Example sentences of "[num] [subord] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Myers has estimated that by the end of the century , at present rates , there will be only two relict blocks : western Brazilian Amazonia and Zaire , with smaller ones in New Guinea and the Guyana Shield of South America , but that these are unlikely to last beyond 2050 because of cultivation as , for example , the population in Rondonia in south Brazilian Amazonia increased from 1100 in 1975 to well over a million by 1986 , with an increase in cultivation from 1250km 2 to 10000 in 1982 and 17000 in 1986 . |
| 2 | The FAO expects at least 10 million hectares a year to be cleared between now and 2050 because of population pressures . |
| 3 | The Durham Junior Golf Society Spring meeting at Crook tomorrow has been postponed until May 30 because of snow . |
| 4 | Of the 80 women concerned , 28 stopped because of sterilisation , 12 because of headache , seven because of weight gain , five because they were anxious about side effects , four because of their age , four because they were planning pregnancy , and the remaining 20 for a variety of reasons . |
| 5 | Comparison of relative changes in SaO 2 by Wilcoxon 's rank-sum test showed the oxygen treated group to have significantly higher ( p<0.01 ) SaO 2 readings at all times until the total number of patients fell to less than 10 because of procedure completion ( Figure ) . |
| 6 | Indeed , in the case of the imitations of Anglo-Saxon coins , provenance has indicated that some groups , previously attributed to the mint at Dublin under Sihtric III because of die links with coins bearing these names , were in fact made in Scandinavia , and that the coins of Sihtric were themselves also imitations . |
| 7 | If one of them succumbed to the temptation to defect , it would very probably end up with fewer points than 600 because of retaliation by the other player ( most of the submitted strategies had some kind of retaliatory behaviour built into them ) . |
| 8 | If one of them succumbed to the temptation to defect , it would very probably end up with fewer points than 600 because of retaliation by the other player ( most of the submitted strategies had some kind of retaliatory behaviour built into them ) . |
| 9 | A proposed merger between PolyGram and WEA was abandoned in late 1984 because of opposition from the anti-monopoly bodies of the American and German governments . |
| 10 | Er but in our London office , apparently they do a lot of inheritance tax planning because of the size of estates , and they actually invite the children in , and say to the children look , you know , if erm you die , the estate will be devalued by forty thousand because of tax , er if you want to make provision the , the er the contract is still written on the erm , the erm individuals ' lives , but it can then be erm paid by the children , so your children can then pay the premiums . |
| 11 | On Aug. 30 Canada resumed shipments of wheat to Russia which had been interrupted from Aug. 18 because of payment arrears . |
| 12 | The decision by World Cup winning Wallaby captain Nick Farr-Jones to step down from representative rugby in 1992 because of family and business reasons introduces the question : ‘ Who will take over the leadership reins ’ ? |
| 13 | According to the NAO , in one division conservation work had slipped to an almost negligible level in 1989/90 because of pressure of work , a high level of vacancies and lack of expertise . |
| 14 | ‘ In one division in midlands and western region , conservation work had slipped to an almost negligible level in 1989/90 because of pressure of work , a high level of vacancies and lack of expertise , ’ says the report . |
| 15 | There was talk of India soon becoming a grain exporter and she discontinued PL480 shipments in 1971 because of shortage of storage capacity . |
| 16 | West Germany abandoned plans for a similar scheme in 1980 because of lack of cash . |
| 17 | They were drastically reduced in 1985–86 because of overtime cuts forced upon the police by the local police authority as one of the ways of responding to the budgetary impact of rate capping . |
| 18 | Since , because of the right hon. Gentleman 's policies , the building societies stand to lose £1 billion because of mortgage repossessions and since local authorities are having to spend £500 million on bed-and-breakfast and temporary accommodation , does not the Prime Minister think that the rescue mortgage scheme that we have promoted would be the effective way to ensure not only the relief of misery for scores of thousands of families , but that at least he did the honourable thing by his victims ? |
| 19 | Was it , was the s t one because of printing . |
| 20 | The second term , combined with two similar terms in is zero because of equilibrium . |
| 21 | WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT ! he 's liable to lose half his teeth by the time he 's 40 because of Mouth Acid |
| 22 | The American , playing his first serious match since April 9 because of tendonitis in his right wrist , lost 5–7 6–2 6–1 to German Carl-Uwe Steeb in the first round . |
| 23 | Armenia 's nuclear power station was closed in February 1989 because of earthquake fears , while construction of nuclear plants in Krasnodar and the Crimea had been terminated for the same reason , after popular protests and construction of several reactors of the Chernobyl type had also been halted . |
| 24 | For advanced economies , substantial changes had occurred over the latter half of the 1960s because of loss of comparative advantage in what had become basic technologies which could be mastered by low-income countries , together with changes in the nature of world demand and direct and indirect forms of trade barriers erected to protect domestic industry . |
| 25 | Reiner Gohlke , executive president of the Treuhandanstalt ( trustee agency ) which had responsibility for overseeing the restructuring of the state-owned businesses in East Germany , resigned on Aug. 20 because of policy disagreements with other members of the governing board [ see p. 37536 for his appointment where his post is wrongly given as chair ] . |
| 26 | Thirty one patients withdrew during the trial : four because of adverse events ( one receiving fluticasone propionate , three receiving prednisolone ) , 24 because of lack of improvement ( 12 in each group ) , one receiving fluticasone propionate because of poor compliance , one who did not complete the trial , and another because of a positive pregnancy test ( both receiving prednisolone ) . |
| 27 | Of the 80 women concerned , 28 stopped because of sterilisation , 12 because of headache , seven because of weight gain , five because they were anxious about side effects , four because of their age , four because they were planning pregnancy , and the remaining 20 for a variety of reasons . |