Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [noun pl] because [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I approached Social Services because I thought the child might be in danger , ’ said the 35-year-old woman . |
| 2 | The Single European Act disappointed many federalists because it tended to codify practices which had developed since 1958 , rather than to reform the EC in any radical way . |
| 3 | The 12,000 unitholders who have invested in any of the 11 funds managed by Dumenil Trust Management , the French-owned unit trust group , found themselves this week locked into their investments when the fund managers suspended all dealings because they believed there was an error with pricing . |
| 4 | For instance , if a magistrate dismissed most cases because he thought they were false , the proportion of thefts which were reported in his district might decrease because people would decide that it was useless to report them . |
| 5 | To Salmon he said he admired tribal sculptures because he found them ‘ raisonnables ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He chose small trees because he wanted them cleared . |
| 9 | We tend to favour simple geometrical shapes and sharply contrasted formal rules because they make it that much easier to distinguish right from wrong , normal from abnormal . |
| 10 | Evidence about the past role of women is mainly genealogical : people remembered some marriages because they sealed a peace ; others because they bound in a new group of refugees or clients , bringing them into the range of people who belonged to someone , subjecting them to social controls . |
| 11 | I wondered whether he eschewed beautiful women because he feared competition from them , or from other men . |
| 12 | A KARAOKE singer pulled out a gun and shot two men because they laughed at him . |
| 13 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |