Example sentences of "be [verb] [conj] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A modified version of the southern mountain route has been examined because of the resolution . |
| 2 | Although his initial interest had been aroused because of the connection between current problems and events which may have taken place in a former life , he became so enthralled by the topic that he took it up for its own sake . |
| 3 | If necessary , considerably more complex calculations are justified because of the speed of internal storage operations , and because use of such a calculation allows the unbroken key sequence to be exploited . |
| 4 | This had been delayed because of the November 1991 general election [ see p. 38589 ] and the resulting political uncertainty . |
| 5 | Just as interesting perhaps is to visualise the landscape that would have been created if enclosure had been delayed until after the introduction of barbed wire in the 1870s . |
| 6 | The number of bidders on AFCAC 300 is thought to have been limited because of the amount of money needed to pursue it . |
| 7 | Facilities for yachts are limited and in the country 's current economic turmoil visiting yachtsmen would be wise to stock up with adequate fuel and provisions to last the duration of their visit . |
| 8 | Due to increased fiscal control by central government , local authorities are limited as to the volume and quality of any discretionary services they wish to provide . |
| 9 | If you are insulted because of the name of Christ , you are blessed , because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you . |
| 10 | Indeed , it has been calculated that by the end of the decade some 3 billion pages of information will be published by businesses worldwide . |
| 11 | I agree with both the judgments that have been given and with the reasons given in those judgments for allowing this appeal . |
| 12 | Like other party leaders before and since , Ramsay MacDonald had been regarded as on the Left before his election , particularly because of his opposition to the war and his domination of the Independent Labour Party after Keir Hardie 's death in 1915 . |
| 13 | Several puzzles remain , however , most notably in understanding the way in which expectations are formed and in the difficulty in econometric research of capturing a strong interest rate effect . |
| 14 | A marriage is so voidable if it has not been consummated because of the incapacity of either party , or because of one party 's wilful refusal to consummate it ; if the marriage was entered into without the consent of either party ( e.g. by reason of duress , mistake , or unsound mind ) ; if at the time of the marriage one party was suffering from mental disorder of such a kind as to render him or her unfitted for marriage , or from venereal disease ; or if the wife was at the time of the marriage pregnant by some other person than her husband . |
| 15 | It alone can propose candidate referents ; other knowledge sources are consulted as to the appropriateness of those referents , and the first proposed candidate to be judged appropriate is accepted . |
| 16 | It has been forgotten that in the case of a very common expression ( historical materialism ) one should put the accent on the first term — ‘ historical ’ — and not on the second , which is of metaphysical origin . |
| 17 | By 1801 , not only had the conflicts between monarch and nobility over the extraction and use of rents and taxes , and the respective rights and duties of each , largely been resolved and in the process made irrelevant , but also the industrial revolution was well under way , establishing the basis for the growing political ascendancy of the industrial classes over both monarchy and aristocracy . |
| 18 | If the judge awarded damages to the petitioner on the grounds that there was no compromise or that the compromise had been cancelled and on the grounds that the respondents had been guilty of misconduct in the Clearwater transaction , then the respondents could have appealed to the Court of Appeal and either party , losing before the Court of Appeal , could have appealed to the Privy Council as of right and on that appeal all three issues , the compromise issue , the cancellation issue and the misconduct issue could have been argued . |
| 19 | Already 24 of the 64 units are let or in the hands of solicitors and another 22 have attracted specific applications . |
| 20 | The manufacture of flannel had been discontinued because of the growth of the textile industry in the large towns — and the consequent loss of markets where it could be sold without loss . |
| 21 | Ministerial Flannel IT HAS been reported that at the launch of National Dyslexia Week , the Duke of Westminster , entering into the spirit of the occasion ( and surely nothing else was intended ) , introduced the junior education minister and Darlington MP . |
| 22 | That philosophy requires tests that have not been done before in the US , and that may never have been done but for the consortium 's help . |
| 23 | It has been reckoned that in the Northern Ireland Assembly election of 1973 eight seats out of 78 were won thanks to alphabetical voting . |
| 24 | But your Major alas … ’ ‘ … while we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen : for the things which are seen are temporal ; but the things which are not seen are eternal … ’ |
| 25 | In the past , analytical investigations of Far Eastern lacquer have been hampered because of the complexity of the natural polymer , the small samples of ancient objects available for study , and the lacquer 's insolubility in the usual solvents . |
| 26 | In recent years a critical consensus has gradually been forming as to the nature of postmodernism . |
| 27 | It has been said that at the court of Poitiers " the gilded youth of Poitou and Aquitaine breathed an air that seemed to belong to some tale of chivalry " . |
| 28 | Something has already been said as to the assignment of ordinary debts and ‘ choses in action' ; and the law relating to negotiable instruments — bills of exchange , cheques , and promissory notes — will be dealt with in the next chapter . |
| 29 | Extremely good ideas may have been incorporated and in the hands of the teacher involved the program may prove a powerful teaching aid . |
| 30 | Hugh Thomas , the technical delegate , stressed that the changes have been made because of the conditions and with the horses ' safety in mind . |