Example sentences of "because [prep] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of tightening central government controls on borrowing , the proportion of local authority capital income derived from borrowing fell sharply during the 1970s and 1980s ( from 83.7 per cent in 1974/5 to 48.4 per cent in 1984/5 ) ( all figures for England are calculated from Travers , 1986 , tables , App. 4 and 5 ) . |
| 2 | As Clark ( 1986 ) points out , the project was considered to be a failure in both technical and economic terms within 10 years of its inception , not least because of resulting poor drainage , increasing soil salinity and excessive silting . |
| 3 | On Nov. 24 , 1989 , the European Parliament ( EP ) had asked its legal affairs committee to conduct an investigation into the case because of growing international concern about such convictions , while in January 1988 the Court of Appeal in London had unanimously rejected an appeal against the convictions [ see p. 36237 ] . |
| 4 | This happened directly when employers were unable to raise prices sufficiently to offset ‘ excessive ’ wage increases because of growing international competition and fixed exchange rates . |
| 5 | And it is ecologically unlikely that vegetarian dinosaurs arrived because of growing predatory competition among reptiles , paramammals and mammals for live prey . |
| 6 | The Washington Post of Nov. 21 gave prominence to Rafsanjani 's declarations and reported that " India announced this week that it will not sell a nuclear reactor to Iran , largely because of mounting international pressure " . |
| 7 | If not then add the cost of your time , charged at your usual rate of pay — and if you are like me then you will take at least five times as long as a garage , because of having less experience and fewer tools ( such as a hoist ) . |
| 8 | One patient with Crohn 's disease requested pouch excision because of severe diarrhoea , four patients with slow transit constipation who had a pouch requested excision because of continuing abdominal distension and a feeling of incomplete evacuation . |
| 9 | This is useful , because by comparing previous drought years like 1976 , you can draw a lot of conclusions . |
| 10 | We would learn little , because by exploiting spherical symmetry we would just have to deal with another pseudo-one-dimensional problem . |
| 11 | This is the stage to take decisive action , because by ignoring this threat gesture , you are merely acquiescing to the dog s challenge , and adopting a subordinate position . |
| 12 | Private ownership is also justified because by permitting individual property owners to pursue their own self-interest in a competitive market it is argued that we achieve an optimal allocation of society 's resources . |