Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] because of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emulex Corp , Costa Mesa , California will be taking a charge against its third quarter figures for the period to March 28 that could result in a loss for the period : operating profit will be lower than the $2.6m reported in the second quarter because of lower revenues in the Network Systems Division ; the unspecified restructuring charge stems both from costs associated with the further consolidation of manufacturing operations to Puerto Rico from Costa Mesa , and from some lay-offs in the sales administration sector ; the charge will be less than $1.0m . |
| 2 | In what other sports is a participant allowed a second chance because of failure ? |
| 3 | Gary dropped out after the second round because of 'flu or something . |
| 4 | One group II patient refused his morning medication ( bismuth subsalicylate , metronidazole , tetracycline ) in the second week because of disturbing fatigue . |
| 5 | Molla Fenari was , apparently , in the second class because of his youth . |
| 6 | We have n't got enough Nice to get some work started on the eighth floor because of the different activities But then again with the activities that are carrying on on the seventh floor we ca n't By the time we get round to the ninth pretty desperate . |
| 7 | I dropped out of sixth form because of a young Frenchman with green eyes . |
| 8 | The trip to Gdynia , Poland to me was a remarkable one by the Eighth Airforce because of the distance involved and the location of the target that was hit in the daytime . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They had invested in junk in the first place because of government policy , accounting for 7% of bonds outstanding at the end of 1988 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They have done so in the first place because of the advantage of high space utilization on limited ground area ; an important asset to companies trying to make the best use of a high value industrial site with no room for extension . |
| 13 | Ken and Codron had got together professionally in the first place because of what he called their ‘ Grill and Cheese relationship ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We also expect marketing margins to be weaker in the first quarter because of the effect on demand of the generally mild weather . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Goldsmiths summoned him to London , but did not refer to his local supporters , appointing him on 7th August because of his excellent testimonials from the Master and Fellows of Christ 's College , Cambridge , where he had been a student . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 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 | Some of the most intractable problems in Scottish geology relate to the structural and metamorphic history of the Moine Series rocks of the North West and Grampian Highlands , the ages of which have been matters of controversy and speculation since the early nineteenth century because of their structural complexity , and the lack of incontrovertible and unequivocal evidence of their absolute age , and it is noteworthy that research in these areas has been led by Geological Survey scientists , sometimes with university collaboration , and sometimes without . |
| 27 | Suppose that I believe that there is a sheep in the next field because of what I see . |
| 28 | It was after you decided that we 'd have to cancel our bookings for Venice next March because of the exchange rate . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Like Racine , he creates a terrible sense of the screw turning tighter with every scene — you end up positively dreading the next entrance because of the terrible things you know the characters are going to say . |