Example sentences of "their [noun] because of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boys , more than girls perhaps , face the problem of ‘ street credibility ’ with their contemporaries because of the public 's perception of a church choir . |
| 2 | People are frightened of using their taps , their baths , their toilets because of using water and paying for it . |
| 3 | But , as our correspondents in Europe report , this looks increasingly uncertain : The Irish may throw out the treaty at their referendum because of controversy over the ‘ abortion protocol ’ . |
| 4 | According to this author , management may be related to formal authority within an organisation and managers-get others to do their bidding because of their organisational position . |
| 5 | ‘ These people ca n't sell their homes because of the recession , so they ca n't separate and split their assets . |
| 6 | Get rid of Norman for a start ; you ca n't have a chancellor who goes round telling the voters ‘ Je ne regrette rien ’ , when lots of them have lost their jobs and their homes because of what he does n't regret . |
| 7 | There are no exact figures for the numbers of Salvadoreans who have been forced to leave their homes because of the civil war , Some are economic refugees , but the great majority have fled because of the repression . |
| 8 | If the right hon. Gentleman had done his homework — rather unusually — better than he has , he would know , first , that the change in the 16-week rule was introduced after lengthy consultations with building societies and , secondly , that at the time , they said that there was no reason for people to lose their homes because of that reduction ; nor have they . |
| 9 | They tend to be people who are used to making regular weekly payments and they have a substantial equity in their homes because of discounts . |
| 10 | One couple even put off their wedding because of the band … |
| 11 | Invisible voters A million people could lose their vote because of mental disability , say Dr Billie Shepperdson and Agnes Fletcher . |
| 12 | Invisible voters A million people could lose their vote because of mental disability , says Dr Billie Shepperdson and Agnes Fletcher . |
| 13 | But Wilkes said they can offer something unique to their practice because of their direct experience of oppression . |
| 14 | Many an adult struggles with their weight because of being persuaded to ‘ eat up ’ as a child . |
| 15 | Ali Bacher managing managing director of the United Cricket Board of South Africa said they were withdrawing their bid because of a crowded international programme and to host the World Cup would take resources and attention away from their development programme . |
| 16 | It is important for the elderly to have heating in their bedroom because of the risk of hypothermia , and it is also essential to make sure that they are living in a home that is well ventilated as well as warm . |
| 17 | Reeling over a savage blow Writer Chapman Pincher marvels at the wonderful salmon rivers of Scotland — but he is outraged by their depletion because of English drift-netting . |
| 18 | In the last two decades the number of people saying they could no longer do jobs about the house or enjoy their hobbies because of sickness has steadily risen . |
| 19 | Other countries , especially those in surplus , were facing an inflow of dollars in exchange for their currencies because of the potential capital gains that would accrue to speculators if the dollar was devalued . |
| 20 | You mean lying on their backs or sides and ca n't get to their feet because of their heavy , wet wool ? ’ |
| 21 | Louis Leclair — the uncle of one of the victims , Maryse Leclair — was director there and Dominique Leclair — Maryse 's cousin remembers : ‘ The employees did n't want him to serve them their lunch because of his acne . ’ |
| 22 | difficulties in the learning of simple actions , such as learning to brush their teeth or tie their shoes because of a difficulty in imitating . |
| 23 | TWO BROAD-MINDED YOUNG GIRLS with unfortunate habit of laughing too much , forced to wear thermal scoober suits under their clothing because of the weather , buried in a boarding-school in the Midlands , but actually enjoying it ! |
| 24 | ‘ They probably feel they should sort out their lives because of the risk of war , ’ Maureen said . |
| 25 | Even if it is true that policemen require special protection in the course of their duties because of the proactive roles that we expect them to undertake , it does not follow that the person who assaults them without justification should be marked as having committed what is , in reality , an aggravated form of assault . |
| 26 | Farmland birds are declining in numbers and contracting their range because of modern farming techniques , according to the British Trust for Ornithology . |
| 27 | PEOPLE suffering from HIV and Aids have been forced to leave their communities because of a lack of understanding , says a health promotion adviser . |
| 28 | Early in 1990 , the Mellors had major structural work carried out at their home because of subsidence . |
| 29 | The crew were already on their guard because of an earlier bomb-scare associated with the same flight . |
| 30 | Although such behaviour corresponds closely to the descriptions of other feral children , it is impossible to know whether these children might have developed similar patterns of behaviour even if brought up in greater contact with people , and it has been suggested that feral children might have been abandoned by their parents because of their behaviour problems . |