Example sentences of "was [verb] because [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Proposed for 25,000 people , the building of the city was stopped because of the economic crisis after two ‘ superblock ’ units had been constructed , but sufficient was shown that a quite different form of residential layout was possible from that dependent on the provision of estate roads and traditional house frontage . |
| 2 | Did the Secretary of State read in the memoirs of Dr. Garrett FitzGerald that during the negotiations on the Anglo-Irish Agreement the Government had been prepared to allow judges from the courts in the Irish Republic to sit on the Bench in Northern Ireland as part of what are described as mixed courts , but that that was stopped because of the resistance of then then Lord Chief Justice , Lord Lowry ? |
| 3 | The original charge was of sending a fake bomb with intent , but the charge was amended because of the man 's mental state . |
| 4 | A Bill was actually introduced into the Commons in 1871 to disafforest it , but was withdrawn because of the strength of the opposition . |
| 5 | The 35-year-old Bellaghy man , who was jailed in July in Dublin for armed robbery , strenuously denied that he was dismissed because of a financial dispute with his employers . |
| 6 | He had a period as a railway clerk at Bridge , but was dismissed because of a deficit of eleven pounds . |
| 7 | The flight from Gatwick was diverted because of the scare , even though twenty-six year old Jason Reszeter ( Ressiter ) from Wootton near Abingdon immediately told the stewardess he was ’ winding her up . ’ |
| 8 | From this point on , progress was limited because of the great instability of the inhibitory substance . |
| 9 | Now was the main race , a true International with 17 nations on the start line , something we have not seen in Britain for some time despite the fact that the entry was limited because of the following week 's World Sprint Championships which caused some potential entrants to opt out . |
| 10 | The support was given because of the EEC 's desire to obtain some sort of self-sufficiency in uranium supplies . |
| 11 | However , middle class observers were sensitive to the possibility that the working class husband might not provide ; after all , the bourgeois family model was favoured because of the work incentive it provided for working class men , which presupposed that such an incentive was necessary . |
| 12 | There can be little doubt that this fact proved influential in reducing the strength of the cavalry ( a strength which , as we have seen , was contracting because of the new requirements of war ) and of turning many who might have fought on horseback into men-at-arms who rode into battle , dismounted , and then fought on foot . |
| 13 | The sugar harvest was delayed because of a dispute over terms for a new harvesting contract between the government-controlled milling company , Fiji Sugar Corp. , and the 22,000 ( pre-dominantly Indian ) sugarcane growers . |
| 14 | The move was delayed because of a serious knee injury … |
| 15 | Its completion was delayed because of the case . |
| 16 | The interesting fact was that it was recorded back in 1990 as part of a series of people at work and was delayed because of the Gulf War . |
| 17 | The announcement of the 1991 budget , expected on Dec. 31 , 1990 , was delayed because of the cost of the Gulf crisis ( estimated at $21,000 million by the end of 1990 ) and uncertainty over world oil markets ; the 1990 budget was to be extended for as long as necessary . |
| 18 | The latter practice was discouraged because of the damage it could cause to the roof of the tunnel . |
| 19 | The team was chosen so far ahead that the monumental Rangers defender George Young was omitted because of an injury that cleared up weeks before the team left Scotland . |
| 20 | Speculation on whether the historic meeting would actually go ahead , however , was intensified when , on the same day , a planned visit to the South by a North Korean delegation — the first since 1985 — was cancelled because of a failure to agree upon minor procedural details . |
| 21 | The Broadway opening was cancelled because of a blizzard . |
| 22 | The operation was cancelled because of a shortage of beds in intensive care where he will recover from his surgery . |
| 23 | ‘ Our original tour , in 1987 , was cancelled because of the World Cup and we were not due to visit New Zealand again until 1996 , ’ he said . |
| 24 | That was cancelled because of the holidays . |
| 25 | ( The queen had been due to visit Iran in the royal yacht Britannia in January 1979 ; at the last minute the trip was cancelled because of the turmoil in Iran and the queen sent the Shah a gracious and sympathetic handwritten note of regret ) . |
| 26 | I know it was cancelled because of the weather . |
| 27 | The owners of a department store which was evacuated because of a bomb scare have criticised the police operation . |
| 28 | This was included because of the different sensitivity of the top and bottom of the optical RAM . |
| 29 | Trade with the Soviet Union reached US$2,000 million , but was shrinking because of the withdrawal of Soviet aid and the transfer of trade to a hard-currency basis . |
| 30 | But a proposed clause in the new act to disallow for quota any film of low standard of production and entertainment value was dropped because of the difficulties involved in determining which films should be excluded . |