Example sentences of "because of [pron] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , members of Volga communes were apt to be more outward-looking than those in Kursk guberniia because of their wider market ties and better transport facilities . |
| 2 | And , from a broader perspective , some people fear that the ageing population of the developed nations will , if permitted unlimited access , consume resources in unaffordable quantities and will deny these and other benefits to younger patients whose claims may be stronger , both because of their greater life expectancy and because of their social responsibilities in terms of work and dependants . |
| 3 | During that year , 70 per cent of all supplementary benefit paid to strikers went to post office workers , partly because of their greater knowledge of the workings of the supplementary benefit scheme . |
| 4 | Primarily because of their greater experience of disability , the needs of older women are often greater than those of older men . |
| 5 | Older people are particularly disadvantaged by this situation because of their greater likelihood of disability . |
| 6 | Because of their greater robustness , such probes are mostly used in liquids . |
| 7 | It is primarily the national bureaus , and in particular the military , that are able to exercise wage and factor price discrimination because of their greater monopoly power , use of specialized resources and command of the ‘ public domain , ( e.g. air space , land , and nuclear materials ) . |
| 8 | Both were attractive because of their greater privacy and cheapness . |
| 9 | The older person 's experience of poverty is an enduring one and , because of their greater longevity , the poverty of older women is particularly long-lasting . |
| 10 | It is not just because of their greater autonomy that discretion in both senses is very important to neighbourhood police . |
| 11 | It is true that the new type 23s , because of their greater capability and efficiency , will operate with smaller crews . |
| 12 | I bless you that you are an intellectual girl , like your mother , in an age when such spirits are rare ; in my age , they are less rare , but perhaps no more effectual because of their greater numbers , and because they operate in a world where the male principal has prevailed , even over the mentalities of many of your sex . |
| 13 | In marine sediments and faeces , sulphate reducing bacteria outcompete methanogenic bacteria because of their higher affinity for such substrates . |
| 14 | In teaching , for example , married women were charged with being less efficient than men because of their higher absentee rates caused by pregnancy and by their need to stay at home to look after sick children , the fundamental assumption being that marriage and motherhood were incompatible with a career . |
| 15 | Cuts in social security benefits have important implications for ethnic minorities because of their higher rates of unemployment . |
| 16 | Because of their higher rate of offending , the White Paper placed special emphasis on the treatment of young male offenders between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one . |
| 17 | But the likelihood of this happening is higher among the lower socio-economic groups because of their worse housing conditions , their lower use of post-natal clinics , their heavier family responsibilities , and so on . |
| 18 | Nationality as such played little part in most respondents ' educational life-chances or expectations ; and educational attainment in turn was far more important than nationality as a determinant of occupational position , although Russians did enjoy some advantages in applying for minor bureaucratic positions because of their better knowledge of the language in which most state business was conducted . |
| 19 | Sometimes they will be joined by ‘ mealy ’ redpolls — so called because of their paler plumage — from farther north , or even the more exotic Arctic redpoll with its beautiful ‘ frosted ’ plumage . |
| 20 | Again , because of their lower earnings and more precarious relationship to the labour market , women 's access to this government subsidy and the most attractive occupational schemes is likely to be more restricted than men 's ( see Dulcie Groves ' chapter in this volume ) . |
| 21 | As dispersers in these forests , fish are probably more important than any other animal group , because of their larger biomass and feeding at night , as well as in the day . |
| 22 | By 1860 the steam colliers were in demand because of their larger capacity and reliability . |
| 23 | Olivine typically settles faster than plagioclase because of its greater density contrast with basaltic magma , so a layer of plagioclase is left behind ( Fig.1 ) . |
| 24 | The court did not simply substitute its own view because Congress had assigned the task primarily to the agency which , because of its greater experience , placed it in a better position to resolve the matter than the Court . |
| 25 | Because of its greater exposure to the elements — sun , wind and heat — your facial skin is especially prone to moisture loss . |
| 26 | Strategic planning , because of its greater time horizon , must rely on long term forecasts and is therefore more uncertain . |
| 27 | Now we 've shown that the sloppy approach can be put on a firm footing we shall , because of its greater familiarity , lapse into it ! |
| 28 | Objective assessment with tympanometry shows longer durations because of its greater sensitivity compared with otoscopy ( 7.8 years , 4.9 years , 4.0 years , and 2.8 years , respectively ) . |
| 29 | The conformation of the Holstein is poorer for beef , but because of its greater frame size it seems to be able to produce almost as much meat , though the quality might not be as good . |
| 30 | Because of this , and because of its greater length , it would be more obtrusive in the context than Katherine Mansfield 's sentence , and would attach greater importance to the door-shutting than seems to be required . |