Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] because of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The birds , at Ryde on the Isle of Wight , were to be trapped and their necks wrung because of complaints by traders . |
| 2 | More successful , indeed , than even contemporaries realised because of inaccuracies in the official statistics which were available . |
| 3 | However , while preparing for its first congress , a split occurred because of disagreements over private ownership of the means of production and land . |
| 4 | We grouped false positives into two classes : words identified because of errors in scoring and labelling acoustic-phonetic segments ( e.g. girl , curl ) , and homophonic phrases caused by word boundary ambiguity ( e.g. party , par tea ) . |
| 5 | The boys at school who had to have their heads shaved because of nits were always fair game for the rest of the school . |
| 6 | The Government has been resisting the removal of frontier controls because of anxieties about drugs and illicit arms traffickers . |
| 7 | Most conflict in groups occurs because of differences among members over goals , attitudes or feelings . |
| 8 | BRAZIL can strike a psychological blow for South America 's World Cup hopes tonight when they play a weakened Holland , the European champions in name if not substance , in Rotterdam in the Dutch FA centenary fixture that England abandoned because of fears of hooliganism , writes David Lacey . |
| 9 | They are also faced with an increasing need to diversify because of changes in the Common Agricultural Policy to counter the problem of over-production , and a consequent decline in farming income . |
| 10 | For example , if progressive income tax rates ( or thresholds ) are not adjusted , more and more people will be pushed into higher tax bands because of rises in their money incomes even though their real incomes remain unchanged . |
| 11 | Less tenable even than that situation are those in which no policy exists and well-intentioned initiatives such as those described above or smoothly functioning inter-disciplinary networks succeed because of personnel rather than the execution of a statement of intent . |
| 12 | The programmes will be subject to review with the passage of time but no substantial additions to them will be made for the first six years ( except for changes required because of matters outside of governing body control and except for minor alterations to equipment ) . |
| 13 | During 1991 , BTR increased its workforce from 105,000 to 140,000 but , after allowing for the 48,000 staff added because of acquisitions , there was a net reduction of 13,000 . |
| 14 | Milongo , who received only 10.18 per cent of the vote , was reported to have petitioned the Supreme Court on Aug. 11 to have the result of the first round annulled because of irregularities . |
| 15 | In practice , the credit multiplier in the United Kingdom is not as large as the above example suggests because of leakages . |
| 16 | For journeys cancelled because of delays … there 'll be a refund . |
| 17 | Theirs is the party of big business , yet the Cabinet , littered with all these people with all their business acumen , is making Britain bankrupt because of Ministers ' desire to shut pits . |
| 18 | The student demonstrations against corruption occurred because of illegalities exposed as a result of his high standards of probity . |
| 19 | Three patients died during the hospital stay because of diseases unrelated to Dieulafoy 's disease ( pulmonary embolism , septicaemia , and pneumonia with multiorgan failure ) . |
| 20 | By the end of 1989 Panama had also been declared ineligible for World Bank lending because of arrears of $150,000,000 which had accumulated on loans of $337,000,000 from that body . |
| 21 | By the end of 1989 Nicaragua had been declared ineligible for World Bank lending because of arrears of US$150 million accumulated on loans of $160 million from that body . |
| 22 | For much of its life a star shines because of reactions in its core which convert hydrogen , the lightest of all the elements , into helium , the second lightest . |
| 23 | Major concerns included the millions of pounds of benefits lost because of difficulties claiming pensions earned early on . |
| 24 | The Greens had governed in Hesse in a " red-green " coalition with the Social Democrats ( SPD ) until February 1987 , when the agreement collapsed because of differences on nuclear policy and was replaced by a centre-right coalition . |
| 25 | Our record on time lost because of accidents continues to improve . |