Example sentences of "be [verb] because of [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His visit , the first by a senior East European official since the collapse of communism there , had been delayed because of political turmoil in China and Poland , according to a Polish official . |
| 2 | Their heightened expectations for educational progress had not been realised because of low investment and poor management . |
| 3 | By eight weeks , three patients had been withdrawn because of adverse drug side effects while four had been transferred to other medical treatment and two had undergone surgery because of increasing pain or ulcer size . |
| 4 | The UK Department of Transport 's plans to build a road through rare water meadows in Herefordshire have been rejected on environmental grounds after a public inquiry — reportedly the first time that a road project has been halted because of environmental concern . |
| 5 | Some are produced because of errorful labelling at the phonemic level , but others are simply homophones under some phonemic representation . |
| 6 | Insurance companies are warning that premiums on property in areas that have suffered from severe storms in recent years are rising because of global warming fears . |
| 7 | For example , the scheduled removal of sutures from a patient 's wound may be delayed because of poor healing . |
| 8 | The clinical teacher must be adaptable , as the objectives set for the student may need to be revised because of altered patient care . |
| 9 | Ironically when it eventually got close to Black Rock , no " rescue " could be made because of low water . |
| 10 | I 've worked too damned hard just to let everything be ruined because of unsavoury gossip . |
| 11 | Does my hon. Friend agree that it would be regrettable if the objectives of local school management could not be met because of inadequate funding ? |
| 12 | Insufficient food may be provided because of maternal disorganization and the mother may be unaware of how much the child is eating . |
| 13 | Data from one patient at the first stage and another one at the second stage and from two volunteers had to be excluded because of appreciable probe drift , apparent at probe calibration after the test . |
| 14 | So that no subject had to be excluded because of duodenogastric bile reflux . |
| 15 | A BID to open a takeaway in Darlington town centre looks likely to be rejected because of potential noise problems . |
| 16 | Artificial lift is also expected to be required on a number of producing Gyda wells which are under-performing because of low reservoir pressure . |
| 17 | To prove this would require something quite extreme ; Lord Greene M.R. gave the example of a teacher being dismissed because of red hair . |
| 18 | Mr John Buxton , director of property services , said improvements were needed because of new hygiene laws which said fresh fish must be stored below a certain temperature . |
| 19 | Another Foxy scheming method to miss conscription is to join the Quakers , avoiding being drafted because of religious immunity [ not because of bloating on porridge ] . |
| 20 | I mean over the last two years it 's been shock horror headlines , you know , will endowments fail to repay the loan , are endowments good value and I ke some of the journalists I 've read bef over the last two years have actually completely reversed what they said t two years ago when P E Ps were declining because of poor share markets and bonuses were coming through quite nicely on the endowments , they said oh endowments are the thing to do . |
| 21 | A further 10 cases did not report gastrointestinal symptoms but presented with non-specific complaints of fatigue and lassitude only and were investigated because of unexplained anaemia . |
| 22 | The study … breaks the conspiracy of silence which has shielded so-called progressive education from criticisms that people like the Black Paper writers and myself have been making for years , that standards were falling because of non-structured learning and a lack of curriculum , discipline and order . |
| 23 | Subsequent unofficial estimates suggested , however , that at most only 140 million tonnes would be available for consumption , the rest being wasted because of poor storage and transport . |
| 24 | These 20 patients were taken from a total of 32 diagnosed during the same period ; 12 patients were excluded because of poor compliance with the diet ( seven cases ) or denied consent to the protocol ( five cases ) . |
| 25 | She is planning a comeback visit to Britain her first since shows in 1989 were scrapped because of ill health and expects to arrive in the summer . |
| 26 | The problem is occurring because of low river flows and breaches of the flood defence affecting many miles of riverbank . |
| 27 | For the first time this year , ticket holders will receive a full refund if a whole day 's play is cancelled because of bad weather . |
| 28 | At 1,000 feet the pilot may be some distance from his base when some extra height is lost because of strong sink . |
| 29 | One water molecule hydrogen-bonded to Glu204 is lost because of steric hindrance after rearrangement of this side chain . |
| 30 | THE only film to cost us a day 's filming because of bad weather was Cowboy . |