Example sentences of "because of [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah I think they had their own little meetings in various pubs or whatever after our meetings , and certainly the management in one of the quarries seemed to have a lot of information about what went on in our lodge meetings because of various members of this clique , I think we were all fairly sure that they would be returning to work , it was just when that was the crunch . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is unfortunate , therefore , that launching such trials can be a lengthy affair because of protracted discussions on ethical issues that are often misunderstood . |
| 4 | Bush had still to convince the US Congress , however , to release the US$94,000,000 in economic and military aid which it had frozen in July because of doubts about the government 's commitment to an anti-drug programme and because of persistent reports of gross human rights abuses by the military . |
| 5 | Conservation techniques do not conserve soil in practice because of technical failures through inadequate or misapplied research . |
| 6 | Although the 114 deputies represented an absolute majority in the 180-member Kosovo Assembly , the Assembly itself had been summarily closed by the Serbian authorities on June 26 , following a decision of the Serbian Assembly to declare a situation of " special circumstances " in Kosovo because of the ongoing strikes in numerous factories , and because of alleged attacks against ethnic Serbians in the province . |
| 7 | The Heart of Wales Line is now under greater threat than it has been for many years , because of financial pressures from British Rail in general and Regional Railways in particular . |
| 8 | This conflict comes about because of economic differences between different classes based around who has control over economic production . |
| 9 | In the past there was considerable local intermixing of cattle , partly because of frequent losses from major catastrophes such as flooding and epidemics of disease . |
| 10 | This could be because of perceived notions of Asian families being restrictive and oppressive , for example , in cases such as arranged marriages , which may necessitate the ’ rescue ’ of these women by state officials . |
| 11 | Because of cognitive limits within top management ( that is , bounded rationality ) , the effect that diversification has , therefore , in the U-form firm is for strategic planning to be ‘ crowded out ’ by operational decisions . |
| 12 | Progress was slow , however , because of existing rivalries between other member states , notably West Germany , which feared a loss of their existing market share in coal- and gas-generated electricity . |
| 13 | It presented an illustrative example of a report which emphasises that the auditors ' conclusions related to the date of the financial statements , but ‘ because of inherent limitations in any system of control , errors , breaches of law , inefficiencies or irregularities may occur and not be detected and such a system is subject to the risk that procedures may become inadequate ’ . |
| 14 | It is the same Brian Thomas Jackson who in 1982 was refused a credit broker 's licence because of previous convictions for dishonest dealing . |
| 15 | Mr Prattley , 78 , of Berry Court , Sadberge , had suffered ill health because of respiratory problems for some time . |
| 16 | The recommendations included refraining from concluding a peace treaty because of divergent views among interested countries and because of the Soviet Union 's pursuance of militant expansion . |
| 17 | We have already encountered an archetypal example of this in the Neolithic mother-goddess cult , and it may be that today , over-indulged children , not fully weaned because of permissive fashions in modern childrearing , and encouraged throughout their childhood and adolescence to remain dependent on parents who have been afraid to deny them anything , experience a similar hankering after the unobtainable but mouth-watering mother-as-breast . |
| 18 | Outlawed by Stalin in 1946 because of suspected links with Ukrainian nationalism , and forcibly incorporated into the Russian Orthodox Church , the Uniate Church had continued in secret . |
| 19 | We emphasise that the service is managed by Motor Engineers and Assessors independent of the Insurance Company and no reports of these Safety Checks will be referred to your Insurance Company , so please do not refrain from availing of the service because of unfounded fears in this regard . |
| 20 | In defence of their position , local authorities pointed out that much of the upsurge in their expenditure occurred because of statutory demands for new or expanded services placed on them by central government . |
| 21 | Both regression analyses were calculated from data on 448 women because of missing values in one of the exposure or confounding variables . |
| 22 | Everyone seems to have cheered up enormously even though , because of big problems in Tory marginals , both channels are predicting a hung parliament , with only a small Conservative lead over Labour . |
| 23 | For instrumental Marxists , however , a change in the power structure of society arose , not because of conscious efforts by committed individuals at the political or social levels of society , but because this feudal mode of production was fundamentally challenged by an alternative and technically more efficient mode of production . |
| 24 | Is it for the usual Keynesian reasons , that is , because of periodic changes in aggregate demand and consequent changes in the demand for labour ? |
| 25 | They tend not to explore what difference it makes who takes part in the public-policy process , or else they assume that the beneficiaries of public policy can simply be " read-off " from information about group participation because of uncomplicated assumptions about all groups being able to participate in order to advance their own interest . |