Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Were the sites ancient inter-tribal meeting places , later sanctified by a religious presence , or did an existing sanctuary attract trades because of the volume of people attending ? |
| 32 | People will pay first in higher mortgages , lost jobs and diminished economic opportunities because of the uncertainty caused by the opt-out clause on the single currency . |
| 33 | Sir Lionel Russell , with a view from within the CNAA and the local authorities , said that he had never understood Crosland 's Woolwich speech and why he made it , and had doubts about the concentration in polytechnics because of the disappointment it meant to other colleges . |
| 34 | A sordid battle for soccer 's TV rights ; an English Open Golf Championship shorn of its leading contenders because of an appearance money rumpus ; a near walk-out by athletes on account of a purported $200,000 appearance fee for Carl Lewis . |
| 35 | The question has puzzled generations of Western historians , critics and philosophers for at least two centuries because of the difficulty of disentangling the aesthetic from other responses . |
| 36 | A visionary at Much Wenlock , on the testimony of Boniface , proclaimed in Ceolred 's lifetime that the angels surrounding him had withdrawn their protective shield and abandoned him to demons because of the multitude of crimes he had committed . |
| 37 | It resumed on Aug. 15 for only two hours before being postponed again , amid continuing disputes and a second boycott of the conference by opposition parties because of the presence of more delegates than had been authorized ( 4,288 as opposed to 2,850 ) . |
| 38 | High interest rates , themselves necessary to hold spending within non-inflationary bounds because of the liberalisation , may put the process into reverse for a while . |
| 39 | Perhaps it is not unexpected that simple correlation can not easily be made between different parts of the world in view of the advent of the theory of plate tectonics because of the amount of movement associated with the displacement of plates . |
| 40 | Members of the Islamic Nahdah movement ( Mouvement de la renaissance ) , led by Rachid Ghanouchi , were reported as saying that they had not put up candidates because of the government 's continued refusal officially to recognise the party . |
| 41 | At the time empires were normal enough ; it was nationalism that was unusual and , if it did develop , it might easily break Charles 's empire into fragments because of the absence of linguistic or geographic unity . |
| 42 | Even I find it hard to sleep in the bedrooms because of the damp . ’ |
| 43 | ‘ Thomas Hardy called this island the isle of slingers in his books because of the way we used to defend ourselves with slings and stones . |
| 44 | The first factor is important in that it brings some applications within the database world ( for example , computer aided design , computer aided manufacture , architectural design , software design ( Case ) and office automation ) , previously ill-served by relational databases because of the performance of relational database systems and because the relational model itself is unsuitable For those domains . |
| 45 | I want to stick to making sculptures of animals because of a love of them . |
| 46 | There are risks because of the operation and also the size of the child and the time we have to do it , so soon after birth . |
| 47 | The people who attend those centres can still live in their own homes because of the support staff who work from those resource centres . |
| 48 | One organisation suggested , however , that — although no actual evictions had taken place — some people had been discouraged from going into homes because of the cost involved . |
| 49 | ‘ These people ca n't sell their homes because of the recession , so they ca n't separate and split their assets . |
| 50 | Yet there could be a hindrance to analogizing birds with large dinosaurs because of the question of size ( the smaller dinosaurs present an intractable problem ) . |
| 51 | But a good removal man can very often pack and not actually use ties because of the way he fits stuff in . |
| 52 | He uses serviced offices because of the flexibility they offer . |
| 53 | Very few modifications were carried out on these cars while in the ownership of Croydon Corporation . |
| 54 | BORN in Tunica , Mississippi in 1925 , Doctor Isiah Ross ( the ‘ Doctor ’ nickname evolved from his habit of reading medical books while in the army ) began playing harmonica at the age of six . |
| 55 | I hope that this will clarify the situation for your readers while in no way putting them off the certified training scheme . |
| 56 | Seven organisations did not pay relocation allowances to new recruits while of the remainder , eight gave similar allowances under both the relocation and recruitment headings and 18 provided different sets of allowances under the two categories . |
| 57 | Er we 've had one or one or two erm break-ins while during the night . |
| 58 | In all three , serum total , free , and acyl carnitine concentrations while on a gluten containing diet were lower in comparison with a gluten free diet . |
| 59 | Emma closed her eyes but for the moment she could n't answer for the throbbing in her throat . |
| 60 | ( c ) Parliament could not bind its successors as to the content , manner and form of subsequent legislation . |