_______her inexperience, her failure to secure the contract was not surprising
A. By virtue of
B. In view of
Answer B. note: You can look these types of idioms up at the online Cambridge dictionary. Both answers are idiomatic phrases, which are used to introduce relative clauses (show relation between ideas and show a reason or cause) but because a "virtue" is something positive, you would use A only to explain a reason for a success or something positive.
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Answer B.
note: You can look these types of idioms up at the online Cambridge dictionary.
Both answers are idiomatic phrases, which are used to introduce relative clauses (show relation between ideas and show a reason or cause) but because a "virtue" is something positive, you would use A only to explain a reason for a success or something positive. (Unless it's humour and ir