Example sentences of "[vb pp] because [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Pieter Huistra , Dale Gordon and Oleg Kuznetsov are n't included because of the three foreigner rule but we still have four non-Scots , so one will have to make way . |
| 2 | Children with non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma were included because of the current understanding , based on immunological studies , that acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma represent opposite ends of the same spectrum of disease . |
| 3 | Cisplatin was included because of experimental evidence that it further potentiates inhibition of thymidylate synthase , encouraging therapeutic results in pretreated breast and advanced head and neck cancer , and the recent demonstration of a good therapeutic index in metastatic colorectal cancer . |
| 4 | This was included because of the different sensitivity of the top and bottom of the optical RAM . |
| 5 | Four patients with Crohn 's disease who had previous operations ( three colectomies and one ileocolectomy ) , were included because of relapsing disease . |
| 6 | There is reference in paragraph two point two to the local ombudsman and I , I , I should perhaps add that during the year in question , there is one current matter er which er with the subject of the referral to the local ombudsman and that of course has not been included because of definition reasons in this report . |
| 7 | The care or supervision of children , though not strictly speaking housework , is included because in practice it was impossible to make an adequate distinction between the two activities of housework and child-care . |
| 8 | Productivity gains expected may be seriously constrained because of ingrained attitudes which cause human behaviour to change slower than the potential rendered by technology or even go in a direction directly opposed to the requirements of the system . |
| 9 | This practitioners ' society functioned until 1835 , when it was dissolved because of poor attendance by its members , while the College 's society continued to exist . |
| 10 | ( S. ) 521 ) This was a premeditated attack instituted because of a financial grievance which existed in the mind of the attacker . |
| 11 | Wilson had no time to miss him and his family or her other gentleman , who had joined their party , before the Brownings were back , similarly propelled by the fear that they might be trapped because of war . |
| 12 | In [ 13 ] this effect is accentuated because of the succession of stressed syllables ( " -creet door clicked shut " ) , and because of the accompanying clattering of consonants , especially the stops /k/ , /t ) , and /d ) . |
| 13 | In Bangkok , where he had served as governor , Chamlong was deeply respected because of what the Financial Times of May 8 described as " his uncompromising piety and idealism " . |
| 14 | Workers in Japan do tend to have fewer employers in the course of their career than in the West even though the comparison is somewhat distorted because of the concentration of lifetime guarantees in the large firm sector . |
| 15 | But a proposed clause in the new act to disallow for quota any film of low standard of production and entertainment value was dropped because of the difficulties involved in determining which films should be excluded . |
| 16 | Prosecutor Smither Thiara said : ‘ The charge has been dropped because of lack of evidence . ’ |
| 17 | With an almost unanimous vote at its 40th congress in Geneva , the party said that the word " communism " was being dropped because of all that had been done in its name . |
| 18 | Reuters Agency reported that Thilo Bode , manager of Greenpeace Germany , told reporters ‘ that campaigns would have to be dropped because of a dramatic fall in donations from the public . ’ |
| 19 | A 19 year old man was charged but the case was later dropped because of lack of evidence . |
| 20 | Rumours have swept the television world that it may be dropped because of falling ratings . |
| 21 | I know my standards have dropped because with Sharon I used to change her clothes twice a day . |
| 22 | It was also close to the end of the shift and this legal reduction prevented them having to ‘ go over ’ , as well as getting them out of considerable paperwork later , and road traffic accidents are particularly disliked because of the amount of paperwork they involve . |
| 23 | The Japanese were particularly disliked because of their past record in China . |
| 24 | We were disliked because of things that had happened in the past and we did n't need any motivation when we kept hearing that sort of talk . |
| 25 | During 1991 , BTR increased its workforce from 105,000 to 140,000 but , after allowing for the 48,000 staff added because of acquisitions , there was a net reduction of 13,000 . |
| 26 | It believes its success has come because of the ‘ single issue ’ approach . |
| 27 | Cuts in the numbers of nuclear weapons have come because of carefully negotiated agreements that the superpowers have confidence in . |
| 28 | Often strong feelings of mistrust or vulnerability come because of something going badly wrong in another church or as a child . |
| 29 | However , someone in Wilson 's office proceeded to leak my name to the press , which used it as an opportunity for jibes at him , particularly as he had contrived an impression that the negotiations had succeeded because of him . |
| 30 | Mr de Soto 's early association with Mr Vargas ' alliance , the Democratic Front , has cooled because of the economist 's suspicion that the novelist is being compromised by his allies . |