Example sentences of "[conj] because [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I think it was just , certainly Tom tried to lift us or because over the winter months when nothing was happening negotiations-wise , you know he knew if he did n't lift us then nothing would and everyone would get so disheartened they 'd just say oh sod it and back to work or forget it and what have you . |
| 2 | Sometimes it has to be abandoned for convenience or because of a changed lifestyle . |
| 3 | A service done out of friendship such as helping out at a barbecue or because of a threat is not within s.1 . |
| 4 | Some problems can not be solved by the fee earner responsible , either because of a specific difficulty or because of a general mental block . |
| 5 | Included in this group are schizophrenic subjects who have injured themselves as a consequence of a delusional belief ( for example , that part of the body was evil ) , or because of an hallucination ( such as one in which voices tell the subject to harm himself ) . |
| 6 | If the Government decides to regulate a particular area of activity , whether because of public pressure following financial scandals or because of an EC directive , the profession is not going to be able either to make it go against public opinion or to relieve it of its responsibilities under the Treaty of Rome . |
| 7 | There are real arbitrage opportunities and these remain because of institutional inertia , the inexperience of traders in a new market , or because of an insufficient volume of arbitrage transactions to move prices to their no-arbitrage levels , possibly due to an inadequate supply of arbitrage capital . |
| 8 | I would therefore advise against taking any kind of drugs , not just because it is unsporting , or because of the threat of severe penalties on discovery , but also because of the adverse effects any drug regime has on the mind and body . |
| 9 | This work surprisingly shows that leisure time actually diminishes as productive technology advances ; whether this is because of population increases or because of the rise of an exploitative class is not clear . |
| 10 | Sometimes enzymes used for degradation of a target contaminant are not induced by the presence of the pollutant , either because the concentration is too low or because of the xenobiotic nature of the compound . |
| 11 | They may be at risk because of identifiable genetic disorders which are known to be present , or because of the age of the mother . |
| 12 | Since Alladice , the Divisional Court has accepted that access by a solicitor 's clerk to a detained person may be refused if the police believe that the clerk is ‘ not capable of providing advice , whether because of his appearance , age , his mental capacity or because of the police knowledge of him ’ . |
| 13 | If , notwithstanding the above provisions , there shall be liability on the part of DW/LD by virtue of this Agreement , or because of the relation hereby established , whether due to negligence or otherwise , such liability is and shall be limited to a sum equal to the payment for the Program which sum shall be paid and received as liquidated damages , and not as penalty and this liability shall be complete and exclusive . |
| 14 | They had n't negotiated any furniture to get to the far side of the room and sit against the opposite wall and she had the impression , either because of that or because of the resonance of voices , that the room was empty . |
| 15 | But the relevant changes are further defined by being unintended and at least to some extent beyond the control of the societies they affected , either because of their intrinsic character , or because of the scale on which they occurred . |
| 16 | In their wisdom ( or because of the lack of it ) they appointed me as working group chairman . |
| 17 | Whether because of the easing of the general supply situation , or because of the improved coordination , the delays in completing power stations were progressively reduced in the 1950s , with completion on average nearly eleven months behind pessimistic schedules in the early 1950s but down to eight months by the mid-1950s . |
| 18 | Failure , whether because of internal inefficiencies or because of the need to create new international partnerships , has led many governments to consider privatisation as part of the cure . |
| 19 | Finally , there is a sense in which these two enterprises in London and Edinburgh were perceived as particularly worrying not just because of the social origins of promoters and beneficiaries , or because of the threat to wages , but because they meant bringing women into the work-place . |
| 20 | This may be because of the purpose for which the disposition was made , or because of the time at which it was made . |
| 21 | It has sought to get them to extend loans to borrowers , who hitherto , because of their low incomes or because of the areas in which they want to buy houses , have not been able to get help from the societies . |
| 22 | They 're a lot of the problems in tend to be directed towards or because of the flats . |
| 23 | The so-called " success " rate of substitution therapy such as Antabuse for alcohol , Naltrexone for heroin and minor tranquillisers for almost anything whatever , is because the prescriber may not understand the concept of the Dry Drunk Syndrome or because of the fact that minor tranquillisers and many other psychotropic drugs are cross-addictive with all mood-altering chemicals . |
| 24 | Er the heating had broken down and I do n't know whether it was because of the heating or because of the tablets or whatever but they 're , they 're alright now . |
| 25 | They have conned those elderly people who now have the dreadful prospect of losing their homes in their 60s and 70s because of that or because of the weakness of financial regulation . |
| 26 | The firm 's independence may be thought to be compromised because of the fee arrangements or because of the relationship with the client . |
| 27 | The firm 's independence may be thought to be compromised because of the fee arrangements or because of the relationship with the client . |
| 28 | It is vital that all external constraints are known at this stage , otherwise all the short-listed options may be for bridges when , for environmental reasons or because of the proximity of an airport , only a tunnel is possible . |
| 29 | Increased fasting gall bladder volume during octreotide might be a result of decreased gall bladder muscle tone or because of the absence of interdigestive gall bladder contraction , which takes place in the fasting state , in close association with the intestinal migrating motor complex . |
| 30 | Fourth , the discount houses collectively may offer a smaller quantity of bills for sale than apparently needed by the market as a whole , either because they take a different ( to the Bank ) view of the overall shortage in the market or because of the relationship in the market between the short term interest rates at which they fund themselves and the relevant bill yields . |