Example sentences of "be [adj] because [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | steps up and right footed he blasts it into the bottom corner , it subdues the Shrewsbury crowd somewhat , Blackburn fans are rampant because at last there 's some light for them but they 're still trailing Shrewsbury by three goals to two . |
| 2 | Well I think I 've been rather more fortunate , the two branch managers I 've had er , before , I 'd not had long enough , er , both have given albeit not regular , but feedback both positive and negative , er , when you 're doing a good job and when you 're doing a bad job , and er , in all honesty , it 's probably the appraisal itself , that 's actually been unnecessary because of their feedback they 're given me during the year , because the appraisal is just a formal repetition of what 's already been said . |
| 3 | Direct journeys from Kirknewton are possible because of the commercial provision which starts at East Calder , hence the route adopted for the morning journeys . |
| 4 | ‘ In fact , the lads are upset because at 3-0 up they should have been home and dry . |
| 5 | No one knows whether river dolphins were once more abundant or whether their numbers have always been low because of their restrictive and specialised habitat . |
| 6 | However , yields have always been low because of the climate . |
| 7 | Selection bias should also have been low because of the high rate of follow up . |
| 8 | The investigators found no evidence that the Maya returned to the San Antonio locality to farm during Classic times , which , they suggest would probably have been impractical because of increased coastal flooding . |
| 9 | Little Issi is just one of 25,000 who are alive because of YOU |
| 10 | Many of the new innovations have only been possible because of the company 's commitment to total quality management ( TQM ) . |
| 11 | That has only been possible because of the combined effort by the whole BNFL team , led so effectively by our outstanding Chief Executive , Neville Chamberlain . |
| 12 | He says that no , the pond is n't just full of green slime and mud , there are thousands of tadpoles , which in themselves are interesting because of the way they metamorphose . |
| 13 | The personal rewards for primary nursing are high because of the closer relationship with a relatively small number of clients . |
| 14 | Another 146 homes are empty because of major renovation works . |
| 15 | Another 146 homes are empty because of major renovation works . |
| 16 | Aggressive , action-packed police programmes are popular because of their supposed realism and the congruency of their imagery , so that features of the symbolic portrayal become adopted by Easton 's police as part of their practice . |
| 17 | Of this total , about 1.5 million are damp because of condensation . |
| 18 | However , if you have been made redundant or are long-term unemployed you need to understand the thinking behind the interviewer 's prejudices and strive to overcome them by demonstrating strongly that you are unemployed because of circumstances beyond your control , not because you yourself are inadequate . |
| 19 | I 'm not quite sure what 's going to happen to all the people that are unemployed because of this , but that I suppose is material for another programme . |
| 20 | I regularly argue with the Table Office that we can table amendments to Bills which make provision for orders that are amendable because of the census legislation . |
| 21 | The documents are the longest surviving series of such records in Britain but a third of them have been unusable because of their delicate state . |
| 22 | We are employed for service , wholehearted service to Christ ; and the world needs to see it , to realise that Christians are different because of who our Lord is . |
| 23 | Whether or not the analogy of the firm as a cooperative family is a realistic one for the majority of labour , this idea forms a crucial part in the ideology that Japanese industrial relations are different because of a longstanding preference for conformity to group consensus . |
| 24 | Both categories are dangerous because of the subjective and inadequate forms of assessment which are used and the social , educational and economic effects on those labelled . |
| 25 | An aspect of the purported effects of the political system is the policy co-option argument — that the extreme right , at least in recent years , has been unsuccessful because of the ease with which some of its appeals ( or some attenuated version of them ) can be adopted by major parties , after the former parties have shown themselves unable to break into the political system . |
| 26 | So , when British representatives attend international conferences to conserve salmon they are treated as pariahs and are impotent because of the continuation of nylon drift-netting off the English coast . |
| 27 | Soil mark sites are visible because of different coloured marks in the soil , usually just after ploughing For example , if a burial mound with a ditch around it has been flattened by ploughing , the material from which the mound was constructed , the soil filling the ditch , and the soil in the rest of the ploughed field may be of different colours . |
| 28 | Heating costs are minimal because of the weather . |
| 29 | so far this year , packed chlorine sales are running at 160% of budget and ICI Watercare have been able to supply new overseas markets which had previously been impossible because of the shortage of packages . |
| 30 | At present , though , Spain 's leading sailors are unavailable because of Olympic commitments . |