Example sentences of "[vb pp] because [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is reference in paragraph two point two to the local ombudsman and I , I , I should perhaps add that during the year in question , there is one current matter er which er with the subject of the referral to the local ombudsman and that of course has not been included because of definition reasons in this report . |
| 2 | The care or supervision of children , though not strictly speaking housework , is included because in practice it was impossible to make an adequate distinction between the two activities of housework and child-care . |
| 3 | Wilson had no time to miss him and his family or her other gentleman , who had joined their party , before the Brownings were back , similarly propelled by the fear that they might be trapped because of war . |
| 4 | Prosecutor Smither Thiara said : ‘ The charge has been dropped because of lack of evidence . ’ |
| 5 | A 19 year old man was charged but the case was later dropped because of lack of evidence . |
| 6 | The German bombardment of Hartlepool and Scarborough in December 1914 was expected because of wireless intercepts . |
| 7 | Inadequacies in the design contributed to a £10 million bill for replacement of bearings on the A19 Tees Viaduct and annual maintenance costs of £5 million are expected because of design defects on the M5/M6 link at Spaghetti Junction . |
| 8 | Lines are discontinued because of company wide sales . |
| 9 | He showed her a letter from the CPS saying proceedings against him had been discontinued because of lack of evidence . |
| 10 | The case against a schoolboy accused of setting fire to a teenage girl while she inhaled an aerosol spray has collapsed because of lack of evidence . |
| 11 | Others are not reported because of embarrassment or fear on the part of the victim ( rape , domestic assaults ) , or because he or she thinks that there is little the police can do about it ( vandalism , shoplifting ) , or that the offence is not very serious anyway , or that there is no unwilling victim ( drug abuse , soliciting , under-age sex ) . |
| 12 | Raiders who broke into an office in East Mount Road , Darlington , were also caught because of information supplied by a member of the public . |
| 13 | Crellin , who took over at promoted Leigh from sacked Kevin Ashcroft this summer , said : ‘ I have resigned because of boardroom interference . ’ |
| 14 | Transport and trailers group Tiphook saw a recent dip in operating profits and earnings-per-share ; construction and engineering firm BM Group hit controversy over its accounting practices , and its chairman resigned because of ill-health ; engineering group Harland Simon ran into losses , had its shares suspended , and lost its chairman and finance director . |
| 15 | Plummer argued that D was partly derived from a predecessor of the St Augustine 's chronicle , and that this was itself descended from an Abingdon manuscript which also lies behind C. He thus explained the presence in E of various entries on abbots of Abingdon which are also in C. Possibly an Abingdon version of the Chronicle was taken to Canterbury in 1044 when its abbot , Siward , replaced Archbishop Eadsige , who had resigned because of ill-health , or was subsequently sent there at Siward 's request . |
| 16 | Ivan Masek , chairman of the Screening Commission of the Czech National Council , emphasised on Jan. 3 that Richter had not resigned because of collaboration with the former secret police ( StB ) . |
| 17 | This must lead us to consider whether the differences in theistic belief between Near Eastern traditions like Judaism , Christianity , and Islam on the one hand , and Indian traditions like Hinduism on the other hand , have been exaggerated because of language . |
| 18 | The more powerful , well-established organizations were often able to put forward their own projects — many of which might simply have been cancelled because of capital cut-backs after the International Monetary Fund imposed constraints in 1976 . |
| 19 | MIDDLESBROUGH Jazz Society was upset when Harry Edison 's European tour was cancelled because of health problems . |
| 20 | Perhaps they 'd take an excursion by brake to Pegwell Village this afternoon if the concert had to be cancelled because of rain . |
| 21 | If some know-all sourpusses are to be believed , The Rockingbirds are n't appreciated in the same way as Suede or Kingmaker or Therapy ? : they 're just an average bunch of Luddites being championed because of kitsch , ‘ so out it 's in ’ considerations . |
| 22 | Michael Saltmarsh , owner of one of the four private beaches left in the country , at Croyde Bay , Devon , argues that his business has suffered because of contamination of the beach and the coastal waters . |
| 23 | All my life I have suffered because of Father being important . |
| 24 | However , that will not be possible if third party consents , etc. are required which can not previously be sought because of confidentiality . |
| 25 | This system is so named because at beast two accounts ( for example , cash , stock , accounts payable ) are always affected by each transaction . |
| 26 | Art and design was selected because of concern about student numbers and over-provision of courses , particularly in the post-graduate field . |
| 27 | They claimed the ban had been imposed because of pressure from Dublin . |
| 28 | Friends of the Earth , also opposed to nuclear power , wants to see coal mines saved because of concern about the fate of mining communities , an issue on which Greenpeace does not express a view , preferring to stick to environmental issues . |
| 29 | It was the not fault of my client , that just as the Visitor seemed to be gaining the trust of the young person who is the subject of this enquiry ( she was a child when the case was first brought to their attention as in need of care and protection but is now classed as a young person ) she was transferred because of area reorganisation undertaken in response to changes in government policy , and that the officer who took over the case was hospitalised shortly after she assumed her new duties . |
| 30 | Repair work has yet to be done because of lack of funding . |