Example sentences of "because of the high " in BNC.

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1 It is important to remember that the linguistic utterances of others are just as much externally observed behaviour as walking down stairs or pressing a button in a psychophysics laboratory although , because of the high information content of linguistic behaviour , we are prone to endow it with some mystical quality which opens a special window on to the mind of the person generating it .
2 They believe that the measurements were possible because of the high quality of the samples prepared by the UCLA scientists .
3 As is pointed in International Rectifier 's note AN-969m power mosfets possess advantages over bipolar transistors for ignition circuits , chiefly because of the high voltages then must withstand when used in place of a conventional mechanical contact breaker .
4 However , Ancient Society also differed from earlier work because of the high quality of the scholarly work on which it was based , because of the sympathy of the writer for primitives , and because it not only defined stages but in many cases suggested mechanisms which explained why one stage should change to another .
5 THE Tottenham Hotspur board confirmed yesterday that Terry Venables does not have a large budget for new players because of the high cost of bringing the ground up to the latest safety standards .
6 THE Tottenham Hotspur board confirmed yesterday that Terry Venables does not have a large budget for new players because of the high cost of bringing the ground up to the latest safety standards .
7 But he said he wished Mr Ridley had made clear that the strong argument for conservation was only over-ridden because of ‘ a combination of wholly exceptionable circumstances ’ , and that the case was ‘ unique ’ because of the high standard of the proposed scheme .
8 This is partly because we need to understand and classify the vast amounts of pottery recovered from excavations at archaeological sites , and partly because of the high success rate of such analytical projects .
9 SHe 'd heard about how gender meddling had been outlawed because of the high suicide rate among the successfully mutated .
10 Both tweed and knitwear find it difficult to compete with production in the lowlands of Scotland , because of the high transport costs from the Western Isles .
11 Because of the high unemployment and history of redundancies in Teesside , they viewed the farm as a valuable asset and possible alternative employment , but whilst they are in work the farm assumes much less significance .
12 Because of the high costs of land improvement ( Table 6 ) which can be exacerbated by problems of access and slope and the short-term cash flow consequences of capital expenditure ( 9 ) the area of improved pasture must be relatively small .
13 This means that because of the high initial sensitivity of most organisms to ciprofloxacin , the risk of mutation may be considered to be relatively low .
14 Contrast this with the words of a House of Lords Select Committee considering exactly the same problem : ‘ because of the high proportion [ of homes with polluted tapwater ] and the long-standing nature of the problem , the Committee believe that the two years for compliance with the Directive is wholly unrealistic . ’
15 You raise the possibility of a continuous loop presentation video : the idea is not a new one but has been put aside for the moment because of the high costs involved in making such an item .
16 In laser surgery , CO 2 lasers ( wavelength 10.6 ) are widely used because of the high absorption in water , and therefore in any soft tissue .
17 This problem , also experienced to some extent in Nicaragua , has been particularly acute in Mozambique because of the high levels of illiteracy and shortages of skilled people at all levels , and the legacy of a highly authoritarian colonial school system .
18 There is also much criticism of the FC because of the high degree of autonomy that it enjoys and its legally-enforceable powers that allow for the compulsory purchase of land .
19 Councils such as Camden , Lambeth , Islington and Edinburgh , among others , were felt to be able to fund ‘ excessive ’ spending simply because of the high rateable values of commercial and office property within them .
20 After the second World War in Europe , adult females outnumbered adult males , because of the high combat mortality among men .
21 But Daedalus remembers that microwave heating acts specifically on the water in a sample ( because of the high dielectric-loss factor of water ) .
22 From their point of view living in physical isolation in a rural district is by no means a problem , not only because of the high level of local car ownership , but because they , unlike the planners , do not confuse the idea of social cohesion with the notion of geographical proximity .
23 Because of the high incidence of salmonella enteriditis , a strain which resides in chickens , a link has been made between poultry farming methods and food poisoning .
24 Because of the high frequency of operation , there can be considerable r.f. radiation from this part of the circuit and for that reason those components involved , shown in the broken lines on the circuit diagram , are screened under a diecast aluminium box which eliminates most of the RF1 ( radio frequency interference ) .
25 In this case words alone are enough to indicate meaning because of the high degree of contextual determinacy .
26 These systems worked well but were very difficult to justify because of the high cost of the equipment and low value of the savings ( being mostly space savings from removing filing cabinets ) .
27 Gold allowed the easy storage of wealth because of the high ratio of value to bulk , and its being minted by royal and ecclesiastical courts may reflect the need to administer justice , maintain officials and finance commerce , and goes hand-in-hand with the development of written law and taxation ; in the oldest Kentish laws , fines were listed in gold ‘ shillings ’ and in silver .
28 Because of the high cost of providing and gathering this information , Climbline would not exist were it not a premium rate service .
29 Pangaea at the end of the Palaeozoic must have experienced a climate of extreme continentality , not only because of its coherence ( Valentine & Moores , 1972 ) but because of the high albedo of extensive low-latitude deserts ( Barron et al . ,
30 However , I was not allowed to fly the aircraft because of the high cost and lack of availability of aircraft for mere civil servants when BOAC had their own pilots to train .
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