Example sentences of "[vb pp] out because [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The survey was completed in 1640 and the deer destroyed , but the planned disafforestment and partition was not then carried out because of the outbreak of the Civil War . |
| 2 | Air transport was ruled out because of the danger of crashes on land , which in this case , because of the route , might turn out to be US soil in Alaska . |
| 3 | Employment protection legislation was to be retained , and tax havens were eventually ruled out because of the problems of potential abuse by incoming companies or firms moving some plant into the zones . |
| 4 | Peter Taylor , of the Political Ecology Research Group , has already pointed out the above-average numbers of cases of leukaemia in Barrow , Cumberland and Westmoreland , although he says ; ‘ Any link to the pattern of 1957 fallout can be ruled out because of the very low doses and the nature of the radioactivity . ’ |
| 5 | A direct hit on the Al-Rasheed was ruled out because of the western journalists there . |
| 6 | ‘ Naturally , it was never admitted they 'd been thrown out because of the investigation . |
| 7 | But the party has also lost out because of the salience of race ( which encouraged the white south to defect to the Republicans ) , embourgeoisement of the working class , and the Social Issue ( concern about the rise of the anti-Vietnam war protest movement in the 1970s and the assertiveness and challenges to traditional values by various minority groups ) . |
| 8 | The previous year regular Arts Centre visitors complained they had been kept out because of the festival . |