Example sentences of "because of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although a number of embassies in Kuwait had defied the Iraqi orders that they should close by Aug.24 [ see p. 37639 ] , all but a dozen ( including the USA , Canada and eight EC countries ) had abandoned them by Aug. 12 because of conditions there . |
| 2 | Bilal and Samir returned home to Lebanon , but doctors feared there would be a setback in their recovery because of conditions in the Bourj al Barajneh refugee camps and the lack of medical facilities there . |
| 3 | Indeed , because of deficiencies , the Air Force has had to change some of its plans for the bomber and may have to dish out an extra $1 billion to correct the problems . |
| 4 | The year 1988 was another difficult one for OPEC , not only due to problems over quotas but also because of signs of a possible sequel to 1986 . |
| 5 | THE Treasury could receive a substantial boost to tax revenues next month because of attempts to take income before April 5 so that it would not be taxed at the Labour party 's threatened high rates . |
| 6 | Having rejected much of the literature because of faults found in the methodology , the authors focus their attention on three relatively small clinical trials . |
| 7 | In addition , a chemically inactivated virus is unlikely to be safe enough for human use because of concerns that some live viral particles would survive the chemical treatment . |
| 8 | And yet the various integrationist movements , brash or hesitant , in the 1940s looked to Britain for leadership , and clung to the hope that Britain would be absorbed , not least because of concerns over security . |
| 9 | Attention has been given to predicting admission to long-term care because of concerns about the processes and mechanisms by which places are allocated . |
| 10 | The guarantee had been approved by Congress in April 1990 , but Baker had refused to sign it because of concerns that Israel would use the funds to settle Soviet Jews in the occupied territories . |
| 11 | However , the Associated Press news agency reported on Feb. 8 that the package could be held up in the European Parliament , due to opposition from the socialist group because of concerns about Syria 's human rights record . |
| 12 | It was agreed in principle by the 16 NATO and seven Warsaw Pact countries at a conference in Ottawa , Canada , in February 1990 [ see pp. 37259-60 ] but then stalled because of concerns by the Soviet Union and its disintegration . |
| 13 | However , because of concerns about the long-term efficacy and safety of class I drugs in patients with advanced and progressive structural heart disease , we no longer use these agents alone in cardiac arrest survivors in the absence of an ICD . |
| 14 | Education was the single largest employing sector but mainly because of non-students being sponsored by their educational employers ; |
| 15 | We do not demand a ban on all sterilisation just because some women are forced to be sterilised , we do not even attack the whole concept of a well are state just because of abuses like the cohabitation rule , so why oppose pay for childcare solely because it might be abused ? |
| 16 | And philosophers talk of ‘ sensations ’ in this connection because of views they hold about perception . |
| 17 | They may hold these views about perception because of views they hold about our nature and the nature of the things we look at . |
| 18 | Several others , however , including one individual who testified that he had suffered discriminatory treatment from his employers because of views he had expressed in public about the political situation , requested that their names be withheld from the final report , because they felt that their jobs and perhaps even their very lives would be at risk . |
| 19 | For the previous few years the soap factory had been losing business because of imports of synthetic detergents , mainly through Lever Bros , the local branch of Unilever . |
| 20 | This situation is similar to Figure 2.2 , i.e. a UK monopolist constrained to the price P1 because of imports from Germany . |
| 21 | These sites have now become , in a modern day , highly decayed masses of rotten chemicals , seeping into the Earth ; the sites have become highly dangerous , highly toxic , and in some cases , because of methanes produced by decaying masses , explosive . |
| 22 | Investment banking had been legally separated from commercial banking since the 1930s ; and in the 1960s and 1970s firms ceased to want bankers of either sort on their boards , because of conflicts of interest . |
| 23 | They believe their children have asthma because of emissions from the two plants . |
| 24 | There was general agreement , said Sir John , that the average temperature of the earth 's surface — as predicted by computer models — would increase by 0.3C per decade because of emissions from industry and transport , coupled with the effects of deforestation and intensive agricultural practice . |
| 25 | And when jittery quarterback Stan Gelbaugh did get his offense moving , too often big plays were called back because of Monarchs holding penalties . |
| 26 | Main line of argument : because of forces resistant to change , e.g. principally religious , also economic . |
| 27 | The student demonstrations against corruption occurred because of illegalities exposed as a result of his high standards of probity . |
| 28 | The switch to a more deliberate emphasis on the way in which all the inhabitants of an area depend upon one another came about at least in part because of developments in social evolutionism . |
| 29 | Furthermore , because of developments such as Dry Store and greater hands-on experience of decommissioning , many of the doubts about the finance of nuclear are reducing . |
| 30 | Because of developments in computer technology , minicomputers are now able to do what mainframes did 10-15 years ago . |