Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] of a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether or not the analogy of the firm as a cooperative family is a realistic one for the majority of labour , this idea forms a crucial part in the ideology that Japanese industrial relations are different because of a longstanding preference for conformity to group consensus . |
| 2 | Irish detectives arrested James Rudman at a remote farmhouse in Co Kerry last month , just an hour before he would have been legally free because of a loophole in the law . |
| 3 | We know this because of a telegram sent by Kirk at 2300 hrs that night to the State Department in Washington , asking " urgently " for advice [ KP 107 ] . |
| 4 | So he persuades his man with a natural talent for the proper administration of worldly affairs that to neglect this because of a preoccupation with spiritual meditation could be unwise . |
| 5 | Thirty one patients withdrew during the trial : four because of adverse events ( one receiving fluticasone propionate , three receiving prednisolone ) , 24 because of lack of improvement ( 12 in each group ) , one receiving fluticasone propionate because of poor compliance , one who did not complete the trial , and another because of a positive pregnancy test ( both receiving prednisolone ) . |
| 6 | Furthermore , it suggest that those people who had become unemployed because of a temporary job coming to an end were just as likely to be unemployed for only a short spell and then to go back to work , and that they were less likely to have been continuously unemployed throughout the following year ( Moylan/Millar/Davies , 1984 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ And Carl has decided not to play in the Top 12 because of a commitment with his German League team . |
| 8 | Cornwall was then truly the ‘ ultima thule ’ , the limits of civilisation — or beyond , and indeed many wrote of the Cornish as of a barbaric tribe and treated any elements of civilised behaviour with surprised condescension . |
| 9 | Drysdale , nicknamed Milky because of a passing resemblance to TV 's Milky Bar Kid , sent John Lukic the wrong way to leave Leeds ' season in tatters . |
| 10 | British businessman Neville Norton , 59 , who had been barred from leaving Saudi Arabia since 1975 because of a financial dispute , was released on Aug. 13 and returned to London , reportedly following a personal appeal to King Fahd by the UK Prime Minister , John Major . |
| 11 | Mrs Barnett fell ill because of a drug prescribed after the birth of her daughter . |
| 12 | In other words , many mentally ill people were defined as ill because of a breakdown in their social relationships ; drugs might relieve some of the symptomatic tension but help was needed to remedy the causes by encouraging patients to participate in a community that improved the capacity of all its members — patients and therapists — to relate in a meaningful way to one another . |
| 13 | A YOUNG mother yesterday claimed her daughter became ill because of a blocked chimney in her council home in Darlington . |
| 14 | Marx 's analysis of capitalism shows that the system of exploitation of workers by capitalists appears inevitable because of a previous concentration of the means of production in the hands of the capitalists . |
| 15 | This is work they are able to do little about , despite public faith , and it is unpopular because of a reluctance or inability to display that little will be done . |
| 16 | This has now been achieved through the Employment Act 19 89 because of a requirement in the second European Directive on equal treatment in occupational social security schemes . |
| 17 | Increase in production in almost all cases came through livestock and livestock products and was most likely because of a reduction in losses . |
| 18 | The choice facing the Government is whether to take a risk with inflation by reducing interest rates in order to get the economy out of recession , or to take no risk with inflation , await a recovery in the domestic economy ( now more likely because of a lower pound and lower interest rates ) , and a decline in German interest rates , before rejoining the ERM . |
| 19 | It might have been difficult for the headmaster of our school to believe that we were late because of a derailment , but fortunately a teacher of theology at the school , Don Cavalli , travelled on the tram every day , and he was able to explain what had happened , giving us a cast-iron alibi . |
| 20 | When little Jacob Bates was born he remained unconscious because of a lack of oxygen to the blood . |
| 21 | They say the pit 's lost more than six million pounds this year and it 's prospects are n't good because of a lack of markets . |
| 22 | They say the pit 's lost more than six million pounds this year and its prospects are n't good because of a lack of markets . |
| 23 | A total of 103 beds , including a unique ward , are being closed for good because of a shortage of cash . |
| 24 | On the other hand , I 've been as happy as a turkey in January , and all because of a story I spotted in a medical magazine , stating that regular lashings of oily fish cut sharply your chances of having a heart attack . |
| 25 | And that is how the Charge of the Light Brigade , the most celebrated and glorious calamity in British military history came about — all because of a failure in the effective use of grammar to make an appropriate connection with context . |
| 26 | Ring them up and say ‘ I hope you do n't mind me messing you about like this but I 've been thinking over your kind offer , and I realize I could fit it in after all because of a sudden change of circumstances at home and my mother 's coming down to help me out — oh , and if there 's a spare ticket — ’ |
| 27 | It 's all because of a computer error at the Cheltenham based University Central Council on Admissions . |
| 28 | A holiday , which was n't going to happen because a travel firm went bust , has now been saved … all because of a chance conversation in a car-park . |
| 29 | Discussion groups meet , theses are written and moral messages are read into each line of the scripts and all because of a Cheltenham wine merchant . |
| 30 | All because of a brake that was |