Example sentences of "[prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | UNEMPLOYMENT is poised to top three million for the second time because the quality of jobs created in the late 1980s was poor , according to a report by the Employment Policy Institute . |
| 2 | Okay now at this stage you do n't normally have to ask for volunteers for the first group because it usually sort of role then off they go . |
| 3 | So consequently every time I moved school , moved into different I had to fight me way there for the first week because I hated anyone to call me Ginger you see ? |
| 4 | In times past , I had tried to get across to the continent as much as possible , but now , while other people were going abroad for the first time because of all the cheap travel around , I was ( without intending to be anti-social ) doing exactly the opposite and taking a look around the British Isles . |
| 5 | Hard work by the ground staff enabled play to begin on Friday afternoon , whereupon Richards , leading West Indies for the first time because of Lloyd 's injury , gleefully put England in . |
| 6 | The Great War also caused the appointment , for the first time because of the absence of men in the Forces , of lady teachers to the staff . |
| 7 | Wh when you put people on the patches for the first time because the hormone goes straight into the system , rather than having to go through the gut , |
| 8 | They may feel New York for the first time because its fast-dealing busyness is something the screen does n't catch and may smell it for the first time if they come in high summer but one of the great first sights of the world is gone for ever . |
| 9 | Some black children may have had their first experience of Jamaican Creole from reggae lyrics , while others may have been attracted to Creole for the first time because of the music . |
| 10 | But there is a trick to feeling the need for a tenth rehearsal during the ninth rehearsal because one still hears many things that can become better , because one still knows something to say in the tenth rehearsal . |
| 11 | Additionally , global sea level would be expected to rise by 0.2 to 1.6 metres during the twenty-first century because of the thermal expansion of the seawater with increasing temperature as well as from water being added from the melting of mountain glaciers and polar ice sheets . |
| 12 | It is the Norah Batty syndrome , if I may be sexist , where far from losing a million people off the register as happened during the last census because of the poll tax , in the next census men will be sent to the shed at the bottom of the garden to keep out of the way . |
| 13 | This was well known during the last century because the pioneers used it in their flintlock guns . |
| 14 | Gary dropped out after the second round because of 'flu or something . |
| 15 | The official statistics for this period are not directly comparable with those of the nineteenth century because they represent all cases known to the authorities less those cases which the police believed false . |
| 16 | So , in a case where the seller was to build a yacht for the buyer and they agreed that on payment of the first instalment the vessel and all materials used in its construction should become the absolute property of the buyer , the court held that nevertheless no property passed on payment of the first instalment because at that time the boat 's construction had not commenced and the materials to be used had not yet been identified , McDougall v. Aeromarine of Emsworth Ltd. ( 1958 Q.B. ) . |
| 17 | The ABI wo n't be published as part of the next RoadMap because it is too big — although a snapshot is promised — but it will appear in the same timeframe . |
| 18 | Indeed , apparently traditional flail-threshing barns continued to be built throughout the nineteenth century because of their ability to house the threshing machine as well as the crops . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | So when the master comes back and says to then What have you done with your talents ? one the first servant shouts , Here , here are ten for your one , Here are five for your one , and he 's very cross with the third servant because he said , What 's the purpose of giving me giving you this money if all you 're going to do is hide it in the drawer ? |
| 21 | In Hampstead : Building a Borough , 1650–1964 ( 1974 ) Professor F. M. L. Thompson has shown how the old settlement preserved its isolated character well into the nineteenth century because it lay off the main lines of communication out of the capital . |
| 22 | The Bootle Times wanted us to put them up again for a photograph , and they were left until the next day because it was raining . ’ |
| 23 | I would n't get dressed until the last minute because I thought I would be late and therefore would not have to go to school . |
| 24 | It is easy to see this in the nineteenth century because the development of local government reflected economic organization and the political processes which derived from it . |
| 25 | However , many pieces are unworthy and ungrammatical , and are likely to join the dusty piles of discarded music in vestry cupboards , produced in great quantities in the nineteenth century because of the relative ease of finding publishers . |
| 26 | In P3/T1 we pivoted in the first column because |
| 27 | Ludwigshafen-based BASF AG says its magnetic recording media business was still losing money in the first quarter because pressure on selling prices remained strong ; the chemicals giant , which owns Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH , said that it intends to fight the pressure on its selling prices by continuing to cut its costs and by concentrating on its more profitable sectors . |
| 28 | The company says that while it expected somewhat lower revenue in the first quarter because of seasonal factors and a product transition to R4000-based systems , the revenue decline was principally down to deferrals in customer orders and licensing activity as a result of the announcement of the proposed merger deal . |
| 29 | We also expect marketing margins to be weaker in the first quarter because of the effect on demand of the generally mild weather . |
| 30 | Despite productivity gains and cost savings , margins were much lower than in 1991 , a year which saw exceptional results in the first quarter because of strong product demand and supply disruptions in the Middle East . |