Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [noun] because [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the basis of 1 Chronicles 21 , where it is recorded that David incurred divine displeasure because he ordered a national census , some Christian leaders refuse to gather statistics of their membership . |
| 2 | ‘ I approached Social Services because I thought the child might be in danger , ’ said the 35-year-old woman . |
| 3 | It was decisive and at times attracted public support because she seemed to be taking action which the public overwhelmingly thought was right but never thought any government would have the nerve to carry out . |
| 4 | The incident first attracted national attention because it involved the Kennedy family , a subject which tended to elicit fiercely polarized views . |
| 5 | Those studies which concentrated on local-central relations ignored local politics because they saw local authorities as mere receptacles for central policy . |
| 6 | To Salmon he said he admired tribal sculptures because he found them ‘ raisonnables ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | From the carrier 's standpoint , these as well as any other clauses or notations that indicated apparent irregularities made legal sense because they protected it from the allegation that the goods had been delivered in a sound condition and could have been damaged only because of improper loading , stowing , or care . |
| 9 | Her life-long friend , Catherine Quinn , 23 , escaped serious injury because she had bent down to pick up a 20p piece , and she was flung over hand railings . |
| 10 | I enjoyed Prime Minister because I found it much the most relaxed of the offices I held . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I felt guilty writing because I know she is always besieged by charities asking for help . |
| 14 | We chose retinoic acid because I met a friend , at a meeting , and he told me that it affected cell communication . |
| 15 | He chose small trees because he wanted them cleared . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They had economic power because they had control of the family money ; and they had psychological power because the entire outside world was made up of similar families ( in East Africa the Africans were socially invisible to Asians ) which respected and supported the concept of hierarchy . |
| 18 | I wondered whether he eschewed beautiful women because he feared competition from them , or from other men . |
| 19 | There was fourteen feet of snow floods but the main thing about these people , they took their jackets off and got stuck in and they became special people because they laid the foundation of the welfare state that everybody else in this room g gained out of . |
| 20 | Their sovereign was immensely puzzled by the process and strongly suspected that some of them intended to secede and set up independent states in South America , but the conquests attracted special attention and gained retrospective approval because they opened up a great wealth of silver and gold for the treasury of the King of Spain . |
| 21 | He refused professional tuition because he felt there must be a better way to play golf and he must find it for himself . |