Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] because [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In those days a man was allocated duties , it is true they tried to arrange that he was on early spread , medium or late duties but it did n't always work out because of holidays , sickness or that but erm there were no restriction on hours . |
| 4 | It 's surprising actually cos th the more , the more common ones do run out because of course th the other ones are a bit pricey . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So it 's sort of can float up because of pull pulling it down . |
| 7 | Clearly compensation for people on low incomes is to be aimed only at those on income support , even though many disabled people have extra heating costs associated with their disability , and many others on low incomes , such as pensioners , may narrowly miss out because of small savings or because they do not qualify for means-tested benefits , but still live at income support level . |
| 8 | Across the road , the Boden furniture factory , which employs 30 people , may move out because of weekly robberies . |
| 9 | Novell Inc says it expects its new NetWare 4.0 to represent 20% of total revenues in the first 12 months of shipment , matching previous releases : some analysts had questioned how quickly NetWare 4.0 will take off because of its complexity . |
| 10 | The ramshackle eight-seater at first did not take off because of a storm after which a pilot could not be found . |
| 11 | She broke off as though to allow this to sink in then went on : ‘ Father knew perfectly well that my brother and I did n't agree , that we would part as soon as possible , so he made sure that we would be tied together in all the wrangling that would go on because of the joint legacy . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ For a while I thought we 'd go down because of it . |
| 13 | As you know from our submission , sir , n we 've taken a more modest requirement for the Greater York area , and that 's based to some extent upon what we think is is achievable there , we 're not saying that erm the figure should not be higher , we 're not saying that the H B F figure for instance should nu not be er put in there , but what we 're saying is if that higher figure does go in because of the clear constraints on the provision of additional land the the higher figure may well mean that there 's a need for two new settlements ra rather than just one . |
| 14 | RAF Hereford will shut down because of cutbacks in defence spending . |
| 15 | Although there is enough food there to feed 800,000 starving people for one month , most of it can not get through because of looters and bandits . |
| 16 | I 'll come through because in here ’ — she touched her own chest , lightly — ‘ there 's a piece of ice . ’ |
| 17 | I know he did come back because of the new tape on the Ansaphone . ’ |
| 18 | Or songs will come about because of the sound of the words . |
| 19 | One parent families may come about because of death , divorce or separation in a two parent family or the ending of cohabitation or when a single woman has a baby on her own . |
| 20 | You mean it was n't the rain — you did n't fly back because of me ? |