Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] because of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But last night other umpires stressed that Oslear had not been sacked as chairman because of his battle to support Lamb . |
| 2 | The act itself was the product of demands for change because of the limited impact of the 1832 Act and because of more immediate political considerations . |
| 3 | So th th th there 's , there 's a heightened need for support because of the the nature of the civil war now , and , and they are under quite substantial pressure and therefore you need to mobilize the population behind you and to get that mobilization you , you 've got to offer more struggle fruits to the peasants and absolute egalitarianism is the way to offer them the maximum . |
| 4 | A federal judge is expected to rule soon on the constitutional issue at hand — whether a state-owned institution can bar half the state 's citizens from applying for admission because of their sex . |
| 5 | Europe is the main campaign issue for Jim because of the overseas outlook of his company . |
| 6 | Do you imagine that we are the way we are about money because of mother or because we would have been like that anyway ? ’ |
| 7 | Large numbers of Kuwaitis were reported to be leaving the country during March because of the high level of pollution caused by the fires . |
| 8 | And fewer people in Northern Ireland want to join the RIR as part-timers because of the increasing terrorist threat . |
| 9 | A decision to cut or pass the dividend will be especially painful for Costain because of the blow it will be for the 91 per cent of shareholders who took up last year 's rights issue and because Costain will be only the second major contractor , after John Laing , to cut the pay-out . |
| 10 | For instance , a product may carry a price which can not easily be reduced or discounted , for instance because of the need to cover heavy Research and Development costs . |
| 11 | A home tutor is a teacher employed to teach children at home when they are unable to attend school for any length of time , for instance because of illness . |
| 12 | Therefore , where the plaintiff claims continuing loss of earnings or loss of dependency and the rate has changed , for instance because of salary increases , the defendant must be given notice of the plaintiff 's intention to amend his statement of claim . |
| 13 | More recently the club has steered off course because of complicated rules over which riders they can use . |
| 14 | A project run by the Richmond Fellowship in north London has been earmarked for closure because of high renovation costs and ‘ changes in referral patterns ’ . |
| 15 | This area was selected for study because of the authors ' familiarity with it , the adequate rural-urban contrast and the availability of a suitable image . |
| 16 | In the conventional view of technological change in factories , computer-controlled machinery inevitably sweeps through industry because of the enormous competitive advantages . |
| 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 | The debt-counselling charities shoulder much of the burden ; here Citizens Advice Bureaux workers from all over Oxfordshire are themselves advised on what they should tell the desperate people who come to them for help because of spiralling debt . |
| 19 | Disease diagnosis may vary both within and between communities because of differences in health care systems and structures . |
| 20 | Though one always has to treat figures such as these with caution , it does seem that the line-out project had considerable success both in terms of a reduction in operator dissatisfaction , reflected in lower turnover and a less rapid increase in absenteeism than other parts of the plant , and in terms of very substantial savings for management because of the increased flexibility of production it gave them . |
| 21 | All I 'm waiting for right , is for somebody to set a precedent for for erm doing people for manslaughter because of secondary lung cancer then you 're fucking history sonny . |
| 22 | Large quantities of sediment are present on the ocean floor off Sumatra because of its position with respect to the Bengal Fan which represents the vast submarine extension of the Ganges delta on the Indian subcontinent some 2000 km to the north ( Fig. 3.9 ) . |
| 23 | Young people in care in North Wales are being deterred from making complaints about abuse because of an alleged lack of progress in investigating allegations of widespread physical and sexual abuse in children 's homes in the 1970s and 1980s , it has been claimed . |
| 24 | For six years , they cheerfully raked in premiums for policies which paid the mortgage if you were made redundant or forced to take time off work because of sickness or accident . |
| 25 | Any days missed off work because of the union are paid as normal by Radio Rentals . |
| 26 | The latter , although a mainly psychic state ( albeit drug induced ) , can be mistaken for non-responsiveness because of the patient 's agitation and apparent suffering ; it responds rapidly to reduction in opioid dosage . |
| 27 | Debts also arise between countries because of services performed by one country for another . |
| 28 | They may need a good deal of support because of these conflicts , yet this is rarely available . |
| 29 | Clearly a full inspection has a degree of formality because of its import and scale ; thus it involves a team of inspectors , finite time ( of the order of a week ) , a timetable of observation and discussion for each HMI , and a formal written report . |
| 30 | Not all cases of Crohn 's disease were identified in the colectomy specimen ; nevertheless we now rarely perform pouch construction at the time of colectomy because of the possibility of unrecognised Crohn 's disease . |