Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] because it [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the concern with overcoming political marginality remained on the sidelines of the main public debate because it questioned the perception of the rioters as driven by irrational , uncivilized , and criminal instincts . |
| 2 | The act has been seen as one of the decisive events in modern English history because it transformed the country into something called , and approximating , a democracy . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Elizabeth 's reign is now seen to be of crucial importance because it saw the completion of the Protestantization of the English people and witnessed the creation of a uniquely English style of Protestant church which was later to be labelled Anglicanism . |
| 5 | The United Kingdom opposed sending a peacekeeping force because it represented a long-term commitment but suggested an oil embargo . |
| 6 | The incident first attracted national attention because it involved the Kennedy family , a subject which tended to elicit fiercely polarized views . |
| 7 | This apparently insignificant detail was to be of fateful importance for all subsequent human cultural and psychological evolution because it provided the first , albeit rather minimal , check on the egoism and mutual antagonism of males . |
| 8 | Lofoten was chosen for this first large raid because it offered a chance to hit back at the enemy as well as such economic targets as the destruction of fish oil supplies , which might impair German manufacture of nitro-glycerine and would reduce supplies of vitamin A and B capsules issued to German troops . |
| 9 | The switch of tactics on the part of the war-tax resistance movement which can be dated back to 1977 is potentially of great significance because it provided the conditions in which a broad-based political campaign may be mounted , calling for a statutory right of tax diversion and relying on litigation as an auxiliary and subordinate weapon , instead of depending exclusively on litigation to try to bring about a change in the law directly . |
| 10 | Harvard could implement sweeping changes in its medical curriculum because it had a forceful dean and access to large grants to fund a very ambitious project . |
| 11 | On the other hand though , it must be noted that this was an important phase of feminist film-making because it established a foothold in Britain for avant-garde work , extending an already existing interest in ( and audience for ) the films of continental women directors such as Agnes Varda and Marguerite Duras . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In it they asserted quite clearly that permitting divorce would certainly affect the stability of all Irish marriages because it rendered every Irish marriage dissoluble : ‘ It is as though the legal availability of divorce builds up a social pressure which , for large numbers of people , becomes stronger than moral or religious resistance ’ ( abridged version , Irish Times , 14 May 1986 ) . |
| 14 | So it might be assumed that Scott 's design was placed higher than the other Gothic entries because it showed the two offices as separate structures , rather than one . |
| 15 | Huxley had been suspicious of evolutionism because he could see no plausible explanation of how species might change , and he welcomed Darwin 's theory with open arms because it offered a new hypothesis that confirmed the scientist 's right to treat the origin of species as a problem susceptible to natural explanation . |
| 16 | Administration officials argue that Mr Bush 's speech at the United Nations was in fact a turning point in the US efforts to ban the prodictoion of chemical weapons because it created an atmosphere in which the Geneva negotiations are likley to be accelerated . |
| 17 | Cos he chucked one away the other day because it had a little chip in it . |
| 18 | The case was reported in the Washington Post of Jan. 11 as one of the most closely watched of the judicial term because it tested the authority of federal judges , once they had found discrimination , to ensure that it was remedied . |
| 19 | Marconi thus had a special importance because it provided an issue of corruption that could not be turned back by Liberals against the Unionists , and for this the Liberals had only themselves to blame . |
| 20 | He attacked the dominance of formal logic because it reflected a misplaced confidence in the powers of human reason . |