Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [noun] because of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So far we have presented a pessimistic view about decision making — that incrementalism is adopted as a decision-making technique because of the impossibility of the rational model . |
| 7 | The pool has been closed after being condemned as a health hazard because of structural faults . |
| 8 | The sharpness of filtering may be vastly improved by cascading individual filter sections to create what is known , rather appropriately , as a ladder filter because of its appearance . |
| 9 | Re-exposure to these agents is not recommended within a cetain time because of the high antibody level and the risk of anaphylaxis . |
| 10 | A CHILD could be killed outside a village school because of traffic hazards caused by bad parking , a committee heard yesterday . |
| 11 | Another patient with a low fistula has had her pouch excised and has been successfully converted to a Kock ileostomy because of severe ileoanal stenosis requiring pouch intubation that became socially unacceptable . |
| 12 | Note that this chart is slightly different from that used for chariots because it is much harder to hit the crew or warhorses on a War Wagon because of the size of the tower . |
| 13 | This appears from the decision of the European Court of Justice in Zuckerfabrik Sûderdithmarschen A.G. v. Hauptzollamt Itzehoe ( Cases C 143/88 and C 92/89 ) , The Times , 27 March 1991 ( judgment delivered on 21 February 1991 ) where the court laid down conditions for the grant of a stay of execution of a national administrative Act based on a Community Regulation because of doubts on the part of the national court as to the validity of the Regulation ( see paragraphs 22–23 of the judgment of the court ) . |
| 14 | AMAN jailed for 12 years for robbery after he was picked out on an identity parade because of his ‘ frightening , evil , and sadistic eyes ’ , was cleared by the Court of Appeal in London yesterday . |