Example sentences of "because [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sybase has done very well in financial markets and companies in Wall Street and the City , mostly because for a long time it could offer facilities such as triggers and stored procedures that Oracle could n't . |
| 2 | Sybase has done very well in financial markets and companies in Wall Street and the City , mostly because for a long time it could offer facilities such as triggers and stored procedures that Oracle could n't . |
| 3 | Mr Chairman , I I welcome this opportunity er of of saying just a very brief word about fire service because as a new member I think one of the services that this county has er er is top in is the fire service . |
| 4 | That is because as a racing team , Ferrari is like Britain before the Norman Conquest : a bunch of fiefdoms , with all sorts of lesser people shoving against each other for power in a small factory where there is n't any ultimate power to be had : at least not until the Grand Old Man goes . |
| 5 | Years later he said being called Boy was a disaster because as an old man of fifty it made him feel a fool . |
| 6 | It was difficult , because as an out-and-out openside my style did not always suit their rugby . |
| 7 | As far as I 'm concerned personally , I think it 's very , very weak , take it back and re-draft it and allow the employees to be in the control of their own destiny , because after a national fraud and a scandal that 's taken place that we could never trust any employer to carry out a scheme . |
| 8 | One can not fly the aircraft ‘ hands off ’ because after a short while it starts to wander off course ’ . |
| 9 | CANS of a fish product , manufactured by a Scottish company , have been withdrawn from sale throughout Britain as a precautionary measure because of a possible link with a case of suspected botulism in which a woman was paralysed from the neck down . |
| 10 | VAUXHALL are recalling more than 1,000 Vauxhall Senator and Carlton cars built since August because of a possible steering assembly problem . |
| 11 | In Reading , Wokingham Road , that route is closed because of a fractured gas main and it 's gon na be closed until about 8 ‘ o clock this evening . |
| 12 | The fault came to Rangers ' attention when they were forced to postpone a Premier Division game with Dundee United at Ibrox in December because of a fractured drainage pipe . |
| 13 | First , a look ahead to the cup game with Bath on Saturday , which Mike wo n't be able to take part in because of a recent injury . |
| 14 | Later metabolic studies of methotrexate revealed that it is virtually without effect in the rabbit because of a metabolic peculiarity . |
| 15 | Bond prices have since fallen and yields risen , partly because of inflation worries , but more because of a worldwide liquidity squeeze which has caused bond yields to rise virtually everywhere . |
| 16 | Partly because of a worldwide interest in comparative health studies , statistics on health are a major component of UK government publications . |
| 17 | At its surface Mercury resembles the Moon : atmosphereless , devoid of volatiles , and still bearing ancient craters because of a long history of geological quiescence . |
| 18 | The cardinal points of her compass card were friendship with Great Britain ( partly because of traditional and sentimental reasons and partly because of a long coastline ) and watchfulness towards her neighbours , Austria-Hungary and France . |
| 19 | But chimpanzees do not breed well in captivity , partly because of a long pregnancy and childhood , and trapping them in the wild is expensive and wasteful enough to put them at risk of extinction . |
| 20 | They 've been told to stay at home because of a one-day strike by staff protesting about redundancies . |
| 21 | TRAVELLERS face chaos next week because of a one-day strike called by the biggest rail union . |
| 22 | , In the same week as the treaty was signed , the British Antarctic Survey revealed that it was having to cut its scientific research programme because of a budgetary crisis . |
| 23 | In the company 's defence , the NRA said that because of a regional water shortage , less water had been used by the plant , at the request of the local water authority . |
| 24 | I actually believe that one of the areas where the Catholic Church did a lot of damage , is that because of a celibate clergy this obsession with sex has exaggerated it too much . |
| 25 | This was done electively in 10 of the 11 patients because of a prolonged procedure time caused by excessive stone burden or difficult stone extraction . |
| 26 | The SRU turned down an invitation because of a packed calendar . |
| 27 | They sometimes get impatient with their counterpart , who necessarily has a longer term perspective and can not work fulltime because of a low salary . |
| 28 | The Cambridge forecasters had simply observed that up until 1986 there would be a substantial increase in the total number of people wanting work , and not enough new jobs being created , because of a low rate of national economic growth , to match that increase . |
| 29 | For example , if you left because of a poor relationship with your boss or poor work performance it is going to put a lot of doubts in the mind of the interviewer if you come straight out with it . |
| 30 | In that case the buyer of a new Nissan car had had it for less than three weeks and had made two or three short journeys in it for the purpose of trying it out , before the engine seized up because of a latent manufacturing fault . |