Example sentences of "[det] because [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he persuades his man with a natural talent for the proper administration of worldly affairs that to neglect this because of a preoccupation with spiritual meditation could be unwise . |
| 2 | We know this because of a telegram sent by Kirk at 2300 hrs that night to the State Department in Washington , asking " urgently " for advice [ KP 107 ] . |
| 3 | Was this because of the wording of the items or the unfamiliarity of the task ? |
| 4 | I enjoy this because of the diversity and intellectual challenge ’ . |
| 5 | Organisations are neglecting this because of the emphasis on technical expertise . ’ |
| 6 | They suffer from the drawback that warping can leave open gaps in the cladding ( waney-edged boards are particularly prone to this because of the way they are sawn ) , and so they tend to be used more on out-buildings than on house exteriors , except as feature panels . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Capitalists exploit the workers by depriving them of this surplus value and they do this because of the nature of property in capitalist societies , where the means of production are controlled by the capitalist . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | but is this because of the family 's bad eating habits , or is there a genetic factor ? |
| 11 | He was moved to do this because of the feeling that this is not a mere river but the Lord 's compassion flowing before us . |
| 12 | Head : ‘ We need to consider this because of the decline in the value of the per capita allowance . ’ |
| 13 | It would do this because under the plan Muslim and Croat forces could not move into areas conquered by the Serbs when Serb forces withdrew ; UN forces would replace the retreating Serbs . |
| 14 | Not so much because of the menace in his voice and manner , but because it caused me to lose what little respect I had for him . |
| 15 | The ANC rejected the proposal , saying that the government was opposed to majority rule " not so much because of the principle involved but because of dissatisfaction with whom the majority will be " . |
| 16 | And er you ca n't really do much because of the stone walls and there 's too much window and too much noise , and you get quite a few insects in them , and they 're just generally not very nice at all . |
| 17 | ‘ Not so much because of the liver but because it spoils the effect of the first drink of the evening . ’ |
| 18 | Hue and Cry are the most interesting of the new pop sophisticates , not so much because of the music , but because singer and lyricist Patrick Kane is an intellectual firebrand who 's more sussed than most about the contradictions and complexities of trying to infiltrate intelligence into the world of teenpop . |
| 19 | But Harold was not to be soothed : he demanded retribution , he demanded action , not so much because of the ridicule but because at some stage in the programme it was alleged that he had made advantageous use of privileged or secret material in an improper fashion in relation to a book he was then about to publish . |
| 20 | As we have already indicated , what has been ‘ lost ’ from the countryside has been the village as an occupational community , which has disappeared not so much because of the impact of the newcomers but because of the underlying changes in the economics of agriculture . |
| 21 | CHARITIES are losing money not so much because of the practice of suggesting the amount of donations but because they impose such high postal charges on the goods they offer . |
| 22 | On the other hand , I 've been as happy as a turkey in January , and all because of a story I spotted in a medical magazine , stating that regular lashings of oily fish cut sharply your chances of having a heart attack . |
| 23 | It 's all because of a computer error at the Cheltenham based University Central Council on Admissions . |
| 24 | A holiday , which was n't going to happen because a travel firm went bust , has now been saved … all because of a chance conversation in a car-park . |
| 25 | And that is how the Charge of the Light Brigade , the most celebrated and glorious calamity in British military history came about — all because of a failure in the effective use of grammar to make an appropriate connection with context . |
| 26 | All because of a brake that was |
| 27 | And if they get very famished and very desperate and enough of their mates come out to join them , then how can Sir Robert Peel and his Tories fail to listen when you tell him it 's all because of the Corn Laws ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |