Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun] because [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the basis of 1 Chronicles 21 , where it is recorded that David incurred divine displeasure because he ordered a national census , some Christian leaders refuse to gather statistics of their membership . |
| 2 | ‘ I approached Social Services because I thought the child might be in danger , ’ said the 35-year-old woman . |
| 3 | It was decisive and at times attracted public support because she seemed to be taking action which the public overwhelmingly thought was right but never thought any government would have the nerve to carry out . |
| 4 | The incident first attracted national attention because it involved the Kennedy family , a subject which tended to elicit fiercely polarized views . |
| 5 | There was intention to create legal relations because they wanted to tell Violet about it immediately and two of the cousins did so with the support of the others . |
| 6 | Those studies which concentrated on local-central relations ignored local politics because they saw local authorities as mere receptacles for central policy . |
| 7 | To Salmon he said he admired tribal sculptures because he found them ‘ raisonnables ’ . |
| 8 | Two groups of patients were studied : one who had had coronary angiography because they had been given thrombolytic therapy for coronary disease , and another who had had coronary angiography due to chronic stable angina ( Figure 3 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Gurus who offer universal prescriptions — raise quality , go global — are exact analogues of pre-scientific doctors who peddled all-purpose remedies because they knew no better . ’ |
| 10 | From the carrier 's standpoint , these as well as any other clauses or notations that indicated apparent irregularities made legal sense because they protected it from the allegation that the goods had been delivered in a sound condition and could have been damaged only because of improper loading , stowing , or care . |
| 11 | Her life-long friend , Catherine Quinn , 23 , escaped serious injury because she had bent down to pick up a 20p piece , and she was flung over hand railings . |
| 12 | I enjoyed Prime Minister because I found it much the most relaxed of the offices I held . |
| 13 | They used to be called blue-green algae because they appeared to be close relatives of the green algae that are common in ponds , but now that their very primitive character is recognised , they are referred to as cyanophytes or simply , blue-greens . |
| 14 | Years ago I used to do isometric exercises because they did n't make me puff and they seemed easy . |
| 15 | Weber favoured presidential-style government because it encouraged the ratification of charisma by the masses , and enhanced the prospects of electing leaders who would disturb the routinized bureaucratic operations of modern states . |
| 16 | The law , the most draconian to have been passed by any mainland state , could not take immediate effect because it conflicted with the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision — the foundation of legalized abortion in the USA . |
| 17 | New ideas such as the transmutation of species acquired political overtones because they symbolized a challenge to the existing power structure both within science and within society at large . |
| 18 | We chose retinoic acid because I met a friend , at a meeting , and he told me that it affected cell communication . |
| 19 | He chose small trees because he wanted them cleared . |
| 20 | Goblander was not just an anagram on old banger , it really expressed the way that decrepit old van had of gobbling up petrol as it chugged through the countryside making awful noises because it needed a new silencer . |
| 21 | And I think erm the article itself erm s says in , in the , the first part it , it seems to be written in a very sort of erm very pro-peasant style , it 's like a justification of things that are happening , he s says that the reasons for the , the peasant movement were the exact opposite of what the gentry in Hankow and Changchun were saying erm that the , that the Party , that the revolutionary authorities had , had taken wrong measures because they thought that the reasons for these movements were , were otherwise and these we they were considered detrimental so they had to change these , these er original wrong meas measures to benefit the future of the revolution . |
| 22 | Council put the central heating in when we got advanced in years and when it became necessary in the doctor 's opinion for me to have central heating because I had a heart complaint . |
| 23 | Working the 2 Step programme becomes progressively more relevant on a daily basis in the recognition that it provides such a superb philosophy of life than many recovering people come to consider that they were fortunate to have addictive disease because it led them to the 12 Step Programme . |
| 24 | For married women this tendency was even more pronounced — Temporary workers working part-time were also more likely to have taken temporary jobs because they did not want Permanent jobs , whilst among those working full-time inability to find a permanent job was by far the most frequent reason given . |
| 25 | They had economic power because they had control of the family money ; and they had psychological power because the entire outside world was made up of similar families ( in East Africa the Africans were socially invisible to Asians ) which respected and supported the concept of hierarchy . |
| 26 | Dennis Mitchell , an intelligence officer at GCHQ for 32 years , was compelled to take early retirement because he had argued against the introduction of polygraph tests and the removal of rights of employees to go to industrial tribunals . |
| 27 | The judges ordered DSS officer Alan Scaife to reconsider Mr Saunders ' case after he had ‘ effectively barred ’ him from receiving legal aid because he had put £407,000 into a trust for his children . |
| 28 | I wondered whether he eschewed beautiful women because he feared competition from them , or from other men . |
| 29 | There was fourteen feet of snow floods but the main thing about these people , they took their jackets off and got stuck in and they became special people because they laid the foundation of the welfare state that everybody else in this room g gained out of . |
| 30 | Their sovereign was immensely puzzled by the process and strongly suspected that some of them intended to secede and set up independent states in South America , but the conquests attracted special attention and gained retrospective approval because they opened up a great wealth of silver and gold for the treasury of the King of Spain . |