Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] be [adv] [verb] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relations between the two countries had been severely strained because of persistent allegations of support by the Solomons for the secessionist rebellion on the island of Bougainville which , although formally a part of Papua New Guinea , was geographically and ethnically closer to the Solomon Islands . |
| 2 | It could not be said that a peace had been finally made because old habits in Alexandra would not die a final death and made her still reserved , a little wary . |
| 3 | In London the figure is only eighty eight point four percent but even the ninety five percent figure and the eighty eight four percent figures are artificially inflated because those elements include people who have died and not have not been removed from the register , people who have emigrated , people who have otherwise moved to other parts of the country and who it is unreasonable to expect will all be seeking to make use of postal or proxy vote facilities . |
| 4 | The day had been specially chosen because the meteorologists had assured them that the sun would rise at five fifty-three and there would be no rain . |
| 5 | Tameside home owners claim opportunities for contracting with the SSD have been markedly reduced because block contracts have been established with the controversial Tameside Enterprises Limited care homes trust , the company which bought the council stock of residential homes . |
| 6 | They LIED last Tuesday in their weekly works ' newsletter when they said : ‘ Reprocessing has been temporarily halted because of maintenance work . ’ |
| 7 | In hydrology the systems approach has been easily assimilated because the hydrological cycle readily lent itself to systems representation and because use of the cycle , as in water resource systems , further commended the approach . |
| 8 | The idea that the Pargeters had been specially chosen because of their similarity to the Ketterings had in no way been confirmed by Fosdyke but it grew in her mind steadily . |
| 9 | It also says three earlier accidents had been largely ignored because there had been no fatalities . |
| 10 | The significance of the Carmelite school has been greatly exaggerated because of the widespread misunderstanding that the Carmelite Whitefriary stood on the site of the hospital , an important monastic site with a splendid fourteenth-century gate . |
| 11 | Some of the papers are now torn and others have been heavily creased because they have been re-read and re-folded so many times over the past 41 years . |
| 12 | Anyone who watched the drubbing poor Neil Lyndon received for his attack on extreme feminism , No More Sex War , and has a taste for more of the same will relish Not Guilty : In Defence of the Modern Man ( Weidenfeld , February , £8.99 , 0 297 81216 5 ) , in which David Thomas reveals the fruits of his researches into how The Guys have been Really Hurting because of their treatment at the hands of women lately . |
| 13 | The reasons have been insufficiently studied because of the reluctance of the ethnic communities themselves to examine the issues dispassionately and because service planners and managers dance nervously round ‘ the problem ’ , hoping that the differences can all be explained away by a statistical artefact such as the ways people are brought to the attention of the services , by claims of racial prejudice in the ways staff handle patients , or by simple misdiagnosis . |