Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] because of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The offeror 's directors subsequently felt unable to continue to recommend the offer to its shareholders because of differences in expectations over the combined group 's financing , and the offer was withdrawn with the consent of the target and the Panel . |
| 2 | They tend to be people who are used to making regular weekly payments and they have a substantial equity in their homes because of discounts . |
| 3 | Bilal and Samir returned home to Lebanon , but doctors feared there would be a setback in their recovery because of conditions in the Bourj al Barajneh refugee camps and the lack of medical facilities there . |
| 4 | Some of these dogs will be strays , abandoned by their owners because of difficulties with them in the home . |
| 5 | Kate Fenn-Tye , communications officer for the Scottish Episcopal Church , said yesterday it had taken its stance because of objections from nearby residents , whose objections included the narrowness of the road and the amount of traffic using it . |
| 6 | ‘ I do not myself feel justified in attaching much weight to the tenuous evidence upon which we were invited to find that the plaintiffs made their payments because of apprehensions induced by words or conduct of state officials that vehicles would or might be seized and detained under section 47 . |
| 7 | A teacher who suspects that a colleague has acted improperly towards a pupil must not be deterred from disclosing his or her concern because of fears about the effect on employment prospects . |
| 8 | Mervyn Kohler , the head of public affairs at Help the Aged , forecast that increased fuel costs would result in even more winter deaths among the elderly , who often turned off their heating because of fears of high bills . |
| 9 | I do n't think gay men changed their habits because of advertisements ; we did so , some of us , because we saw our friends dying of it and the horrible effect that it has . |
| 10 | Several others , however , including one individual who testified that he had suffered discriminatory treatment from his employers because of views he had expressed in public about the political situation , requested that their names be withheld from the final report , because they felt that their jobs and perhaps even their very lives would be at risk . |
| 11 | Thompson was forced to reshuffle his side because of injuries , work commitments and one player missing the team bus and indeed the manager had to name himself as one of the substitutes . |