Example sentences of "because it [vb past] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Report of the Franks Committee in 1957 was recognized by Robson as ‘ an important landmark in our constitutional history ’ , largely because it accepted that administrative tribunals are ‘ a valuable and permanent part of the machinery of justice ’ and went much further ‘ than the grudging admission of the advantages possessed by tribunals accorded by the Donoughmore Report ’ . |
| 2 | His tax , known as a property tax , worked better because it realised that efficient assessment and collection were more important than raised levels . |
| 3 | The great extension of astronomical observations that began early in the 1960s brought about a revival of interest in the classical theory of general relativity because it seemed that many of the new phenomena that were being discovered , such as quasars , pulsars , and compact X-ray sources , indicated the existence of very strong gravitational fields — fields that could be described only by general relativity . |
| 4 | It was a compliment with a sting though , because it implied that this was a kind of good looks that would not last . |
| 5 | The official compilation was of moment because it ensured that certain general claims of the papacy , and the specific reasons for these claims , were not lost sight of in the later history of the papacy . |