Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] because it [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people feared involvement in popular education because it made them immediate targets of the Contras . ’ |
| 2 | The Act was welcomed by many old people because it gave them a regular income free from the taint of poor relief ; though many , rightly , criticized it for giving ‘ too little too late in life ’ , that little was more than had been given before . |
| 3 | In 1935 the League was genuinely popular with the British public because it allowed them to believe , not for the first time , that there was no limit to Britain 's power to do good in the world . |
| 4 | Everything seemed to be taken care of and everybody was on a real high because it left you free to do what you wanted to do without worrying about paying this week 's rent or buying a pair of shoes , or whether a valve in the amplifier had gone and you had to replace it . |
| 5 | It emerged yesterday that one of the two private consortia negotiating to build the line with British Rail had rejected BR 's preferred route because it said it could cost up to £5bn . |
| 6 | This was a great comfort because it guaranteed you a guardian , a communality , and an end . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In old age he used to regret that he did so well in the classical scholarship because it caused him not to read history . |
| 9 | I have n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing , but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the university and to sort of expand my contacts , and the Meeting House is one of those places which is open to the general public on Sundays for religious worship . |
| 10 | I had n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the University and to sort of expand my contacts . |
| 11 | Mind , I welcomed them with open arms because it meant I could stay off school . |
| 12 | She knew her limitations better than she knew her worth , and she taught in a private school because it gave her a little more latitude to come and go as she wished — an important point , since she cared for an old mother whom eighty years had made exacting . |
| 13 | A that time David was going through a period when he would n't fly , which was a pretty smart ploy because it gained you a lot of time between gigs , as you have to travel by some sort of surface transportation . |
| 14 | Was the government-supported Remploy , for instance , a good thing because it provided sheltered employment for disabled people , or a bad thing because it ghettoised them ? |