Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] because [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now , I ca n't build on the south or the east side of the houses because of the sea . |
| 2 | Two further contributory factors to the decline of the industry have been : the lowered earnings of energy companies giving rise to spending cutbacks ; and the dampening of government enthusiasm for the projects because of the abundance of crude oil . |
| 3 | Immediately before the conference Germany had expressed reluctance to commit further funds to the projects because of the costs of German unification . |
| 4 | The chuguo chao ( going abroad tide ) was an example , causing concern among the authorities because of the increasing numbers of young intellectuals taking part and more importantly , failing to return . |
| 5 | She was wearing a pair of off-white trousers , which she had cuffed as much as she could at the ankles because of the heat , and a plain navy-coloured T-shirt , neither of which sported designer labels . |
| 6 | Could n't go on with the performance even with the understudies because of the police coming in . |
| 7 | Even I find it hard to sleep in the bedrooms because of the damp . ’ |
| 8 | This , of course , influences the tides because of the importance of its gravitational pull on the world 's oceans and seas . |
| 9 | There are differences among the units because of the need to adapt the standard model to the specific conditions of each site , such as its cooling capacities or degree of earthquake risk . |
| 10 | The DoH has taken six months to revise the guidelines because of the initial controversy over the draft , followed by the publicity surrounding juvenile crime and new plans from the Home Office to set up ‘ secure training units ’ for 12- to 15-year old offenders . |
| 11 | Commensal species like the house mouse and rat from dwellings slightly removed from the trap lines may be present in the owl assemblage but absent from the traps because of the larger range of the owl . |
| 12 | Crawford ensured that no one under fourteen would be allowed into the performances because of the strong language and much hopping in and out of bed — and he banned his grandmother . |
| 13 | Our neighbours , with whom we drank Metaxa and broke plates most evenings , thought they were trying to discourage tourists from venturing into the mountains because of the risk . |
| 14 | It would be difficult to build water-gathering reservoirs of the size of those found in other Parts of the Pennines in the Dales because of the many eaves and potholes that would carry the water away . |
| 15 | He argued that consultants were tending to stay put by the mid-1980s because of the much higher start-up costs now involved in setting up an executive search firm , which he estimated as at least £250 000 , or ten times the figure he invested back in 1973 . |
| 16 | The opposition of Scipio Nasica to the destruction of Carthage figures so prominently in this account by Diodorus — and therefore by Posidonius — because he was thought to have foreseen the possibility of civil war in Rome if Carthage were to be eliminated : " but once the rival city was destroyed , it was only too evident that there would be civil war at home and that hatred for the governing power would spring up among all the allies because of the rapacity and lawlessness to which the Roman magistrates would subject them " ( 34.33.5 transl . |
| 17 | There was no doubt that these people could produce tyres , but when the TNCs withdrew from Nigeria during the Biafran war , production ceased in the factories because of the ways in which the TNCs had organized the division of labour on the shop floor . |
| 18 | If the scheme had not been available Renshaw says that she would have considered giving up work , which would have been difficult , or considered some other form of childcare , but it was never really necessary to consider the alternatives because of the availability of the career break scheme . |
| 19 | Said he : ‘ We were advised by the ANC to change the dates because of the strike . |
| 20 | It had run out of diesel fuel for the generators because of the aid boycott . |
| 21 | ‘ I do enjoy my job serving the customers because of the way some of them ask sheepishly for a jokey item , ’ says Jenny . |
| 22 | The union , with the object of getting all mill workers to be members and of increasing wages , approached the mill owners , who replied that they could not raise the wages because of the competition of the crofters who wove imported yarn . |
| 23 | Local farmers , too , were forced to face up to the unpleasant fact that they could no longer compete with the Poles because of the low cost of Polish labour and the high Reich and Polish tariff barriers . |
| 24 | were reluctantly constrained to order the defendant to give up possession of 336 , Stocksfield Road to the plaintiffs because of the earlier decision of the Court of Appeal ( Kerr and Woolf L.JJ. ) in South Northamptonshire District Council v. |
| 25 | He said : ‘ Many of our colleagues think we are sheltering behind the Danes because of the opposition there is in part of Parliament . ’ |
| 26 | Ukraine 's absence from the negotiations because of the forthcoming referendum on independence , had made the signing of a Union Treaty unlikely and of little worth if it were signed . |
| 27 | Feelings were running high among the gipsies because of the imminent disafforestation of Wychwood . |
| 28 | However , an indefinite postponement was ordered by the judge on the first morning of the proceedings because of the danger posed by a violent protest against the trial which was taking place outside the courthouse . |
| 29 | A recent signing tour of record shops was cancelled by the police because of the volume of fans that was bound to turn up . |
| 30 | Road traffic had long been a matter for the police because of the very great concern over road accidents . |