Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun] because of " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , patients with Crohn 's disease are generally regarded as unsuitable candidates for reservoir procedures because of the risk of recurrent ileal or anal disease , a higher incidence of postoperative fistula , poor functional results , and increased morbidity . |
| 2 | It is important for expert determination because of the words of Lord Donaldson MR , who said at 115D : |
| 3 | The form of mills had developed only slowly since the Middle Ages , but by the middle of the eighteenth century the technology of wind and water power was being investigated scientifically and there was competition for mill sites because of enlarging industrial needs . |
| 4 | Track renewals are also becoming overdue , with a succession of speed restrictions because of the condition of parts of the line . |
| 5 | Any deal between the two will have to safeguard the identity of car owners because of Britain 's Data Protection Act . |
| 6 | Special problems are associated with calculations of infant mortality because of the rapid decline in the death rate during the first year of life . |
| 7 | The Minister 's talk of statistical necrophilia shows that the Government document is not about our farming future but sadly , in many cases , our lack of farming future because of his lack of action . |
| 8 | Increasing publication delays encourage the proliferation of journal titles because of the frustration of scientists , due in some part to their increasing need to demonstrate productivity through publication in order to attract funding . |
| 9 | Increasing publication delays encourage the proliferation of journal titles because of the frustration of scientists , due in some part to their increasing need to demonstrate productivity through publication in order to attract funding . |
| 10 | No one group tends to dominate in this process of group interaction because of the plurality of political resources , referring to the diverse bases of group power . |
| 11 | The middle-horns were the most esteemed of draught cattle because of their activity and hardiness ; they would also fatten at an early age if not working but the milk yield of the cows was poor in comparison with the short-horned cattle of Durham , Yorkshire and Lincolnshire . |
| 12 | Nash argues that the position of women has deteriorated despite development activities because of the concentration on production for profit rather than for the welfare of the population in many Third World countries . |
| 13 | However , King also believes that traditional agroforestry led to the establishment of plantation forestry because of colonial timber requirements in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that culminated in the separation of agricultural and forestry interests . |
| 14 | For her own part , there was never any question of her not studying science and she is the best sort of role model because of her enthusiasm : ‘ Just finding out what makes things work . |
| 15 | However , if he fails to do so can he still ask the court to examine the contract in the light of the restraint of trade doctrine because of the existence of the public interest ? |
| 16 | But the ( pull ) set is only one of many : the others , although often salient , are usually unsuitable for quantification throughout the range of speaker variables because of the low numbers of tokens attested ( many examples are listed in J. Milroy , 1981 ) . |
| 17 | Finally , it is anticipated that union membership growth will also be affected ( negatively ) by the existing level of union density because of the ‘ saturation ’ , or upper limit , effect . |
| 18 | Thus , according to the most recent readership profiles assembled by The Guardian , 56% of Guardian readers agree with the statement ‘ I disapprove of aerosol cans because of the effect on the atmosphere ’ , 139,000 of them have taken out life assurance payable on death , 5% are under 40 , 73% bought records last year , more of them attended theatre and contemporary dance events more often than readers of other quality dailies and 25,000 of them invested in unit trusts . |
| 19 | For example , in 1992 it was discovered that around 1,000 patients at a North Staffordshire hospital had received incorrect dosages of radiation therapy because of an alleged fault in a computer program . |
| 20 | Instead , there has been a pressure for community homes for education for young black people who have been made the subject of care orders because of their offending . |
| 21 | In real life , we move our heads , and foreground objects appear to move in front of background objects because of parallax . |
| 22 | Pathe , epitomised by its crowing cockerel and mildly patronising commentaries , stopped producing newsreels in 1970 after 75 years ' coverage of world events because of the decline of the film industry and a change in cinema audience tastes . |
| 23 | For many , the worst memories of that era are of food shortages because of the disruption to the agricultural system . |
| 24 | In the end , however , they and everyone else came to the less romantic conclusion that these objects , which were given the name pulsars , were in fact rotating neutron stars that were emitting pulses of radio waves because of a complicated interaction between their magnetic fields and surrounding matter . |
| 25 | Perhaps it is not unexpected that simple correlation can not easily be made between different parts of the world in view of the advent of the theory of plate tectonics because of the amount of movement associated with the displacement of plates . |
| 26 | Though process of care measures may be an imperfect guide to the standard of patient care because of differences in the knowledge and skills of health carers in their different settings , we believe that our results are a very considerable improvement on those of previous British studies . |
| 27 | Management fees of investment trusts are considerably lower than those of unit trusts because of the wide disparities in money spent on advertising , although with the changes in rules on advertising for investment trusts , their fees are likely to rise . |
| 28 | The number of emergency operations because of bleeding and the number of patients who died were comparable in both groups . |
| 29 | We have all been exposed to loads of publicity about the poor quality of tap water because of recent low rainfall — yet a remarkable number of people seem not to have considered the effects of this on small delicate species . |
| 30 | The daredevil flyer — know to millions of TV viewers because of his handlebar moustache — made the disclosures in a book about the conflict . |