Example sentences of "[vb pp] because they [vb past] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Life was faster , demands changed more quickly , and people were included because they met a particular need at a particular time . |
| 2 | The old rules have to be revised or discarded because they applied to the circumstances that existed when they were formulated , a hundred years ago . |
| 3 | The movies succeeded because they had gone to the people and had seemingly bypassed every obstacle . |
| 4 | And as to dictatorships — in which he says two people in every 100 are interested in politics as opposed to three in a hundred in a democracy — you could argue that some dictatorships succeeded because they appealed to primitive instincts in people who were not interested in politics . |
| 5 | ‘ The Tories succeeded because they played on people 's fears . ’ |
| 6 | The concerts were not at well attended as normal Wedding Present shows , but this was partly expected because they had less promotion . |
| 7 | Lands officers in the Road Service division objected because they claimed the one foot high flower beds could restrict a driver 's vision . |
| 8 | EC officials said that the areas , which are regarded as among those most in need of aid , had been omitted because they fell outside the administrative boundary of the Highland and Island region . |
| 9 | When forty-two railway-workers who defected from Syzran' station were put on trial , their sentence was alleviated because they had not been paid . |
| 10 | The ALP finished with 0.2 per cent less of the two-party preferred vote than did the opposition coalition , and in at least 10 instances the ALP won because they received the second preference votes of supporters of the Greens . |
| 11 | The fund managers have said that any investors who have suffered because they bought or sold at incorrect prices will be compensated . |
| 12 | So you can imagine that erm , er during the war of course , th they buses made because they made to the trolley buses made plenty of money because erm , labour was cheap and erm , you had the soldiers they were , lot of them , no other form of transport , petrol rationing and that , so the buses really did come into their own during the war . |
| 13 | The South Koreans are rated because they made it to the last World Cup finals , but personally I will always think of the North Koreans in ‘ 66 . |
| 14 | The Nones were so named because they occurred on the ‘ ninth ’ day before the Ides . |
| 15 | She and Tom had met because they had had a playful debate about whether and in what sense you could say that coal pre-dated miners . |
| 16 | We must have done because they talked , as we drove , of common friends we had had at that time , but I remembered none of them — or only a name , here and there . |
| 17 | ‘ I got done because they wanted a scapegoat . |
| 18 | So , for various different reasons , most of the Unionist leaders approved of Lloyd George 's intentions ; the party managers agreed because they feared that continuing disorganization on the Coalition Liberal side might eventually wreck the government . |
| 19 | Others continued to argue , as they had done before , and as they do today , that the indigent could never be adequately housed because they did not know how to live with cleanliness and decency . |
| 20 | Some have had to be demolished because they became dangerous with neglect . |
| 21 | The myth developing around Johnson took on an existence of its own and he became known as a hero of black folklore , fitting into that tradition of ‘ bad niggers ’ , moral hard men who were , according to Lawrence Levine , ‘ admired because they had the strength , courage and ability to flout the limitations imposed by white society ’ ( 1977 , p.420 ) . |
| 22 | More than 30% of cows culled in Holland were slaughtered because they failed to become pregnant . |
| 23 | If it was not a community crime , if the Pitts had not been slaughtered because they stood out from their fellows in a way the neighbourhood resented , then why had they died ? |
| 24 | In June town employees were angered because they had to pay six million roubles commission to Jews in order to exchange a hundred million given to them in the form of bonds for their pay . |
| 25 | Several of the care assistants working at the homes were angered because they claimed they were not told what was happening . |
| 26 | We heard that some bishops had sent on training courses in preparation for ordination people who could not be ordained because they had been divorced and were remarried . |
| 27 | Mr Torode 's sources are also wrong in saying Fay Weldon and her allies were not invited because they held racist attitudes . |
| 28 | In the Holland Report in 1977 it was argued that young people were no longer employed because they did not fit employers ' needs . |
| 29 | The presence of its members was normally tolerated because they supported the industrial action of the TUC , 1,200 of them being arrested during the dispute , and because some of its leading figures , such as Robin Page Arnot who did sterling work in organizing the councils of action in the North East , were active in the dispute . |
| 30 | The unrepentant cities will be condemned because they did not turn from their sins despite his mighty works ( Matt. |