Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both can satisfactorily detect situations in which inappropriate suffering is occurring because of external deficiencies in food , warmth , income , housing and health . |
| 2 | This , Eyre opines , is occurring because of social factors similar to those discussed in section 7.2.1 in relation to desertification ; i.e. the need to generate foreign exchange , declining employment opportunity in urban centres and fragmentation of landholdings . |
| 3 | In Damascus , a Syrian official said the plane had made an emergency landing because of mechanical problems . |
| 4 | It could , of course , be objected that geographical comparisons of this sort are not entirely compelling because of important differences between the criminal justice systems , not to mention levels of recorded crime , in the countries concerned . |
| 5 | Stays would be tightened mercilessly to achieve the desired figure , and the image of women fainting because of over-tightened stays is a commonplace in the literature of the period . |
| 6 | The Second Crusade was a less spectacular affair , failing because of many factors : the North German princes decided to direct their crusade against the pagan , Slavonic-speaking Wends ; the French forces nearly attacked Constantinople as a result of severe relations between East and West ; the native crusader barons were more determined to sustain their alliances with Moslem rulers in the Middle East than to help the next wave of crusaders ( who might themselves claim lands ) . |
| 7 | Hill farmers , who could not change to dairying because their land was unsuitable , are suffering because of such distortions . |
| 8 | But Labour 's Alan Milburn said the NHS was suffering because of Tory cutbacks and essential services were missing in the town . |
| 9 | In addition , there are many more millions of migrants and what might be termed environmental refugees — people leaving because of natural disasters or because the land , as the result of soil erosion , deforestation and the spread of deserts , can no longer support the population . |
| 10 | " Weatherfax " will consist of customized facsimile reports prepared by the Meteorological Office , which will help farmers to avoid the need for respraying because of high winds or rain . |
| 11 | ( 1 ) The experience of cinematic viewing — the dark , the succession of images ( ‘ perceptual memories ’ ) , the wonder , the wish fulfilment — has , as Metz ( 1982 , pp. 106–9 ) observed , a very great deal in common with the experience of dreaming and of unconscious processes . |
| 12 | Carr has taken a back seat since retiring because of persistent injuries in October 1988 . |