Example sentences of "[conj] because [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women are becoming more prone to alcohol dependence , either through similar career demands or because of loneliness , boredom or the heavy demands made by family and older relatives . |
| 2 | From the moment they seek training — whether voluntarily or because of benefit withdrawal — to the day they leave . |
| 3 | Many cities are sinking either because of natural land movement or because of water extraction from beneath the city . |
| 4 | During the late 1940s and early 1950s the Communist movement was further weakened by splits in the parties of Mexico , Venezuela , Colombia , Argentina , Bolivia , Peru and Brazil — mostly over the questions of local tactics discussed above or because of rivalry for the party leadership . |
| 5 | He went no further either because of ideological conservatism , or because of lack of courage of his convictions . |
| 6 | ‘ In many cases , a good business opportunity is not bankable because of lack of security or because of lack of personal finance . |
| 7 | It may not be a good reason to us , but they must have had a good reason to do it , either family-wise or tension-wise , or because of life in general . |
| 8 | However , this does not take account of the fact that some of the housing stock will be vacant for frictional reasons , or because of government policy , or its unattractiveness , or use as second homes : furthermore , some dwellings may be unfit , lacking amenities or requiring substantial repairs — in England alone two million had at least one of these physical problems in 1981 ( English House Condition Survey , 1982 , p. 3 ) . |
| 9 | Possibly caused by swallowing air to relieve nausea , or because of constipation . |
| 10 | The League proposes that games can only be switched from Saturday on police instructions or because of television commitments . |
| 11 | In the General Household Survey of 1981 , about 10 per cent of the registered unemployed declared that they were ‘ economically inactive ’ , mostly for reasons associated with their age , health or because of family or domestic responsibilities . |
| 12 | Acheson informed the British ambassador in Washington on 24 December 1949 that because of inability ‘ to find satisfactory answers to certain basic problems confronting us ’ , it would not be possible to adhere to the schedule originally decided with Bevin in September . |
| 13 | Countering medical assertions that sex passion was absent from most normal women , she pointed out that because of reproduction the physical aspect of sex weighed more heavily on them than on men : |
| 14 | Another , less charitable , view suggests that because of lack of ministerial direction — occasioned in part because there were no fewer than four different Secretaries of State between 1972 and 1978 and lack of consultative machinery between the DES and those most closely affected in the colleges , little attempt was made to anticipate events which should have been foreseen much earlier . |
| 15 | We understand that because of lack of work they will now only give two of those records and what people are saying and obviously really good . |
| 16 | Or is it that because of ignorance and haste crucial parts of the foundations have been left out ? |
| 17 | Here it states that because of Government 's responsibility for accounting and the nature of that accounting ‘ it is not valid to seek to apply the SSAPs verbatim to the accounts and statements of the NHS ’ ( para 1.3 , Annexe A , Ch 3 ) . |
| 18 | Where supervision orders to the probation service would normally have been made for the offence , we find that because of homelessness and unemployment , black youths tend to be remanded in custody , or given custodial sentences . |
| 19 | The fact remains that because of election by constituency quota the odds are heavily against fair representation for a small party . |
| 20 | Darlington 's Bishop College of Beauty has been told that because of budget restrictions its training contract is not to be renewed from next month . |
| 21 | It is also likely that because of past changes a growing number of women will retire with some entitlement to a state pension . |
| 22 | The head explained to Mrs Singh that Balbinder was not making much progress and that because of class sizes he would be unlikely to receive the kind of attention he needed . |
| 23 | The Secretary of State maintained that because of section 82 the applicant was not entitled to a statutory redundancy payment . |
| 24 | Mr Justice Douglas Brown said that the defendants were negligent ( 1 ) in failing to appreciate that they were dealing with a husband of substantial means who might well be able to afford to pay , not only a lump sum , but also substantial periodical payments ; ( 2 ) in failing to obtain full disclosure of the husband 's financial affairs ; ( 3 ) in failing to realise that because of family trusts and wills the husband had an expectation of further assets ; ( 4 ) in advising the wife to obtain a mortgage when she had no taxable income ; ( 5 ) in recommending a settlement which removed the wife 's undoubted right to maintenance ; and ( 6 ) in failing to use ouster proceedings to remove the husband from the matrimonial home . |
| 25 | She felt as though she had regained consciousness in a hospital bed after some physical calamity , that because of injury and loss she must now map out a new existence for herself . |
| 26 | It 's a shame that because of time and money it 's coming to an end . |
| 27 | It 's absurd really to say that because of automation there is less and less work when you see how much there is that needs doing in the community . |
| 28 | In the drawing-room of the house that because of death and marriage had become his home Kate watched him while he , in turn , watched the coloured rectangle of the television screen . |
| 29 | I think my impression was that er Professor Lock was suggesting that because of Policy E two local planning authorities would have some difficulty in in making allocations to meet the structure plan requirement . |
| 30 | And I say that because from time to time I 've had lessons completely interrupted by kids taking the ball and running with it and I 've just sat there , it 's been brilliant ! |