Example sentences of "[to-vb] because [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 They 'd gone through the big field and up on to the common and the slope beyond which was where the wall was , half-ruined and easier to jump because of the gaps .
2 Forty per cent of the women attending a Dow-Stoker Returners programme decide to come back to work because of a trauma .
3 In addition to emigration out with the United Kingdom , many of the best products of their excellent education system have gone to the mainland for university studies , and then stayed on to work because of the dearth of suitable employment opportunities in the islands .
4 On no my father was fortunate you see because he 'd got to go to work because of the
5 It would be nice to write that despite these lapses of judgment , not to mention the occasional maladministration , investors and other stakeholders in business do not have to worry because of the safety superstructure which has been built since .
6 And centre staff say the local community is being forced to suffer because of the actions of a few ‘ hoodlums ’ .
7 But James Barrington , director of The League Against Cruel Sports said : ‘ We are disappointed on one level that our wildlife will still have to suffer because of the bigotry and ignorance of elected representatives .
8 Hammam said Jones was a Sheffield United player at the time the video was compiled and that Wimbledon were unjustly being made to suffer because of the suspended sentence .
9 While this approach might appear to be the treatment of choice for many adolescent self-poisoners , in practice , family therapy is often difficult to establish because of the reluctance of some family members to become involved .
10 Hot spots appear to be rather irregularly distributed over the Earth 's surface ( Fig. 4.4 ) but the real pattern is difficult to establish because of the problems of identifying specific hot spots and incomplete data in some regions .
11 That 's the bit that people fe find a bit hard to er to accept because in the real world it does n't actually happen because there 's always some other force like air resistance , friction , road resistance from your tyres and , and it grad it always stops eventually .
12 However , John Merrill has qualified this assessment by pointing out that Rhee himself encouraged many independents to stand because of the weakness of his own political organisation ; while a reverse for Rhee , his position after the election was rather stronger than it appeared to be .
13 Among printers ' mementoes , one should not forget the special examples , in the nature of things not easy to find because of the infrequency of the occasions , produced by presses set up on frozen rivers , such as the Thames and Severn .
14 If a country was facing a payments deficit , then short-term capital outflows would tend to increase because of the potential capital gains accruing to holders if that country devalued its currency .
15 Now his campaign is threatening to self-destruct because of a controversy over racial politics involving the comedian Jackie Mason .
16 With discretion , employers determined not to employ Catholics can continue to discriminate because of the weaknesses in the Act .
17 I would open the door to them and check their names off in the appointment book , often unable to converse because of the language barrier .
18 At the strategic level of integrating the territories into the Israeli economy , the competitive edge of Israel 's highly developed and heavily subsidized productive capacity in industry and agriculture destroyed the Palestinian sector almost in its entirety — although there was not an enormous amount to destroy because of the Jordanian legacy of economic neglect .
19 The academic course is extremely difficult to characterise because of the multiplicity of higher education courses taken by future language teachers ; and it is becoming more so , as the predominance of the ‘ traditional ’ literature course is weakened .
20 In addition , questions of quality in the British context are particularly difficult to answer because of the complexity and range of services provided by the NHS and the wide-ranging but incomplete responsibilities health authorities have for the health of their populations .
21 DUP leader the Rev Ian Paisley travelled to London today to urge the Commons to adjourn because of the recent bombings .
22 And although regulations stipulate the number of toilets and washbasins in schools , over a third of the schools surveyed did n't come up to scratch because of an inadequate number of toilets .
23 Muir , whose company has been involved in major retail construction projects throughout Scotland for eight years , said that the method was perhaps rather unorthodox , but was highly successful in keeping the overall contract time up to scratch because of the earlier unforeseen delays caused by the original steel fabricating company going into receivership .
24 A council does not have the ability to help because of the spending limits set by the poll tax and the severe controls set by government .
25 Former lorry driver Leonard Marder finds it difficult to walk because of an infected leg caused by varicose veins .
26 We found it one of the simplest to use because of the trigger action and the compact shape .
27 The villagers find it easy to use because of the ‘ T ’ piece at the end of the handle , and also like it because the pump produces a good flow of water .
28 What is the point of having cycle facilities which cyclists will not bother to use because of the inconvenience ?
29 The subsequent improvement in the balance of payments clearly owed something to devaluation but its effect is impossible to disentangle because of the general improvement in world markets .
30 Later that year , when Beltrami was acting for McGuinness in another matter , McGuinness admitted his involvement at Ayr — information that Mr Beltrami was unable to divulge because of the confidentiality of the client-solicitor relationship .
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