost mattered because of the way they were being questioned about them . |
| 3 | The watch is British made except for the movement which comes from the best Swiss supplier . |
| 4 | ‘ But if one party has the power of saying to the other , ‘ that which you require shall not be done except upon the conditions which I choose to impose , ’ no person can contend that they stand upon any thing like an equal footing . |
| 5 | But if one party has the power of saying to the other , ‘ that which you require shall not be done except upon the conditions which I choose to impose , ’ no person can contend that they stand upon any thing like an equal footing . |
| 6 | But if one party has the power of saying to the other , ‘ that which you require shall not be done except upon the conditions which I choose to impose , ’ no person can contend that they stand upon any thing like an equal footing . |
| 7 | The band 's guitar tech , Mole — so named because of the way he squints through his rounded spectacles — punches a continuous barrage of Ramones hits into the jukebox , and drummer Fyfe Ewins models a beret he 's liberated from Lord knows where . |
| 8 | All pilot proposals will be evaluated as to the contribution they will make to the Development Programme and , in the case of colleges without a Validation Procedures Agreement ( for details of this see UPDATE 1 ) , proposals will be considered by Scrutiny Panels set up by SCOTVEC . |
| 9 | Developments in Afghanistan assumed a greater significance for Western governments than they would otherwise have had because of the place they appeared to occupy in an ‘ Arc of Crisis ’ that extended from the Middle East to South-Eastern Asia . |
| 10 | The entire thing was entirely trumped up and she was absolved because of the publicity we gave the case . |
| 11 | The result is that the foam comes high up on the neck which is possible an advantage on the back as extra protection to the base of the neck is offered though around the front it feels rather bulky . |
| 12 | They should also be briefed as to the questions they should ask . |
| 13 | It 's so called because in the past it was burnt and the smoke used to rid dwellings of fleas . |
| 14 | I think his experience of farming was somewhat limited because of the time he had spent in the Army , and that would not make things easy for Grandma Hauxwell because she had to take on more responsibility around the farm . |
| 15 | But they were n't checked because at the time he was renting a suite at the Crillon . ’ |
| 16 | We teach people to look after themselves and how to heal … we 've got to keep hidden because of the persecution we get through certain people who go on propagating this evil entity of Satan . ’ |
| 17 | Her career has become a kind of obsession ; her voice , the instrument of his enrapturement , a thing to be cherished and protected , to the degree that social life is circumscribed because of the effect which smoky parties might have on her . |
| 18 | ‘ My tutor has n't a clue : he has n't taught since before the war I do n't expect . ’ |
| 19 | This is nowhere better illustrated than in the case we used for our basic illustration of good design itself — echolocation . |
| 20 | Women 's work in sweated trades ( defined with some difficulty by a Select Committee on the subject in 1890 as work carried on for inadequate wages and for excessive hours in insanitary conditions ) , was also opposed because of the threat it posed to motherhood and the rearing of an imperial race . |
| 21 | The most fêted boxer of all time , Muhammad Ali , was adored because of the skill he brought to the ring . |
| 22 | The West and East German railways are starting the process of being united though at the moment they still operate quite separately . |
| 23 | The Queen 's Bench held that he had offended because in the future he might wish to tender for council house construction . |
| 24 | Under a Conservative government it has the licence of the troublesome relative , indulged because in the end they 're family . |
| 25 | He saw the Challenge materials as particularly useful for the individual resource-based projects which first-year children were encouraged to develop over several weeks in the summer term : Up to half term they really are very much guided as to the work they do , but as we get to know them better , and as teachers become more confident about letting them maybe work on longer pieces … and go out and get resources themselves , they can go towards more pupil-centred learning . |
| 26 | Here was a man easily ridiculed because of the words he has been forced to eat . |
| 27 | Easily despised because of the promises he has broken without a word of apology . |
| 28 | The alternative approach of defining one or more new registers was rejected because of the complexity it would have added to an already complex set of algorithms . |
| 29 | A false indication was given as to the mileage it had covered . |
| 30 | THREE Glasgow men jailed last week for four years for bringing hashish into Spain have been released because of the time they spent awaiting trial , it was revealed yesterday . |