Example sentences of "to [noun] because of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some climates , outdoor workers have to be trained to take protective measures against exposure to long periods of sunlight leading to dehydration because of perspiration loss ; or to heat stroke ; or after long exposure , to an increasing rise in the incidence of skin cancer ( Nichols , 1988 ) . |
| 2 | Amphibians are particularly prone to dehydration because of their permeable skins . |
| 3 | It is the least mechanised of our farming scenery , the least efficient and the most resistant to change because of the multiple ownership and the often rented holdings . |
| 4 | It would be an exaggeration to say that An Teallach is to Dundonnell as the Matterhorn is to Zermatt , yet mountaineers do come to Dundonnell because of An Teallach . |
| 5 | It we he phoned at it was , it was five to six , Jim was going to take me to aerobics because of the weather |
| 6 | The offences only came to light because of an attempt to inflate profits at Alexander Howden , which was discovered by the American company Alexander and Alexander after it bought the company . |
| 7 | ‘ Obviously , this business is open to ridicule because of the shysters , but it 's not frightening . |
| 8 | According to Berkeley , the usual combination of materialism and immaterialism leads to scepticism because of its ‘ supposing a difference between things and ideas ’ . |
| 9 | The chairman of its Scottish council , Dr Mac Armstrong , told a press conference in Edinburgh : ‘ This should be one of the most exciting enterprises the NHS has ever engaged in but the enthusiasm for this initiative — which is there — may turn to scepticism because of the Government 's commitment to it . ’ |
| 10 | Judge Michael Coombe said he had taken into account that they turned to crime because of the slump . |
| 11 | A visionary at Much Wenlock , on the testimony of Boniface , proclaimed in Ceolred 's lifetime that the angels surrounding him had withdrawn their protective shield and abandoned him to demons because of the multitude of crimes he had committed . |
| 12 | Stigma is attached to AIDS because of strong social disapproval of the ‘ risk activities ’ by which HIV is passed from person to person and because of ignorance and fear . |
| 13 | The action would , he said , make redundant the complaint that certain elements had resorted to violence because of allegations that elections held in March 1987 had been rigged [ see p. 35203 ] . |
| 14 | This is seen as essential to FTC 's plans for a 24-hour channel devoted exclusively to football because of the volume and geographical spread of games offered by the other 70 Football League clubs . |
| 15 | Revenues from customer premises equipment , adjusted for the effects of sold operations , dropped 5.7% to £996m because of ‘ the continued de-pressed state of this competitive market ’ , although the decline slowed in the fourth quarter . |
| 16 | The economic growth of the 1960s and early 1970s came to grief because of the western economic slump of the last decade and the massive increase in the Southern population . |
| 17 | However , the scheme came to grief because of the entrenched opposition of Cabinet Secretary , Sir Maurice Hankey , who believed a tunnel to be a major threat to national security . |
| 18 | Even in a legal system which had the narrowest of definitions of murder — say , premeditated intention to kill — there would still be an argument that some cases which fulfil that criterion should have their label reduced from murder to manslaughter because of extenuating circumstances . |
| 19 | This time the prosecution accepted Kiranjit 's plea of guilty to manslaughter because of diminished responsibility . |
| 20 | The rest of the day was n't very clear to Benny because of the heavy cloud of disappointment that seemed to hang over the whole proceedings . |
| 21 | Lord Mayor , we 've always been opposed to Trusts because of their independent nature which we see as really making it impossible because of that very nature to plan for health care properly . |
| 22 | This was the pure gospel of Joseph Chamberlain , especially real to Law because of his Canadian connections , but the real significance of the decision was felt by few in Britain , even on the Unionist side . |
| 23 | PAKISTAN captain Imran Khan ( left ) said yesterday that he could miss this summer 's tour to England because of a shoulder injury . |
| 24 | ‘ You blame me for returning to England because of my job but it was n't just that and it was n't all my fault . ’ |
| 25 | Mirror Group fell 3p to 106p because of the current turmoil affecting the newspaper over the political direction it might adopt . |
| 26 | ‘ The withdrawal from ERM and the subsequent devaluation of sterling should be of particular benefit to Scotland because of the higher propensity to export . |
| 27 | At the same time the cost of the proposed high-speed rail link from London to the tunnel has risen nearly three-fold to £3.5bn because of environmental safeguards demanded by the Government . |
| 28 | A more complex rule , linking monetary policy to last period 's unemployment rate or balance of payments deficit or whatever , may be less easy to understand and more subject to error because of , for example , inaccuracies in the balance of payments figures . |
| 29 | He must decide , for example , whether it actually follows from the assumed convention of legislation that Elmer has a right to his inheritance because of the statute of wills , or from the putative convention of precedent that Mrs. McLoughlin had a right to compensation because of past judicial decisions . |
| 30 | One is left to wonder how many whites have fallen foul of ‘ their own myths ’ and begun at a ‘ psychological disadvantage ’ to blacks because of the misguided belief in ‘ natural ability ’ . |