Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] because [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sceptics say discounters have flourished in Germany only because of tight planning restrictions on supermarkets and the limited opening hours of German shops . |
| 2 | Er on the issue as to whether there should be co-option or appointment of additional members er only again Lord Tebbit , Lord Whitelaw and Lord Payton tacitly because of his amendments er have supported appointment rather than co-option . |
| 3 | It would not be whimsical to suggest that I still go to Arsenal now because of what Swindon did to me then : like a gambler who keeps playing because it is the only way to win back what he has lost , I still feel , somewhere in me , that I am owed for what Ian Ure and Jon Sammels and Bobby Gould put me through that afternoon . |
| 4 | The company chose Wrexham partly because of the generous financial aid available . |
| 5 | Prime Minister Tenguiz Sigua had resigned on Aug. 18 , the day before the Soviet August coup , when Gamsakhurdia dismissed Deputy Premier Otar Kviliataya and Foreign Minister Georgi Khoshtaria allegedly because of the government 's failure to halt economic decline and a fall in living standards . |
| 6 | For those who love Churchill partly because of his warts and feel they have been waiting too long to hear the case for the prosecution put eloquently and with impeccable soundness , ‘ it is a delight ’ . ’ |
| 7 | That will be ironic , as Yorkshire have not retained Tendulkar only because of India 's planned tour . |
| 8 | The Lucona affair [ see pp. 36404 ; 37688 ] made headlines in Austria largely because of its political overtones . |
| 9 | All this was poised to change rather rapidly by the late 1980s as these groups , plus the third largest American hotel chain Ramada , made a determined effort to increase their stake in London in particular , on the backs of the upsurge in American tourists coming to the United Kingdom largely because of exchange rate changes . |
| 10 | But Denholm was aboard the Ariadne not because of his many connections with the highest echelons of society — heir to an earldom , his blood was indisputably the bluest of the blue — but because , without question , he was the right man in the right place . |
| 11 | We have noted just how difficult it is to implement PHC effectively because of administrative inaccessibility of the relevant populations whilst geographically the communities using the health facility may be very close . |
| 12 | Why are we in Britain made to feel guilty about flying the Union Jack just because on occasions it is used by extremists ? — . |
| 13 | This is particularly difficult in view of the fact that it is just their children who are probably far more in need of that grace of God just because of the attitude of their parents , than those of parents who measure up to all the standards that we impose . |
| 14 | Antrim lost to Tipperary principally because of their failure to translate possession into scores , but in fairness full forward John Paul McKillop was a notable exception . |
| 15 | The point he missed was that they did not tax because they did not need to tax ; he despised the Scottish crown for its failure to collect the infamous taille , but this had , after all , been introduced to France only because of the need to finance military expeditions . |
| 16 | Hundreds of British lorry drivers are still stranded in Europe tonight because of a violent blockade on the border between France and Spain . |
| 17 | ‘ Bringing the law back in ’ is a worthy and important endeavour ; as Stone notes , the story of the control of marriage in England is radically different from that in France largely because of its different state structure . |
| 18 | Bert Millichip , the FA chairman , withdrew England 's application for the clubs to be allowed back into Europe largely because of the way incidents involving English fans , the Dusseldorf police and young Germans looking for trouble had been reported by the press and TV back home . |
| 19 | BRAVE entertainer Roy Castle publicly snubbed Lady Thatcher yesterday because of her involvement with a cigarette firm . |
| 20 | Following the publication on July 4 of a government survey showing that 71 per cent of the population felt there were " too many Arabs " in France , Cresson announced on July 11 that border controls would be stepped up , and that foreigners seeking political asylum would no longer be allowed to stay in France solely because of economic difficulties in their home countries . |
| 21 | Three years later the tables had turned once more and now Dannii was being asked for interviews in Britain simply because of her sister 's fame . |
| 22 | The Council still remains the organ with the broadest spread of democratic membership : it is the West European body which perhaps will benefit first from the revolutionary changes or-1989 in Eastern Europe precisely because of its more ‘ bland ’ nature : in 1990 Poland signified its desire to join the Council . |
| 23 | In 1210 Philip tried to marry the daughter of the landgrave of Thuringia , but by 1213 he decided to take back Ingeborg again because of his plan of conquering England . |
| 24 | Sociological positivism struck a resonant note in nineteenth-century Britain primarily because of its anti-metaphysical approach . |
| 25 | JIMMY WHITE was forced to pull out of the £25,000 Benson and Hedges snooker tournament in Glasgow yesterday because of an illness in his family . |
| 26 | And European planetary scientists believe that ESA 's advisers rejected the Kepler mission to Mars mainly because of its cost : at £300 million it was twice as much as ISO , and would have left a gap of four years before anything else could be funded . |
| 27 | He had decided to take this , the most spectacular , way round to Buttermere principally because of what he had heard of the rich wadd mines in Borrowdale valley — opened up only once in seven years , so he had heard , in order to control the market in this unique mineral which was useful over a remarkable range , from gunpowder to dyes . |
| 28 | In particular , men like Paul-Henri Spaak , who had worked so hard for the EEC , were conscious of the fact that many economic interests within the Six supported the foundation of the EEC primarily because of the advantages they believed would be accruable to themselves . |
| 29 | The producer may have to insist that Production Company A is more suitable to make the film than Production Company B. Perhaps because of the show-business nature of producing for TV , creative teams can want to take charge which can prove a disaster . |
| 30 | THE United Nations suspended humanitarian aid operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina yesterday because of obstruction and interference by all three civil war factions . |