Example sentences of "because the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Because the granting of a prerogative order is discretionary in nature , leave of the High Court must be obtained to make application for them .
2 ‘ He was strangled , ’ he said , ‘ because the Druids believed his death might avert a Roman victory .
3 Armour saves are not allowed for hits from a bolt thrower , because the missiles are so fast and deadly that any armour is pierced along with its wearer .
4 Is wrong , because the comma is between two sentences .
5 If you are kept waiting at any airport , hoverport or seaport because the departure of your scheduled aircraft , hovercraft or ship , is delayed from the time specified in your Amsterdam Travel Confirmation of Booking invoice , then you can claim benefit in accordance with the following scale .
6 Buckby wrote to every head teacher in Cleveland last year seeking support after Langbaurgh runner Adam Mead , the county champion , was prevented from running in the English Schools because the departure date of a school skiing trip was brought forward 24 hours .
7 But on this occasion , he was lucky because the petrol station attendant had witnessed what had occurred and gave evidence on his behalf .
8 The administration would hate this , largely because the petrol tax is so unpopular in the open spaces of the West .
9 The owner claimed to have had reasonable grounds to believe the truth of his misrepresentation because the Lloyd 's Register had ( in a rare mistake ) wrongly stated the payload as 1,800 tons .
10 The interpretation of palaeoecology is rendered difficult because the composition of fossil faunas may differ radically from the communities from which they were derived .
11 Precisely because the composition of phonolexical sets can not be specified on phonological grounds , it is difficult to find a principled way of specifying the lexical input to the variable ( u ) ; eventually eighteen words were assigned to the set simply on the basis of observation .
12 Unlike the big coach operators these are not glorified shopping trips and , because the coaches are small ( carrying up to 24 passengers ) , they can reach the places that larger 48-seater coaches ca n't .
13 Councillors can also be advantaged by their knowledge of local circumstances and because the mobility of senior officers often exceeds that of senior councillors .
14 Four English Tory Members were members of the Committee considering the Bill and we look forward with interest to see whether that number will rise to seven when we consider the Scottish education Bill because the fidelity of the Hon. Member for Dumfries and the right Hon. Member for Kincardine and Deeside ( Mr. Buchanan-Smith ) can not be relied upon .
15 Because the terrain so lends itself to visual spectacle , the grand prix races draw crowds from Vienna , Salzburg and Innsbruck like no other .
16 Others will be the product of guesswork because the terrain they cover is unknown , and being unknown will contain risks .
17 Preparations for the Normandy landings took place here because the terrain is similar to that which faced the Allied invasion forces .
18 In connection with a suggested airport perimeter path , I think you would find that the route would not have the slightest attraction for the ‘ misbehaving minority ’ on mountain bikes — simply because the terrain is flat .
19 The second variant fails both because the requirement of consideration may be satisfied casually by an informal exchange of promises and because the courts invoke another doctrine , the requirement of an intention to enter legal relations , when they wish to claw back certain informal promises made in social and domestic contexts from the realm of contractual obligations .
20 I am a friend of the Communists , because the Communists are revolutionary people ! ’
21 The answer is not quite , because the boundary conditions are not quite the same .
22 Of the structures actually perceivable in polymers one may consider the spherulite in a semi-crystalline polymer as being unsuitable as an RVE because the boundary is not included .
23 But elsewhere the situation is far less clear , partly for lack of detailed evidence and partly because the boundary is not always precisely defined in archaeologically recognizable terms .
24 An exception is made in this instance because the policeman 's task in maintaining law and order exposes him to a greater risk of attack than other members of the public .
25 Huy knew that it was because the policeman could trust him only so far after his confession .
26 The reason why I have thought it to be so definitely a first edition is usually only because the title verso states : ‘ First published 19XX ’ or some such wording , and there is no mention about a second or third impression , or , because there was a date on the title page and a blank on the title verso ; or the title verso had only the copyright date on it .
27 But he had to stay , he said — because the parliament had not yet confirmed his new prime minister , Shapour Bakhtiar .
28 Multiprocessing is a misnomer , because the software ties together only two RS/6000s , enabling each to back the other up .
29 Sadly , we were too far ahead of the game and , despite the title being ready for a May launch we were forced to hold off because the software was one step behind our hardware !
30 And just because the software you 're using can do transaction processing it does n't mean it can do decision support .
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