Example sentences of "[num] because [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The manufacture of silk stockings was banned in December nineteen forty because silk was needed for parachutes . |
| 2 | Forty six patients were excluded from the analysis according to protocol , 42 because of incorrect entry requirements ( 15 taking steroids at too high a dose at entry , 21 because symptoms were too mild , and six because disease extent was not established ) . |
| 3 | The conventional view has been that political strife was so intense between 1689 and 1715 because party divisions cut deep into society ; all elements of the population , from the gentry , through to the merchants , professionals , artisanal and trading classes , the small farmers , right down to the " mob " , were caught up in the rage of party . |
| 4 | Opera was rejected in the 60s because modernism found its dependence on human emotions embarrassing and messy , and because it seemed politically inept — a medium housed in monuments to the establishment and inadequate for the expression of political ideologies . |
| 5 | In the company court , the judge held that withholding the sums due caused Magnetics serious damage , but that Mr Nicholas was not entitled to any relief under s 459 because Electronics had not been conducting Magnetics ' affairs within the meaning of the section . |
| 6 | Permanently acid lakes have a pH below 5.6 and alkalinity close to zero because calcium and magnesium have been washed from the system . |
| 7 | A committee was appointed to report on the situation in 1901 because Conference wanted to know how to secure candidates ‘ of higher educational proficiency and others of special promise ’ and they wanted the committee 's views on the ‘ desirability of raising the standard of the examinations for the ministry ’ as well as the possible need to give candidates ‘ a more thorough training … and a more complete equipment ’ . |
| 8 | Five male and six female hypertensives were never treated with antihypertensive drugs — four because pressure fell when a cause was removed ( one was given a renal transplant and three stopped oral contraception ) , four because patients refused , and three because no treatment programme was ever organised ( one of these died of intercurrent disease soon after diagnosis , and the other two both had predominant alcohol problems ) . |
| 9 | His sister and both brothers have identical trust funds this million pound figure has grown to the size , just today around forty million because Prince because the Prince has not touched it in all these years . |