Example sentences of "because [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He managed to stay off alcohol because for the first time for a very long time he was truly afraid . |
| 2 | As the head snuggled into her and the thin arm came round her waist , Aggie drew in a long tight breath ; then when her own arm automatically went around the child , she closed her eyes tightly , because for the first time in her life she was feeling flesh close to her own . |
| 3 | In 1965 the clash was more marked because for the first time the EEC was seriously attempting to inaugurate a common policy . |
| 4 | ‘ Neither does anyone else , but of course Graham 's furious now that he 's started winning , because for the first time for years he could have set up some good contracts — and not least collected some commission on the bonuses paid by Hi-Flight . ’ |
| 5 | But the testing time has now arrived ; because for the first time posts of leadership in humanities departments are being taken up by a generation of scholars who have been familiar with the computer from their earliest schooldays , scholars who are neither frightened by , nor over-respectful of , the new powers which the computer has brought . |
| 6 | Bush said that although " there are some things in it I had to gag and digest " , he would sign it " because for the first time it makes significant and long-term cuts in federal spending that should have a positive impact on America 's economic future " . |
| 7 | They were , nevertheless , dramatic or rather traumatic , because for the first time they came into deliberate and militant confrontation with the forces of tradition , conservatism and especially religion . |
| 8 | We travelled back and forth between England and India until I was seven when , because of the First World War , we did not leave India for five idyllic years from 1915 . |
| 9 | Children are likely to be brought into contact with , and dependence on , a large number of ‘ step ’ relatives because of the first mechanism . |
| 10 | Between 1912 and 1930 their most successful period was 1914–18 when all football was suspended because of the First World War . |
| 11 | His appeal to the Supreme Court that the Smith Act was unconstitutional because of the First Amendment was rejected . |
| 12 | A rearranged game with Grimsby for February 25 has been postponed again because of the first leg . |
| 13 | But we need to get our moral thinking clear on this matter all the more because in the first stages of unbridled conflict both sides seem to be suggesting that there really was no moral problem at all because the principle that they were obsessed with was the only one that mattered . |
| 14 | I remember these houses well , because in the first lived two school-friends , Ron and Reg Bruton . |
| 15 | Two are more difficult , because in the first the jurist uses the substantive legatum , which it is much less easy to take to refer to a trust ; and in the second what is involved is a legacy per praeceptionem . |
| 16 | Because in the first and second and in the third year we had very good staff who took a pride in the school . |
| 17 | It would be very carefully calculated and they 'd be given the right amount of the proteins that they could use to grow , because in the first years of life there 's very rapid growth and development is n't there ? |
| 18 | This is because in the first case the interest earned at the end of the first month can be reinvested in the second month ; in the second case , the whole interest does not accrue until the end of the second month and so is not available for reinvestment until then . |
| 19 | We walked no further on the trackbed itself , because on the first walk the owner of the land here had gently but firmly expressed the view that his fences might suffer if climbed over . |