Example sentences of "[adv] because of [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many students , the decision to study science came naturally because of family interests . |
| 2 | This fact of life is reflected in recent economic analysis of the firm , which addresses the limits of authority and the options available within firms when direct supervision of a subordinate by a superior is difficult , perhaps because of information asymmetry . |
| 3 | Very common for those who have left the whole process too late , perhaps because of exam pressures or the more attractive diversions of student life . |
| 4 | Iraq appears — perhaps because of security considerations — to have withheld some of the data it would normally have reported , leaving gaps in the IMF 's tabulations which have to be made good from less direct sources like the analyses conducted by the Bank for International Settlements ( BIS ) and economic commentators . |
| 5 | However , this too was called off at the last minute , apparently because of opposition outrage over a massacre at Mbuji-Mayi in central Zaire . |
| 6 | Penalosa did not arrive in Britain until the weekend , apparently because of visa problems , while McAuley is disgruntled because he wanted the fight to be in Belfast , where it was originally arranged until he suffered an injury . |
| 7 | As we have seen , however , trade-unionism failed to take root less because of intelligentsia influence than because of the constraints placed upon it by the tsarist State . |
| 8 | These changes placed enormous pressure on agriculture in some areas , especially because of land speculation ( Low 1973 ; Rettig 1976 ) . |
| 9 | Garrett , who is based in the town , takes over from Ricky Westwell who has stepped down because of work commitments , but will remain at the club in another capacity . |
| 10 | The bid to set up a Chinese takeaway on Whinfield Road was turned down because of parking problems and likely disturbance . |
| 11 | In the event , he was accepted at Birmingham University , but just before he arrived he was informed that the geography department had been closed down because of austerity measures brought in during World War N. He therefore decided to read geology instead , but shortly afterwards he received notification that this department was also to be closed . |
| 12 | ( 11 ) If new shares are likely to be issued in the target following the date of the scheme document ( eg because of option entitlements ) then it will be important to ensure that the definition of " scheme shares " ( ie the issued shares to which the scheme relates ) should include any shares issued between the date of the scheme and the holding of the court-ordered meeting . |
| 13 | Largely because of migration patterns , the non-white population is also younger than the white population ; for example , around 4 per cent ( approximately 97,000 ) of the black and Asian populations had reached retirement age by 1986 , compared with around 10 per cent of the white population ( Patel , 1990 ) . |
| 14 | Largely because of satellite television with its high number of feature films and U S and Australian programmes . |
| 15 | All this was poised to change rather rapidly by the late 1980s as these groups , plus the third largest American hotel chain Ramada , made a determined effort to increase their stake in London in particular , on the backs of the upsurge in American tourists coming to the United Kingdom largely because of exchange rate changes . |
| 16 | Lawrence 's bid broke down largely because of Londoner Lee 's reluctance to move to the North . |
| 17 | Many limits were imposed on the duration , nature and volume of brand advertising — largely because of newspaper opposition : the ORTF law of 1972 stated advertising revenue should not exceed 25 per cent of total ORTF revenue . |
| 18 | It was only after the failure of the economic system had undermined the free market ethos that unions finally gained legitimacy , if not acceptance , and largely because of government legislation giving workers the right to form unions and engage in collective bargaining . |
| 19 | Largely because of absentee owners , the gardens at Shotover have changed remarkably little ; Sir John Miller has n't changed much either , though he has made his own — living — additions to the grounds . |
| 20 | In the past 50 years , relative sea levels in Venice have increased by 23cm , largely because of sub-surface layer compaction and sinking as a result of groundwater pumping . |
| 21 | This is largely because of interest changes . |
| 22 | In March 1991 INPE reckoned that the rate of destruction of the Amazon rainforest fell by 27 per cent in 1990 , largely because of tax increases and reduced subsidies for the farming of Amazonia . |
| 23 | Some conveyancers have been loath to prepare the package of documentation set out above because of market conditions . |
| 24 | ‘ I chose this place because of its beauty , not because of surface values like who my neighbours are . |
| 25 | This pessimistic view as to enforcement is supported by a letter of Pliny , in which he laments the fact that the monument to Verginius Rufus , who died in AD 97 , was still incomplete ten years after his death , not because of construction difficulties , but purely because of the inertia of the person supposed to build it . |
| 26 | This is not because of class affiliation to the ‘ class in charge ’ rather than the hegemonic class , but because of the bureaucracy's ' character as a specific category through the intermediary of its relation with the state ’ . |
| 27 | But we er are welcoming the fact that there is a recognition of the rising population of Wales er in giving us this er this additional seat er primarily the additional population has not come in industrial South Wales which er er which er people think of perhaps as the most typically Welsh area , it 's actually in two counties of Clwyd and Dyfed that are erm growing most rapidly because of lifestyle migration , retirement migration erm into those two areas and that is why the additional seat , if you can put it that way , er takes from all the other four of course , is is the mid and West Wales seat which has been compared by the honourable member for Cornwall er tonight and it has only got a population of four hundred and one thousand but on the other hand of course it is such an extensive seat because the population sparsity in that area is much , much worse than even in Cornwall and therefore it is going to stretch from South of Milford Haven to the Llanrwst area really within probably twenty miles of the North Wales coast , it 's a who it 's the whole of two counties plus one additional very badly populated constituency erm in in the county of Gwynedd , an awkward constituency but one that we are certainly looking forward fighting and winning to give us the five out of five er now that er the boundaries are going through tonight and obviously it 's all in line really er to look at the other , the third order of course , the question of the registration of overseas voters in the nineteen ninety two election overseas voters had their first opportunity to participate in Westminster elections . |
| 28 | Neither player trained yesterday because of calf injuries , but South African John Paskin has recovered from knee trouble and has an outside chance of making the trip to Sincil Bank . |
| 29 | When a medical career has to be ended early because of staffing reductions ( virtually unheard of in the NHS before the reforms but now planned in the wake of the Tomlinson inquiry ) age usually predominates over other factors such as experience and skill . |
| 30 | Head sends children home because of teacher shortage . |