Example sentences of "[verb] up because of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He moved at once , for he would not lie here on the floor before this ancient evil creature and , although it was awkward and painful to stand up because of the ropes that bound his arms , he did so in a swift fluid movement and stood eyeing the Robemaker . |
| 2 | I think the other possibility to take Stella 's point is that if there is a change that 's come up because of an audit , where a particular job has been audited and you know that within the next week or so another similar job is being audited , it may make sense to refer it 'til the next meeting , providing you 're not deferring it for a long period of time , to compar the results of the two jobs . |
| 3 | Opposition to the deal built up because of fears that this plutonium would free US stocks for use in its weapons programme and so indirectly help US weapons expansion . |
| 4 | In other words , some good measurements might be lost , but bad measurements are likely to be picked up because of the requirement that both the subject measurement and the reference measurement must be consistent . |
| 5 | As well as using up adrenaline you may also need to relax muscles which have stiffened up because of tension . |
| 6 | Yet we so often feel guilty and uncomfortable ; we feel like children , afraid to own up because of what might happen . |
| 7 | These are so faint and they only show up because of the long time exposure . |
| 8 | In the , th the end of chapter nineteen it says all the city was stirred up because of them . |
| 9 | Many bands break up because of personality clashes between musicians . |
| 10 | So it would certainly be naive to think that whenever people felt unhappy erm it was er was some kind of pathology and that , that evolution could n't explain it , and it may just be that the women feel a bit fed up because of hormonal changes and it does n't awfully much , it 's just one of things you pay for being a mother . |
| 11 | They met up because of the papers . |
| 12 | CATHERINE GRAY ex-schoolteacher who has given up because of blindness , age about forty-five . |
| 13 | Unemployment always rises in recessions , but this time it is more serious , warn the doomsters : the lost jobs will not return when economies pick up because of changes in the technology and organisation of industry , and stiffer competition from developing countries . |
| 14 | So it 's sort of can float up because of pull pulling it down . |
| 15 | Boy locked up because of haircut |
| 16 | Most smokers want to give up because of the effect of smoking on their health — not to mention the smelly clothes , the bad breath , the coughs and wheezes . |
| 17 | This women 's group was set up because of dissatisfaction with the lack of action by the male-dominated Ovens committee . |
| 18 | The Fair Employment Commission was set up because of the disadvantage experienced by Northern Ireland Catholics in terms of greatly higher unemployment rates , lower participation rates in the more prestigious better-paid jobs and much greater participation in insecure or poorly paid jobs . |
| 19 | The Campaign for Real Yorkshire has been set up because of the imminent review of local government structures in the county being carried out by the Government 's Local Government Commission . |
| 20 | The Campaign for Real Yorkshire has been set up because of the imminent review of local government structures in the county , being carried out by the Government 's Local Government Commission . |
| 21 | Yeah but er it was set up because of for foreigners words to pronounce the words properly , that 's why they wanted |
| 22 | From Vitebsk it was heard that a railway-wagon workshop meeting convened on 30 March with the aim of helping in the requisition of church valuables broke up because of the ‘ thunderous outcries of believers ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ They recommended it to the Department of Employment but were told that things had been tightened up because of a Bulgarian footballer who was signed by Ipswich Town and then found to have less international caps than at first thought . |
| 24 | He says the bar keeps icing up because of the frost and if it 's like that in the sky I could fall off . |
| 25 | The allegations were denied by Biwott and by the government , which said that security in the game reserve had been stepped up because of attacks on tourists . |
| 26 | In that case the buyer of a new Nissan car had had it for less than three weeks and had made two or three short journeys in it for the purpose of trying it out , before the engine seized up because of a latent manufacturing fault . |
| 27 | However , the two seats reserved for Unionist MPs were not taken up because of Unionist opposition to the 1985 Agreement ( provision for the existence of the Body , first mooted in 1980 , having been made in the Agreement ) ; Molyneaux dismissed the meeting as a " social occasion " . |
| 28 | An offer to climb Mount Everest had to be passed up because of work commitments — the journey takes at least two months . |
| 29 | But Stewart said that even before he was convicted , vital information from other pilots about near-misses was already drying up because of fears of reprisals . |
| 30 | The National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has announced that it may resort to abstraction bans to prevent 40 rivers in England and Wales from drying up because of what it called " gross over-abstractions " by water companies for the public water supply . |