Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | Confined to West Africa , these species of shrews have been persecuted locally because of their strange internal armour . |
| 2 | Dismissal can not usually be justified merely because the employee 's private life is scandalous or involves immoral conduct , and this has been reconfirmed by a recent Higher Labour Court decision ( LAG Hamm , 17 Sa 1326/89 ) . |
| 3 | If a petition is based on non-compliance with a statutory demand , the petition must not be dismissed only because the amount of the debt is over-stated in the demand unless , within the time limited for compliance , the debtor has given notice disputing the validity of the notice for this reason or , no such notice having been given , the debtor pays the correct amount ( r 6.25(3) ) . |
| 4 | Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dream . |
| 5 | Wilson rejected the argument , replying that the Commission had broken down because it was no longer practical to contemplate a once for all look at something that was changing so rapidly . |
| 6 | After the two cross-examinations , lasting perhaps ten or fifteen minutes in all , the two counsel put their heads together for a minute , and then one of them addresses the rest of the gathering , who have acted as jury , and submits that the alibi has been broken down because of this and that discrepancy . |
| 7 | The system of setting limits to public spending had broken down because of the following : |
| 8 | These patients should be treated parenterally because attempted oral treatment may be hazardous . |
| 9 | It is often assumed that Foucault is simply the philosopher of discontinuity , merely substituting it where previously there had been continuity ; but the discontinuous is emphasized only because so much stress is normally placed on the continuous . |
| 10 | No longer can investigative stories be stopped merely because they might " prejudge " a matter which may have to be decided in litigation at some future time . |
| 11 | She had given in because she found him irresistible and , looking at his strong brown back in the first grey light of dawn , she still found him so . |
| 12 | Egypt has joined in because of its dependence on United States aid and good will and because of its distaste for Iraq 's bid for Arab leadership . |
| 13 | A notable casualty of the reshuffle was the Minister for Institutional Relations , Antoine Ntashamaje , who was dismissed apparently because his son had been linked to the rebel activity . |
| 14 | US diplomatic sources said that the initiative was being pursued secretly because of fears that it could be sabotaged by anti-Arafat Palestinian factions advocating armed struggle against Israel rather than negotiations . |
| 15 | Independence was not compromised , it was stated , and although the identification of causes deserving of support and finance from the advice agency might be questionable , in practice only those problems which gave real cause for community concern could be pursued successfully because of the need for public support . |
| 16 | The theory of differential equations , as usually taught , is a rag-bag of special tricks , many of which are a waste of time and are included only because they can be calculated without having to think about what 's really going on . |
| 17 | Okay , and they 're all , they 're all added together because there was . |
| 18 | It is used less and less as people have cracked down because of its toxicity — it used to be sloshed around . |
| 19 | According to Judge Abraham Sofaer , Brunei was picked especially because it received no assistance already , and would seem to be returning no favours ; it was never intended to get anything beyond appreciation . |
| 20 | According to the ITAR-TASS news agency the referendum call was voted down because of alleged breaches in the law during the collection of signatures . |
| 21 | The property was purchased for investment purposes , and is still owned only because of the current property slump . |
| 22 | He had to be carried in because of his legs . |
| 23 | By 1870 the old city ramparts and defensive gateways had been torn down because they hindered the greatly increased flow of traffic . |
| 24 | What effectively , I think , I mean I 've never actually sat down because it would be an enormous mistake and nobody would thank me for it , but my guess is that those enormously complex classificated can be understood as a method by which old men rig the system for their own benefit and hide this kinds of ridiculous anonymous and the anomaly basically is the young men end up with old wives |
| 25 | I had n't sat down because he had n't asked me to . |
| 26 | The doctor had announced that the boy 's mother was dead and that she would have had twins but they had come prematurely because of her lifting something heavy . |
| 27 | They can usefully be considered together because they are similar and interactive . |
| 28 | These two receptors will be considered together because they share considerable structural and functional homologies . |
| 29 | These three factors must be considered together because it seems that both parental mental illness and parental separation or divorce may have a particularly damaging effect on the children if they are associated with prolonged overt marital discord , especially where the child becomes directly involved . |
| 30 | But if you 're in a general branch such as I am , which is made up from people of all sorts of industries that have come together because none of us are large enough to have a branch within our own industry on our own , then which section do we go to ? |