Example sentences of "[noun] and [adv] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a rare sight nowadays , partly because otters are such shy animals and partly because they are much scarcer than hitherto . |
| 2 | Many gardeners — and visitors — are getting younger , partly because of the current ecological obsession and also because gardens are often seen as an extension of the living room . |
| 3 | Businessmen are now so convinced of the need to have a well-trained workforce — partly because of persistent skills shortages and partly because of the evangelising work of the TECs themselves — that they will cut almost anything before they cut their training budgets . |
| 4 | Although France had a railway line from the coalfield of Saint Etienne to Lyons in 1832 , it too was slow to develop a national network , partly because of governmental reluctance to embrace the new form of transportation and also because the economy remained predominantly agricultural and the road system was more efficient and extensive than Britain 's . |
| 5 | The effectiveness of the Labour Spain Committee was impaired both by the fact that it was was associated with the movement in the constituency Labour parties and also because it was effectively advocating a a popular front against fascism , which the Labour Party continued to reject throughout the 1930s ; after the political disasters of 1931 it wanted no treating with its political enemies whether of the left or the right . |
| 6 | Huge though the payment was , it was widely regarded as a bargain , partly because most of the bill was met by insurers and partly because the amount was a fraction of the outstanding claims against the firm . |
| 7 | Treatment Centres take the sufferers through the first five steps of the recovery programme in as many weeks in order to lessen their dread in anticipation in the future and not because they believe that it is really possible to recover at that speed . |
| 8 | The use of silk in large quantities , such as , for example , in the crinoline , was the result of a petition sent to the Empress by the silk workers of Lyons asking her to help maintain the output of the French silk industry and not because Eugénie wished to overdress . |
| 9 | Judges may still be accorded charismatic qualities , however , partly because of their high social and economic standing , partly because of the mystique of the legal ritual and partly because they embody the law 's impartiality . |
| 10 | For the last three years the number of fires recorded during the Amazon burning season , July to October , has fallen , partly because of government action and partly because the economic slump has affected cattle ranchers and farmers . |
| 11 | While the concept of headship has been criticized on empirical and political grounds , see for example Murphy ( forthcoming ) , it is necessary to use it here because it is the familiar way of presenting data and also because many data from earlier years are available only in this form . |
| 12 | Because of the need to be able to assimilate and present objectively masses of map data and also because of scepticism sometimes expressed about their very existence , rejuvenation features , mainly successions of erosion surfaces , were quite early subjected to quantitative methods of investigation and depiction , which still illustrate well some of the problems and pitfalls involved . |
| 13 | Their accounts look very different from the nationalized industries because they adopt budgetary accounting and also because they adopt fund accounting . |
| 14 | Land use planning decisions also generate a considerable volume of litigation , once again partly because of the value of what is at stake and partly because of dissatisfaction with the system of planning appeals . |
| 15 | There are those which are not unlike the polytechnics both because they offer a very high percentage of advanced work and also because they are almost as big . |
| 16 | So , partly because of Siraj-ud-Daula 's incompetence and partly because of the eagerness of the Company employees to supplement their incomes by plunging into Indian politics , the British began to move inland . |
| 17 | In case any Brother knitter is interested , I chose pattern 194 from ‘ Stitchworld ’ , partly because the pattern ran from North to South and partly because there were not too many strokes with the lace carriage before the two with the knitting carriage . |
| 18 | What it actually means erm is that er there is unlikely to be a by-pass for some time , but in effect that would be likely to be the case anyway , one because of the cost of the by-pass overall and secondly because of the erm position with regard to other aspects of the roads programme and the level of T S G that we are currently receiving er even if there was an agreed line as of today erm bearing in mind the th the other things that have happened in the roads programme , it still would be unlikely that the by-pass would be er programmed in such a way that it would allow housing or other development to take place in East Grinstead within either the structure plan period or the local plan period and hence the points that then er that the report moves on to erm come into play . |
| 19 | Take-up has stemmed partly from the wish of those companies trading internationally and particularly in the highly litigious US to protect their directors and partly because , as Willis Corroon 's Drew Hardie said , ‘ when directors who had had this cover then moved to other companies they asked for it to be part of their new contract ’ . |
| 20 | She spoke slowly , partly so she could drop her voice to the right sort of sexy drawl and partly because she was desperately wondering what to say next . |
| 21 | Musicians in those groups could n't develop their own musical ideas , firstly because of the bad quality of equipment and secondly because usually they were not professional musicians . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's partly make-up and partly because I drink a lot of water , ’ the princess replied , according to one of the home 's sponsors . |
| 23 | Rates , however , represent a relatively small proportion of total costs for most companies , and rate rises tend to occur because of external inflationary effects and not because of local-government policies ( Midwinter , 1985 ) . |
| 24 | Mr Sommer also believes the basic offence of entering a computer will be virtually unenforceable , partly because of lack of police manpower and partly because arrest warrants for this less serious offence will involve applying to a magistrate . |
| 25 | Partly it is changing because women are getting more familiar with the industrial scene and partly because of the tremendous impact and influence of the strike at Grunwick Photoprocessing . |
| 26 | ‘ I was keen to play a policewoman in Home and Away because it was so different and a very strong physical role — I even got the chance to throw people around a bit which was really good fun ! ’ she says . |
| 27 | I 'd only once asked for a transfer and not because of any discontent or fall- out with the club . |
| 28 | Welcome the opportunities offered by the development of the European Community , in terms of economic assistance to Northern Ireland and also because it creates a framework for progress in the relationship between the UK and the Republic of Ireland . |
| 29 | The ‘ democratic-participant ’ media theory is also the result of recent debates on media issues though this theory is ‘ difficult to formulate , partly because it lacks full legitimation and incorporation into media institutions and partly because some of its tenets are … to be found ’ elsewhere . |
| 30 | As England 's leading batsman of the 1980s he has borne a heavy responsibility and perhaps because of this has never completely fulfilled his potential ; few batsmen can have been blessed with so much natural ability , yet he often looks vulnerable until he has settled down and even then has succumbed countless times to an infuriating nibble or waft outside the off stump . |