Example sentences of "[prep] [num] because [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The IMF had frozen co-operation with Poland during 1991 because the government had exceeded the agreed limits on inflation and the budget deficit [ see p . |
| 2 | It has lost up to $3 billion of oil revenues in the first quarter of 1989 because a barrel of Dubai crude , the Middle-Eastern benchmark , now fetches $2.50-3.00 less than North Sea Brent — double the differential of a year ago . |
| 3 | There were power cuts over the winter of 1947 because the industry could n't cope with the demand . |
| 4 | Furthermore this number underestimates the number of external programmes which were expected to be attended during 1984/5 because a number of authorities ( 16 in our sample ) were not able to indicate or estimate this , in the spring of 1984 : |
| 5 | He and the others got six months ' hard labour — the repression in 1835 was much gentler than in 1830 because the problem was so limited . |
| 6 | Soldiers wiped out a village in south Sumatra 's Lampung province in 1989 because a zealot was thought to be preaching fundamentalism ( it has emerged he was just griping about land ownership ) . |
| 7 | A Scottish Bill was introduced in 1986-87 because the Government panicked about local authority finance for Scotland . |
| 8 | In January 1326 Reynolds recorded that he had not convened a council of prelates and clergy since 1323 because the king had expressed his wish that none should meet without his consent , even though by canon law provincial synods should take place annually . |
| 9 | I pick out Moran at 36 because the defence underpins Blackburn 's challenge . |
| 10 | The view that the East Ropery Banks site might be considered for ‘ high value ’ housing in order to provide potential consumers for the shopping centre had first been expressed in the Poulson Report of 1965 , but it had greater saliency by 1971 because the authority was already dealing with its second property company ( Town and City ) and it was clear that market conditions made the redevelopment of North Shields centre a highly marginal project . |