Because of traditionally close links with the U. S. Virgin Islands, the British Virgin Islands has used the US dollar as its currency since 1959.

Because of his widespread correspondence with others throughout the British Isles, and due to the fact that many of the letters imply that Bede had met his correspondents, it is likely that Bede travelled to some other places, although nothing further about timing or locations can be guessed.

Because of continued pressure on space the decision was taken to move natural history to a new building in South Kensington, which would later become the British Museum of Natural History.

Because the British promised slaves of rebels freedom for fighting with them, escaped slaves flocked north to join their lines.

Because of the resemblance to Damascus steel, higher-end barrels were made by Belgian and British gun makers.

Because of his strategy, Revolutionary forces captured two major British armies at Saratoga in 1777 and Yorktown in 1781.

Because of the use of Vaterland in German war propaganda, the term " Fatherland " in English has become associated with domestic British and American anti-Nazi propaganda during World War II.

" Because of Moseley's death in World War I, the British government instituted a policy of no longer allowing its prominent and promising scientists to enlist for combat duty in the armed forces of the Crown.

Because the loss of property and life in the 1831 rebellion, the British Parliament held two inquiries.

Because rising tensions with the British resulted in President Jefferson's embargo of British trade, Audubon's business was not thriving.

Because of the Balkans were rich in raw materials like iron, zinc and above all oil that could help Germany survive a British blockade, it was viewed as highly important by the Allies to keep German influence in the Balkans to a minimum, hence British efforts to link British promises to support Turkey in the event of an Italian attack in exchange for Turkish promises to help defend Romania from a German attack.

Because of its successful history, Liverpool is often featured when football is depicted in British culture and has appeared in a number of media firsts.

Because British company law requires no split in the boards of directors, unions would have directly elected the management of the company.

Because there were usually few British regulars garrisoned in North America, colonial militia served a vital role in local conflicts, particularly in the French and Indian Wars.

Because of its location, it became the site of military facilities used first by the British and then by the United States, following an access agreement signed in 1980 by the United States and Oman.

Because most of the engineering skill of British Rail had been sold off into the maintenance and renewal companies, Railtrack had no idea how many Hatfields were waiting to happen, nor did they have any way of assessing the consequence of the speed restrictions they were ordering-restrictions that brought the railway network to all but a standstill.

Because of their endearing ( if quirky ) personalities and widespread popularity, the characters have been described as positive international icons of both modern British culture in particular and the British people in general.

Because there are no accounts of the custom in Great Britain prior to the 17th century, some historians and folklorists have theorised that it was not an ancient British custom but was in fact imported into Britain from continental Europe in the early modern period, possibly from Flanders in Belgium, where the tradition thrived in this period.

Because of this, all British North America Acts dated before 1949 were passed by the British Parliament, while some of those dated after 1949 were passed by the Canadian Parliament.

Because of his mastery of march composition, he is known as " The March King " or the " American March King " due to his British counterpart Kenneth J. Alford also being known as " The March King ".

Because the Meiji government could not sufficiently cope with Russians moving to south Sakhalin, Japan negotiated with Russia over control of the Kuril Islands, resulting in the Treaty of Saint Petersburg that ceded the eighteen islands north of Uruppu to Japan and all of Sakhalin to Russia.

Because William III died without legitimate children, the principality was regarded as having been inherited by his closest cognate relative on the basis of the testament of Frederic-Henry, Frederick I of Prussia, who ceded the principality — at least the lands, but not the formal title — to France in 1713.

Because of their strategic position near the Dardanelles, the western powers, particularly Britain, insisted at the end of the Balkan Wars in 1913 that the island should be retained by the Ottoman Empire when the other Aegean islands were ceded to Greece.

Because the British ceded the entire Northwest Territory to the United States in the 1783 Treaty of Paris, some historians have credited Clark with nearly doubling the size of the original Thirteen Colonies by seizing control of the Illinois country during the war.

Because the British ceded the entire Northwest Territory to the United States in the 1783 Treaty of Paris, Clark has often been hailed as the " Conqueror of the Old Northwest.

Because it could not readily raise this sum, it ceded Kashmir, Hazarah and all the forts, territories, rights and interests in the hill countries situated between the Rivers Beas and Indus to the East India Company, as equivalent for one crore of rupees.

Because the vast majority of the evacuees who had to settle in the rest of Finland were from ceded Karelia, the question was labeled The Karelian Question.

Because the Netherlands had ceded from Spain over both political and religious issues, it practiced certain forms of tolerance towards people of certain other religions and opened its borders for religious dissenters ( Protestants and Jews ) from elsewhere, while maintaining its persecution and later discrimination against native Catholics.

Because anthropology developed from so many different enterprises ( see History of Anthropology ), including but not limited to fossil-hunting, exploring, documentary film-making, paleontology, primatology, antiquity dealings and curatorship, philology, etymology, genetics, regional analysis, ethnology, history, philosophy, and religious studies, it is difficult to characterize the entire field in a brief article, although attempts to write histories of the entire field have been made.

Because the percentage of each constituent can be varied, with any mixture the entire range of possible variations is called a system.

Because this protein gp120 is necessary for HIV to attach, it does not change across different strains and is a point of vulnerability across the entire range of the HIV variant population.

Because of the increasing costs of food imports to avoid mass-starvation in Germany, and with the danger of losing the entire nation to communism, the U. S. government abandoned the Morgenthau plan in September 1946 with Secretary of State James F. Byrnes ' speech Restatement of Policy on Germany.

Because of vowel harmony, all vowels in a word are affected, so the scope of the diacritic is the entire word.

Because of this time working closely and collaborating – a period that is normally far longer, and far more intimately involved, than the entire production and filming – most directors and editors form a unique artistic bond.

Because of differences in molecular structure, the empirical formula remains different between hydrocarbons ; in linear, or " straight-run " alkanes, alkenes and alkynes, the amount of bonded hydrogen lessens in alkenes and alkynes due to the " self-bonding " or catenation of carbon preventing entire saturation of the hydrocarbon by the formation of double or triple bonds.

Because the entire bolt remains in the finished garment without cutting, the kimono can be retailored easily to fit a different person.

Because Luthor now sees Superboy as a failed experiment of using the " wrong alien DNA ," he and Brainiac create another binary clone with their own genetics for another plan against the entire House of El.

Because it is a biological scavenger ( and universal target ) it is currently the only therapeutic agent effective in providing complete stoichiometric protection against the entire spectrum of organo-phosphorus nerve agents.

Because of the size of Olympus Mons and its shallow slopes, an observer standing on the Martian surface would be unable to view the entire profile of the volcano, even from a great distance.

Because of this, Lisp ( see below ) and related programming languages define their entire syntax in terms of prefix notation ( and others use postfix notation ).

Because it is molded rather than carved, clay may make up the entire pipe or just the bowl, but most other materials have stems made separately and detachable.

Because of this, the entire run was later published in one large paperback edition entitled ' The Complete Paradise Too '.

Because of the population's small size, environmental hazards, such as drought, are capable of affecting the entire species.

Because of its power, the seismographs in the city of Valdivia are overloaded and malfunction through the entire earthquake.

Because the raids targeted entire organizations, agents arrested everyone found in organization meeting halls, not only arresting non-radical organization members but also visitors who did not belong to a target organization, and sometimes American citizens not eligible for arrest and deportation.

Because French universities are technically institutions for training secondary school teachers, this position gave Durkheim considerable influence — his lectures were the only ones that were mandatory for the entire student body.

Because this is a plane wave, each blue vector, indicating the perpendicular displacement from a point on the axis out to the sine wave, represents the magnitude and direction of the electric field for an entire plane that is perpendicular to the axis.

Because they are driven over the entire membrane surface rather than from a small voice coil, they ordinarily provide a more linear and lower distortion motion than dynamic drivers.

Because the modern musical tends to be published in two separate but intersecting formats ( i. e., the book and lyrics, with all the words, and the piano-vocal score, with all the musical material, including some spoken cues ), both are needed in order to make a thorough reading of an entire show.

Because some levels do not have these devices, dying results in having to complete the entire level again.

Because of this, entire fields of 28 drivers are at times separated by just one second over qualifying laps at some events.

Because of its power to reveal the previously hidden diversity of microscopic life, metagenomics offers a powerful lens for viewing the microbial world that has the potential to revolutionize understanding of the entire living world.