Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun] because of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's been in custody for two or three , three days , thirty six hours or something like that already , and not been able to see his family , and er got into all sorts of mess because of that Madam . |
| 2 | The tawny owl does not usually produce large concentrations of pellets because of its habit of using different trees each day for roosting , and so all of these samples are either from scattered locations or were collected over considerable periods of time . |
| 3 | The opinion gained ground — an opinion with which Eric Ashby would evidently have had some sympathy — that the employment of a full-time tutor for the county , whether by the WEA or by the University Extra-Mural Board , placed constraints on branches ' freedom to choose subjects of study because of pressure to find a viable programme for the full-timer to teach . |
| 4 | North-West TUC spokesman Mike Graham said : ‘ We will be seeking the support of the European Parliament against the importers of coal because of the risk to the local environment . ’ |
| 5 | There are times when we want to target specific individual or groups of parents because of minor problems which the school is encountering such as persistent lateness , regular late arrival of dinner money , unreturned reading books or even irregular attendance . |
| 6 | Some people show signs of confusion because of the shock of bereavement . |
| 7 | Known as ‘ le riche ’ , Frank Haviland was the envy of the artists of Montparnasse because of his comfortable life , the luxurious meals he ate , the smart clothes he wore , the paintings and Negro sculptures he could afford to buy . |
| 8 | But people in this group , often unemployed or single parents on low incomes , had not even been trying to get most forms of credit because of their own feeling that their personal circumstances would rule them out as applicants . |
| 9 | ‘ Bribery and corruption by large corporations are most serious forms of crime because of their inegalitarian consequences . |
| 10 | Where government withdraws or reduces its direct contribution to welfare it may still make an indirect contribution if the social security system subsidizes private provision , or it may have to acquire a new range of regulatory concerns about the quality of private services , or it may face increased problems in the other areas of concern because of the new pressures placed upon individuals and families . |
| 11 | There have already been , for example , incidences of miscarriages of justice because of inadequate communication ( Iqbal Begum v Regina ) and statistics reveal a higher incidence of infant mortality among non-English speaking language groups . |
| 12 | Indeed , the argument is often advanced that mergers bring benefits through reducing costs of production because of the attainment of economies of scale . |
| 13 | This was explained by Lord Diplock in Pioneer Shipping Ltd v BTP Tioxide Ltd , AC 1982 724 at 736 , where he said that the English system treated the construction of written agreements as questions of law because of the legacy of trial by juries who might not all be literate . |
| 14 | If you are suffering pangs of remorse because of some unintentional action in the past , do n't you think it might be time to tell yourself that you will be more careful in the future — and let the guilt go ? |
| 15 | These social dimensions of accessibility may be very important to the quality of life , but rural residents usually face problems of accessibility because of spatial separation ; theirs is a problem of physical accessibility , which requires that an individual must be able to command the transport facilities needed to reach the requisite supply points at appropriate times . |
| 16 | Scientific interests have been chosen for these few pages of examples because of the tendency in some quarters to assume that resource-based learning is a Humanities or Social Studies prerogative . |
| 17 | The ‘ micro-management ’ of military foreign policy crises by US presidents , during the Cuba blockade in 1963 ( Allison 1971 ) or during the abortive military rescue bid to free hostages trapped in Iran in 1979 , are good examples of how national political figures are drawn into the details of implementation because of the sensitivity of the decision-making . |
| 18 | Some manual workers had only overtaken clerical workers in terms of pay because of the overtime they worked . |
| 19 | ‘ Of course I could be in danger of losing out in terms of votes because of this . |
| 20 | But sending food in was not always an effective mechanism because in countries where there was starvation and deprivation there were invariably problems in terms of distribution because of armed conflict . |
| 21 | This study seems to refute the hypothesis that CLO is an end stage disease occurring in old patients with longer histories of reflux because of age , sex ratio , and duration of symptoms is similar to the severe reflus oesophagitis group . |
| 22 | It has been suggested that pioneers are able to tolerate high rates of herbivory because of their ‘ cheaper ’ leaves and faster growth rates . |
| 23 | The first such study was conducted by Break in 1956 and covered 306 self-employed lawyers and accountants in England — two groups of professionals who are in a position to vary their work effort , and who are also liable to high rates of taxation because of their high incomes . |
| 24 | It has also shown that they are most effective in situations of crisis because of their ability to initiate and control social interactions . |
| 25 | She 'd turned down the offers of promotion because of Emily . |
| 26 | She gets on well enough with Sheila Martin , though the two have occasional differences of opinion because of Sheila 's somewhat more slapdash approach to accounting matters . |
| 27 | I want to stick to making sculptures of animals because of a love of them . |