Example sentences of "[adv] because [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are businesses which have grown naturally because of a need that we have recognized and it is reasonable to suppose that if we have done the job right , and tested the external market to see if such services are not available to our satisfaction elsewhere , we would start with some sort of competitive edge . |
| 2 | For many students , the decision to study science came naturally because of family interests . |
| 3 | It was n't only due to the harsh words they had exchanged over Ryan ; she found it hard to write naturally because of the lie she was enacting . |
| 4 | Perhaps because I was involved with other things , perhaps because at that time I was still trying to find my feet as a bisexual and felt isolated by straight sisters and excluded by some Black lesbians . |
| 5 | Perhaps because at last you are making sense |
| 6 | They have also never been perceived by the state as a threat , perhaps because of the revolutionary pedigree of some of their élite . |
| 7 | It is also worth noting that correlations between ERPs and behaviour are never perfect , perhaps because of masking of some of the ERPs by random fluctuations of the background EEG . |
| 8 | Tom Mboya had supported these moves , not least perhaps because of his long-standing animosity towards Odinga , but in doing so sowed the seeds of his own downfall . |
| 9 | Despite revolutionary zeal , or perhaps because of it , they sought immediate compensations for the miseries of daily life , and spontaneous methods of attack which they mistook for political strategy . |
| 10 | ‘ Inflation ’ , as this is called , got a rapturous reception when it was put forward in 1980 , despite , or perhaps because of , its weirdness ( cosmologists , after all , undergo years of training so that they can say things like ‘ When the universe was the size of a grapefruit ’ without blushing or laughing ) . |
| 11 | Despite his fame amongst his contemporaries , Gassendi has been overshadowed by those whom he influenced — perhaps because of the modesty and undogmatic nature of his arguments , which lie buried in lengthy , copiously annotated Latin works . |
| 12 | As England 's leading batsman of the 1980s he has borne a heavy responsibility and perhaps because of this has never completely fulfilled his potential ; few batsmen can have been blessed with so much natural ability , yet he often looks vulnerable until he has settled down and even then has succumbed countless times to an infuriating nibble or waft outside the off stump . |
| 13 | Perhaps because of fear , his latest book — a life of Nelson — bore the placating dedication ‘ To Letitia , in gratitude for her sweet company ’ . |
| 14 | Or perhaps because of it . |
| 15 | It would appear that there was some increase in the marriage rates among those in their early twenties during the early 1920s , perhaps because of the delays caused by the First World War , and after 1934 , when the domestic economy began to revive from the worst excesses of the slump . |
| 16 | Despite their size , or perhaps because of it , many saguaros have been stolen from the desert to be sold , at huge prices , to ornament smart Californian gardens . |
| 17 | Reynard can not help but be cautious about this information , despite its apparent supernatural origin , or perhaps because of it . |
| 18 | We are acutely sensitive to sedimentary layering , perhaps because of our origins in prehistory ? |
| 19 | THE number of avalanche deaths in the main Alpine countries has dropped by as much as 70 per cent — perhaps because of the consistency of snow cover throughout the winter . |
| 20 | In the nicest sense of the word , Woosnam is a fighter , perhaps because of his size . |
| 21 | Likewise , in the Second World War , the Germans , perhaps because of their complacency , never realised that we were breaking the Enigma code . |
| 22 | Whilst both sets of traditions talk in personal terms of God , it seems that the Near Eastern religions , perhaps because of a stronger sense of historical progress , have developed further the idea of God as an historical agent — someone who has revealed His hand by associating with particular events and claiming them as His own . |
| 23 | Perhaps because of the coral reefs , as now , there had been no tidal wave but the force of the wind had driven the sea inland , thirty feet deep in Belpan City . |
| 24 | Oil Mill , perhaps because of its connections with John Biddle , survived . |
| 25 | Though always happy at Saint Cloud , the Emperor had a weakness for the great palace of Fontainebleau , perhaps because of its associations with Napoleon I. Because of the magnificence of the palace it was impossible to live a quiet family life and so June was a month of great social activity , a sort of informal summer Court , at which was to be found the glittering society so indelibly associated with the regime . |
| 26 | There are a number of reasons why lone parents may not receive maintenance including the unwillingness or inability of liable relatives to pay maintenance , perhaps because of unemployment or the formation of second families . |
| 27 | The novel exercises considerable power over the reader , perhaps because of this duality , because , as Giovanni Raboni suggests in his Preface , it articulates two typical and basic forms of the narrative imagination , ‘ the claustrophobic fascination of imprisonment , exile ’ and ‘ the adventurous-picaresque fascination of the journey , of a search across hostile and uncertain spaces ’ ( Pazzi 1985 : x ) ; because of its capacity , to paraphrase Angelo Guglielmi , to tell a story of life while it is telling a story of death ( Guglielmi 1985 ) . |
| 28 | It is perhaps because of an effort to buck the trend towards an insufferable and market-conscious cleverness that we are witnessing an attempt amongst more committed narrators to seek out a way of dealing directly with the emotions , without all the paraphernalia of intrigue and description that has accumulated over the past few years . |
| 29 | Perhaps because of the long-standing provision of special clinics , the large majority of cases of sexually transmitted disease are seen in such clinics , in contrast to other countries , where less than 20 per cent of cases are seen in hospitals . |
| 30 | Perhaps because of this washing effect of urination , attempts to identify the infection in male contacts of women with TV are very often unsuccessful . |