Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun] because of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday councillors agreed in principle to the options but gave a preference for the church activities because of traffic problems from the nursery . |
| 2 | It was chosen for the Earth Summit because of its good looks and protective properties but also for its environmental associations . |
| 3 | The Sunday Citizen explained his enthusiasm for the Profumo affair because of a long-cherished personal grudge against Profumo and of having unearthed a juicy scandal by snooping that would have done credit to a divorce detective . |
| 4 | However , ERM fans point to the limited volatility of currency markets compared with , say , shares during the election campaign because of the floor under sterling . |
| 5 | Even when common goals have been established , conflict may be generated during the planning process because of disagreement about the way in which these goals should be achieved . |
| 6 | Often referred to as the oyster plant because of its taste , salsify can be eaten raw in salads or cooked . |
| 7 | Expert Dr Rick Vetter said : ‘ The Brown Recluse — also known as the Violin Spider because of its shape — is more dangerous than the notorious Black Widow . |
| 8 | Known as the orchard pig because of its liking for windfall apples , it was cheap to keep and delicious to eat . |
| 9 | There were three reception rooms ; the first , known as the Salon Vert because of the overall green motifs in its furnishings and decorations , was occupied by the Chamberlains and the Ladies in Attendance . |
| 10 | For faecal examination saturated magnesium sulphate should be used as the flotation solution because of the heavy density of the eggs . |
| 11 | Earlier Sir Bryan 's office had been forced to withdraw an announcement about the shutdown decision because of the legal challenge , but he later issued the formal order to British Telecom to pull the plug . |
| 12 | Third , the Bank may lend to relieve " technical shortages " due to , say , oversubscription to a privatisation issue ( for example , on 30 October 1981 , the Bank lent £121 million over the weekend through the discount window because of the heavy oversubscription for shares in Cable and Wireless ) . |
| 13 | The issues accountants have to decide are the same whether the vendors are entitled to their deferred consideration or the purchasers are entitled to repayment of part of the purchase price because of breach of warranty . |
| 14 | Since then , the fundamentalists have been waging a steady war on the government , at one point demanding the resignation of the Education Minister because of his plans for reforming the teaching of Islam in schools . |
| 15 | By this dogma , Conrad 's novels should be regarded as outside the conventions of the adventure genre because of the dominance of self-analysis in them . |
| 16 | But penalising gas — the ‘ greenest ’ of the hydrocarbon fuels because of its low level of carbon dioxide emission — would run counter to EC plans to base taxation on carbon content . |
| 17 | Morton had been strongly critical of the construction companies because of the cost overruns being encountered : originally costed in 1987 at £4,870 million , the probable total was estimated in February 1990 at £7,200 million . |
| 18 | As Collier put it : " The greatest number of families were in a better economic position after the introduction of the factory system because of the increased earnings of women and children . " |
| 19 | In those economies universal banks largely performed the functions of the capital market because of the relatively slow penetration of financial markets into business practice of these regions . |
| 20 | The strike rapidly led to the closing of the entire freight sector and much of the passenger service because of the problems associated with interlocking routes . |
| 21 | The gradual phasing out of the married woman 's option has been accompanied by the introduction of credits towards the basic state pension for those who are out of the labour market because of home responsibilities . |
| 22 | ‘ Charities ’ trustees are more aware of the investment issues because of the recession , ’ Mr Marlow says . |
| 23 | CHURCHGOERS in Darlington are to be asked to raise an extra £4,500 towards the parish budget because of the recession . |
| 24 | Candidates in wrangle over training funds Darlington training groups could be forced to pull out of a government scheme because of a lack of funds , the town 's Labour 's candidate predicted this week . |
| 25 | For this reason the Defense Department opposed the early conclusion of a peace treaty because of the basic uncertainties over Japan 's position at the end of the occupation : the generals were not attracted by an idea of Japan as an Asiatic Switzerland . |
| 26 | And it is not always a matter of sleeping in a swank hotel nearby ; several investigating teams have , from time to time , had to share a tent on or near the accident site because of the remoteness of the crash . |
| 27 | The pledgee was immunized against the freight claim because of his failure to acquire full title to the goods . |
| 28 | The high water-table in the area means it would be difficult to find a suitable site for a burial ground because of the risk of water contamination . |
| 29 | The high water-table in the area means it would be difficult to find a suitable site for a burial ground because of the risk of water contamination . |
| 30 | Poppy seeds sprinkled on bread as a flavouring have a disconcerting tendency to react chemically in the same way as the extract of the opium poppy , so that a worker could be mistaken for a heroin user because of what he ate for breakfast . |