Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The figures are irregularly spaced and of varying heights , like those on the much earlier Argive fragment ( fig. 17 ) . |
| 2 | Productivity gains expected may be seriously constrained because of ingrained attitudes which cause human behaviour to change slower than the potential rendered by technology or even go in a direction directly opposed to the requirements of the system . |
| 3 | Two houses in the area were evacuated because of vast clouds of dense dust blowing from a drying tailings lake where wastes from Mogul 's lead/zinc mine were dumped . |
| 4 | On the same day the first congress of the Entrepreneurs Party elected Tibor Szabo as its chairman , but at its second congress in June the leadership resigned because of poor results in the national elections and Jozsef Rigo took over as party leader . |
| 5 | So we pray for those who are battered and bruised because of such differences , and we ask that each one may know your touch of peace . |
| 6 | Cookham cancelled their match on the river because of poor weather and although the waterway at Maidenhead was fishable the match had to be cancelled because of frozen banks . |
| 7 | Of all the men of different nationalities I 've met and of all types , I have found good and bad in each , but my favourite still remains the Frenchman , because he can lie so convincingly . |
| 8 | undertake a range of chronological writing including some at least of diaries , stories , letters , accounts of tasks they have done and of personal experiences , records of observations they have made , eg in a science or design activity , and instructions , eg recipes ; |
| 9 | You pass through orchards , over farms where the people wave greetings , catch glimpses of castles that were there centuries before the railway was built and of huddled villages , then go higher through woodlands where the trees brush the carriages , and on to views of snow clad peaks shimmering on the horizon . |
| 10 | The transition to fourth normal form has been made because of multivalued dependencies ( Fagin , 1977 ) . |
| 11 | The objective is to see how far the trends observed in Atlanta hold true of these other cities , selected because of certain similarities to and differences from Atlanta . |
| 12 | Similarly , in Moore v Central Electricity Generating Board , 1974 IRLR 296 — the facts of which may cause those interested in civil liberties some concern — an employee who had been held in custody for one month pending trial was dismissed after being convicted not of the original charge preferred but of related offences . |
| 13 | This is somewhat ironic when it is realized that local government has substantial resources that can not be used because of centrally-imposed prescriptions . |
| 14 | A Security Council vote to enforce its no-fly zone declaration had been expected as early as yesterday but it was postponed because of arduous negotiations over a final text , including the grace period before shoot-down or other orders could be issued . |
| 15 | All the others ties were postponed because of waterlogged grounds . |
| 16 | However , this carries the risk that what is being implemented may need to be later unravelled because of second thoughts and if the original putting together of a change costs effort and resentment , going back on it may create further difficulties of relationships . |
| 17 | The company had claimed that Mrs Ashgrove was replaced because of serious errors in her work . |
| 18 | The meeting between the residents and the authorities was called because of numerous complaints about the amount of mud falling from the lorries . |
| 19 | As everyone knows , the insurance industry 's recent experience of its very own crisis scenario has led to , if a particular line of cover has not been among those withdrawn because of poor claims records , dramatic increases in premiums . |
| 20 | Two brands of vaccine used to protect babies against measles , mumps and rubella are being withdrawn because of possible links with a mild form of meningitis . |
| 21 | Various measures connected to the government 's economic reform programme were enacted by parliament in February , but a privatisation bill , under discussion in the Assembly , was delayed because of technical difficulties and because of political and trade union opposition . |
| 22 | I also told John Chaplin that I would inform the National Transportation Safety Board in Washington ( the accident investigation authority in the USA ) of the situation so that there would be no question of action being delayed because of poor communications between the UK and the USA . |
| 23 | At the moment erm because of the extra time we 've got available because production investment has been delayed because of ministerial decisions , we 've set in train three further studies and they will look collectively at alternatives , comparison in combat modelling and also in the numbers and if I could describe those three very briefly because I think they 're the they 're relevant to what we 're talking about . |
| 24 | Environmental concentration of legionellae might have been underestimated because of technical obstacles to detection . |
| 25 | The government statement said that Keeling had been expelled because of unsavoury reports about the Nigerian government , which it said had been " fraught with inaccuracies and outright fallacies apparently intended to cause mischief and disharmony among Nigerians " . |
| 26 | Many of the hypotheses are generated because of reduced pronunciations such as for and . |
| 27 | Books and equipment will also be cut because of tight grants and the new council tax , authority chiefs warned yesterday . |
| 28 | Although money may be available for firms to borrow and interest rates may be low , investment will not be increased because of pessimistic expectations . |
| 29 | It now seems he might have gone because of financial worries |
| 30 | Retarded technologies are those energy technologies that were abandoned , technologies on which little R & D continued because of cheaper alternatives . |