Example sentences of "because of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bilal and Samir returned home to Lebanon , but doctors feared there would be a setback in their recovery because of conditions in the Bourj al Barajneh refugee camps and the lack of medical facilities there . |
| 2 | The year 1988 was another difficult one for OPEC , not only due to problems over quotas but also because of signs of a possible sequel to 1986 . |
| 3 | And yet the various integrationist movements , brash or hesitant , in the 1940s looked to Britain for leadership , and clung to the hope that Britain would be absorbed , not least because of concerns over security . |
| 4 | Attention has been given to predicting admission to long-term care because of concerns about the processes and mechanisms by which places are allocated . |
| 5 | However , the Associated Press news agency reported on Feb. 8 that the package could be held up in the European Parliament , due to opposition from the socialist group because of concerns about Syria 's human rights record . |
| 6 | However , because of concerns about the long-term efficacy and safety of class I drugs in patients with advanced and progressive structural heart disease , we no longer use these agents alone in cardiac arrest survivors in the absence of an ICD . |
| 7 | It was agreed in principle by the 16 NATO and seven Warsaw Pact countries at a conference in Ottawa , Canada , in February 1990 [ see pp. 37259-60 ] but then stalled because of concerns by the Soviet Union and its disintegration . |
| 8 | We do not demand a ban on all sterilisation just because some women are forced to be sterilised , we do not even attack the whole concept of a well are state just because of abuses like the cohabitation rule , so why oppose pay for childcare solely because it might be abused ? |
| 9 | For the previous few years the soap factory had been losing business because of imports of synthetic detergents , mainly through Lever Bros , the local branch of Unilever . |
| 10 | This situation is similar to Figure 2.2 , i.e. a UK monopolist constrained to the price P1 because of imports from Germany . |
| 11 | Investment banking had been legally separated from commercial banking since the 1930s ; and in the 1960s and 1970s firms ceased to want bankers of either sort on their boards , because of conflicts of interest . |
| 12 | They believe their children have asthma because of emissions from the two plants . |
| 13 | There was general agreement , said Sir John , that the average temperature of the earth 's surface — as predicted by computer models — would increase by 0.3C per decade because of emissions from industry and transport , coupled with the effects of deforestation and intensive agricultural practice . |
| 14 | The switch to a more deliberate emphasis on the way in which all the inhabitants of an area depend upon one another came about at least in part because of developments in social evolutionism . |
| 15 | Because of developments in computer technology , minicomputers are now able to do what mainframes did 10-15 years ago . |
| 16 | Yet our present line of argument shows that there is another possibility that , because of failures in individual and superego development , such conflicts will no longer be confined within the personality , but may break out between it and the outside world . |
| 17 | Three previous attempts by Scargill to get a strike declared ( in 1981 , 1982 and 1983 ) failed because of splits within the union . |
| 18 | England 's narrow loss in West Indies happened only because of injuries to Gooch and Fraser and rain in the Trinidad Test . |
| 19 | The number density of ions in the torus varies , presumably because of variations in the volcanic activity of Io . |
| 20 | As a whole , argyrophil cell densities were smaller in 1989 than three years earlier , which may be a true time-related change in pernicious anaemia patients or a methodological failure caused by different staining intensities in different years and because of variations in the counting procedure of the cells in spite of the presence of the same observer . |
| 21 | That is not just because inflation is raging less fiercely than it was in the early 1980s , but also because of improvements in the way the labour market works . |
| 22 | Moreover all tactical systems were , in the eighteenth century , becoming more effective simply because of improvements in discipline and the increasingly effective training to which the ordinary soldier was now subjected . |
| 23 | Fares were low , not only because passengers from the lower orders were not believed to require or deserve much better accommodation than cattle and fortunately needed less space , or even because of improvements in communications , but for economic reasons . |
| 24 | However , while preparing for its first congress , a split occurred because of disagreements over private ownership of the means of production and land . |
| 25 | The UK Ministry of Defence ( MOD ) announced on Sept. 19 , 1989 , that , because of disagreements over specifications and delays in expected delivery dates , the UK was withdrawing from the NATO Frigate Replacement for the 1990s ( NFR90 ) project . |
| 26 | The delay was partly because of disagreements over the allocation of contracts for the construction of 36,000 apartments for returning soldiers at a cost to Germany of DM7,800 million . |
| 27 | Negotiations between Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union which ended on Nov. 16 were unsuccessful , reportedly because of disagreements on a rate for turning Czechoslovakia 's trade surplus with the Soviet Union into convertible currency . |
| 28 | He later resigned as master because of disagreements with the fellows . |
| 29 | Because of difficulties with his squad getting time off work , Kelly fears he could be without as many as five players . |
| 30 | Some of these dogs will be strays , abandoned by their owners because of difficulties with them in the home . |