Example sentences of "[vb pp] because [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , state policy is constrained because government depends for taxation revenue upon maintaining successful capital accumulation . |
| 2 | In this case mobility between firms is constrained because labour may have to sacrifice the growth in earnings they could expect if they remained with their current firm . |
| 3 | But an ST is not recommended because support for the machine among software writers is dying . |
| 4 | Thermoluminescence is emitted because crystal lattices contain defects , and electrons produced by the ionising radiation may become trapped at one type of defect ( a ‘ trap ’ ) . |
| 5 | Yet , because nothing succeeds like success , Cole too may be excused ; for making the tacit assumption that the Pioneers were mistaken , excused because Consumer Co-operation had abandoned their model , was successful , and had all the authority of success . |
| 6 | Workers at a department store have had their pensions frozen because money was taken out of the fund before the shop was sold to new owners . |
| 7 | It was won because Labour was the party of high taxation , because the Conservative Party presented an alternative , and because most electors neither admired Mr Kinnock nor believed that he could deliver the promises that he was making . |
| 8 | In its first twenty or thirty years of life the new Board was rather more active than the Lords of Trade ; between 1720 and 1760 effective executive power passed to the Secretary of State in charge of relations with France and southern Europe , though the Board still served as the main clearing house for the American pressure groups which could keep up London connections ; in the last twenty years of its life , when Gibbon was a member , it was as complete a sinecure as he could have wished because power had now passed to the holder of a new Secretaryship of State . |
| 9 | We are all being bullied because knowledge is power . |
| 10 | A bonfire , planned for a playing field in East Oxford , has had to be cancelled because safety officials say its too dangerous . |
| 11 | Educational quality has also suffered because war costs and related economic decline have forced cuts in books– equipment , furniture , writing materials and maintenance of buildings . |
| 12 | ‘ I was up all night before the event to make sure we were prepared because attention to detail is so important , ’ said Jerry , whose 13 years in the business have included a spell at the Ritz Hotel in London . |
| 13 | Identification of victims is being hampered because passenger lists are inaccurate . |
| 14 | This phenomenon has been referred to as the ‘ flypaper effect ’ , so named because money will stick in the sector that it hits — grants to the local public economy will be spent in the local public economy . |
| 15 | At press time Sun was still chipping away at the price of the Tsunami Classic , so named because Sun expects it to become the standard by which all others are judged . |
| 16 | But jobs are threatened because defence establishments and agriculture are cutting back . |
| 17 | The Sunday Times reporter Peter Gillman recounts how the Panel went to the Trading Standards Office at Bodmin but was told that there was nothing to be done because water was not covered by the Food Act . |
| 18 | More papers lay scattered thickly over the ground between the churchyard wall and the rubble of the Cutcherry but they could not be collected because musket fire once more swept the open spaces . |
| 19 | Parents are moved because childhood is so swift and vanishing . |
| 20 | The blocks are produced because andesite lavas are so viscous that they flow as plastic , rather than liquid , materials and consist of an outer chilled surface of solid rock with a steady progression towards increasing plasticity in the hotter , central parts of the flow . |
| 21 | They have occurred because policy makers or practitioners have judged it to be appropriate to their views and implementation has begun . |
| 22 | The method is probably too little used because communication has an aura of truth about it and our cultural habit is to seek out truth rather than design workable falsehoods . |
| 23 | Newels are not used because water would collect in the joints : it is better to support the handrail by uprights , screwed or nailed to the strings . |
| 24 | Fall-out from exhaust emissions is not only directly inhaled but can be ingested because lead settles on the hands and on vegetables , crops and fruit growing near roadsides . |
| 25 | Legislation to set up an umbrella agency to control pollution in England and Wales has been postponed because government ministries disagree over the scope and scale of the new body . |
| 26 | Frank Bruno 's proposed showdown with Lennox Lewis has been postponed because TV companies have spent their summer budgets on the European football championships , Wimbledon , Test Matches and the Olympics . |
| 27 | DURAN Duran 's comeback tour , due to open in Britain last night , has been postponed because lead singer Simon le Bon has lost his voice . |
| 28 | The Directive is needed because wildlife and habitats have undergone terrible declines in much of Europe and the rate of loss is accelerating ( in the UK , 95% of wild flower meadows , 75% of heaths , and 80% of dry grasslands have gone since the war ) . |
| 29 | Coalitions are especially important when change is needed because innovation — new projects or developments — generally involve going outside of current sources of organizational power . |
| 30 | Two more doors now opened , and others emerged from their trailers , but Estabrook had no chance to either see who they were or whether they were armed because Chant again said : |