Example sentences of "but because [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doctors told her she needed an emergency hysterectomy , but because of a bed shortage she had to wait in agony for three-and-a-half hours . |
| 2 | But because of a break-down in communication , the Probation Service , which could have warned-off the St. Lazarus group , was unaware that he had joined the organisation . |
| 3 | The initial interest of political researchers into the question of what to do with the regions came about , it must be said , not out of concern for neglected political interests in the periphery ( what Tarrow refers to as ‘ regionalism as peripheral defence ’ ) but because of a trend thought to have been observed in modern politics which seemed to go to the heart of the functioning of modern political systems . |
| 4 | But because of a contract signed by Darlington Borough Council and the hotel 's former leaseholders in 1974 , the rent paid by the company running it is only a fraction of its market value . |
| 5 | Social services say the action was ’ not satisfactory ’ , but because of a shortage of staff , Mr Chandler was put in the trolley to stop him wandering off . |
| 6 | Finally , with regard to cl 10 , it should be noted that no obligation to permit alteration of the goods to make them non-infringing is imposed on the buyer , and that the obligation to return infringing goods , subject to a refund of the price , is only imposed on the buyer where it arises not at the option of the seller but because of a judgment or settlement relating to the claim of infringement ( which is presumably not entirely within the seller 's control ) . |
| 7 | British films are too rarely good , not because of national character , but because of a production system that is inadequate to the task of generating a regular output of full-blooded films . |
| 8 | It was timed to explode just 30 minutes later but because of a blunder the detonator failed to explode — the capital 's second lucky escape in just 16 days . |
| 9 | It is not stated by the originator as to the exact site of the primary tumour from which MKN45 and MKN45G were derived but because of the gastrin secretory nature of MKN45G it could possibly have been in the antrum . |
| 10 | I listened to it I was shocked , not because of the content , but because of the happening of it and the realization of how Britain had changed . |
| 11 | LOW-ENERGY electron diffraction ( LEED ) has become the most successful technique in surface crystallography , but because of the complexity of the surface-electron scattering interactions , analyses of LEED data are still conducted on a trial-and-error basis : a direct-inversion method for treating LEED intensity data remains an attractive goal . |
| 12 | But because of the advent now of erm organized bonfires , that risk has receded but having said that it has only receded , not gone away . |
| 13 | Despite the hype , Switchboard is very special ; not because of its size , or its range , or its particular achievements but because of the way in which it has endured and grown and responded to a perceived constituency . |
| 14 | Once , again , this is a basic four row tuck , but because of the way the pattern is constructed the result is very three dimensional . |
| 15 | This was not through any idealistic belief in unity for its own sake , but because of the way these states viewed their national interests . |
| 16 | This is not because they do n't enjoy the subject but because of the way the courses are structured . |
| 17 | I have to own up and say that I do n't really like applications wanting to be installed into the Windows directory , but because of the way Windows handles wallpaper bitmaps , there 's little option here — the lot has to go there . |
| 18 | Is he aware that that progress has been made not merely because of the skill of the consultants and of the nursing staff but because of the way they work together as a team ? |
| 19 | It was not because the rating system was bad , but because of the way in which the rating system was being carried out , attacking certain areas of domestic property , and , because the English had not carried out a revaluation since 1973 , Scotland got out of line . |
| 20 | But because of the way nation states have been formed , and in the case of migrant workers , because of the way in which the labour market works , languages and their speakers are not usually of equal status , power and authority . |
| 21 | Most versions of BASIC only offer serial and random files , but because of the way that files re handled by BBC BASIC ( both on the BBC Computer and the Z88 using BBCBASIC(Z80) ) , it is possible to construct indexed , and even linked , files as well . |
| 22 | Police said there was no evidence that he was homosexual , but because of the way he died , he was linked with the other victims . |
| 23 | On average we have had 35 family members and 30 juniors , but because of the difficulty of ‘ policing ’ the courts we believe that at least twice that number of juniors actually play on the courts without paying a subscription ( members get a key , but juniors let their friends in ) . |
| 24 | It may seem strange but because of the attitudes then , that never caused any trouble . |
| 25 | This would be represented in the diagram by moving from point A to point C. The converse is true because if a school loses pupils ( represented by moving from point A to point B ) it is not that the school spends any more on fixed costs but because of the reduction in pupils and hence funding , fixed costs take a larger proportion of the available budget . |
| 26 | The sinner is thereby declared righteous , not because he or she was innocent of the charges brought against them , but because of the righteousness which belongs to Christ and is bestowed on them . |
| 27 | More of our ice cream is being imported from France , not because of the quality of our product but because of the shortage of milk . |
| 28 | This is not because of class affiliation to the ‘ class in charge ’ rather than the hegemonic class , but because of the bureaucracy's ' character as a specific category through the intermediary of its relation with the state ’ . |
| 29 | Usually only two or three information officers are involved in development work but because of the enormity of this task , different groupings had to be considered . |
| 30 | Their eyes locked again but because of the closeness of him now Ruth could n't break the contact . |