Example sentences of "[adj] to [noun] because [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 He had a good later reputation , and according to Osbern was very acceptable to Cnut because he had given him holy chrism .
2 These are the most interesting to fishkeepers because they occur mainly in tropical areas where rivers give high rates of sediment accumulations trapping pools and lakes of brackish water .
3 Risk is costly to individuals because it reduces their utility .
4 Well what she bought she gave it all to Mary because she had Ben 's birthday party .
5 He wanted an assurance that the Dardanelles would remain closed to warships because he feared the possibility of a British or French attack on the southern part of the Russian Empire .
6 Equally , Sigibert and Guntram may have been opposed to Gundovald because he threatened their own positions .
7 Brown has been important to White because he provides the top-level training practice that has been so lacking in the build-up to this world championships .
8 Clarissa was particularly solicitous to Charles because she saw that , having been very red in the face , he was now quite pale .
9 This tree is familiar to botanists because it has the largest seed known , as well as one of the largest leaves .
10 It is no good appealing to reality because we do n't have a model independent concept of reality .
11 Despite his reputation and the general theory that doctors were impervious to tears because they saw so many shed , I had noticed that the way our men reacted to weeping females depended mainly on their ages .
12 IN the thinking of the early Church , anyone who married could never be completely devoted to God because they had chosen to pledge part of their love and loyalty to their spouse .
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