Example sentences of "[verb] down because [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had to sit down because of the shock . |
| 2 | Personal bankruptcies may also slow down because of the recent interest rate cuts but are expected to continue at a high level for some time , he said . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The system of setting limits to public spending had broken down because of the following : |
| 5 | It is used less and less as people have cracked down because of its toxicity — it used to be sloshed around . |
| 6 | According to the ITAR-TASS news agency the referendum call was voted down because of alleged breaches in the law during the collection of signatures . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Like Lamb , their schemes were turned down because of planning faults . |
| 9 | Two in five employers said that a woman the same age and with the same skills as a man would be more likely to be turned down because of her age . |
| 10 | Does the Minister expect that while the award system is kept under review and resources are scarce , some consideration should be given to students who come from poor backgrounds and achieve high marks but are turned down because of a shortage of places ? |
| 11 | This request was turned down because of the cost and the fact that the present 30 per cent . |
| 12 | The bid to set up a Chinese takeaway on Whinfield Road was turned down because of parking problems and likely disturbance . |
| 13 | The two hour speech that I was going to make I , I cut down because of the weather so I think even though the sun is out , I 'll continue with the abbreviated version of it . |
| 14 | More second marriages break down because of the children of the partners than for any other single cause . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In the event , he was accepted at Birmingham University , but just before he arrived he was informed that the geography department had been closed down because of austerity measures brought in during World War N. He therefore decided to read geology instead , but shortly afterwards he received notification that this department was also to be closed . |
| 17 | The winning bidder will be ‘ arrested ’ by police and spend a day at Armley jail , Leeds , whose young offenders wing was closed down because of a spate of suicides . |
| 18 | It was reported in October that the party 's Rural Policy Research Centre , the leading agricultural research group , was being closed down because of its links with Zhao Ziyang and the pro-democracy movement . |
| 19 | They have been overthrown ( Asquith , Lloyd George ) , stepped down because of old age , ill health , or policy failures ( Balfour , Bonar Law , MacDonald , Chamberlain , Churchill , Eden , Macmillan ) , or were repudiated by the voters ( Attlee , Heath , Callaghan ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The boat 's engines had to be slowed down because of an oil leak at 3 pm. and the Captain radioed for help . |
| 22 | One of the opposition 's chief demands is that President Gustav Husak should step down because of his association with the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Miss Rocco said Prince Philip was incapable of helping his sons when their marriages broke down because of his own austere upbringing . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Mr Piedboeuf said : ‘ The worst damage was that our computers broke down because of the heavy load . |
| 28 | The destruction slowed down because of surpluses in farmland and an increased realisation of the woodland 's conservation value . |
| 29 | I slowed down because for a moment I thought you might need help . |
| 30 | In many cases the scope of a project has to be scaled down because of the restricted data available and/or the restricted resources of the research worker . |