Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [subord] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | American business men were dissatisfied because of the difficulty of communicating with MacArthur and the senior members of SCAP . |
| 2 | Transport costs were low because of the cheapness of water carriage . |
| 3 | They believe that the measurements were possible because of the high quality of the samples prepared by the UCLA scientists . |
| 4 | Undoubtedly these evasions were possible because among the clergy as a whole were many who served the king and depended upon his protection against the rigours of canon law , and because the pope , in his defence of the monarchy , undermined the independence and confidence of the prelates . |
| 5 | FOR many years the House of Commons regarded itself as a closed society whose proceedings were private except to the extent that the House itself decided to report them . |
| 6 | For example , a survey of just under 1,000 firms in the 1950s ( Industrial Welfare Society 1951 ) found that , even among the employers of skilled workers , a third were doubtful as to the worth of those over 45 , while 6 per cent considered such men ‘ too old ’ . |
| 7 | The buildings were empty except for the occasional orderly and the Assistant Commissioner at the other end of the corridor , and sometimes Nikos working late , and he was able to get a lot of work done . |
| 8 | The study carrels were empty because of the cold weather : snow and ice covered the deserted garden though from the abbey church we could hear the faint chanting of Lauds . |
| 9 | The mammals also existed at this time , starting a little later in the mid-Triassic , but in very insignificant numbers and they were tiny until after the death of the dinosaurs , after which they had more fully evolved from the pelycosaurs and therapsids . |
| 10 | By October , however , conditions in London were impossible because of the air-raids , and the child was accepted for the operation in Oxford . |
| 11 | In general the difficulties can be categorised as those which were hard because they were unpleasant tasks in themselves ( eg dealing with sickness or incontinence , washing soiled clothes ) ; those which were hard because of the dementia sufferer 's behaviour or characteristics ( eg he or she was uncooperative , aggressive , heavy ) , and those which were hard because of features of the carer 's life or characteristics ( eg the journey to the dementia sufferer 's home was a long one , the carer 's spouse disliked her helping , she had no washing machine , she found it hard to manage caring tasks as well as her work ) . |
| 12 | Sympathetic stimulation ( mainly left ) caused by physical or emotional stress could periodically increase the amplitude of EADs that were present because of the intrinsic repolarisation abnormality , so that they reach threshold and provoke ventricular tachyarrhythmias . |
| 13 | The original defections of Burgess and Maclean in 1951 naturally came as a great shock to the British establishment and were embarrassing because of the inept way MI5 handled the matter . |
| 14 | I saw women dealing with having kids and working at the same time and the kids were happy because of the closeness with their mother . |
| 15 | Fourth , the justices were undecided as to the degree of the father 's violence towards the children , but were satisfied that the relationship between the mother and father was violent . |
| 16 | In the west ( Kordofan and Darfur ) and the parts of the south for which any figures were available in 1986/87 ( for some areas no figures were available because of the war ) the average pass rate was below 50 per cent . |
| 17 | The generous friend 's eyes were red because of the flash . |
| 18 | The firm said the reductions were necessary because of the low work load at the plant and there was no sign of improvement in the foreseeable future . |
| 19 | When Jerry and I were young if at the end of the month there was no money in the account the bank used to write you a filthy letter if you were two pounds overdrawn . |
| 20 | The contrast between the two periods was weak because of the small amount of data in the earlier period . |
| 21 | Where daylight was essential , a twelve-hour day was usual except in the winter months . |
| 22 | We went in gingerly but as far as one could tell the floor was solid except for the one strip over the missing bit of beam . |
| 23 | The driver and guard were compelled to dress in smocks and straw hats , but the unusual feature was short-lived because of the damage done to the thatch by the wind and rain . |
| 24 | This thought occurred to me as I was reflecting on an article which suggested that the industry 's problems of yesterday were very much the same as those of today and that no real progress was possible because of the vested interest of the institutions of the industry . |
| 25 | Even in December 1940 — well after the Dunkirk turning-point identified by Titmuss — the Ministry of Food was uncertain whether expansion was possible because of the continuing ‘ precarious ’ supply situation . |
| 26 | The floor was sound except near the wall where there were rat-holes in the planks . |
| 27 | Every detail was clear except for the number-plate . |
| 28 | His appeal to the Supreme Court that the Smith Act was unconstitutional because of the First Amendment was rejected . |
| 29 | He picked up the canvas shoulder-bag , which was empty except for the map and a compass . |
| 30 | The work was heart-breaking because of the shortage of homes and it showed that many old people were living in distress . |