Example sentences of "were [verb] because of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both V16s were withdrawn because of a gearbox problem in practice . |
| 2 | In addition , we eliminated from the study all patients who were referred because of reflux symptoms even though they had asthma . |
| 3 | One hundred and seven patients , 102 ( 95% ) of whom had had a vagotomy or partial gastrectomy ( Table I ) , were referred because of suspected rapid gastric emptying as a cause or feature of dumping syndrome and diarrhoea , or both ( Table I ) . |
| 4 | In Llandudno Junction , the water was up to 15ft deep and trains were stopped because of the flooded line . |
| 5 | Officials denied that the 249 students were dismissed because of the demonstrations , but the two events seemed inextricably linked . |
| 6 | The fact that between 1866 and 1870 almost one quarter of the entire uniformed strength of the Metropolitan Police were dismissed because of misconduct gives some indication of the social organisation of policing in this period . |
| 7 | At the same time three key ministers and a prominent MNSD official were dismissed because of their responsibility for austerity plans which led to student protests and the killing of a number of students at a demonstration [ see p. 37308 ] . |
| 8 | I was n't ever convinced we were attacked because of that business . |
| 9 | Neither of us were attacked because of the Durances but because the local drug dealers knew I was making enquiries about trafficking and they thought you were working with me . |
| 10 | They concluded that the indigenous perch , pike , trout , salmon and Arctic char populations were dying because of increasingly acidic water . |
| 11 | Many of the people were dying because of a terrible drought and famine . |
| 12 | We were disliked because of things that had happened in the past and we did n't need any motivation when we kept hearing that sort of talk . |
| 13 | The schools were not a strict random sample since in two of the areas schools were approached because of their past commitment to health education . |
| 14 | Children with non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma were included because of the current understanding , based on immunological studies , that acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma represent opposite ends of the same spectrum of disease . |
| 15 | Four patients with Crohn 's disease who had previous operations ( three colectomies and one ileocolectomy ) , were included because of relapsing disease . |
| 16 | We assumed that at each hospital the same proportion of missing or inadequate records ( 317/5167=6.1% ) were cases of Alzheimer 's disease and estimated that about 43 cases of probable Alzheimer 's disease ( 6.1% of 707 ) were omitted because of lost or inadequate records . |
| 17 | Two houses in the area were evacuated because of vast clouds of dense dust blowing from a drying tailings lake where wastes from Mogul 's lead/zinc mine were dumped . |
| 18 | All sounds from outside were muffled because of the dock being partly below ground level , set into the slope of the bank , but in a short while I heard the sound of a car door slamming and after that the noise of an engine starting up and being driven away . |
| 19 | Two shows were cancelled because of the ban . |
| 20 | All of the first-round heats of the 100 metres were cancelled because of the boycott . |
| 21 | Angela Lowry , of Klanwatch , a project of the Southern Poverty Law Centre in Montgomery , Alabama , said that ‘ hate groups ’ like the Klan were multiplying because of hard economic times . |
| 22 | The villages were moved because of the depletion of firewood stocks ( the Indians believed the English had arrived because they had run out of firewood at home ) . |
| 23 | Historically , they were exploited because of their lack of understanding of the complex regulations related to the status of ‘ independent contractor , ’ and in this respect I agree that proper vocational training would have been beneficial . |
| 24 | A recent study on patients who were selected because of changes in warning symptoms associated with the change of insulin species found no differences between responses to hypoglycaemia induced by porcine or human insulin . |
| 25 | In 1989 more than 25,000 divorce decrees were made because of the husband 's adultery , 18,000 because of the wife 's . |
| 26 | Disturbances such as these provided an intermittent focus of attention throughout the interwar years , and a number of grounds were closed because of crowd disorders . |
| 27 | Older cars were used because of the fear of souvenir hunters and vandalism , which did in fact occur when the cars stopped outside Thornton Heath depôt . |
| 28 | Mr John Buxton , director of property services , said improvements were needed because of new hygiene laws which said fresh fish must be stored below a certain temperature . |
| 29 | All the others ties were postponed because of waterlogged grounds . |
| 30 | Naturally , most of the iron tonics sold over chemists ' counters were bought because of the universal metaphor that iron equals strength rather than because of a popular awareness of the needs of haemoglobin . |