Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Reynolds needed the nasogastric tube for 4 days after his operation because he developed a paralytic ileus and it was not until the fourth post-operative day that the bowel began to work . |
| 2 | Hywel looks after his sheep because they are here . |
| 3 | Howard 's accounts received such widespread attention at the time and are still read two hundred years after his death because he so precisely ‘ set down matter of fact ’ . |
| 4 | The court action would continue after his death because of his desire to stop others — including his four young grandchildren — from following his example . |
| 5 | Dunwoody is hopeful of returning to the racecourse next Tuesday following his lay-off because of a broken bone in his right hand . |
| 6 | Putting names to faces : You may wish to be able to look at someone and think instantly of his name because it makes social life so much easier ; or you may wish to improve your chances of impressing a business acquaintance ( and possibly making a deal as a result ) . |
| 7 | And then there was all this problem of who was going to pay for him for the rest of his life because he was a vegetable . ’ |
| 8 | Richard Assheton may have employed the best church architects of his day because he was himself an amateur architect ( he designed a church at Flecknoe , near Daventry , south of Rugby ) and hence may have appreciated the difficulties of architectural design and the ability of talented practitioners to resolve them happily . |
| 9 | Taskopruzade 's statement about the three posts is ambiguous in this respect , although his assertion that Molla Fenari was unable to make fair copies of a number of his works because of his duties as kadi , muderris and Mufti might be taken to imply that he held the posts simultaneously . |
| 10 | It is clear from this example that inverse irreversibility can and often does , cut both ways , that is , Eysenck 's bias in favour of race being a principal factor in inherent intelligence and the psychiatrists ' abuse of his statistics because of that , red herring in mad pursuit of red herring . |
| 11 | The judge 's failure to apply the correct test in this respect was compounded by the fact that he was deprived of the material which was necessary for the proper exercise of his discretion because of his failure to require that the mother be notified of the foster mother 's application for leave under rule 4.3(2) ( b ) of the Family Proceedings Rules 1991 . |
| 12 | Vulnerable to the attacks of his enemies because of his religion , he publicly said little of the role of Catholics in the colony and urged them not to put themselves forward prominently . |
| 13 | A person unwittingly cheated of his entitlement because of official error would receive backdated benefit when the error was discovered . |
| 14 | Walter is seen to be best in the care of his parents because they protect him and offer him a barrier against the outside world . |
| 15 | He takes care of his parents because they can no longer take care of him or of themselves . |
| 16 | That was before my time , of course , but he obviously passed on some of his skills because during , or just after , very wet weather , Sam would go off somewhere and catch lovely brown trout , which he often gave to people who were ill ; and sometimes when he had a sheep to kill , he would send down the head which would make a really tasty and nourishing broth . |
| 17 | Earlier today the Secretary of State chided me and said that in some way I was an advocate of his system because I used the example of refuse collection and its cost to show that his system was simple and that we were in agreement on it . |
| 18 | Komarek said on April 9 that Reichel had been relieved of his posts because he wanted to concentrate on election work for the Czechoslovakian People 's Party , of which he was a member . |
| 19 | Luke was ruthlessly dismissive , utterly without conscience , and she could welcome this further evidence of his hypocrisy because it reinforced resistance . |
| 20 | There was n't much space along here , and he could no longer rely on people taking one look and then getting out of his way because there was nowhere for them to go . |
| 21 | The total amount of marks possible was two hundred and five and I got a hundred and nineteen or something I do n't know and , and goes yes I had to average five of his marks because he was absent . |
| 22 | One man explained that he was unable to continue payment in support of his mother because he had joined the Navy , and he was given exemption . |
| 23 | Tamburlaine is confident that he is in control of his destiny because he believes it is his fate . |
| 24 | His father was very proud of his house because he had built it on a bit of land at Low Fields and did quite a lot of the construction work himself , with the help of his bachelor brother , Tommy . |
| 25 | There should be no element of double charge when the manager disposes of his shares because the " notional loan " element should not also be liable to capital gains tax ( see s37 TCGA 1992 ) . |
| 26 | Although the book will be published in a jurisdiction with literary proceeds legislation , the report indicates that the author may not be deprived of his royalties because of the absence of an identifiable victim . |
| 27 | I hope to be able to deal with some of his comments because , as Chairman of the Select Committee on Trade and Industry , I share his grave concern about the future of manufacturing and trade in this country . |
| 28 | Neddy was an old Dales character who played the harmonium and who found an old bell one day which he placed on top of his harmonium because he liked the sound of it . |
| 29 | Puddephat had refused to take his place at a formal dinner to welcome the new master of his college because he had been placed opposite Dr Theodore Sykes , a fellow member of the English faculty . |
| 30 | However it would appear that Hahnemann was a couple of centuries ahead of his time because it is now known that the DNA of certain viruses can incorporate itself into our own genome , our own inherited material . |