Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] [adv] because [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been struggling with my marriage for years largely because of my mood swings . |
| 2 | The reign of Cnut has tended to attract relatively little attention from historians largely because of the scarcity of the sources . |
| 3 | Our diagnostic efficiency is shown by a diagnostic yield in the first endoscopic session of 82% ; further sessions were needed in the rest of patients mainly because of non-removable blood clots . |
| 4 | We were also aware that ‘ TTT ’ began to be in danger of becoming yet another over-used and under-defined primary slogan and all kinds of claims were being made for its educational efficacy for children simply because of the novelty , stimulus and enjoyment which it could give to their teachers . |
| 5 | Coenwulf and his counsellors reminded Pope Leo that Gregory the Great had originally intended two metropolitan sees , one at York , the other at London , and blamed the decision about Lichfield on papal ineptitude — Pope Hadrian presuming to diminish the authority of Canterbury simply because of Offa 's enmity towards Jaenberht and the men of Kent . |
| 6 | This is particularly difficult in view of the fact that it is just their children who are probably far more in need of that grace of God just because of the attitude of their parents , than those of parents who measure up to all the standards that we impose . |
| 7 | JIMMY WHITE was forced to pull out of the £25,000 Benson and Hedges snooker tournament in Glasgow yesterday because of an illness in his family . |
| 8 | There 's different tempos and I would think er on all the shifts there is a variation of production just because of the hour of the day . |
| 9 | I have been hassled and discriminated against a number of times just because of the way I look . |
| 10 | Other possible explanations for increased oesophageal alkaline exposure in patients with complicated Barrett 's oesophagus include bacterial alkalinisation of saliva either because of pooling in the oesophagus or because of dental infection . |
| 11 | The result was a substantial increase in survival partly because of surgery and partly because of the greatly improved general care that infants received . |
| 12 | And European planetary scientists believe that ESA 's advisers rejected the Kepler mission to Mars mainly because of its cost : at £300 million it was twice as much as ISO , and would have left a gap of four years before anything else could be funded . |