Example sentences of "break [adv prt] because [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the two cross-examinations , lasting perhaps ten or fifteen minutes in all , the two counsel put their heads together for a minute , and then one of them addresses the rest of the gathering , who have acted as jury , and submits that the alibi has been broken down because of this and that discrepancy . |
| 2 | The system of setting limits to public spending had broken down because of the following : |
| 3 | Although he wrote just after the Great Depression of the nineteen-thirties , he rejected the idea that capitalism would break down because of a lack of investment opportunities and a reduction in the real rate of profit . |
| 4 | More second marriages break down because of the children of the partners than for any other single cause . |
| 5 | NOW that several of his own teeth have lost their crowns , and the fillings beneath have deteriorated , Kenneth Anusavice wishes his mother had known what today 's studies have shown : that not all cavities call for immediate fillings and that it is not always necessary to replace fillings that break down because of wear and tear . |
| 6 | Many bands break up because of personality clashes between musicians . |
| 7 | There is evidence from Finland that despite the gains made in achieving integration , it is breaking down because of the introduction of specialist foresters and sophisticated machinery . |
| 8 | Mr Lawson 's mistake was that when formal monetary targeting broke down because of the impossibility of finding any measure of money which bore an accurate relationship with nominal demand , he thought that he could use the exchange rate as an informal target . |
| 9 | The third mechanism , that of the price agreement , upon which management placed much reliance in single-place working , also broke down because of the detailed breakdown of jobs . |
| 10 | Miss Rocco said Prince Philip was incapable of helping his sons when their marriages broke down because of his own austere upbringing . |
| 11 | Under Rufus , the alliance of king and archbishop had been broken because the king was unmanageable ; under Henry , it broke down because of Anselm 's loyalty to the papal decree of 1099 . |
| 12 | Mr Piedboeuf said : ‘ The worst damage was that our computers broke down because of the heavy load . |
| 13 | From Vitebsk it was heard that a railway-wagon workshop meeting convened on 30 March with the aim of helping in the requisition of church valuables broke up because of the ‘ thunderous outcries of believers ’ . |