Example sentences of "on the [noun sg] because [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vice chairman Alan Noble resigned his seat on the board because of business commitments , but that was n't the last of him . |
| 2 | In the past , too many tunnel schemes have ended up on the surface because of the cost implications . |
| 3 | To calculate the number of ways this chain can be added to a lattice , the necessary restriction imposed is that the segments must occupy r contiguous sites on the lattice because of the connectivity . |
| 4 | Cookham cancelled their match on the river because of poor weather and although the waterway at Maidenhead was fishable the match had to be cancelled because of frozen banks . |
| 5 | Warnings earlier in November of possible default on the debt because of lack of hard-currency reserves had prompted a meeting of G-7 officials in Paris on Nov. 6 . |
| 6 | If you ever get to be a concert violinist , which I personally doubt , you 'll always wonder if people want you on the platform because of your looks or because you 're any good . ’ |
| 7 | Judge Vos told him : ‘ You can not be unleashed on the public because of the damage you do when you take a car , and there is also the danger to life and limb that you present . ’ |
| 8 | But at the same time he deserves a pat on the back because of some of the saves he had to make . |
| 9 | I know that when I had my children I 'd have loved my mother to be there but she missed out on the pleasure because of hospital policy . |
| 10 | Mexico is a country where the church does not have a strong grip on the population because of the force with which the revolutionaries opposed the clergy , believing them to be partly responsible for the backwardness of rural areas . |
| 11 | Obviously , I can not comment on the inquiry because of those investigations . |
| 12 | Richard Baxter saw these as God 's judgments on the nation because of its terrible persecution of God 's people . |
| 13 | This would clearly be unfair on the defendant because at the end of the period of the dependency the whole of the capital sum would remain . |
| 14 | I might have been able to afford to pay them on the spot because of the win , but I still had to get home on the train that night . |
| 15 | The appellant had appeared before the Crown Court and the indictment was allowed to lie on the file because of his condition ; shortly afterwards he was arrested again in possession of heroin and the prosecution obtained leave to proceed on the indictment . |
| 16 | In general terms , heavier impacts may be made on the body because of the muscular ‘ padding ’ available . |
| 17 | ‘ There are many instances where UK investment and product costs have been up to twenty per cent below other European countries , but the investment has still been located on the continent because of unfair political pressures and highly discriminatory practices , ’ he added to gasps of pained surprise . |