Example sentences of "[coord] because the [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scheme did not operate entirely as anticipated : the main departure was that there were some clients for whom the development officers provided no support , either because they were admitted immediately to institutional care ( and the development officers could not always influence this decision in the way they would have liked ) or because the clients did not need or want the services of the project . |
| 2 | Absolute precision is impossible : there are gaps in the series of accounts from some ports , either because the records have been lost or because the customs had been farmed to the collector for a fixed sum , and there are also some irregularities in the accounting periods , although the customs year normally ran from Michaelmas to Michaelmas . |
| 3 | It was either because they were non-Greek speakers or because the Romans had trouble understanding the Celtic tongue . |
| 4 | Whether to care for their wounded or because the men had rebelled , tired from the long day 's march and from the fight in the defile , they were being a ! lowed to eat and to rest . |
| 5 | He was acquitted , apparently because he had support within the royal household , and because the bishops united to reject the evidence of an inferior against one of themselves . |
| 6 | The second variant fails both because the requirement of consideration may be satisfied casually by an informal exchange of promises and because the courts invoke another doctrine , the requirement of an intention to enter legal relations , when they wish to claw back certain informal promises made in social and domestic contexts from the realm of contractual obligations . |
| 7 | Because the style ‘ Pountney and Goldney ’ lasted only a few years , and because the scenes depicted are still very attractive , good examples , without chips , cracks or staining and with the recognised mark , often fetch high prices at auction . |
| 8 | and because the streets had all become interiors |
| 9 | Because German opposition was light in this sector , and because the Germans thought that , after their bleeding at Verdun , they were incapable of massed attack , the French made some gains . |
| 10 | Strength and mobility of joints improves , and because the muscles need more energy , stored body fat is broken down and utilised , leading to a reduction in weight . |
| 11 | In the case of the franc-dollar and lira-dollar the speculative efficiency hypothesis was rejected both because the estimate of β was different from unity and because the errors showed signs of serial correlation ( in the case of the lira-dollar ) . |
| 12 | It was later to be challenged in urban Spain — not merely that of the great city but also the sizeable southern agrarian pueblo — because his parishioners were confronted with rival ideologies and because the priests tended to side with the notables . |
| 13 | For that reason , and because the quartets encompass the complete gamut of human emotion , one close friend of Shostakovich has described him as ‘ the Beethoven of our age . ’ |
| 14 | He saw the whole machinery of government as keenly attuned to public opinion because the character of the government depended on the results of the last general election ; because there must be an election at least every 5 years ; and because the electors had a genuinely free choice between candidates putting forward different policies . |
| 15 | ( 3 ) But because Newco has paid only £900 instead of £1,000 for Target , and because the managers have put up only half the cost but acquired a controlling interest in , and consequently more than half the value of , Newco , can management be liable for Schedule E income tax on the difference between what they have paid ( £450 ) and the value of what they have acquired ( £600 ) ? |
| 16 | Berg 's claim failed because the company was not misled and did not rely on the report and because the facts did not raise a situation where G was acting in fraud of the company or its creditors . |
| 17 | The cost of one wall was saved and because the buildings housing animals were close to the barn , they could be supplied more easily with straw . |
| 18 | Because of the role of the home in family life and because the sums involved were so much larger , getting behind with mortgage payments became a more serious potential debt trap than running up bills at retailers . |
| 19 | If Poland was backward it was not because the Poles wanted it so , but because Germany and the other partitioning powers had made it that way , and because the Allies had failed to provide the necessary capital to finance Poland to do the job they required . |
| 20 | Secondaries can usually be identified because they cluster around the larger primary , often forming chains and other small groups , and because the impacts producing them are at low angles and low speeds and so the craters are usually elongated . |
| 21 | This is not because the farm worker is any more of an individualist per se than his industrial counterparts — whatever the stereotypes — but because the circumstances surrounding the farm worker render individual action , rather than collective mobilization , the only realistic alternative for the majority of those working on the land . |
| 22 | But because the sponsors insist , the party must go on : " You have such a wonderful life , " bellows a huge woman , before sinking into a sofa . |
| 23 | In the heart of it was one of those still meres that were frequent in this part of the forest but because the yews had given way to giant beeches there was nothing dark about this lake which reflected the blue sky above and was a mirror of brightness . |
| 24 | Such ideas tend to be anathema to the Army Board , not because they are against the creation of stronger reserves ; nor because of the difficulties of finding barrack accommodation and training areas in the cramped and over-populated British Isles ; but because the units withdrawn from the Continent would become vulnerable to pruning in some future retrenchment programme — reserves are always the first to go when cuts are demanded , since their size is based on subjective rather than objective judgments . |
| 25 | But it was not in the way that the poor had always looked alike — it was not , that is , because they were shabby , shoeless and grubby as moles — but because the gangs wished to look alike , and had adopted a uniform dress-style . |