Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [noun] because of " in BNC.
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| 1 | An aversive conditioned response of feeling pain on passing a motion because of a small anal fissure . |
| 2 | There were complications on account of our both being ( in that pleasing Scottish legal phrase ) ‘ furth of Scotland ’ , and the difficulty of fixing a date because of our respective duties . |
| 3 | Ken himself was seeing a psychiatrist because of his own depressions . |
| 4 | You see , and of course when I was at Cambridge , you see , and that was during the Second World War , well of course , you see , I remember seeing a plane because of course the station was a prime target |
| 5 | Then , using a bandsaw because of its narrow kerf , chop a piece off . |
| 6 | There was also argument about whether Slovenia should indeed be exempted from holding a referendum because of its December plebiscite . |
| 7 | But it 's not , she 's not having a downer because of your dad |
| 8 | He is classified as having a patron/client because of the observed relationship with a large organisation which was one among a number of significant clients . |
| 9 | I 'm more familiar with Asia so I 'm really talking about South Asia , South-East Asian countries , where the left is learning a lot from feminism , is changing a lot because of feminism . |
| 10 | Teesside Development Corporation , which has planning powers over the site , said it had considered doing something with the site but had been deterred from making a bid because of site access problems . |