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

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1 Definite seasonal variations occur , because of various factors , with the temperature of the water as the main influence , and this sets off a chain ( ecological succession ) of natural events , which can be learned only by experience .
2 Not all of those who want to apply can do so because of various regulations and procedures .
3 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 .
4 But that 's not there because of various actions by the European Community .
5 Agazadeh raised in his Sept. 16 speech the possibility that Iran would respond by increasing output , rather than continue to lose revenue because of low prices .
6 A wrong choice could ruin the turbine because of high winds or not produce enough energy because of low winds .
7 Many farmers had given up working the land because of low rates of return and had turned to producing more lucrative goods .
8 This has come about partly because of low rates of building in the past ( owing to a relatively small effective demand ) and partly because of stringent planning controls , which have restricted the rate of growth of new housing particularly in national parks and other scenically attractive areas ( see chapter 7 ) .
9 This system of payment extends to the whole education system including adult education , where numbers of books sold are reportedly very small — either because of low enrolments or because people are going to classes without books .
10 Because of low incomes , high unemployment and plain discrimination black people are forced into the worst housing .
11 The proportion will not increase greatly towards the end of the century because of low birth-rates in the 1930s .
12 Colonic function is impaired , however , in acute diarrhoeal disease , perhaps in part because of low concentrations of SCFAs .
13 As everyone knows , the insurance industry 's recent experience of its very own crisis scenario has led to , if a particular line of cover has not been among those withdrawn because of poor claims records , dramatic increases in premiums .
14 YOUNG BOYS of Berne have dismissed their Swedish coach , Tord Grip , because of poor results .
15 On the same day the first congress of the Entrepreneurs Party elected Tibor Szabo as its chairman , but at its second congress in June the leadership resigned because of poor results in the national elections and Jozsef Rigo took over as party leader .
16 We have abandoned restorative proctocolectomy after failed ileorectal anastomosis in patients with slow transit constipation as half have now requested pouch excision because of poor results .
17 I also told John Chaplin that I would inform the National Transportation Safety Board in Washington ( the accident investigation authority in the USA ) of the situation so that there would be no question of action being delayed because of poor communications between the UK and the USA .
18 SACKING the head of welfare at an animal experimentation centre because of poor standards is a positive move , but is n't it time we stopped using animals for testing altogether ?
19 Meanwhile , Amex 's chairman , James Robinson , took an $800,000 cut in pay last year because of poor profits , leaving him with a miserly $1,798,077 .
20 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 .
21 Others on the five-year shortlist were eliminated because of recent spots on their record .
22 But the department has lost the public 's confidence because of recent verdict-reversals .
23 Doubtless because of strong objections from the distaff side , Becke 's truly Christian comment was not repeated in later editions .
24 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 .
25 The company had claimed that Mrs Ashgrove was replaced because of serious errors in her work .
26 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 .
27 But the issue was fascinating because of other things , heralding the rapid development of technology in the next century .
28 Most of the problems that are arising are not just because of the Trusts but because of other things like for instance the contracting process that is proposed , the t the changing in the financing that is incorporated and of course the general under-funding which there is within the N H S. These are far more important problems in the long term .
29 Whatever their opinion of him he was clearly in touch with other artists , as in April 1808 he complains bitterly of not being able to get on with his painting because of other artists coming to see his work .
30 Since three out of every four owners report behavioural problems with their dogs at some stage , it is clear that probably most strays are discarded for this reason , rather than because of other factors such as family break-ups or emigration .
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