Example sentences of "[pers pn] because of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can sometimes be difficult to determine whether the patient is ill-tempered and perhaps foulmouthed towards you because of the immediate effects of his illness and the frustration he feels , especially if he can not speak normally , or whether it is part of a personality change which is going to last indefinitely . |
| 2 | You see , whoever put that poisoned cherry on the cake must have got sugar on his hands , but could n't lick them because of the poison , and could n't wash them because there was no water available . |
| 3 | We kept them because of the burglars . |
| 4 | She could hardly hear them because of the din , and the few words and phrases that she did catch — ‘ tolerances to five thou ’ , ‘ cross-boring ’ , ‘ CNC machine ’ , ‘ indexes round ’ — meant nothing to her . |
| 5 | And I ca n't see them because of the trees and bushes everywhere . |
| 6 | do n't chase solvent misusers around or over-excite them because of the small risk of ‘ sudden sniffing death ’ . |
| 7 | They would n't need them because of the , this technology and that that 's but nevertheless they do ha they would be conscripted because they do have to have the ground troops of |
| 8 | I 'm not going to name them because of the family , they 're dead now . |
| 9 | The Machine Gunners , for example , was cited by sixteen of the twenty-seven teachers to whom I spoke as being both consistently popular with pupils and also as being readily accessible to them because of the recent television serialization which caused heightened interest . |
| 10 | The new report notes that New Zealand , which introduced hotel charges , has subsequently abandoned them because of the cost of collection and their political unpopularity . |
| 11 | Greenpeace and other environmental organizations criticize them because of the risk both of accidents and the possibility of nuclear material falling into the hands of terrorists or governments intent on developing nuclear weapons . |
| 12 | Many organisations , as I 'm sure you are aware , buy computer or receive them as gifts , but they do n't make full use of them because of the lack of money for the necessary training and consultancy . |
| 13 | What is the point of having laws and courts if large numbers of people can not use them because of the price ? |
| 14 | ‘ The worst hit will be people who pay taxes and work hard but will only get legal aid if they pay huge amounts ’ ‘ What is the point of having laws and courts if large numbers of people can not use them because of the price ? ’ |
| 15 | Pargesa , Groupe Bruxelles Lambert and Banque Internationale decided to sell their Ansbacher stakes in June 1990 , although they later withdrew them because of the uncertainty caused by the Gulf War . |
| 16 | Sometimes Cabinet meetings horrify me because of the amount of rubbish talked by some Ministers who come there after reading briefs which they do not understand . |
| 17 | But I have to concede that an amazing number of people are interested in me because of the television programmes and the books . |
| 18 | I am sure that is what the family remembered best about me because of the way the mother 's letter began . |
| 19 | You are interesting to me because of the events of the night of Sabine Jourdain 's murder . |
| 20 | ‘ She 's already doing a novena for me because of the Good Sex Guide she 'll be praying forever when she sees this show . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Middlesbrough fans have not seen the best of me because of the nightmare run of injuries . |
| 22 | In other words , if Dr Akhtar has his way , it would become unlawful to vilify a person 's religion , just as it is to humiliate him because of the colour of his skin . |
| 23 | It was I who needed to see him because of the broken nights , the strain involved in loss of sleep . ’ |
| 24 | And the King believed what they said , and was wroth against the Cid , having no love towards him because of the oath which he had pressed upon him at Burgos concerning the death of King Don Sancho his brother . |
| 25 | The neighbour might say : ‘ He goes for her something shocking , but she sticks him because of the kids . ’ |
| 26 | She got involved with him because of the power element . |
| 27 | The notation unc was suggested to him because of the similarity of the properties of the relations of congruence and equality . |
| 28 | Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey were among the first to import them into England , and the painter Hans Holbein has since had a particular type of design named after him because of the number of times it featured in his portraits of Henry and the English Court , Similarly , the Flemish painter Hans Memlinc provides ample pictorial evidence of the passion for oriental rugs in the Netherlands and the Northern Europe . |
| 29 | I imagine the family considered that my father would be better off living with him because of the atmosphere created by my grandfather 's drinking . |
| 30 | We had to be particularly polite to him because of the enormous interests of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company ( now BP ) in the country … |