Example sentences of "because a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ivan Nagy cancelled the English National Ballet 's planned appearances in Liverpool last autumn because a couple of mediocre Russian companies were visiting . |
| 2 | Liam complained that he had plenty to do with the new shop opening for him to be running around after doctors — ‘ just because a couple of kiddies are sick ’ . |
| 3 | There were whiffs of controversy in the air as the obsequies were dealt with , but only because a couple of the reporters interrogated retiring manager Micky Stewart over possible suspicion of Pakistan ball-tampering . |
| 4 | I want to turn this right round because a couple of people have mentioned guilt and er I I suspect that one of the reasons that women are a bit worried about talking about depression or or campaigning for changes in policy , or more funding , or or whatever , is that for a long time women have been thought of as the weaker sex , more emotional , more nervous , by a , a a male establishment , I 'm talking about past centuries , is n't there a case for saying there 's actually we have a right to be depressed , I mean , obviously it 's normal , ninety three of you get depressed from time to time , the majority of you do n't think you clinically depressive if it is , if it 's normal to be depressed should n't the services to cope with depression , if we need outside help , be there and there 's no shame in it ? |
| 5 | Some crates were as big as vacation cottages , because a hierarchy of crate status had suddenly come into being . |
| 6 | That is the way of fools and failures who plunge to their own destruction because a part of them has despaired and wishes to die . |
| 7 | Cadfael went about his work all the more assiduously because a part of his mind was elsewhere , and he felt its absence as guilt , even though his concern was with a serious matter of justice , guilt and innocence . |
| 8 | THERE are always horses at Edelson House in Gainford if only because a part of the garden is a horses ' graveyard . |
| 9 | But only because of the awful calamity of Hillsborough and only because a man of the intellect and vision of Lord Justice Taylor was asked for his opinion . |
| 10 | A man of ninety suddenly finds himself the oldest man in the village not necessarily because he is ninety but because a man of ninety-one died yesterday . |
| 11 | And he offers a telling counter-example : ‘ Because a work of art or some ancient monument is protected by law from injury , do we speak of the ‘ rights ’ of pictures or stones ? ’ ( 1976 : 182 ) . |
| 12 | While the government negotiator Fanus Schoeman insists that the ANC has agreed to share power because a government of national unity is power-sharing , the ANC leader Nelson Mandela said on Saturday that an interim government of national unity was not power-sharing and that the body would include all parties who have won a certain proportion of seats in a constituent assembly . |
| 13 | To take an example , within this scheme it might be said that computing facilities must be subject to constant returns to scale because a consortium of firms large enough to take advantage of the optimally sized computer could buy one and then time-share its facilities . |
| 14 | Or the person who pleads ‘ You would do it if you really loved me ’ — whatever the ‘ it ’ happens to be , the victim is likely to comply because a sense of guilt forces him or her to do so . |
| 15 | However , it would help the student if he were introduced to it briefly and with simplicity , not only because a knowledge of serialism is essential to an understanding of today 's music , but also because so many aspects of it can enrich other methods of composition , even in other styles and idioms . |
| 16 | These studies are important not only for recurrent stone disease but also because a knowledge of gall stone recurrence is likely to provide valuable clues about the pathogenesis and treatment of primary gall stone disease . |
| 17 | The average rating is thus 100 because a child of ten years old with a mental age of ten will score 100 : — |
| 18 | Now this looks like a good game to bet on , because a probability of one , is an absolute certainty . |
| 19 | This is an undesirable situation because a user of a script recognition system would not expect to write a word , and have it recognised as something which is not a word . |
| 20 | Ernest Kombo , speaker of the transitional legislature , the Higher Council of the Republic ( CSR ) , warned on Sept. 14 , two days before the opening of the CSR 's session , that elections planned for the first half of 1992 might be postponed because a census of the electorate scheduled for mid-September had yet to take place . |
| 21 | The elm paddles of the iron wheel were renewed and the mechanism was modified to operate on the ‘ undershot ’ principle because a lowering of water levels brought about by a local flood alleviation scheme made impracticable the restoration of the original ‘ breast-shot ’ arrangement . |
| 22 | It is because a consideration of the neighbourhood in the vicinity of the highway will lead to the conclusion that the noise or fumes are not an actionable wrong in all the circumstances of the case . |
| 23 | Strike committees in Byelorussia decided to resume on May 22 the general strike which had gripped the republic in April [ see pp. 38129-30 ] , because a session of the republic 's Supreme Soviet which had opened on the previous day was still refusing to put on its agenda demands for a coalition government . |
| 24 | A master at Millfield — who admitted that destinations were often chosen because a member of staff was keen to go there — said : ‘ There are still enough takers to justify organising these trips . |
| 25 | man Alan Reid said they had not been disciplined because a member of the Royal Family had been a patient there . |
| 26 | That 's a bit better because a gradient of one is forty five degrees and we s we said it should be more than that . |
| 27 | ( A sister carpet to the Ardebil , which is incomplete because a portion of it was used to repair the one in London , is held in the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art . ) |
| 28 | Because a majority of Conservative supporters were economic optimists and a majority of Labour supporters were economic pessimists , the difference between net optimism amongst Conservative and Labour supporters exceeded 100 per cent : it was 105 per cent in the Pre-Campaign Wave , rising to 121 per cent by the end of the campaign . |
| 29 | But even many of these firms are immune from takeover , despite being publicly quoted , because a majority of the voting shares are held either by families or by institutions closely linked to the existing management . |
| 30 | Alexander Rutskoi , the vice-president who has become an ineffectual standard-bearer for the opposition , claimed that there ‘ can be no talk of overall popular support for Mr Yeltsin ’ , because a majority of all voters either voted against the president or did not vote . |