Example sentences of "[noun pl] because of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Threatening co-ordination difficulties can arise if and only if the system 's managers can not resolve the displacement of crises because of serious dysfunctions in the economy or some sort of collapse in the cultural — ideological system .
2 Indeed , it will be suggested that many of our clients are our clients because of sexual aspects of their lives barely realised even by themselves which have gone awry .
3 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 .
4 Despite the Melilla result , the PSOE effectively retained a voting majority in the Congress , since four Basque deputies belonging to United People ( HB ) had still not taken up their seats because of legal quibbles over swearing allegiance .
5 However , he kept the ‘ traditional ’ way of working with exam classes because of external pressures .
6 Turnaround times from Princeton are seldom less than four weeks because of limited facilities .
7 A student in college accommodation ( halls of residence and probably head tenancies because of possible subsidies ) has no right to Housing Benefit other than in the summer vacation .
8 The rumblings that Intel Corp has been having more problems successfully fabricating the Pentium chip than it has been prepared to discuss have erupted again , and our sister paper Unigram.X today reports that Pentium has been hit by another round of serious availability problems because of poor yields .
9 Leadership also presented problems because of complicated rules of inheritance .
10 Mothers complained that their children were at risk from other serious diseases because they were missing out on vaccinations because of repeated colds .
11 Reasons for a reduction in productivity may include a poorly planned operation which can result in longer learning curves and a low average output the introduction of more learning curves because of frequent changes of resources and working methods changing physical conditions lower outputs because plant was initially selected for one activity and is used for another inappropriate activity longer hours being worked regularly ( this can occur , for example , when accelerating the work rate to recover delays ) the lowering of morale owing to frequent changes of plan and poor management .
12 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 .
13 In any event the courts now have to consider many similar problems and plaintiffs should not be denied relief in proper cases because of possible difficulties of proof .
14 a ) Will some parts of the organisation reduce work at certain times because of public holidays ?
15 It is probably easier to add on extra hours than to take on too much and then find you have to reduce your hours because of outside commitments or for other less foreseeable reasons .
16 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 .
17 However , our top earners are top earners because of two things .
18 However , the exemption might not apply , for example , if an offer is modified so that overseas shareholders in the target are not offered consideration securities because of overseas securities laws which prohibit the offer document being posted to them ( or permit the offer to be made but subject to onerous filing requirements ) .
19 The basic rate at April 1989 is £43.60 per week for a single person and £69.80 for a couple , but some pensioners are entitled to somewhat higher rates because of graduated contributions or deferred retirement .
20 Human experts take different decisions in identical situations because of emotional factors .
21 People are afraid to use the buses because of armed hold-ups .
22 However , the Lisnagarvey striker could miss the knock-out stages because of academic commitments .
23 A chain of kitchenware shops has made a hundred and twenty people redundant and called in the administraors because of financial difficulties .
24 Once an offender was found guilty , however , the sentence should follow automatically ; in the strict classicism of Beccaria there was no room for clemency by way of pardons , reduction of sentences because of mitigating circumstances , or early release from the punishment laid down .
25 But in a country such as Yugoslavia , which has a ‘ structural ’ disequilibrium in its balance of payments because of past mistakes and accumulated debts , the price of foreign exchange which would bring current demand and supply into equilibrium might be so high as to be very painful to some well-entrenched interests .
26 A further reason for the name change noted in the annual report is that it ‘ acknowledges the growing relationship between entertainment and publishing , both highly creative businesses that are forming closer links because of converging technologies and markets ’ .
27 It may , of course , be easier to quantify risk for natural hazards because of historical records and statistical estimation of recurrence intervals .
28 It has found that couples are also more likely to get into financial trouble after they have children because of increased outgoings .
29 Both regression analyses were calculated from data on 448 women because of missing values in one of the exposure or confounding variables .
30 UN-sponsored negotiations in New York between the leaders of the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities , aimed at ending the division of the island broke down on March 2 because , in the words of UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , " both sides are not ready to proceed on these talks because of several difficulties " .
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