Example sentences of "the first [noun sg] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | In P3/T1 we pivoted in the first column because |
| 2 | I know people imagined I was much older than I was when they saw the first film because some newspapers referred to me as ‘ the Old Lady of the Dales ’ . |
| 3 | Even the Government President of Upper Bavaria felt compelled to admit that the relief about Hitler 's survival was not unanimous , but that ‘ part of the population would have welcomed the success of the assassination attempt in the first instance because they would have hoped for an earlier end to the war from it ’ . |
| 4 | Childebert survived in the first instance because of the loyalty of his father 's followers , and later because of the intervention of his uncle Guntram . |
| 5 | Oxford Crown Court was told that Cannon , who 's from Bristol , struck the first blow because he thought he was about to be attacked . |
| 6 | 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. ) . |
| 7 | The second possibility that Nikolaev committed the murder under the guidance of the NKVD seems to be more likely that the first possibility because so many people seem to have conveniently neglected their duties but I still think that it is not the most likely . |
| 8 | it was very clever , I watched the first couple because people who like Harry Enfield 's comic characters switched on , just to see what he was like and before you knew it you were twenty minutes into a half hour programme and you stuck with it to the end . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We also expect marketing margins to be weaker in the first quarter because of the effect on demand of the generally mild weather . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He had not got a result on the first case because he had not been sharp enough . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Local Stigmatic is about two Cockney thugs who beat up an actor in the pub because ‘ fame is the first disgrace because God knows who you are . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 , |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The first time because he had allowed himself to be called away in the middle of things and had n't been able to supervise the men properly . |
| 23 | Tonight , social services said nothing was done the first time because nobody believed the complaints . |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | If there is a problem with an employee 's attendance , counselling is the first option because it is more expensive to sack someone , particularly at the professional level , and have to go out and recruit a new employee . ’ |
| 26 | They had invested in junk in the first place because of government policy , accounting for 7% of bonds outstanding at the end of 1988 . |
| 27 | He suggested that in early spatial searches for sites ‘ only a small number were ever identified in the first place because rigorous searches could not be performed by manual means with poor quality data ’ ( Openshaw 1980 : 289 ) . |
| 28 | Sylvia 's problem had arisen in the first place because of the negative situation imprinted on her subconscious memory when her mother lay unconscious in the darkness of the air raid shelter . |
| 29 | But Forest , who only let Walker go in the first place because he had a release clause in his contract , will also be in the hunt . |
| 30 | No , I mean , strangely enough that was one of the things that almost put me off the relationship in the first place because I 'd never had any desire to be a mother . |