Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] because it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Judge Abraham Sofaer , Brunei was picked especially because it received no assistance already , and would seem to be returning no favours ; it was never intended to get anything beyond appreciation . |
| 2 | Well I sent it to the B B C , I sent it to Duncan but I also sent it to the the Lady a shorter version to the Lady their competition and I said their competition was gon na be on the eighteenth in their issue they would give the names of the of the winners , but I had looked in the Lady yesterday in Smiths and there was none of nothing about it , but I do n't think I 've won anyway because it said you 'd be notified by post so . |
| 3 | Again , this was not a PNP initiative but is reported here because it concerned parents , children and schools and gives an example of the practice from which the LEA 's unwritten policy on home-school links has to be inferred . |
| 4 | Although Chancellor Kohl later agreed to an apparent compromise it was clear even then — how much more so now — that West Germany had killed the programme , and it had done so because it sensed far better than any of its Nato partners how completely President Gorbachev had changed the situation in Europe . |
| 5 | But it was clear the statement was written yesterday because it hailed a vote by the House of Representatives on Tuesday night to make the extradition of drug traffickers a topic for a referendum . |
| 6 | Her eyes leapt from Abraham begat Isaac and Isaac begat Jacob to Verse 25 of the Gospel According to St Matthew , to which she had turned simply because it began the New Testament and she had been unable to make anything of the Old . |
| 7 | It was on the tip of Jehan 's tongue to suggest that Alexei was allowing himself to be used only because it suited him ; but it was clear that discussing the subject was making Jehana unhappy , and so he said nothing , sitting quietly beside her until suddenly she got up and went into the house . |
| 8 | It was not the huge success that Lotus Development had anticipated mainly because it demanded hardware that seemed excessive at the time — an AT with at least 1MByte of RAM . |
| 9 | Devonport has claimed its original bid was provoked partly because it believed the navy intended to centralise nuclear refitting at Rosyth , thus undermining Devonport 's future , and is insistent that its proposal was unsolicited . |
| 10 | The group 's concern with rocketry was hardly respectable in those days : its existence was tolerated mainly because it came under the wing of Theodore van Karman , one of the world 's greatest aerodynamicists . |
| 11 | The crime bill was opposed largely because it sought to enact a five-day waiting period for the purchase of handguns , while the education legislation , which aimed at upgrading the country 's schools , was opposed by Republicans following a congressional decision to remove an administration proposal to provide government vouchers to assist parents in sending their children to private schools . |
| 12 | The experiment of giving hard-currency incentives [ see p. 36855 ] had not worked properly because it had been introduced too late in the year and people did not know how to operate it . |
| 13 | Swessex , a bastard county created by the iniquitous reorganization of local government in the early ‘ seventies , comprised one and a half old counties knocked together because it looked neater that way . |
| 14 | Withering 's interest in digitalis was aroused primarily because it promoted a flow of urine and relieved swollen , dropsical tissues of their load of water ( see chapter I ) . |
| 15 | The selection of the 109 tagset is rather arbitrary , being chosen simply because it offered the most distinctive tagset that could be formed from combining the Text710 tagset with the LOB tagset . |