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

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1 The Education Committee evaluated Village school for possible closure because the teacher had reached the age of retirement .
2 I had already heard about this plan because the doctor had discussed it with my father ; but it was apparent that Eric himself was not at all enthusiastic about it .
3 A lawyer for the Society said Mr O'Reilly was guilty of professional misconduct because the cream , which contained the ‘ very potent ’ steroid Closbetason , was a prescription-only product .
4 It was preferred to the objective of monetary union because the failure of the Werner Plan had demonstrated the dangers inherent in setting ambitious goals .
5 The point is of some significance because a duty to balance the interests of present and future members would involve an expansion of the directors ' discretion , in effect , allowing them to justify their actions by reference to the well-being of the enterprise even though they are contrary to the interests of the existing members .
6 The government saw chena cultivation as a threat to the state 's right to forest land , a matter of some importance because the sale of Crown land provided a significant proportion of official revenue in the nineteenth century .
7 We want three hundred people by the end of this year because the business we 've already got just waiting to be done in phenomenal .
8 Its location has been the cause of much dispute because the church was brutally destroyed by the Lancastrian army in their sack of the town in 1461 .
9 Problems of taste can also arise on the selection of music backgrounds for scenes of domestic life because the mood to be reinforced is more personal and it is all too easy to lapse into embarrassing banality .
10 According to Nino Panagia of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore : ‘ This is an achievement of great importance because the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud is an essential step to the calibration of the cosmological distance scale . ’
11 Here , reliability of quality and delivery is of prime importance because the producer works on minimal stock-holding of raw materials .
12 She soon found that they were English and she also felt a certain amount of unexpected dismay because the woman flung her arms around Felipe and kissed him .
13 It was all just a sort of angry joke because the rest of the gang , and Ashton in particular , would n't agree with him about the best way to fill holes in .
14 One case in the mid-1950s prompted a student of British nationalized industries to comment that it was a ‘ particularly flagrant example of ministerial intervention because the Minister overrode the statutory duty of the Transport Commission to pay their way … ’
15 Random diversification allows the reduction of non-market risk because the error terms from the market model 's estimation of each security will tend to cancel each other out and sum to zero because they are uncorrelated .
16 This group of fish was also fully fledged in the Devonian , and this is of particular significance because the origin of all land vertebrates has been considered as lying within a species of this group .
17 ‘ However shallow injection is best suited to getting rid of dirty water because the material has to be liquid enough to flow down narrow tubes . ’
18 We studied only newly diagnosed cases of cervical abnormality because the persistence or recurrence of cervical neoplasia might also be affected by the factors under study .
19 Erm it has been suggested I think Naomi 's saying on this side of the room that if there is an element of bad taste because the baby is chained up or whatever and it 's in er has had to be placed in an undignified or uncomfortable position in order to be photographed and Naomi 's question .
20 The court should use ‘ reasonableness ’ rather than ‘ correctness ’ as the criterion of judicial intervention because the tribunal had acquired expertise and sensitivity to the needs of the particular area .
21 Walsall 's move from Fellows Park to a new £4m stadium has been postponed until the start of next season because the pitch will not be ready in time .
22 They totalled almost £5.7m ( £3m in 1990 ) , including £1.46m from the pre-merger schemes , at the end of last year because the share price soared from 633 to 896p last year .
23 Legacies of past hurts , neglected childhood needs , parental over indulgence and over-concern often set the stage for later stress because the individual is not prepared realistically for handling the events of life .
24 In Price v.Jenkins(1877)5Ch.D. 619 , C.A. ( followed in Johnsey Estates Ltd. v. Lewis & Manley ( Engineering ) Ltd. ( 1987 ) 54 P. & C.R. 296 , it was held that a settlement of leasehold property was a conveyance for valuable consideration because the donee would have to undertake payment of the rent and performance of the covenants .
25 All other methods involve what is known as accelerated depreciation because the depreciation is greater in the early years than the later years .
26 But two things have happened : schools must now be uncertain in comparing themselves with each other because the Education ( Schools ) Act 1992 has created dilemmas about the mediation of inspectors ' and advisers ' reports .
27 Now this idea came under tremendous attack because the Church of Luther 's day thought that he was denying good works and asserting personal experience .
28 Nevertheless , rubber studs did not immediately come into general use because the process of changing them ruined the soles of the boots .
29 He remained by the table , holding the edge of it with one hand because the table was shaking .
30 you could work out any one of those at all any metal with any acid because the metal just comes in pushes the hydrogen out .
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