Example sentences of "[noun sg] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | RISING star Sonia has blasted The Eurovision Song contest because entrants do NOT sing in English . |
| 2 | The issue of their timing was seen by the opposition as of crucial importance in determining the fairness of the presidential contest because of the role of local administrators in the electoral process . |
| 3 | In the US , the arts briefly hit the headlines when President Bush unedifyingly threw the Head of the National Endowment for the Arts to the wolves of the right–wing electorate because the NEA had sponsored some difficult , and , in particular , sexually explicit arts projects in recent years . |
| 4 | The leader of the ruling Labour group , Tom McCabe , believes the move will have the support of the electorate because ‘ we are aiming to give the people of Hamilton District value for money ’ . |
| 5 | And just let these do the transporting because this this fella honest to god he was doing me head in . |
| 6 | Reid was convinced that the British Empire had given New Zealand the Cook Islands mandate because the Americans wanted it for their sphere of influence . |
| 7 | rejected the allegation that the wife 's agreement to the opening of the account had been procured by undue influence on the part of her husband , but dealt with ‘ the suggestion that the bank are disentitled to enforce the mandate because they sent or gave the document to Mr. Shephard and did not themselves obtain the defendant 's signature ’ by holding [ 1988 ] 3 All E.R. |
| 8 | ( The Congress in fact voted on April 21 to deprive four deputies , including Industry Minister , Aleksandr Titkin , of their mandate because they occupied government posts . ) |
| 9 | I make no apology for the title of this chapter because it was an expression which my cousins used very frequently . |
| 10 | Partnership arrangements between a college and a company or companies might encompass a range of activities , including skills-updating courses , supervisory management and intensive language tuition for example , which fall outside the scope of this chapter because they do not impact directly upon the 16–19 age group . |
| 11 | I 've omitted rapists from this chapter because so much has been written specifically about them elsewhere ( see page 121 ) . |
| 12 | These points have been emphasised in this chapter because the implementation of many contemporary policy initiatives — privatization , the limitation of social expenditure , the extension of community care — involve changing the balance between the various ingredients in the ‘ political economy of welfare ’ . |
| 13 | However , we have chosen to discuss experiments on discourse and experiments on sentence comprehension in a single chapter because we see them as being closely related . |
| 14 | However , it is a distinction we are going to maintain in this chapter because it has the effect of separately identifying the discount market . |
| 15 | I was actually astonished to find Mill making exactly this argument against another proposal in erm a later chapter because he considers a possibility and some people have put forward the view apparently , I have n't heard of this , erm in the version that Mill discusses , that the two stage action where we vote for people who then go to vote for the members of parliament so the individual people do n't vote directly for members of parliament but they vote for people who then have elections an election among themselves . |
| 16 | BIRD 'S CUSTARD : In 1837 , Alfred Bird hit on the formula for Bird 's custard because his wife had digestive troubles and could not tolerate eggs . |
| 17 | Hector is a brilliant soldier because he never loses the NCO 's love of discipline through drill . |
| 18 | He has turned away the glorious light of his countenance — or maybe the traffic fumes have got in the way , or maybe he 's turned off the telly because of the charismatics . ’ |
| 19 | He chose a child as his lover because it fed that ego ; he lost her because he never cottoned on to the fact that children are children , no matter how grown-up they might appear . |
| 20 | Cos you 're inflicting , you 're inflicting or , or people at the very bottom of the scale , you 're forced to operate below a level of subsistence because inequalities . |
| 21 | They may hold these views about perception because of views they hold about our nature and the nature of the things we look at . |
| 22 | He argues that Y-cells are so rare in the retina they can not possibly contribute to visual perception because their resolution , by themselves , is inadequate to convey any useful information . |
| 23 | Yet clubs are faced with court summonses , and threatened by closure because they can not afford to pay their rates and local councils refuse to waive part of the bill . |
| 24 | However , the Historic Buildings Council for Scotland has increasingly been able to give some very substantial grants towards churches , ensuring that churches faced with closure because of a repairs crisis have been able to continue in use . |
| 25 | This was the largest grant ever offered by HBCS , but many other churches faced with closure because of a repair crisis have also received substantial aid from the Council |
| 26 | The Education Committee evaluated Village school for possible closure because the teacher had reached the age of retirement . |
| 27 | A project run by the Richmond Fellowship in north London has been earmarked for closure because of high renovation costs and ‘ changes in referral patterns ’ . |
| 28 | Donald Wilson 's business , Ward and Son , of High Street , Aldeburgh , faces closure because trading standards officials say that his petrol pumps , which swing out over the pavement , are a hazard . |
| 29 | Thurcroft colliery in my constituency is now threatened with closure because of a short-term geological problem , yet it has 20 million tonnes of workable low-sulphur reserves . |
| 30 | I hope , however , that it has not escaped the attention of the Leader of the House that one of the most famous companies in Scotland , Armitage Shanks of Barrhead , is facing closure because of the parent company 's axe . |