Example sentences of "[to-vb] on [adj] [noun] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asked by a Conservative councillor about the former MP 's position , Mr Begg said he was reluctant to comment on individual cases because of the Data Protection Act . |
| 2 | Asked by a Conservative councillor about the former MP 's position , Mr Begg said he was reluctant to comment on individual cases because of the Data Protection Act . |
| 3 | Please let me know if you are n't able to come on that day because the security at the Palace of Westminster is very sensitive and if we do n't turn up with the right number of people we could be in trouble ! |
| 4 | I persuaded her to come on this course because I thought it would be a change for us both . ’ |
| 5 | Supratentorial infiltrating , low grade gliomas are often difficult to identify on computed tomography because they are not associated with significant mass effect and may not enhance with intravenous contrast medium . |
| 6 | Habits and patterns of work can become more disorganized : people may be unable to focus on one task because all the other things to be done keep crowding in ; at the end of a very busy day little seems to have been accomplished . |
| 7 | I think we 've really got to do something about it and hold a proper supervisory and see what 's going to go on this year because it 's , it gets worse . |
| 8 | UN-sponsored negotiations in New York between the leaders of the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities , aimed at ending the division of the island broke down on March 2 because , in the words of UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , " both sides are not ready to proceed on these talks because of several difficulties " . |
| 9 | A welcome was given to Beryl Smith who kindly agreed to teach on this day because of the shortage of other trainers . |
| 10 | We need to legislate on this offence because of an evidential difficulty , which is compounded in several ways . |
| 11 | However , the courts may gradually have fewer and fewer decisions to make on this issue because the pendulum , swinging between control and decontrol since 1915 , has swung once again in favour of the landlord . |