Example sentences of "all because [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Now I 'm up early , full of energy and have a new outlook on life all because of Rags , my wonderful dog .
2 On the other hand , I 've been as happy as a turkey in January , and all because of a story I spotted in a medical magazine , stating that regular lashings of oily fish cut sharply your chances of having a heart attack .
3 Because some people are making large profits , and raising the total of profits by so doing , it is proposed to come down on the ‘ innocent ’ businesses , whose profits may actually have gone down , who have been being ‘ responsible ’ and not increasing their prices ; and their taxes will be put up — all because of the other bounders , who meanwhile are laughing their heads off .
4 And all because of trees .
5 All because of lack of trees .
6 All because of the policies of those who shouted the loudest last week .
7 So many young women educated and developed , and fulfilled , so much knowledge imparted , all because of her efforts .
8 Racing about doing overtime all because of that rotten food he 's eating .
9 And all because of … ’ he half-turned and spat at Luke , ‘ that fuckin' informer there ! ’
10 The meeting itself was more like a wake , for more and more athletes were finding out that they were not going to compete in Edinburgh after all because of the boycott that was being staged by the African , Caribbean and Asian countries .
11 All because of Mahon .
12 And all because of this English girl who was n't a pig .
13 And that is how the Charge of the Light Brigade , the most celebrated and glorious calamity in British military history came about — all because of a failure in the effective use of grammar to make an appropriate connection with context .
14 Soon they will know they have a fool for a lecturer , and all because of you , my wife . ’
15 And all because of Poland !
16 Many of them had large , impressive noses , which the Thing said was perfectly OK and all because of genetics .
17 ‘ Every trophy is nice but perhaps this is our best of all because of the difficulties we 've had this summer . ’
18 My infidelity is at last exposed — all because of that Casebook I opened up , revealing some of the highlights of my 40 years as the Mirror 's Marje .
19 She was alone now , she had lost not only her father but her possessions , her beloved emeralds and her home and all because of the neglect of Craig Grenfell .
20 If the range of the music-making itself also seems circumscribed , it is so first of all because of the Russian instrumental tradition .
21 All because of that damn voice .
22 She looked at Fand , seeing the white arms shake , and knowing that in another moment a spear would go home and Fand would die ; because of me , she thought , all because of me .
23 Tell people that you are going to meet Linford Christie , and women go coy and men go bawdy , and it is all because of the shorts , the blatant visual précis of the image .
24 All because of those new sightscreens .
25 Clench ( 1947 ) discounted the idea of imbricata being a separate variety at all because of the complete intergradation he saw between the forms .
26 It was perhaps above all because of this disenchanting experience that the USSR , under Gorbachev 's leadership , began to take a more distanced view of the future development of Third World states .
27 All because of me .
28 I have devoted some time to the Aplysia story here , not only because of the significance of Eric Kandel 's achievement in terms of its wealth of experimental data and theoretical model building , but perhaps above all because of the place it has come to occupy , not only in the text-books , making memory research neurophysiologically respectable , but in the framing of the research field .
29 Or between wife and husband , we tend to think only of transfer from husbands to wife , but er we do meet quite er a w er ladies who 've got quite high earnings and they themselves are paying forty percent in which case they should make sure that any investment income of theirs is transferred to the husband , so as to get the , to either use up allowances that are not being used at all because of absence of the income , or to benefit from these different rates of tax .
30 You know , I 've had a bitter , hard life since I last heard your voice , and if I 've survived , it 's all because of you ! ’
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