Example sentences of "be abandoned because " in BNC.
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| 1 | A plan to harness the hot springs of the Soufriere volcano on St Lucia , in the Caribbean , to generate geothermal energy has been abandoned because of unexpected technical problems and lack of funds . |
| 2 | A report by the Social Security Research Consortium calls for the discretionary Social Fund to be abandoned because it is failing to help those who most need it . |
| 3 | A further reservoir at Crick had to be abandoned because of a diversion in the authorised line of the Crick Tunnel , forced upon the Company when the builders struck bad strata in 1912 . |
| 4 | Conversely , positive policies should not be abandoned because they do not show immediate miraculous results . |
| 5 | There is no need for such work to be abandoned because it does not feature explicitly in our programmes of study and , indeed , it would be the opposite of our intention if this were to happen . |
| 6 | She was approached by an illustrious American institution , and when that negotiation ( handled by Stephen Somerville ) had to be abandoned because of the death of the donor she decided to offer the picture for sale at Christie 's in 1989 . |
| 7 | The Waveney continued her search until 1900 , when an attempt was made to winch the two survivors into a helicopter , but this too had to be abandoned because of the extreme conditions . |
| 8 | ( In a secondary school where this was regularly used in morning prayers it had to be abandoned because the pupils exploited the rhythm created by the parallelism to make it sound like a football chant ! ) |
| 9 | Some Indian railways attempted to cope with the great pressure of third-class passengers by installing them in double-decker carriages , but these had soon to be abandoned because they proved to be unsafe and top-heavy . |
| 10 | The whole concept of quotas should be abandoned because of the economic damage that they cause by preventing the proper and flexible use of farmers ' resources and assets and by preventing technological innovation . |
| 11 | David 's first attempt at the challenge last year had to be abandoned because the ice began to melt . |
| 12 | Plans in the 1970s and 1980s to build facilities to dispose of the waste were abandoned because the Soviet authorities " saw no actual danger from dumping radioactive waste at sea , " the report says . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , four weeks after the St Leger was abandoned because of subsidence of the track , the future of Doncaster racecourse is under debate . |
| 14 | According to this theory the earlier generational pairing was abandoned because it led to so much inbreeding that people who practised the gens system were genetically more fit for natural selection and therefore survived better . |
| 15 | And the Guinness trial of Roger Seelig was abandoned because he was ‘ depressed and anxious ’ . |
| 16 | The first game was abandoned because of rain . |
| 17 | Bratton was abandoned because making a living there was proving increasingly difficult ; William Charles and Ben the Outrider left Frome partly because it was fast becoming a town in recession . |
| 18 | Eventually this policy was abandoned because it was unprofitable for the Russian state treasury , and from then until the early twentieth century the Chukchis had the distinction of being recognized as ‘ not completely subdued ’ , and were left largely to their own devices . |
| 19 | The project , Ecoforest 2000 , was abandoned because of controversy over its social and environmental implications . |
| 20 | Det Chief Insp Richard Gray , the man leading the inquiry , said that the match at Broomfield on the day of Moira 's disappearance was abandoned because of the blizzard . |