Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [prep] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So where in God 's name is Crackbene ? ’ |
| 2 | It is perhaps because of Oakeshott 's philosophical approach to his subject that we are able , through the study of his thought , more clearly to discern both the roots of conservative political thought and its links with a particular approach to the issues of public law . |
| 3 | The finale is an infinitely better movement that its companion in the First Symphony , perhaps because of Dvořák 's cuts , but also because its ideas ( notably the secondary theme ) are much more engaging and memorable . |
| 4 | And perhaps because of Chrysler 's ignominious retreat from our only volume car manufacturing plant , we spared the cars nothing — never once gave them the benefit of the doubt in the sort of conditions which could tear a wheel off a less rugged vehicle . |
| 5 | The forthcoming contest was of importance not merely because of California 's size and prestige , but also because the state was expected to gain another six or seven seats in the federal legislature as a result of the redistribution due to follow the 1990 census . |
| 6 | There was so much enraged violence in the action that Isabel knew she had missed being hurled across the church by that powerful arm only because of fitzAlan 's self-control . |
| 7 | That will be ironic , as Yorkshire have not retained Tendulkar only because of India 's planned tour . |
| 8 | This has run into very heavy water in the twentieth century , and not only because of Freud 's onslaught on religion in the name of wish-fulfilment , where he portrayed the idea that people create an imaginary father in the skies to give them comfort . |
| 9 | Under Rufus , the alliance of king and archbishop had been broken because the king was unmanageable ; under Henry , it broke down because of Anselm 's loyalty to the papal decree of 1099 . |
| 10 | The man clasped him foolishly because in Maxim 's blindness contact was safest . |
| 11 | The Bramante building — it was the architect 's first work in Milan — is thought to be from the finest period of the Lombardy Renaissance and is a masterpiece of space and depth , the more so because of Bramante 's superb use of a perspective fresco beyond the High Altar . |
| 12 | The growing literature on local labour parties is a belated recognition of this ; nowhere is the point made more forcibly than in Savage 's ( 1987 ) study of labour politics in Preston from 1880 to 1940 . |
| 13 | ‘ Management ’ remained in place , only now it was responsible to a government-appointed Board of Directors and ultimately to Parliament , rather than to shareholders ' representatives . |
| 14 | The recompile is said to link the application function-by-function to Bristol 's own library rather than to Microsoft 's Software Development Kit . |
| 15 | Many of these ill effects , however , are related to low socio-economic status , unemployment , poor housing and social environment , low educational achievements , lack of support and stable relationships , inexperience , isolation , depression and poor levels of attendance at antenatal and other clinics , rather than to age per se ( Wells , 1983 ) . |
| 16 | Students spent a lot of time travelling ( walking and even running ) from one lecture to another in various parts of London , and it was increasingly demanded that they should find within the walls of the College all that they required , or that they should at least pay a fee that would entitle them as of right , rather than for charity 's sake , to enter medical lectures . |
| 17 | The type of household in which the elderly person lives may , in its turn , be a function of the stage he or she has reached in the life course rather than of age per se . |
| 18 | Mitchell 's parable is specifically designed to reflect upon the problem of God 's love in the face of evil , rather than of God 's existence . |
| 19 | The Crown 's interest was above all the defence of the land rather than of villagers ' property rights . |
| 20 | Assessment of achievements in English should therefore be primarily concerned with such understanding and skills , rather than with pupils ' knowledge about and competence in using IT and media facilities as such . |
| 21 | What these sins were Roger of Howden does not tell us and any guess is bound to be a subjective one , reflecting upon ourselves and upon our age rather than upon Richard 's behaviour . |
| 22 | She began to wonder whether St Ives 's abrupt departure had n't been occasioned by her ill judged remark rather than by Geoffrey 's calling out of the quarter hour . |
| 23 | It took people a long time to understand that Education had a much broader view on Channel 4 , and that many of the things that would elsewhere have been informational , or features or factual , would actually find a home in my lot , rather than in Liz 's . |
| 24 | It is also helpful if it can be shown there have been arm 's length negotiations between management and the institutions and that the price benefit to management ( ie the fact that management acquire control of Newco but pay no more per share than the institutions and/or pay less than 50% of the price for more than 50% of the equity ) derives from those negotiations , rather than from management 's employment by Target . |
| 25 | It was not until after Darwin 's meeting with Gould at the Zoological Society to discuss the ornithological collection in early March , however , that the penny finally dropped . |
| 26 | He had trouble feeding his 40,000-strong army as they reached the north , largely because of Wallace 's scorched earth policy , and was considering a temporary period of recuperation in Edinburgh when two treacherous Scottish lords betrayed Wallace 's whereabouts . |
| 27 | He was not passed over because of Attlee 's undisguised preference for products of Haileybury , but because the Foreign Office insisted on a more senior judge . |
| 28 | Not just because of Joachim 's kindness but that chance encounter put me on the road to solving Selkirk 's riddles and the horrible murders they caused . ) |
| 29 | Despite the fact that about 95% of that can be recycled , very little actually is , but this is not because of people 's ignorance , but more because the majority of district councils in Britain provide insufficient Recycling services . |
| 30 | But , just as at Lani 's , I backed out at the last minute . |