Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [adv] because [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 So , partly because of Siraj-ud-Daula 's incompetence and partly because of the eagerness of the Company employees to supplement their incomes by plunging into Indian politics , the British began to move inland .
2 What it actually means erm is that er there is unlikely to be a by-pass for some time , but in effect that would be likely to be the case anyway , one because of the cost of the by-pass overall and secondly because of the erm position with regard to other aspects of the roads programme and the level of T S G that we are currently receiving er even if there was an agreed line as of today erm bearing in mind the th the other things that have happened in the roads programme , it still would be unlikely that the by-pass would be er programmed in such a way that it would allow housing or other development to take place in East Grinstead within either the structure plan period or the local plan period and hence the points that then er that the report moves on to erm come into play .
3 Er we would find it difficult to justify public concern about a specific location er in advance of a decision erm the principle so we would prefer er a step by step approach er which reflects the special circumstances er of Greater York , and I think Greater York is a special circumstance if only because of the number of authorities erm er thus far involved .
4 Partly it is changing because women are getting more familiar with the industrial scene and partly because of the tremendous impact and influence of the strike at Grunwick Photoprocessing .
5 Not just because of its range but also because of the quality of the material .
6 Partly because of the volume of this response and partly because of the radical nature of some of these proposals , going well beyond those envisaged in Partnership in Validation , the CNAA has allowed a few of the suggested procedures to be tried out on an experimental basis and while this is happening has virtually declared a moratorium on other ‘ special arrangement ’ proposals .
7 In recent years , partly as a result of exposure to the American literature and partly because of a desire to adopt a tough-minded approach towards power , British social and political scientists have increasingly been on the look out for signs of a similar system in Britain .
8 Of course , there is a small increase in speed as the climb gets steeper , both because the glider is starting to ascend the arc of a circle and also because of the effects of the wind gradient .
9 One issue deserving of attention if only because of the importance it assumes in the United States implementation literatures is the ‘ special ’ agency set up to concern itself with policy making and implementation in a specifically limited policy field .
10 Sir George Calvert , a politician at the Stuart court , had already shown his interest in colonization by trying to found a settlement in the Avalon district of Newfoundland , though this had failed partly because of the climate and partly because of the opposition of the fishermen who came from England every summer to use it as a base for fishing on the Grand Banks .
11 His reputation as a superstar of search , as the king of Manhattan headhunters , grew rapidly , partly through effective self-promotion but mostly because of a series of prominent , high-level successful search assignments , in the course of which he placed more CEOs and presidents of top American companies than any other consultant .
12 Over the summer certification period the turnaround on RETs may increase by a week or so because of the very high numbers of candidates seeking certification .
13 ‘ Because of the present state of the economy and also because of the seasonal nature of the main businesses , with the large majority of profits usually earned in the second half , it is too early to form a clear view of the outcome for the year , ’ the group added .
14 The trouble was kept to a minimum as much because of the novelty of the situation as anything else .
15 Thus the generation 1690–1720 saw a considerable transference of real power from the King to Parliament , partly as a result of specific acts of legislation and partly because of the enormous changes in the country 's fiscal system and relationship to Europe which occurred in these years .
16 In practice , there has been considerable disappointment with the new system of planning , partly because of the lack of guidelines provided by central government and partly because of the slowness and cumbersomeness of the new procedures ( Barrass 1979 ; Shaw and Williams 1982a ) .
17 It may be that boys tend to ask almost twice as many questions as girls , not just because of natural assertiveness but also because of the position society allocates to the male .
18 It is worth taking a brief look at McLuhan himself ( 1962 ; 1964 ; 1967 ) , partly because his ideas have been adopted explicitly by some writers on popular music but also because in the period of his greatest fame ( the mid- and late 1960s ) some of these ideas sediment Ed themselves into the common assumptions of quite widely , if usually implicitly , held views on culture and technology .
19 Partly for this reason and partly because of the inherent complexity the partnership agreement itself will rarely include ( at any rate in its main body ) a breakdown of the chosen management structures in full detail , though where a decision is taken on a matter of principle ( eg what matters require the unanimous approval of the partners , how a senior partner should be chosen , etc ) the partnership agreement is the logical place for it to be recorded .
20 And to show you what the situation is er the world 's energy demand is very likely i i i is almost certain to increase er because of development in the world and also because of the growing population er that arrow is some sort of guess as to how the world er the demand for energy worldwide is likely to increase when you set that against the curves at the bottom which show the likely projections for oil and natural gas as you can see as we get into the next century those er fossil fuels , which we 've been using with gay abandon for many decades , will start to into er decline .
21 This is partly because of the size of the corpuses needed for syntactic analysis and partly because of the accuracy required in the transcript , which has to be input in computer-readable form .
22 Social security spending expanded greatly after 1979 ( see Table 8. 1 ) partly because of the unexpected and sharp rise in unemployment and partly because of the increase in people of pensionable age .
23 Although the decision has caused controversy , it is not so much because of the principles underlying the determination of a duty of care but mostly because of the House of Lords ' interpretation of the Companies Act responsibilities of auditors .
24 However in R. v. Samuel ( C.A. 1988 ) , the theft of £300 from a Building Society was considered a serious arrestable offence , both because of the use of a sawn-off shot gun in the raid and also because of the accused 's intention to cause serious financial loss to the Building Society .
25 The result was a substantial increase in survival partly because of surgery and partly because of the greatly improved general care that infants received .
26 The contradiction was less dramatic for the revolutionaries in Cuba , where the Church 's influence was not great , partly because of the presence of vestiges of African religion from the slave culture and partly because of the comparatively developed state of Cuba 's economy and educational system .
27 This may be due to financial restrictions on travel but also because of the prevalence today of nationwide state societies in even ‘ primitive ’ areas so that one can no longer study ‘ simple ’ societies in isolation .
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