Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went often , partly because I enjoyed dancing and partly because we were offered the most delicious cakes , of a sort that was almost impossible to obtain except on the black market . |
| 2 | The eyes and the fins of the dolphins are also much more clearly and elaborately depicted than in the former . |
| 3 | They also appeared to smell and taste ‘ damp ’ , probably due to baking technology which allows far more water to be added than in the traditional method in order to produce artificial volume and a longer shelf life . |
| 4 | he is an officer or employee of that company or a related company who has access to unpublished price sensitive information which ought not reasonably to be disclosed except for the proper performance of his duties ; or |
| 5 | he is in a professional or business relationship with that company or a related company and has access to unpublished price sensitive information which ought not reasonably to be disclosed except for the proper performance of his duties |
| 6 | Both insisted that any bilateral talks should wait until after the international conference , for which a date had at last been set : President Roosevelt issued a statement on 4 September inviting the nations of the world to a conference on international civil aviation to be held in Chicago in November . |
| 7 | In Extract 7 , from B-4 , on the other hand , the overlapping talk does not commence until after the first part of Brenda 's Creole stretch . |
| 8 | Leila and Quincx are tackling if from the wrong angle . |
| 9 | Children with non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma were included because of the current understanding , based on immunological studies , that acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma represent opposite ends of the same spectrum of disease . |
| 10 | ‘ Pieter Huistra , Dale Gordon and Oleg Kuznetsov are n't included because of the three foreigner rule but we still have four non-Scots , so one will have to make way . |
| 11 | This was included because of the different sensitivity of the top and bottom of the optical RAM . |
| 12 | Alternatively , it is possible that the decline occurred because of the economic conditions of the inter-war years . |
| 13 | The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95 occurred because of the Japanese desire to establish a presence in the kingdom of Korea and the Chinese attempt to thwart this ambition . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Clashes also occurred because of the rapacious actions of some Russians , because of the infringement of native hunting territories , and the settlement of peasants on pastures essential to the yearly migrations of pastoralists ' herds . |
| 16 | This interaction occurred because of the very fragmentation experienced by the country . |
| 17 | If you were strong you would put up with it , even if you had to cough and splutter because of the bad air around you . |
| 18 | They contributed because on the one hand , they were asked and understood that what they had to say was important , and also because too many of them grew up in a world without such books . |
| 19 | SCO said it felt no need to formally resign because of the loose construction of the initiative . |
| 20 | Hammam said Jones was a Sheffield United player at the time the video was compiled and that Wimbledon were unjustly being made to suffer because of the suspended sentence . |
| 21 | The humans are slowly dying because of the radioactive dust caused by a human war . |
| 22 | That 's the bit that people fe find a bit hard to er to accept because in the real world it does n't actually happen because there 's always some other force like air resistance , friction , road resistance from your tyres and , and it grad it always stops eventually . |
| 23 | The choice between searching for the least or most distant neighbours may depend on the experimental ( or even presentational ) needs because in the former case the algorithm finds more detailed and possibly informationally redundant order of probes , while in the latter case it finds a minimal set of probes connected by clones spanning large regions of the genome . |
| 24 | The endoscopical differential diagnosis comprised lymphoreticular malignancy , such as α chain disease or a non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma , while clinically sarcoidosis was considered because of the previous medical history . |
| 25 | And some argue that the underlying position is worse than the figures suggest because of the eight changes made to the method of recording unemployment during the period . |
| 26 | This area was specifically targeted because of the high level of involvement of people living there in road accidents . |
| 27 | A slight shift in the age distribution would be expected because of the increasing prevalence of non-operated peptic ulcer patients in the population . |
| 28 | Secured stock has the advantage that a lower yield will be expected because of the lower risk , but it may have an adverse effect upon gearing and the offeror 's ability to borrow . |
| 29 | Trial number two has collapsed because of the mental and emotional state of Roger Seelig . |
| 30 | Er there was a lady fell over about two months ago on that footpath just at the beginning of the winter , and the cathedral council offered to pay for the installation of a light and what we did we contributed seventy seven pounds which is sixty including V A T to enable a second light to be installed because of the two steps on that footpath , one at each end , erm |