Example sentences of "[prep] [det] because [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dear Boy , It must be very difficult for you sometimes I expect not having anyone and having to do all the shopping and cooking for yourself I know that when I was working I certainly could not have managed on my own , coming home tired and then making dinner your own dinner and then going upstairs to do some more work , what sort of life is that , though I know all about that because of course I did do that for three years almost , and I know how much happier I was when I knew there was someone waiting for me and having the dinner ready and keeping the house clean and all those things , or perhaps you people do n't think those things are important . |
| 2 | See I do n't see erm them shifting very much for that because by the time you 've got a bloke out paid his wages , paid for the the erm skip shifter , transporter you know . |
| 3 | I do n't know that the school 's is the right vehicle for this because in many ways , the children who are getting into these things pay more attention to the peer group , and it 's more important to have community groups , community cafes , things which are not seen as authority getting at them . |
| 4 | The meeting itself was more like a wake , for more and more athletes were finding out that they were not going to compete in Edinburgh after all because of the boycott that was being staged by the African , Caribbean and Asian countries . |
| 5 | Ring them up and say ‘ I hope you do n't mind me messing you about like this but I 've been thinking over your kind offer , and I realize I could fit it in after all because of a sudden change of circumstances at home and my mother 's coming down to help me out — oh , and if there 's a spare ticket — ’ |
| 6 | They can rightly be described as such because in each case the plaintiff 's freedom and ability to earn a living was affected . |
| 7 | enough room so I the size of that because of that |
| 8 | I 'd got out of that because by the time I got home she was gone . |
| 9 | First of all , I think that it it 's difficult to be sure of this because of the way in which the County Council prepared their the evidence on which I relayed relied and like Mr I did n't come here prepared to talks in detail about the inner northern . |
| 10 | ‘ Every trophy is nice but perhaps this is our best of all because of the difficulties we 've had this summer . ’ |
| 11 | If the range of the music-making itself also seems circumscribed , it is so first of all because of the Russian instrumental tradition . |
| 12 | Any of the above forms of project management pose considerable strain on the project leader , perhaps the matrix form most of all because of the sophistication of the concept . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , venturing into the outback was perilous , not least of all because of the treacherous conditions of the Australian climate and terrain . |
| 14 | The technique of X-ray fluorescence ( XRF ) ( see glossary ) is often used for these because of its non-destructive capabilities ( fig. 5.6 ) . |
| 15 | You would n't be living like that because of comfort , because of security " — he seemed to be making an effort to despise these words as much as she did — " but because of your aim . |
| 16 | We 're acting like that because of the way we 've been treated in the past throughout the school . |
| 17 | Some of the nurses are saying he 's like that because of voodoo . ’ |
| 18 | I say , ‘ We treat you guys like that because of the way you act . |
| 19 | He had to think like this because of the nature of his employment , whereby he was often required to make inflated claims for the nature and properties of the products which his clients wished to bring to the daily notice of the populace . |
| 20 | Youth boss Ray Hankin said : ‘ Over the season we will get points from games like this because of the hard work we put in . |
| 21 | This is good news for all because with a few modifications hopefully on the same car I may be in with a chance for first prize next year where the prize money increases plus a trip to the States to see their ‘ Sound Off Championships ’ . |
| 22 | Yeah , erm modern when in choosing a mate and er connection with that because with the assumption that males generally do n't give any parental investment what really benefit them to you know biologically can , can support the offspring themselves short period of time why ca n't they then go you know to have their own I mean |
| 23 | It was perhaps above all because of this disenchanting experience that the USSR , under Gorbachev 's leadership , began to take a more distanced view of the future development of Third World states . |
| 24 | I have devoted some time to the Aplysia story here , not only because of the significance of Eric Kandel 's achievement in terms of its wealth of experimental data and theoretical model building , but perhaps above all because of the place it has come to occupy , not only in the text-books , making memory research neurophysiologically respectable , but in the framing of the research field . |
| 25 | They still have the temptation to ‘ pass ’ within that because of the pressure . |
| 26 | I ask you to deal him leniently in that because of that . |
| 27 | I 'm going to put these in some because like Anna says you know if you flowers you have more impact with them . |
| 28 | Univel Inc last week cut its prices in half because of Microsoft Windows NT , the most threatening vapourware ever to descend on the market . |
| 29 | My son did get a job in a button factory and an optician 's but he was laid off from both because of lack of demand . |
| 30 | But to present the full scenario and then vote er on the the different items er so that voting is done on items on the amendment before we then proceed er if you want to we just have to go to amendments to that because of course no two amendments can be on the floor at the same time . |