Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] [noun] because [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A decision to cut or pass the dividend will be especially painful for Costain because of the blow it will be for the 91 per cent of shareholders who took up last year 's rights issue and because Costain will be only the second major contractor , after John Laing , to cut the pay-out . |
| 2 | These effects are less marked with fentanyl because of its shorter serum half-life . |
| 3 | Back in the bad old days of the ‘ tripartite system ’ and the 11-plus , when it was more acceptable to know your place , and upward mobility was not such an unquestionably good idea , life was easier and less personal for teachers because to a much greater extent their values were stably enshrined in the organization and structures of the schools for which they worked . |
| 4 | This was the pure gospel of Joseph Chamberlain , especially real to Law because of his Canadian connections , but the real significance of the decision was felt by few in Britain , even on the Unionist side . |
| 5 | MV is necessarily equal to PQ because of the way the terms are defined . |
| 6 | In Germany union membership was perhaps less important to employees because of the benefits obtainable from an extensive legalistic employment code together with co-determination . |
| 7 | It is the least mechanised of our farming scenery , the least efficient and the most resistant to change because of the multiple ownership and the often rented holdings . |
| 8 | Pentland Crown accounts for only two per cent of the commercial market , but is still popular with gardeners because of its hardiness and resistance to disease . |
| 9 | A more complex rule , linking monetary policy to last period 's unemployment rate or balance of payments deficit or whatever , may be less easy to understand and more subject to error because of , for example , inaccuracies in the balance of payments figures . |
| 10 | Indeed people may become more diverse with age because of differing life experiences . |
| 11 | Smaller firms in the UK are more vulnerable to takeovers because of the existence of a sophisticated Stock Exchange which encourages small companies to raise finance by being floated on the unlisted markets . |
| 12 | There is no shortage of adaptive explanations for size increase , but Darwin is one of the few to have pointed out that large organisms such as mastodonts and dinosaurs would have been more vulnerable to extinction because of the limitations of food resources . |
| 13 | wire cutters and we 'll have them down , have 'em back here , and they wo n't be wasted , cos although you ca n't use the straps again we 're always short of fronts because of damage cos you can regularly replace the fronts but not the straps |
| 14 | Demant 's own chapter would have been all the more attractive to Eliot because of its wide-ranging view which combined the primitive and the sophisticated . |
| 15 | The sacristy , reached after the second altar on the right , is widely believed to be the most beautiful in Milan because of the carved cupboards , the work of Giovanni Taurino , a master carver who was also responsible for the confessionals which he completed in 1596 . |
| 16 | This problem , also experienced to some extent in Nicaragua , has been particularly acute in Mozambique because of the high levels of illiteracy and shortages of skilled people at all levels , and the legacy of a highly authoritarian colonial school system . |
| 17 | Amphibians are particularly prone to dehydration because of their permeable skins . |
| 18 | If we were to present separate maps for unemployment by sex , the map for females would show southern Italy in a worse light , but female unemployment data are particularly prone to non-comparability because of wider differences between countries in the definitions used . |
| 19 | This , however , is particularly grave with sections because of civil liberties implications . |
| 20 | This topic is particularly important in Mexico because of the earthquake which shook the city , and because of the massive size of Mexico City , the world 's largest city . |
| 21 | The problem of generalization is a serious one in most of psychology but is particularly poignant in psychobiology because of the damaging consequences of getting it wrong . |
| 22 | Any sound grain which was harvested was completely unusable for flour because of the fishy smell which accompanied the smut , ( hence it was often referred to as stinking smut ) . |
| 23 | The path was narrow and winding , barely visible in places because of the mud and wild grasses , but the two children had no difficulty in following it . |
| 24 | The Wigan contingent is a record by a considerable margin , with David Myers , recently transfer-listed at £125,000 because of the lack of first-team opportunities , the only English player from their regular 18-man squad missing out . |
| 25 | The rest of the day was n't very clear to Benny because of the heavy cloud of disappointment that seemed to hang over the whole proceedings . |
| 26 | At other times , the FRN should be priced very close to par because of the manner in which the coupon is reset . |