Example sentences of "be [adv] [conj] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A Service of Reconciliation is an opportunity to remember and to respond to the fact that we are individually and as a body loved by God .
2 Chopra sensed the two women were together and within a kilometre of the castle .
3 That 's mostly because of a reaction with the washer in your tap .
4 Or is it because there 's a different culture in the north and south because the , the two parts of China are very different , so you do n't know whether it 's the Communist Party that 's determining this difference or whether it 's just because of a difference of culture there .
5 This is partly because of a number of important changes that have taken place in the scale of the protest , the targets against which it has been directed , and the tactics that have been employed , but particularly because of some fundamental changes in the broader political social and economic context in which the protest is now taking place .
6 That 's mainly because of a curb on car crime , but there 's still concern about burglaries — up in some areas by almost a third .
7 The difficulty is simply that as a co-heir Seia is owner of an undivided share of the whole estate , and the question is on what basis she can recover from her coheir the quarter of the gardens which she does not own qua heir .
8 It was just that after a weekend of weeping over Cameron , and two absolutely hectic days at the office with Helena now also down with chicken-pox , she felt like a bit of glamour .
9 This did happen frequently for a variety of reasons , but it was usually because of a worsening of weather conditions either at home base or over the target area .
10 Early on , Solowka and Gregory did their own bit of AWOLing but it was usually because of a Littlewoods Cup replay , not to escort a bevy of simpering temptresses in nylon flairs .
11 ‘ That was mainly because of a lot of niggly little injuries .
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