Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] because of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They , however , have a wholly different outlook because of transubstantiation , which sounds like a disease but is a doctrine . |
| 2 | Furthermore , the mining companies were in an extremely weak position because of the major religious significance of Croagh Patrick and the annual pilgrimage there . |
| 3 | In patients with subaxial subluxation myelopathy may occur with only slight subluxation because of the narrower diameter of the spinal canal below the axis . |
| 4 | Other authorities have held back before embarking on such highly desirable projects because of that uncertainty in the law . |
| 5 | I retained a friendship for George Brown , although he regarded me with rather dubious approval because of my omission to drink anything at any dinner party . |
| 6 | All attempts to link the countries more closely together through the Council of Europe , the most appropriate body because of the wide spread of its membership , did not get very far . |
| 7 | As they involved a great deal of the same work to bring them into effect — work that would have taken a considerable time — and would have imposed further contingent or actual liabilities on funds at a time when there was already considerable anxiety because of the uncertainty over the Barber judgment — |
| 8 | I was also very conscious that you had telephoned before the 6pm cheap rate because of the mackintosh nonsense , and did not want to detain you . |
| 9 | Companies , banks included , are reluctant to switch to massively parallel supercomputers because of a lack of industry standards . |
| 10 | In a noisy and at times shambolic committee , opposition MPs objected that the longer hours could create more social problems because of an increase in gambling . |
| 11 | Finally , one issue merits more detailed comment because of its implications for the entire Docklands community — housing . |
| 12 | ‘ There is no doubt in my mind that I can work with Sir John Hall and the board of directors who , along with everyone else at the club , have been under tremendous pressure because of the club 's present financial position . ’ |
| 13 | According to this report , the move was aimed at discrediting Arafat , who was already under serious pressure because of his backing of Iraq during the Gulf war , by stressing that the release had been arranged by Khaled Fayoum , a pro-Syrian opponent of Arafat . |
| 14 | But you can be more spot-prone pre-menstruation because of hormone levels fluctuating , and you can have spot problems after pregnancy and the menopause . |
| 15 | Berndt Seite , who had taken over as Minister President in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania in March [ see p. 38822 ] , was already under considerable pressure because of the severely depressed state of Rostock 's sole major industry , shipbuilding . |
| 16 | In consumer electronics , the French have had a more than usually protected market because of the SECAM colour television standard . |
| 17 | But now they feel under derious threat because of measures announced today by Home Secretary Michael Howard . |
| 18 | ‘ We 're very concerned ; carers will be under immense stress because of inadequate support and relief , while the elderly are at much greater risk of being alone in the community ’ . |
| 19 | When the election is over it will enter the folklore of Central Office and the next campaign may be a more modest affair because of it . |
| 20 | At a wider level , as we saw earlier , the West Midlands has suffered heavily in more recent years because of its specialization in manufacturing . |
| 21 | A student in college accommodation ( halls of residence and probably head tenancies because of possible subsidies ) has no right to Housing Benefit other than in the summer vacation . |
| 22 | It 's probably gon na be a damn good book because of all the businesses wanting to get associated with the doctor . |
| 23 | These purchase notice provisions are restricted to owner occupiers of houses and small businesses who can show that they have made reasonable attempts to sell their property but have found it impossible to do so except at a substantially depreciated price because of certain defined planning actions . |
| 24 | An ambivalence to assessment in Catholic schools rightly stems from the view that religious education in its entirety can not be submitted to formal and sharply focussed testing because of its very nature and its concern with personal faith and commitment . |
| 25 | ‘ Lifetime ’ partners do not refer to a finite time period but to partners since first sexual intercourse ‘ so far ’ ; this may be the most inaccurate measure because of difficulties of recall , whereas discrepancies over shorter time intervals are much smaller . |
| 26 | Now this can become an increasingly important factor because of all the activity holidays around today . |
| 27 | To some degree , the MDC has been placed in a particularly onerous position because of its having to compete for industrial and commercial investment with surrounding new towns and the local enterprise zone and Freeport . |
| 28 | The Craigavon killings drew particularly wide condemnation because of the age of the two female victims , 19-year-old Eileen Duffy , who worked in the shop , and her 16-year-old friend Katrina Rennie . |
| 29 | We have not considered the case of three equally massive neutrinos because of the strong limits on the electron neutrino mass . |
| 30 | In Jewish , Christian and Islamic tradition the word ‘ God ’ is used for God not because its meaning is thought to correspond to the nature of God , but simply as a convenient label for the ultimate , altogether incomprehensible mystery because of which things exist instead of there not being anything at all . |