Example sentences of "[adj] [num] because [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And Carl has decided not to play in the Top 12 because of a commitment with his German League team . |
| 2 | The school is described in detail in Organizing Resources , and was very influential in the early 19705 because of its thorough-going use of existing resources : staff , equipment , space , finances and enthusiasm . |
| 3 | Rift systems have been studied for many decades but have received renewed attention since the early 1970s because of their association with crustal upwarps and their role in continental rupture . |
| 4 | It has survived from the early 1930s because of its craggy independence , its non-institutional base , its ability to adapt to new social movements thrown up by the working-class and oppressed groups and , most important , its radical philosophy and perspective . |
| 5 | Nevertheless the Phillips curve had a siren appeal in the later 1950s and early 1960s because of the ease with which it could be translated into part of aggregate demand management . |
| 6 | Doubts concerning Gates 's role in the affair were sufficiently strong , however , that in 1987 he had withdrawn his name after being nominated as CIA director ( having served as acting director from late 1986 because of William Casey 's incapacitation through illness ) , in view of doubts about his likely confirmation [ see p. 35187 ] . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the medium shows promise for disposal of polychlorinated biphenyls ( PCBs ) , whose use has been restricted since the late 1970s because of their high toxicity . |
| 9 | Promoted thereafter as a source of cheap and clean energy , neither of which has actually been realised some 40 years on , nuclear power is a source of considerable debate in the late 1980s because of its annihilation potential in the case of warfare and the problems that characterise waste disposal from nuclear power plants ( section 5.4.3 ) . |
| 10 | The weapon has a strength of 4 , a range of 40″ and an armour save modifier of -2 instead of the usual -1 because of the power of gunpowder weapons . |