Example sentences of "country because [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waldheim beamed with pleasure as Kohl and the Bavarian Prime Minister , Max Streibl , welcomed him to Munich , where the Austrian president — shunned by most of the world 's leading democratic countries because of his still-unexplained wartime record — was feted by a Right-wing crypto-chauvinistic organisation . |
| 2 | Two years later Arp was living in Zurich , a member of a group of talented émigré artists who had left their own countries because of the war . |
| 3 | The multinationals have moved to other countries because of the civil war and according to the last report , in May 1983 , there were only four factories still operating in the multinational industrial parks . |
| 4 | Injectable contraceptives , prohibited in most Western countries because of their proven association with an increased risk of cancer , are not widely used but are available . |
| 5 | Er they were banking on the fact that there 'd be problems for other countries because of , you know , public perception etcetera , you know the French had decided almost all of them decided they 'd have a nuclear programme anyway so , so , so they were er o okay . |
| 6 | Iran ( Persia ) and Turkey were of great strategic importance to the Iron curtain countries because of their borders with Russia . |
| 7 | He said new businesses were fleeing Belarus to other countries because of its taxes of 22 per cent on profits and 28 per cent VAT . |
| 8 | Debts also arise between countries because of services performed by one country for another . |
| 9 | As a Canadian who left the country because of the lack of adequate money for basic scientific research , neither can I. |
| 10 | He concludes : ‘ I am very sad that a friend can only write to another friend through a third country because of the border that separates us . ’ |
| 11 | When arriving at the foreign post , will he or she be in a less senior capacity than in the home country because of unfamiliarity with local customs and methods of working ? |
| 12 | Speakers included Prins Gunasekara , a Sri Lankan politician and human rights lawyer , who thanked Amnesty International for its efforts in helping him to flee his country because of death threats . |
| 13 | Buxton believed that it had lost the confidence and interest of the country because of its practice of negotiating secretly with ministers instead of acting in the open . |
| 14 | About 500,000 Sri Lankans , out of a population of 17m , are reckoned to have left the country because of the war . |
| 15 | In one case an immigrant who was present in Britain was denied judicial review of a decision not to give him leave to enter the country because of the existence of a right of appeal which could only be exercised if the immigrant left Britain . |
| 16 | Only a small amount of money could be taken out of the country because of post-war restrictions and , as this was a personal rather than a business trip , he was forced to prepare lectures from which he could earn income while he was away . |
| 17 | I had to leave the country because of death threats and Mercedes Recinos , who worked in the post before me , was murdered . |
| 18 | It appears that there are many points at which er we can identify with one another or I have found that I can identify with the church and its social responsibility in this country because of our experience in my country . |
| 19 | One of the most poignant losses any human being faces is having to leave one 's home and sometimes even one 's country because of war , racism , famine or simply the drive to get decent economic opportunities . |
| 20 | I ca n't remember any of the country because of me being such a young age , but my sister remembers more than I as she is older than myself . |
| 21 | With racism on the increase in Europe and in this country because of high unemployment , is not there a danger that there could be yet more racial assaults in Britain ? |
| 22 | Is he aware that the parent company , which was nationalised as part of a French and Italian consortium , has threatened to remove the transputer from this country because of the British Government 's failure to support British industry in the way that the French and Italian Governments have ? |
| 23 | I would not expect these decisions to be uniform across the country because of different local circumstances and the likelihood of different clinical views on the efficacy of particular treatment . |
| 24 | In Mozambique alone , up to 1,000,000 people were reported to have been displaced within the country because of the civil war , while another 1,500,000 were known to have sought asylum elsewhere . |
| 25 | On Feb. 11 , 1991 , Swedish radio reports stated that several Soviet citizens including at least one diplomat were being asked to leave the country because of espionage " against Swedish defence and important parts of the defence industry " . |
| 26 | ‘ Of course he would n't take a bribe from you , or anyone , come to that , and especially someone trying to bribe him out of the country because of a woman — one he happens to love very much . ’ |
| 27 | He warned Yousefi he had a prison sentence in mind and added : ‘ I am also considering the appropriateness of a recommendation that you should be deported from this country because of your activities . ’ |
| 28 | Judge William Hannah adjourned the case for social inquiry reports but said : ‘ I am considering the appropriateness of a recommendation that you should be deported from this country because of your activities . ’ |
| 29 | Mr Goria , 49 , a former Christian Democrat prime minister , had long been a favourite target of opposition MPs and was unpopular in the country because of the chaotic and tactless way he introduced a hated property tax last year . |
| 30 | in and out of Kuwait they never have to their only restrictions at any time , never , even if Kuwait had a financial crisis because of the crash of its stock market one expected that people might move their capital outside the country because of it , but there was no restrictions , no control , everybody was free , you could walk in and out of the country |