Example sentences of "been [verb] because of [adj] [noun] " 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 | At the moment erm because of the extra time we 've got available because production investment has been delayed because of ministerial decisions , we 've set in train three further studies and they will look collectively at alternatives , comparison in combat modelling and also in the numbers and if I could describe those three very briefly because I think they 're the they 're relevant to what we 're talking about . |
| 3 | Their heightened expectations for educational progress had not been realised because of low investment and poor management . |
| 4 | By eight weeks , three patients had been withdrawn because of adverse drug side effects while four had been transferred to other medical treatment and two had undergone surgery because of increasing pain or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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The transition to fourth normal form has been made because of multivalued dependencies ( Fagin , 1977 ) . |
| 7 | The government statement said that Keeling had been expelled because of unsavoury reports about the Nigerian government , which it said had been " fraught with inaccuracies and outright fallacies apparently intended to cause mischief and disharmony among Nigerians " . |
| 8 | Environmental concentration of legionellae might have been underestimated because of technical obstacles to detection . |
| 9 | How many opportunities , how many loving relationships had been lost because of masked feelings ? |
| 10 | Previously we estimated that our data request omitted 6.5% of cases and we now add a further 6.1% who may have been lost because of inadequate records . |
| 11 | Some kinds of adult education through the trade union movement were given in the workplace , but a Central Sandinista de Trabajadores ( CST ) representative said that educational classes in workplaces had sometimes been suspended because of economic difficulties within the enterprise . |
| 12 | The UN evacuation of the besiged Bosnian town of Srebrenica has been suspended because of Serbian shelling . |