Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [be] [adv] because of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have been trying for years , centuries , to establish this and it is only because of help from outside that we have been able to do it now . |
| 2 | More perceptively , Lloyd Shearer in Parade wrote , ‘ With his short stature , hook nose , beady eyes , unkempt hair , he looks like a loser , and it is precisely because of that loser image that the younger generation have made him their winner . ’ |
| 3 | He is more poet than academic , or professional religious , and it is precisely because of his wilful integrity and gift for language that he is able to share a sense of the actual process — frequently frustrating — of the practice of spiritual discipline which for all the mystics is the weapon in the battle against the forces of darkness that self-evidently threaten to destroy human fulfilment . |
| 4 | There should have been light from above and below , but in fact there was almost none , and it was partly because of that , and because it was also rather colder than it had to be , that Quiss had set off something like an hour before to find some of the castle 's attendants . |
| 5 | And it was probably because of his desire to ‘ touch ’ space that he began to abandon landscape painting and to devote himself increasingly to still life , in which the depth was naturally more restricted and could be more easily controlled . |
| 6 | There would be trouble now , and it was all because of him . |
| 7 | The Historic Buildings Council was unable to increase its grant to pay for this work and it was only because of the intervention of the chairman of the planning committee that an exceptional grant to cover the extra cost was obtained from Southwark Council . |
| 8 | But it is also because of the geography of growth of the service sector , which has also been very uneven . |
| 9 | This is partly because more is known about him , and because his drawings and those of his younger contemporary John Thorpe [ q.v. ] ( a high proportion of which are survey drawings ) are the only large personal collection from this period that still exist , but it is also because of the distinctive and remarkable character of the houses with which he can be connected . |
| 10 | This is partly because of the association between old age and poor housing conditions , but it is primarily because of the association between poor housing conditions and low-income owners . |
| 11 | because there 's no job opportunities over here , it 's a lovely country but it 's simply because of the work factor . |
| 12 | In part this was due to the public-sector controls on investment , but it was also because of the natural priorities that had operated year after year inside British Rail . |
| 13 | Early on , Solowka and Gregory did their own bit of AWOLing but it was usually because of a Littlewoods Cup replay , not to escort a bevy of simpering temptresses in nylon flairs . |
| 14 | This did happen frequently for a variety of reasons , but it was usually because of a worsening of weather conditions either at home base or over the target area . |