Example sentences of "was [adv] [vb pp] because it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fundamental to the stability of a system of taxation is the level at which people are asked to pay , and the switch from local to central taxation achieved by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor in his Budget was widely welcomed because it recognised that the tax burden had become too high for any system to sustain , and that is why he took steps to reduce it . |
| 2 | In re Polemis [ 1921 ] 3 KB 560 was wrongly decided because it had held that once liability was established , a person was responsible for the direct consequences of his acts even though these were not foreseeable . |
| 3 | General relativity , on the other hand , was largely ignored because it seemed too complicated mathematically , was not testable in the laboratory , and was a purely classical theory that did not seem compatible with quantum mechanics . |
| 4 | If the costs were lower than before , so too were the risks : the police force was well informed because it had members who were also members of the local lineages ; and it was ready to intervene to prevent escalation of disputes into further bloodshed . |
| 5 | Taken together with the fact that this region is required for DNA-PK directed phosphorylation of c-Jun and , since Ser-249 of c-Jun was initially identified because it contains homology to sites of DNA-PK phosphorylation in other proteins , these data strongly suggest that the DNA-PK phosphorylates c-Jun at Ser-249 . |
| 6 | One was subsequently excluded because it proved impossible to advance the colonoscope as far as the anastomosis in this patient . |