Example sentences of "because it had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The figure for males remained constant at 4.2 , probably because it had already reached ‘ saturation ’ point . |
| 2 | When jury selection commenced on Sept. 5 , the defence vainly made a last-minute effort to get the trial dismissed , alleging government breach of ethics because it had just learned that Noriega 's former lawyer , Raymond Takiff , who had advised him to surrender to US authorities in January 1990 , was at the time working secretly for federal authorities . |
| 3 | It was not a ‘ true ’ style because it had not developed within an era to meet a genuine need ; it was merely copying the dead and it ‘ degrades architecture from its high position of a quasi-natural production to that of a mere imitative art ’ , a criticism often levied by professional architects against the wishes of the man in the street . |
| 4 | The report deeply angered Price Waterhouse because it had not given evidence to Senator Kerry 's subcommittee . |
| 5 | Basil was not a great public speaker but what came through was all the more effective because it had not come easily . |
| 6 | But the next day Mr Clarke insisted that nothing had in fact changed from the NHS White Paper because it had not talked of cash limits , only of firm budgets . |
| 7 | Moreover , in spite of nineteenth-century changes in their constitutions — and Great Britain 's had changed none the less radically because it had not changed violently — all these states were old , their consolidation achieved well before 1815 . |
| 8 | But in a letter dated January 7 , the claim was rejected because it had not arrived within 120 days of his leaving Michelin . |
| 9 | Labour had not won the argument over how to run a capitalist economy better than the Conservatives , so it could not take on its detractors — and that was because it had not thought through how it should be done . |
| 10 | Was he trying to say that they could n't recapture what they once had because it had n't existed ? |
| 11 | ‘ The Government was wrong because it had n't taken into account the huge increases in our workload since new contracts were introduced encouraging people to register , ’ Mr Smith said . |
| 12 | I chose the example I did because it gave an important history of another library , Glasgow , and because it had also belonged at one time to the Guildhall Library , which had passed it on to them . |
| 13 | Except that the first time round the Indians saw that Firmin survived and they ran away because they were afraid , and the second time round they saw they 'd killed Antonio , which was quite the wrong result for them so they ran away because it had all gone wrong . |
| 14 | He had felt sour ever since her arrival — he could admit it to himself now — but simply because it had all happened so unexpectedly and confusedly . |
| 15 | Depressed and bewildered because it had inexplicably impaired his ability to think and concentrate , he soon guessed that his paralysis and clumsiness would make him always dependent on a wheelchair . |
| 16 | Kenya has been the least affected , because it had never occupied a strategically important corner of a continent that had largely been ignored in the bipolar world of the superpowers . |
| 17 | But she skimmed over her meeting with Roger , because it had suddenly become rather difficult to speak of him . |
| 18 | Because it had suddenly occurred to her that Guy Sterne was bothering to justify himself like this only because his relationship with Nicola Schreider was threatened if he did n't . |
| 19 | However , it retreated from this position , partly because it feared strong adverse reaction particularly from its political Right , and also because it had seriously underestimated the number of Arabs in Gaza , at 100,000–150,000 when it was nearer 280,000 . |