Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Job losses additional to ‘ structural shifts ’ occurred because of the relative status , and often age of product , of branch factories within their respective multi-plant firms , and only rarely because of their absolute location in Britain . |
| 2 | This atmosphere of making changes only slowly and of preferring a tried and tested ‘ free ’ source of power to more efficient engine-driven plant can be savoured at Lockyer 's Mill , Clapton , near Crewkerne , Somerset , a mill of 1864 in which grain is still milled commercially by water power provided by the River Axe ( Plate 42 ) . |
| 3 | But in the end it was all right because of Beuno . |
| 4 | The attitude of some bondholders previously willing to surrender their bonds modified on learning of this privilege which they were previously and largely unaware of in connection with redemption , so much so that of the 47 bonds bought out , 24 holders elected to enjoy perpetual membership . |
| 5 | Also , at the 1982 Annual General Meeting the members rejected with increasing self-assertiveness the demand for increased subscriptions — perhaps less because of the cost but more to demonstrate their new confidence . |
| 6 | But if the idea of this procedure is simple , the practice is much less so because of the problems involved . |
| 7 | This was never the case and in the current working world it is even less so because of developing technology which has its impact on almost all jobs and also on the social context of work . |
| 8 | It appears that industrial skills in Britain are more often transferable between employers , partly because of the apprenticeship system , whereas in France , they are less so because of greater use by employers of in-house training and up-grading . |
| 9 | If Norman Lamont keeps the job of Chancellor ( and he might do so only because of the shortlist of alternative candidates is embarrassingly short ) he may decide to delay the next cut in interest rates for long enough to convince the markets that he is serious about wanting to move sterling into narrow bands in the European exchange rate mechanism at its middle rate of Dm2.95 . |
| 10 | This in fact became so only because of the policies Wilson adopted in the way of providing arms to the other side , for which there was insufficient compensation from the rather half-hearted support given by the Soviets and by a few other countries to the Biafrans . |
| 11 | The General Council of British Shipping quotes a survey as reporting that those ships which had been found to use the Minches route had done so only because of poor weather conditions . |
| 12 | The 90 minute lapse on large trades has been brought in largely because of smaller volumes and because market makers maintained that large trades would be almost impossible with instant publication . |
| 13 | Lawrence 's bid broke down largely because of Londoner Lee 's reluctance to move to the North . |
| 14 | I would n't entirely agree , that the whole , that all of the purchasers are entirely just because of er their age |
| 15 | Whether he came in just because of Bev or whether he 'd started on |
| 16 | We have erm , managers of these funds who have a lot of expertise , a lot of experience , we 've been going over thirty years now , and we 've grown extremely quickly because of the expertise of our managers . |
| 17 | This is a crude form of distraction display , but it can not be developed much further because of the context in which it occurs . |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps also because of your mustard suit . ’ |
| 19 | The Park West ward councillor , Mrs Heather Scott ( Con ) , told the meeting the original application was turned down partly because of Ministry of Transport objections about traffic access . |
| 20 | Typical of Geoff 's talent was the opening goal he scored to set us on the way to a Wembley victory over Everton in the Zenith Data Systems Cup Final in April 1991 , cleaving his way though The Toffees ' defence to head home from a corner and , perhaps partly because of Palace 's and Geoff 's success at Wembley , he was awarded his first full International cap when England travelled to Turkey for the European Nations Championship tie on May Day 1991 . |
| 21 | some young people like the excitement of sniffing solvents , perhaps partly because of the element of danger |
| 22 | Perhaps partly because of these frustrations , John Aldis has now moved to Hong Kong ! |
| 23 | David gained his first experience of business with his father and brothers , but by the late 1840s he had decided to strike out on his own , perhaps partly because of his strong temperance convictions . |
| 24 | Perhaps partly because of the decay , the garden had retained the atmosphere of enclosure and secrecy — that feeling of shutting out the world beyond — essential to any walled pleasure garden . |
| 25 | Use of metallurgical coal will grow only marginally because of the poor prospects for the steel industry while a decline in coal use for direct home heating will be balanced by an increase in that used for district heating systems . |
| 26 | Pakistan were 31 without loss by the close , Ramiz Raja ( 20 ) having spent little time on the field so far because of a stomach upset , and that evening Waqar Younis , asked what was the secret behind his late swing , replied , with a grin : ‘ I 'm not telling you that ! ’ |
| 27 | Well , only really because of erm as mature , as policies mature before the er |
| 28 | Recently there have been a number of instances when our generation was turned down mainly because of restriction imposed by the National Grid Co. in England for construction and upgrading work . |
| 29 | If she is very apprehensive about how she is going to manage her role in society as a woman on her own , you could remind her of something she has probably completely forgotten : that she coped with life quite adequately as a single woman , before she met her husband , so there is no reason to suppose that she can not do so again , and possibly even better now because of the love they shared and her greater maturity . |
| 30 | The hotel operators are only here because of some trade-off between governments . |