Example sentences of "[adv] because [art] french " in BNC.
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| 1 | The treaty was never implemented , however , perhaps because the French could not raise the first instalment of the ransom in the six months specified , and in May 1359 the ‘ Second Treaty of London ’ was concluded . |
| 2 | When a pope next called a Council it was only because the French king , then at war with the papacy , had called one of his own . |
| 3 | ‘ Only because the French were obliging enough to do a lot of your fighting for you , ’ said Dr Neil , who as an old soldier had a grasp of military history . |
| 4 | Possibly because the French Federation may actually know nothing about the game . |
| 5 | The United Kingdom has quite as much skill and technical resources as France , yet we have been worsted time and again by the French in the field of space , simply because the French have a centrally directed , planned , national space programme and we have not . |
| 6 | We had the G A T talks held up for a lengthy period simply because the French wanted even more cash for agriculture and of course they got it and it 's rather silly when we 're spending two hundred and fifty million pounds a week on dumping and destroying food . |
| 7 | A second Expeditionary Force was despatched across the Channel to France , but it WAS forced to return to Britain almost immediately because the French government asked Germany for an armistice , on 17th . |
| 8 | In spite of these hesitations , with no one anxious to recognize Bao Dai first , not least because the French themselves had not even ratified the Elysee agreement , the US hoped , or wished to persuade itself , that full Vietnamese sovereignty would emerge from the chrysalis of the Bao Dai solution and as Acheson defined the US position on 23 December l949 : ‘ There is no apparent alternative to Bao Dai regime other than Commie domination Indo-China ’ . |