Example sentences of "but because [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not out of contempt , but because under the present circumstances , they 're a killer — people emerge exhausted ; you ca n't get artistic satisfaction . |
| 2 | Jackie Stewart was easily recognizable on the starting grid , but because of the distinguishable Stewart tartan band across his helmet . |
| 3 | But because of the parlous state of the National Insurance Fund ( largely caused by unemployment ) , NI contributions for employees will increase . |
| 4 | But because of the industrial importance of nineteenth-century Britain , and because of its provincial vigour , the BAAS was particularly prominent . |
| 5 | Emily Lloyd , Whoopi Goldberg , daryl Hannah and Whitney Houston were amoung the dozens of rich and famous thronging the stage at Nelson Mandela 's 70th birthday party — an event shocking not just because of the numbers of celebrities involved , but because of the sheer diversity of its star-studded line-up . |
| 6 | AREA A at Crew 's hole , is 4 hectares currently owned by a housing developer , but because of the former industrial use as a Tar Distillery , may suffer from severe pollution problems . |
| 7 | Whatever the reasons for the latter , Labour was able to fill the political vacuum created , not as an automatic or natural beneficiary , but because of the electoral advances gained from growth of the trade unions . |
| 8 | An early shift was when the parish council in Stogursey , the only village within the official power station evacuation area , registered its opposition , not just because of the feared disruption , but because of the increased risk of an accident . |
| 9 | But because of the general economic climate , you may still feel as though you must manage on a tight budget . |
| 10 | But because of the general volatility of the astrology , anything that is weak will wilt under the pressure . |
| 11 | But this was not due , it is suggested , to the absence of any proprietary interest on their part , but because of the restrictive attitude of the law towards the recovery of pecuniary loss which is not the consequence of a tangible , physical injury . |
| 12 | It does not provide a resolution of the conflict in either psychological or social terms , but because of the aesthetic coherence of the novel , the problem itself is stated more forcefully than it is in either of the two previous works . |
| 13 | Similar behaviour was also obtained with fully interactive ozone , but because of the radiative coupling of the ozone field to the dynamical evolution it was not possible to identify unambiguously the contributions of heterogeneous and homogeneous chemistry . |
| 14 | Our cell culture experiments do not support this suggestion as they did not show the synergy between EGF and TAGH that would be predicted , but because of the inhibitory effect of TAGH alone at the concentrations used , they can not refute this possibility . |
| 15 | In my view the weakest sounds in the A4 are its overdrive and distortion , not because of the amount of effect available , but because of the various voicings on offer . |
| 16 | Intertidal limestone solution is at a much higher rate , 100 mm ( 4 in ) per 1000 years , but because of the low sea levels this could not really be expected to destroy reefs . |
| 17 | ’ This is not because the people have changed their minds but because of the increasing complexity of government , requiring more and more administrative devolution , and more powers to be given to the Scottish Office . |
| 18 | Literature , usually the major part of English in the grammar schools , has received the most severe overhauling , but because of the current unacceptability to many educators of a ‘ middle-class ’ curriculum for all our pupils , every activity in English has been given a different set of emphases . [ … ] |
| 19 | All this administrative devolution was done by Conservative Governments , and it was not done out of a feeling of national sentiment , but because of the administrative requirements needed to achieve good government for the Scottish people . |
| 20 | Obesity can also increase the risk of heart disease , not in itself but because of the many other conditions it can create , conditions which most certainly do contribute to heart disease ( high blood pressure and diabetes are the most common ) . |
| 21 | Classically , such motions can involve any amount of energy , but because of the atomic scale involved the energy is quantized . |
| 22 | But because of the weak change-orientation in these cultures , the idea-handling remains at a relatively low level of creativity . |
| 23 | The hearings system is claimed to have turned thousands of youngsters away from a life of crime over the last 20 years , but because of the confidential nature of the work done by reporters and panel members , much of the evidence is anecdotal . |
| 24 | I also know that I sit here , not because of any evidence against me but because of the legal establishment 's concerns for its own pretensions to infallibility . |
| 25 | However , as Anthony and Young ( 1984 , p. 4 ) argue , ‘ the basic control concepts are the same in both profit-orientated and nonprofit organizations , but because of the special characteristics of nonprofit organizations , the application of these concepts differs in some important respects ’ . |
| 26 | But because of the special circumstances of York we 've got to first define and refine the area of search to a specific corridor and then the other locational criteria are just a guidance , first we take the proposals forward to the local plan stage . |
| 27 | But because of the bad experiences , when the drug companies have said for years , trust us , we 've researched it , we 've developed it , you know it 's it passed the F D A rules , and then there 's Atavan and Valium and all the things that we had Halcyon and there 's a horror story at the end of the day . |
| 28 | But because of the obvious difficulties encountered in the fermentation process , the wines of antiquity would have been drunk , more often than not , before the first fermentation had finished or whilst undergoing the second fermentation the following spring . |
| 29 | But because of the very vagueness of form in the crime novel it is all the more important to bear what it is constantly in mind , and all the more difficult to do so . |
| 30 | Somehow what is left of Beaufort conspires to embody these political and religious transitions ; when the mists lie in the valleys of southern Lebanon , the remaining walls can be glimpsed above the clouds , but because of the peculiar geography of the place — because the ravines and wadis fold in uneven formation and in odd directions — Beaufort always appears to be in a different location , its broken ramparts a nightmare denture which eludes every contour and coordinate . |