Example sentences of "[prep] their [noun] because of [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He listened intently as Helen Crummy , the founder of the Craigmillar Festival Society , told him that it was a group of mothers — determined to do something for their families because of their frustration at a lack of educational , cultural and employment opportunities — which had led to the start of the organisation in 1962 . |
| 2 | they were suffering throughout the ramifications of their Society because of their political action . |
| 3 | A situation develops in which department heads gain extra resources or prevent cuts in their allocation because of their micro-political skills , rather than because of their departmental needs . |
| 4 | Parental responsibility , partnership , non-intervention , attention to the wishes of the child and the necessity for a full assessment may mitigate the perceived threat of children being separated from their families because of their lifestyle . |
| 5 | Although a comparatively small group , the Salvation Army or Galavima Hamudava in Sinhalese and Ratchaniya Senai in Tamil , had an influence far beyond their numbers because of their social work . |
| 6 | We often find that people quite junior in the hierarchy have influence out of all proportion to their position because of their standing in the informal structure . |
| 7 | You mean lying on their backs or sides and ca n't get to their feet because of their heavy , wet wool ? ’ |
| 8 | But Wilkes said they can offer something unique to their practice because of their direct experience of oppression . |
| 9 | Although such behaviour corresponds closely to the descriptions of other feral children , it is impossible to know whether these children might have developed similar patterns of behaviour even if brought up in greater contact with people , and it has been suggested that feral children might have been abandoned by their parents because of their behaviour problems . |