Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] because [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , formal sector employment , never very large , has fallen some 10 per cent since the mid-1970s because of economic stagnation , and the informal sector is now overcrowded and income therefore low . |
| 2 | A number of explanations for urban economic decline are based on the assumption that jobs and/or industrial investment have moved out of the cities because of prevailing production costs and the problems associated with the older urban cores . |
| 3 | It was considered that there was a need for a public authority to play a role in securing access to and observance of the law , where the issues involved justified it , if individuals might otherwise be deterred from bringing cases to the courts because of their complexity , the financial costs involved or for any other reason . |
| 4 | Small time offenders in need of psychiatric help are being jailed by the courts because of a rundown of psychiatric hospitals . |
| 5 | ‘ Now , I ca n't build on the south or the east side of the houses because of the sea . |
| 6 | Two further contributory factors to the decline of the industry have been : the lowered earnings of energy companies giving rise to spending cutbacks ; and the dampening of government enthusiasm for the projects because of the abundance of crude oil . |
| 7 | Immediately before the conference Germany had expressed reluctance to commit further funds to the projects because of the costs of German unification . |
| 8 | Ferguson is prepared to risk Robson because another of United 's Englishmen , Lee Martin , is unlikely to face the Russians because of a stomach bug . |
| 9 | There was a lot of opposition to our work , partly from the Russians because of their Marxist belief in scientific determinism , and partly from people who felt that the whole idea of singularities was repugnant and spoiled the beauty of Einstein 's theory . |
| 10 | There has been a fall in the proportion of buses that have been taken off the roads because of serious defects found during the vehicle inspectorate 's examination . |
| 11 | The chuguo chao ( going abroad tide ) was an example , causing concern among the authorities because of the increasing numbers of young intellectuals taking part and more importantly , failing to return . |
| 12 | She was wearing a pair of off-white trousers , which she had cuffed as much as she could at the ankles because of the heat , and a plain navy-coloured T-shirt , neither of which sported designer labels . |
| 13 | Could n't go on with the performance even with the understudies because of the police coming in . |
| 14 | Is it being introduced into the schools because of this characteristic ? |
| 15 | Even I find it hard to sleep in the bedrooms because of the damp . ’ |
| 16 | This , of course , influences the tides because of the importance of its gravitational pull on the world 's oceans and seas . |
| 17 | There are differences among the units because of the need to adapt the standard model to the specific conditions of each site , such as its cooling capacities or degree of earthquake risk . |
| 18 | The DoH has taken six months to revise the guidelines because of the initial controversy over the draft , followed by the publicity surrounding juvenile crime and new plans from the Home Office to set up ‘ secure training units ’ for 12- to 15-year old offenders . |
| 19 | And given that it was Godolphin himself who supplied these items — most were simply terrestrial trivia , revered in the Dominions because of their place of origin — and given that he would not cease to do so as long as the fever of collection was upon him and he could exchange such items for artifacts from the Imajica , Peccable 's business would flourish . |
| 20 | Commensal species like the house mouse and rat from dwellings slightly removed from the trap lines may be present in the owl assemblage but absent from the traps because of the larger range of the owl . |
| 21 | Crawford ensured that no one under fourteen would be allowed into the performances because of the strong language and much hopping in and out of bed — and he banned his grandmother . |
| 22 | In the nineteenth century music had come to be regarded as queen of the arts because of its non-imitative qualities , and throughout the Cubist period musical analogies become increasingly frequent . |
| 23 | Would existing firms relocate into the zones because of their incentives , to no overall effect ? |
| 24 | Another hazard was that bottles sometimes fell off the shelves because of vibration from above . |
| 25 | Also , failure surveys of this kind fail to show up users who do not check the shelves because of low expectation of success . |
| 26 | A lack of trust in the parents because of a worrying secret can undermine the child 's sense of security at home . |
| 27 | Our neighbours , with whom we drank Metaxa and broke plates most evenings , thought they were trying to discourage tourists from venturing into the mountains because of the risk . |
| 28 | It would be difficult to build water-gathering reservoirs of the size of those found in other Parts of the Pennines in the Dales because of the many eaves and potholes that would carry the water away . |
| 29 | Apollinaire was able to write that the Salon d'Automne of 1912 had been persuaded to show the Cubists because of their influence and prestige abroad ; the most important and sensational feature in the Salon was certainly the maison cubiste , for which André Mare and Duchamp-Villon were responsible . |
| 30 | But I was also terrified of the geese because of a childhood experience — I was chased by a flock and the memory always stayed with me . |