Example sentences of "because of the [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is customary for a bride to be accompanied to the mikva , usually by her mother , but after the wedding , any future visits are on one 's own because of the principles of modesty . |
| 2 | The military priority makes itself felt throughout society , but ‘ military goals and values are important because of the values of civilians ’ . |
| 3 | He moved from parish to parish , almost always because of the complaints of the affronted orthodox ; far from making compromises , he founded the Guild of St Matthew , one of the earliest focuses of Christian Socialism . |
| 4 | Admittedly , the Barbarians were considerably below their traditional strength because of the priorities of the cup and league matches in England and Wales but I doubt if the Barbarians would have lost to South Korea if scummaging had been part of the game . |
| 5 | Check it ; if someone tells you that the Royal Bank , because of the experiences of the recession , is no longer interested in lending to viable businesses — large or small — he 's wrong . |
| 6 | Just as it is almost impossible to apply what is now called the ‘ Japanese ’ system of management to other parts of the world , because of the differences of culture and background of the people who are working in industry , so it is equally unlikely that the particular , precise ways that I have found so useful will have the same application to others ; Nevertheless , since I have spent so much of my life developing these ideas it may be that some of my experience will hit a chord of recognition or cause others to reflect or contemplate . |
| 7 | " I do n't know either , " she said unhappily , " but they must be something illegal because of the bills of lading . |
| 8 | For the first two years , however , this strategy lay in ruins because of the consequences of accepting the ‘ catching-up ’ comparability awards of the Clegg Commission for public-sector pay . |
| 9 | Because of this case and because of the studies of the supporters of primary surgical intervention an objection , until now , was the rather short follow up periods of the larger series . |
| 10 | Pip does not want to accept the convict because he does n't feel like a gentleman anymore because of the origins of his wealth . |
| 11 | As a Travellers Guide this is a worthwhile book ; but it will not replace serious studies of the Civil War because of the errors of detail which it includes . |
| 12 | Because of the criticisms of rational approaches discussed above , political budgetary approaches show a remarkable capacity to persist . |
| 13 | Mr. Levy 's submission was that because of the decisions of the House of Lords in A. v. Liverpool City Council [ 1982 ] A.C. 363 ; In re W. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Jurisdiction ) [ 1985 ] A.C. 791 and In re M. and H. ( Minors ) ( Local Authority : Parental Rights ) [ 1990 ] 1 A.C. 686 the court should approach the exercise of its discretion in the case where ( as here ) the child is in the care of a local authority on the basis that , Parliament having entrusted the care of the child to the local authority , the court should not interfere with the local authority 's care of the child save in the most exceptional circumstances . |
| 14 | In part , this is because of the shortcomings of that highly specific subject framework . |
| 15 | Ms Hurst knows the boy who owes his life to her kindness simply by his first name , Berend , because of the rules of anonymity governing marrow donations . |
| 16 | F. The steel industry of Sheffield exists today mainly because of the skills of the workers . |
| 17 | However , he explained without challenge that the true peaks were in excess of this measurement but were recorded at 80 because of the restrictions of the equipment used to compile the graph . |
| 18 | Everyone else — because of the blues of course — was right as nine pence . |
| 19 | And generally it is the case that the personal security of the part-time reserve police is most at risk of all the members of the RUC , because of the difficulties of maintaining three identities ( police officer , member of family and neighbourhood network , and employee ) , with their associated and sometimes conflicting modes of discourse and thinking . |
| 20 | Such ideas tend to be anathema to the Army Board , not because they are against the creation of stronger reserves ; nor because of the difficulties of finding barrack accommodation and training areas in the cramped and over-populated British Isles ; but because the units withdrawn from the Continent would become vulnerable to pruning in some future retrenchment programme — reserves are always the first to go when cuts are demanded , since their size is based on subjective rather than objective judgments . |
| 21 | But biological weapons are unlikely to be much used on troops in combat , mainly because of the difficulties of getting the aerosols on to them without seeing them drift back on to those who released them . |
| 22 | Courses of treatment vary from one to seven days and although it is always preferable to examine the male sexual partner of an infected woman , because of the difficulties of making the diagnosis in men it is sometimes justifiable to treat the male without confirming the diagnosis , particularly if it can be shown that reinfection has taken place . |
| 23 | Because of the difficulties of getting it all together , the chairperson or co-ordinator has a key part to play ( see Chairing meetings on page 28 ) . |
| 24 | Indeed , they even dropped the argument about building ‘ new communities ’ because of the difficulties of making such an ‘ idealistic ’ argument in an atmosphere of conflict . |
| 25 | Because of the difficulties of investigating a complaint too long after the event , we will not consider any complaint unless notified to us in writing within that time . |
| 26 | Some of the older cases suggest that there should be no recovery by a person who has suffered prenatal injuries because of the difficulties of proof and of the opening it gives for perjury and speculation . |
| 27 | In general , water vapour is ignored in estimates of the human-enhanced greenhouse effect because of the difficulties of measuring global trends in this gas . |
| 28 | Some concern has been expressed by the Select Committee on Home Affairs and others at the incompleteness and inaccuracy of the records because of the difficulties of updating the present manual system . |
| 29 | Russia had previously insisted that its troops could not be withdrawn from the Baltic states before 1997-99 because of the difficulties of housing returning servicemen . |
| 30 | Any such attempts would most likely fail and possibly make matters worse because of the difficulties of predicting short-run changes and because of the variability of the time-lags with which changes in the money supply affect nominal national income . |