Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [subord] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The situation in the islands is now fundamentally different because of the existence of Comhairle nan Eilean — the Western Isles Islands Authority — which has much greater resources both for investigating local problems and doing something to solve them , than any voluntary organisation possibly could , but the question remains whether the technique devised by the Lewis Association still has validity . |
| 2 | Where a continent moves towards a subduction zone associated with an intra-oceanic island arc the consequences are rather different because of the resistance of continental crust to significant subduction . |
| 3 | By comparison , on Gibson 's Flying V guitar , the bridge pickup has to sit rather high because of the effect the tune-o-matic bridge has in raising the height of the strings above the body , which I 've always thought looked and felt a little clumsy . |
| 4 | For sharing Self-contained houses/flats without landlords on the premises are usually the most popular because of relative lack of restrictions , and the ability to choose sharers . |
| 5 | Of course , differential profitability may reflect differential exploitation of labour : in this case a left government could intervene to the advantage of enterprises which were less profitable because of less intensive and oppressive working and/or better wages by , for instance , minimum wage legislation or fostering union organisation in the more oppressive enterprises . |
| 6 | So we 're very committed to O D B C. It is one standard which we 're following , it is an alternative A P I for the desktop which is obviously strong because of the Microsoft relationship , erm but we will also foth follow other standards in terms of A P Is for the desktop as well . |
| 7 | You could have a family of maybe erm an older carer with a mentally handicapped son or daughter who receives various allowances , but whom the total income for that family is such that it is so low because of special circumstances , maybe the mother has to have special heating , or special diets , or whatever , as to be logical that we waive some or all of the charge . |
| 8 | At the same time , education , which had always in fact been a political matter , if only because of the vast sums of public money spent on it , became increasingly and more obviously political because of the politicization of local government . |
| 9 | Time and time again it is made clear that many of Dan 's great exploits are only possible because of the application of science . |
| 10 | The whole Gdynia venture was only possible because of massive government preference , and there is little doubt that the port could not have been run indefinitely at such favourable rates . |
| 11 | Today nearly half of all the vines grown in the white wine vineyards of Champagne are of the Pinot Meunier variety — a practicality only possible because of Pérignon . |
| 12 | Indeed , putting together such a wide reaching programme so rapidly was only possible because of the high degree of inter-agency co-operation and commitment by local politicians , officers and professionals . |
| 13 | It has been suggested that the arrival of mass education in Britain in the late nineteenth century was only possible because of the new use of esparto grass in machine-made paper , enabling mass production . |
| 14 | Certainly much of the " resources revolution " of the curriculum development teams of the later 1960s was only possible because of improved duplicating processes and the mass production of the stencil cutter . |
| 15 | The distinctive orange , yellow and black bike was a Christmas present for the youngster , but he has been so weak because of chemotherapy treatment that he has been able unable to ride it . |
| 16 | The question has been so controversial because of uncertainty about the law relating to arbitrators and experts generally and because of the differences between the consequences of an expert 's decision and the consequences of an arbitration award . |
| 17 | His face was non-committal , and Kate felt suddenly shy because of the wave of lust that swept over her as she looked back at his unshaven cheeks . |
| 18 | These conditions , difficult to sustain , led occasionally to a great deal of embarrassment , mixed always with a compensationary dose of fun and good humour , and sometimes followed by the communication of useful information which was none the less pleasant because of the piquancy incident to a little merriment and unexpected light of knowledge . ’ |
| 19 | I had taken two classes in physical anthropology and felt less guilty because of this and they were satisfied ; although they would have preferred I had chosen to read law . |
| 20 | Diana no longer felt so different because of her parents ' divorce but because a voice inside her told her that she would be separate from the herd . |
| 21 | Gas supplies are also very much a political football in view of the high level of USSR supply but here the situation is less unstable because of the length of supply contracts involved . |
| 22 | Not so high because of the glass but because it 's got to have double folding shutters . |
| 23 | Doubtless so rosy because of all the rouge on top of papier poudré , thought McAllister nastily . |
| 24 | The Supreme Court decision in Dames and Moore v. Regan537 is especially interesting because of the large number of potentially affected individuals , including the hostages detained in Tehran , foreign and American banking interests , commercial enterprises with dealings in Iran , and government agencies . |
| 25 | Cheltenham , part of the relatively affluent Southern ‘ sunbelt ’ of the UK is especially interesting because of its semi-rural setting and its traditional ( yet clearly fading ) image as a retirement community for the ex-colonial class . |
| 26 | I was only doubtful because of spoiling your holiday . |
| 27 | Not now , not next year but in the next twenty years so there are a problem with schools , there are problems , I think , with changing leisure habits er people , the way that people take their leisure has changed over the last twenty years and not always have clubs , organizations and sailing schools taken account of that in , in their programme , especially with youngsters and I have to say I also believe there is apathy in some clubs and other organizations , not every club has an active youth sailing scheme and I believe that any club that does n't either must be extremely popular because of its er prices of beer or , or some other reason or it may not exist perhaps in twenty years ' time , so I think it 's an ext extremely important topic brought about by the maybe , without being melodramatic , some of the stuff that we 're reading in the papers about youngsters these days but looking at it from a purely selfish sailing point of view if we 're to get more youngsters into the sport even if we 're to hold our ground we 've got to make a big effort over , over this year and , and it 's important make sure that it runs on for future years . |
| 28 | This game was a little disheartening , not so much because of the disciplinary problem , but because it showed all too clearly that few if any of them were actually listening to what I was saying . |
| 29 | He spoke of the way Britain failed to take care of the environment and lamented the creeping of towns and the vanishing of the fields and hedgerows , not so much because of the animals as because of the air and the nature of man and the liberty of the soul . |
| 30 | Perhaps such interpretations are intriguing not so much because of their rather desperate commitment to the metaphysical primacy of heterosexual genital intercourse — that is merely banal — but because they reveal the tortured cultural and psychic logic which that commitment entails . |