Example sentences of "of [noun] because [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As its great historian pointed out , " French became the language of states because it had become the language of courts and aristocracies " . |
| 2 | It takes a while for them to actually settle in , and they need quite a lot of support because we do work in teams and they 're quite well established teams with definite personalities . |
| 3 | erm he would get , he would get a lot of support because it is , it can be read as r as being restorationist but |
| 4 | Mechanistic systems are unsuitable in conditions of change because they tend to deal with change by cumbersome methods . |
| 5 | It is possibly the least effective method of change because it depends on two steps both of which are unnatural . |
| 6 | Well the tom tiddlers of British political life I suppose write their memoirs for a couple of reasons because they ca n't ever admit to themselves they are tom tiddlers . |
| 7 | She gave him a morsel of hope because he had always been so kind to her . |
| 8 | The Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce has stated that it ’ supports the privatisation of NIE because it is convinced that the introduction of private sector business disciplines will ultimately produce a more efficient industry . ’ |
| 9 | The fisherman has high levels of mercury because he catches and eats large fish that lie in undisturbed pools and lagoons where methyl mercury settles , but so far he has no conclusive symptoms . |
| 10 | The FBI prosecutes a cocaine-using mayor and is accused of racism because he is black . |
| 11 | And that 's hampering the whole development process because it 's high , high wages , high wages creates migration and the whole resource allocation reflects in the economies er are disrupted and because people are moving out of agriculture because they ca n't make any money from agriculture they think they can make some money in industry like agriculture itself is being starved of capital and er so it hampers the development process , I mean it 's a complicated business but er there may well be some , some sort of strands of sense that we can draw out of this , one of which may be well if the government sectors are too large in these countries essentially it does n't matter who owns these companies whether it 's , they were privately owned or government , erm if they are inefficient they are inefficient |
| 12 | As World resources 1988–1989 ( World Resources Institute 1988 ) points out , development of this type was initially considered to be more advantageous than other types of agriculture because it required relatively little new infrastracture , it could utilise abundant available labour and there was an expanding North American market for cheap pasture-reared beef . |
| 13 | That may be of course because they were denied the Liberal Democrats panacea for everything namely erm proportional representation . |
| 14 | It rests at an angle , it rests on the er ladders of course because they are ang er the ladders are at an angle like that so part of the weight 's taken by the actual ladders . |
| 15 | the staff somewhere and we , we came in here and of course most of the people eventually had families and er they moved out to bigger accommodation as their families grew up , you know , er , we were very pleased to get the house of course because we 'd we 'd lived in this Nissan hut for er either one or two years but it did |
| 16 | ‘ They phoned about 10.30 at night , and of course because I had everything here , I was available . |
| 17 | ‘ This is his sort of course because he 's a grinder , ’ who succeeded Faldo as champion . |
| 18 | He would never have got married , of course because he was happy with his bachelor life . |
| 19 | It did n't do him a lot of good in the early er in the early days , but er it did stand him in good stead later of course because he became er er a full-time official o of the er Notts area N U M. |
| 20 | and er er er er the situation is that you can , in , in some of these nursing schools where they have taught you and it is their letterhead that 's on your pass-out , they still are n't in a position to say oh well there 's a job of course because you do n't need to have passed out top , you know , to be guaranteed a job , there ai n't no jobs guaranteed for no one . |
| 21 | erm and what makes me suspect not is that Chine Chinese record keeping for many many centuries had been very thorough of course because it 's the basis of the imperial taxation system , so my guess is that the figures are probably fairly reliable . |
| 22 | So the big the thing that 's providing everything , you take the petrol out , you wo n't go unless you 're at the top of a hill , of course because it can |
| 23 | I was n't er the main one of course because it was |
| 24 | There is a danger of assuming that the Japanese have not rejected the contemporary institutions of collectivism because they are accepted as ideal . |
| 25 | Huxley had been suspicious of evolutionism because he could see no plausible explanation of how species might change , and he welcomed Darwin 's theory with open arms because it offered a new hypothesis that confirmed the scientist 's right to treat the origin of species as a problem susceptible to natural explanation . |
| 26 | No , I have n't that information , tha that that detail was asked for , but I do know that er that certainly in a majority of cases because they are local erm the attendance from tenants was certainly substantial and I would of , but certainly far more than you would expected if the panel perhaps had been inside a . |
| 27 | People only see the good-for-nothing sons who hang around bars getting into fights and pushing drugs ; they do n't see the real shepherd , the man who spends almost all of his life alone , spends his days making the cheeses they take for granted and his nights sleeping sometimes only for a couple of hours because it 's lambing time . ’ |
| 28 | Populations of these species may not be able to tolerate this type of predation because they have evolved in the absence of ground-based predators . |
| 29 | Could I then come to the body of the report , rather than the East Grinstead by-pass , which I , I , I I agree is , is pertinent erm I was , I read this a couple of times because I was a bit confused about the rather if I may say so convoluted argument that was in it erm I think I understand the argument that the erm is that the Mid Sussex District Council have asked for advice and the recommendation is that advice . |
| 30 | Of course it 's not a blank year for the hard pressed voters of Harlow because they 're all voting in the county council elections then for the , for the number of , for the , for the er county councillors who represent at Harlow erm at County Hall in Chelmsford . |