Example sentences of "only because [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if we are speaking as Christians , we must quickly add that this situation is a problem only because of the Fall . |
| 2 | The implementation of housing policy is fragmented not only because of the mixture of kinds of housing authorities ; this is an area of social policy in which many significant decisions are made by private agencies . |
| 3 | It 's worth noting , colleagues , that it 's only because of the determination of our members to ensure that their already meagre standard of living and basic rates are not further eroded that even this small achievement has been possible . |
| 4 | There is another point : the additionality test is to ensure that the moneys are spent only because of the grant . |
| 5 | Ornithologists were puzzled — or sceptical — not only because of the date but because the ‘ hearing ’ was in a street close to the city centre . |
| 6 | But it was equally clear that the share-pushing operations were often made possible only because of the assistance of third parties such as bankers , accountants and solicitors . |
| 7 | The ironing , altering , re-tailoring had all been done against the clock and pushed through only because of the tyranny of Miss D'Arcy . |
| 8 | The burden of the debt is indeed a misnomer , since the burden arises only because of the existence of constraints on tax policy . |
| 9 | Moreover , moving from the official to the private level , there was a significant and regular cross-border movement of ordinary individuals , if only because of the existence in both countries of Shiite Holy Places — in particular , Qom and Mashhad in Iran , Najaf and Karbala in Iraq — which attracted visitors , whether as a form of pilgrimage or to bury their dead . |
| 10 | But only because of the dream . |
| 11 | Rivers in the region are suffering not only because of the drought , but because of water extraction . |
| 12 | These data are of interest not only because of the support they provide for the cohort model , but also because of a more general point they make about cognition , namely , that we must make a clear distinction between the sequence of processing stages and the accessibility of these stages for consciousness , or for the control of responses . |
| 13 | I have devoted some time to the Aplysia story here , not only because of the significance of Eric Kandel 's achievement in terms of its wealth of experimental data and theoretical model building , but perhaps above all because of the place it has come to occupy , not only in the text-books , making memory research neurophysiologically respectable , but in the framing of the research field . |
| 14 | In open country , birds are easy targets for predators , and many authors have argued that flocking increases the likelihood of an individual 's survival in the event of an attack , if only because of the cover provided by its fellows ( Vine 1971 ; Hamilton 1971a ) . |
| 15 | And the pressures are probably much greater within the public sector , if only because of the difficulty of obtaining further employment in the public sector if one has been dismissed for disciplinary reasons . |
| 16 | Some of the activities and resources are such that the parties engage or wish to engage in them or possess them only because of the conflict . |
| 17 | The overall picture presented in his article is a little less clear than it might be , if only because of the multiplicity of interesting observations ( fortunately Bolinger provides us with copious examples ) but it may be summarized as follows : ( a ) Adjectives may qualify either the referent of a noun or its sense without simultaneously applying to the other . |
| 18 | First , if the foregoing appears to ignore questions of democracy within the enterprise that is only because of the order of exposition . |
| 19 | Where a rural freight branch has survived , this is only because of the presence of a major user , such as Blue Circle Cement at Eastgate , Associated Octel at Amlwch and Esso at Fawley . |
| 20 | It is true that 8 exemplifies a recurrent semantic contrast , but this is possible only because of the presence of m — in both sentences . |
| 21 | Gittins 's work is useful not only because of the way in which she highlights gender , but also because her empirical data broaden out from the household and show that women at least have , under certain circumstances in the past , been involved in the use of kin relations to maximize resources across households . |
| 22 | ‘ Only because of the way you behaved , ’ Molly was angry enough to answer . |
| 23 | It has that effect only because of the way the rest of the computer is wired up . |
| 24 | The twenty–three–mile branch line from Northallerton has survived only because of the Tarmac quarry terminal located at Redmire , supplying limestone for use as flux in the steel–making process . |
| 25 | While this is often assumed axiomatic to good services , which have been removed from a local base only because of the division of labour requirements of bureaux , it is not a self-evident welfare virtue . |
| 26 | They all know that the Bill has been brought to the House in this form only because of the catastrophe of what happened on the Bills that were guillotined a few years ago — the poll tax Bills . |
| 27 | The PROFITBOSS is a personality only because of the profit he makes . |
| 28 | Gunn stands out , not only because of the colour of his three pairs of work trousers , burnt-Sienna , but because of his industry . |
| 29 | The reserves are shown to increase by £1m that year , but only because of the sale of some farms and houses . |
| 30 | Some partnerships have endured only because of the absence of one , most usually the husband , on business trips or , at least , his lack of presence in the house during the day . |