Example sentences of "[adv] because of [pos pn] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall , these families frequently tend to be placed in the worst housing or on the worst estates , partly perhaps because of their inability to pay higher rents , and partly because local authorities have always been inclined to allocate poor people and slum dwellers to particular estates ( Gray , 1979 ) . |
| 2 | We saw in Section II that shape-perception is not needed for the recognition of object-identity , so that if we were to attribute identity-perception to a creature ( perhaps because of its ability to follow a moving target ) we would not thereby be justified in attributing shape-perception also . |
| 3 | Stanley Mill has survived , largely because of its ability to adapt to the changing needs of the market . |
| 4 | Symbolic interactionists were trenchant in their attack on variable analysis largely because of its failure to provide a sense of the processual and negotiated character of social life . |
| 5 | The Arubanaase Volkspartij ( AVP — Aruba People 's Party , J. H. A. ( Henny ) Eman l. ) , hitherto the leading party of a four-party coalition government , was defeated in the January 1989 general election , largely because of its unwillingness to sanction full independence ; the Partido Democratico Arubano ( PDA — Democratic Party of Aruba , Léonard Berlinski l. ) , a member along with the PPA and the ADN of the governing coalition until January 1989 , lost both parliamentary seats in the general election . |
| 6 | In March 1958 , after seven years of marriage , the Shah and Queen Soraya were divorced , largely because of their inability to have a child together . |
| 7 | In most Latin American countries the Communist parties are now an accepted part of the political scene , largely because of their willingness to engage in the horse-trading of Latin American politics . |
| 8 | Women who have valued the sex act just because of its potential to create a child may find that it no longer gives them pleasure . |
| 9 | The odds are favourable enough according to Chelsea 's Mike Hazard , who said of his adversary : ‘ He could cope in Poland , not just because of his ability to close people down and use the ball well , but temperament — you saw that when he scored the goal that won Arsenal the League . ’ |
| 10 | The German Ideology represents , therefore , a first foray into anthropology , which is important more because of its attempt to isolate such general problems as the relation between property and the State , the growth of consciousness , and the way material circumstances produce mental concepts than for specific formulations about the nature of pre-capitalist systems or the way the evolution of society had taken place . |
| 11 | Do you want to see humanity kill itself off because of its inability to rear improved generations to follow on ? ’ |
| 12 | Over the years , many of these papers have dropped in popularity , possibly because of their unwillingness to change their stories . |
| 13 | CNRS was host for the meeting partly because of its desire to take a leading role in Europe 's changing research landscape . |
| 14 | Clement wrote a pamphlet giving his reasons for the split and accusing Wilson of mismanagement , irresponsible militancy and the encouragement of foreign seamen into Britain , presumably because of his refusal to accept a rule which would debar them from membership . |
| 15 | Modern surveying equipment such as Electronic Distance Measurement devices greatly facilitate this , not least because of their ability to store survey readings on data loggers , small electronic devices that record a large number of readings in a form that can later be easily transferred to a personal computer ( fig. 9.8 ) . |
| 16 | George was a superb dean , not least because of his capacity to listen to colleagues and then make up his mind decisively . |
| 17 | It is precisely because of our wish to create the sort of free market and wide community that we have in mind that we have included , at our insistence and with the agreement of other colleagues , a declaration in the presidency conclusions about the future enlargement of the Community . |
| 18 | Antrim lost to Tipperary principally because of their failure to translate possession into scores , but in fairness full forward John Paul McKillop was a notable exception . |
| 19 | I reflected on it , but declined , principally because of my unwillingness to belong to any party — I have never been a party member — and perhaps even more because the seat I was offered appeared to be an impregnable Tory stronghold . |