Example sentences of "because [pron] [verb] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I think the first question to ask is , just what is this all about ? |
| 2 | PP : You may be quite right about that , because something intensified the first night nerves , not only because of the artificiality of the occasion . |
| 3 | And erm when Because we went the first day of our holidays , right away , to Deerness to my mother 's people . |
| 4 | If I sounded dubious about The Smiths , it 's because they represented the first threat to us . ’ |
| 5 | I think it should be remembered that that public support actually was against a requirement of one thousand nine hundred dwellings , which is not quite the proposal being put forward by the County at the moment , but it is clear that there seems to me n not to be any public or great strength of public objection to the sort of proposals that are now before you in this enquiry , and it also seems to me that the reasons behind erm that that public support are essentially because it meets the first requirement of paragraph P P G thirty three , that the alternative expansion of existing towns or villages will represent a less satisfactory method of providing land for new housing that is needed , I think that is the essence of the public support , and so first of I think you can say that that 's that means that first criteria , and certainly it seems to meet the second automatically because it an expression of public preference . |
| 6 | Baffling because it is all so new and strange , and exciting because it brings the first hint , the first distant suggestion that for women an independent economic identity is possible . |
| 7 | The birth of Jesus thus came to be regarded as dividing time into two parts , because it ended the first phase of the divine purpose and initiated the second . |