Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] [verb] because [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cases where favelados have moved to new housing schemes , they have been unable to meet the payments , which are periodically increased because of inflation and , therefore , had to return to the favelas . |
| 2 | Many rocks are composed of a high proportion of echinoderm debris , which is easily recognized because of this optical property . |
| 3 | ‘ If you 're only agreeing because of the tape and the report , then I 'd rather you refused . |
| 4 | Not to sort of well you , you ca n't be blamed because I mean yo , in the innocent you were actually going because of the concert . |
| 5 | And she is wholly believed because of that . |
| 6 | The events of the last year had left her mentally drained while she was physically exhausted because of her chronic illness . |
| 7 | Her life is described over at least two pages and is very dramatic — she lived in Italy where she was much courted because of her great beauty but she eventually married ‘ the very worst of those who sought her hand ’ — Paulo Neroni . |
| 8 | Most years this gave rise to no special problem , but eventually there was an occasion when the king 's enjoyment of the Easter Feast was spoilt by the absence of his queen , who was still fasting because for her it was Palm Sunday . |
| 9 | Thrips or thunder flies as they are sometimes called because of their tendency to fly in clouds when thunder threatens — are minute midge-like flies that like to get into buds just as the bud scales ( sepals ) are opening and lay their eggs there . |
| 10 | They were so named because of their comfortable leather seats on the lower deck . |
| 11 | Or maybe they were more aroused because of the flashing light , or maybe the light was affecting their visual system in some way . |
| 12 | It 's so called because in the past it was burnt and the smoke used to rid dwellings of fleas . |
| 13 | It is instantly appealing because of the Minoans ' delight in grace , movement and natural forms — in short , their delight in life . |
| 14 | The smallest of all the pigs , the bullet-shaped pygmy hog lives in the tall grasslands of northern India , where it is highly endangered because of the practice of agricultural grass-burning and , lately , armed rebellion ( see ‘ Pigs in distress ’ ) . |
| 15 | An inquiry has indeed been set up by Gwynedd county council , but I understand that it is currently suspended because of police investigations . |
| 16 | The statue is much bigger than it looks ; it is always foreshortened because of the need to look sharply upward , and is actually over 4 metres high . |
| 17 | It was particularly made because of the role of the conference in diffusing results of the ESRC Changing Urban Regional System Initiative ( 1985-7 ) . |
| 18 | What is often overlooked because of Cuba 's active ( although never particularly substantial ) support for armed struggle in Latin America later in the 1960s is that , initially , the Castro regime made consistent attempts to build diplomatic relations with its hemispheric neighbours . |