Example sentences of "[adv prt] because [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , it prevented people from being excluded from trade union membership and he denied that this clause was in because of the European Social Charter . |
| 2 | He had to be carried in because of his legs . |
| 3 | We had a lot of youngsters in because of injuries and they did n't let us down . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ He comes in because of his upper body strength , which we will need against South Africa . |
| 5 | And in such a situation it becomes difficult to say whether the temporary worker is brought in because of a shortage of permanent staff or because there is ( now ) a once-off task to be performed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This is the third time the Bank has been obliged to step in because of the failure of the Stock Exchange to deliver . |
| 8 | As you know from our submission , sir , n we 've taken a more modest requirement for the Greater York area , and that 's based to some extent upon what we think is is achievable there , we 're not saying that erm the figure should not be higher , we 're not saying that the H B F figure for instance should nu not be er put in there , but what we 're saying is if that higher figure does go in because of the clear constraints on the provision of additional land the the higher figure may well mean that there 's a need for two new settlements ra rather than just one . |
| 9 | Workmen who normally called at Taylor 's on their way to work had not been in because of this . |
| 10 | but , but these fellas they come along and they have , they get in because of a policy |
| 11 | saying oh we 've warned er not to come in because of the roadworks . |
| 12 | First , a look ahead to the cup game with Bath on Saturday , which Mike wo n't be able to take part in because of a recent injury . |
| 13 | All we had to do was to pay the expense of the helicopter that brought him in because at that time he was appearing at the Prince of Wales and it was a matter of him fitting his time in with his performances , you see ? |
| 14 | I slowed down because for a moment I thought you might need help . |
| 15 | Mr Lawson 's mistake was that when formal monetary targeting broke down because of the impossibility of finding any measure of money which bore an accurate relationship with nominal demand , he thought that he could use the exchange rate as an informal target . |
| 16 | They have been overthrown ( Asquith , Lloyd George ) , stepped down because of old age , ill health , or policy failures ( Balfour , Bonar Law , MacDonald , Chamberlain , Churchill , Eden , Macmillan ) , or were repudiated by the voters ( Attlee , Heath , Callaghan ) . |
| 17 | In the event , he was accepted at Birmingham University , but just before he arrived he was informed that the geography department had been closed down because of austerity measures brought in during World War N. He therefore decided to read geology instead , but shortly afterwards he received notification that this department was also to be closed . |
| 18 | One of the opposition 's chief demands is that President Gustav Husak should step down because of his association with the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 . |
| 19 | The needle will move up and down because of these forces . |
| 20 | My local butcher 's sales of beef are down because of ‘ mad cow ’ disease , and pork because of ‘ blue ear ’ . |
| 21 | Overall confidence is down because of the gloom hanging over the banking sector . |
| 22 | There is evidence from Finland that despite the gains made in achieving integration , it is breaking down because of the introduction of specialist foresters and sophisticated machinery . |
| 23 | True , you have politics in all walks of life , however in diving , some seem to thrive off putting organisations and individuals down because of their allegiance or training methods . |
| 24 | Like Lamb , their schemes were turned down because of planning faults . |
| 25 | In many cases the scope of a project has to be scaled down because of the restricted data available and/or the restricted resources of the research worker . |
| 26 | More second marriages break down because of the children of the partners than for any other single cause . |
| 27 | It is used less and less as people have cracked down because of its toxicity — it used to be sloshed around . |
| 28 | ‘ For a while I thought we 'd go down because of it . |
| 29 | The third mechanism , that of the price agreement , upon which management placed much reliance in single-place working , also broke down because of the detailed breakdown of jobs . |
| 30 | Two in five employers said that a woman the same age and with the same skills as a man would be more likely to be turned down because of her age . |