Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] because " in BNC.

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1 It was also reported that Osborne had considered requesting the dissolution of the Legislative Council halfway through the current term because of his dissatisfaction with the performance of his ministers .
2 ‘ The whole experience has been a lot of fun and the crew have been fantastic , especially in the very beginning because I was nervous for the first few days .
3 They have done so in the first place because of the advantage of high space utilization on limited ground area ; an important asset to companies trying to make the best use of a high value industrial site with no room for extension .
4 In 1889 Schnadhorst 's own candidature in Newcastle under Lyme was approved but he stood down in the following year because of ill health .
5 Despite the linguistic anomaly that the season called ‘ the time of inundation ’ would in due course fall in one of the other seasons , the Egyptians retained the 365-day calendar right down to the Roman period because of its convenience as an automatic record of the passage of time in an era , each year containing the same number of days , unlike our years .
6 The total investment need is there from the beginning but it is split into two phases and in our thinking it is only too easy to look only at the first phase because this almost returns the organisation to profitability , and to ignore the second phase which may be essential .
7 I have not touched on the difficult question of localization here : it is a lively issue where the brain is concerned , but not for the digital computer because , depending on how you interpret its operations , information can be thought of as being anywhere at all in the machine ( i.e. not localized in the sense of being associated with a particular place in it ) , or ( and in some sense conversely ) all operations of the machine can be thought of as going on in one very small and specific place .
8 It is maintained separately from the General Fund because the policy has been , and particularly in recent years , to try to cover operating expenses by rents charged and housing grants .
9 For instance , ash we build up an initial market share with a tyre that does not wear out we move away from the long-term profitability because replacements fall sharply .
10 The ceremony took place a week early during the end-of-term Mass because the pupils will be on their Easter holidays on Maundy Thursday .
11 Emphasis has been more towards the local scale because of the demand for soil maps in relation to agricultural and other land use purposes .
12 My father — who could n't have been described as a saint by anyone — worked on the docks by day , lived in the pub at night and came home in the early morning because it was the only place he could fall asleep without being disturbed .
13 Alan Clements , European sales and marketing director for Seven Seas , believes the market has grown rapidly over the past decade because ‘ people 's perception of health has changed .
14 A minor but telling incident : a big army exercise scheduled for last week in which French soldiers were , for the first time , to do mock battle alongside British troops in West Germany was called off at the last moment because of East Germany 's election .
15 The way I look at it is that if I was scoring goals for Juventus we might be conceding more at the other end because I have other responsibilities now . ’
16 ‘ I got hauled up before the chief psychiatrist because of the champagne that was flowing . ’
17 These pellets should not be used extensively in the domestic market because of the possibility of their producing toxic gases when incompletely burnt .
18 That first foundation was called the Basilica of the Apostles , this being changed later to the Roman Basilica because of its position beside the Porta Romana .
19 Ken and Codron had got together professionally in the first place because of what he called their ‘ Grill and Cheese relationship ’ .
20 Trade had suffered a little in the early morning because entry to Skinnergate from Bondgate was not permitted .
21 She wished she had not put the lamp on in the first place because she was sure he would be able to fathom out how she felt .
22 Gary dropped out after the second round because of 'flu or something .
23 In order to achieve this , they must attain seniority , with the implication that the South does well out of the Federal budget because its members of Congress are more likely , on average , to be reelected and therefore climb the seniority ladder .
24 He was talking about branching out into the ship-in-a-bottle business because Jonathon will make only ships .
25 She 'd stopped riding out with the first lot because of nausea on waking , and Tremayne , far from minding , continually urged her to rest more .
26 C : I think that there 's some hope now with the Labour party because they 've — um — compromised themselves politically so far that they would n't …
27 In response , the USSR Interior and Defence Ministries issued a joint statement on May 4 saying that responsibility for the latest violence lay solely with the Armenian leadership because of its support for paramilitary groups , and threatening to take " all necessary steps " to stop it .
28 This is particularly true if an emission spectrum can be observed : absorption spectra arise mainly from the vibrational ground-state because of the Boltzmann distribution of population , unless the sample is already excited in some other way .
29 but I ca n't understand how they can say that asthma is in , really in the same strain because that 's more like a breathing
30 Now I think it 's a bit rich t to slam the Liberals for walking out on the last debate because the Tories did n't attend the Health Trust Select Committee which Council set up .
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