Example sentences of "because they [vb past] that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deliberations irritated both groups a little because they realised that the gap is growing between those who run computers and those who do n't . |
| 2 | The authorities sometimes turned down applications for butcher 's licences because they feared that the presence of such establishments would lead to increases in cattle stealing . |
| 3 | As they watched the towering ships sail forth his advisors were dismayed because they feared that the despatch of such a force would leave Ulthuan almost defenceless . |
| 4 | Pollution expert Michael Bradley said that oil companies were " all of a sudden doing some very amazing refinements to gasoline " , because they feared that the substitution of alternatives such as methanol would be made compulsory . |
| 5 | It is probably a more accurate reflection of the truth , because of the likelihood that at least some of those who said ‘ yes ’ did so because they thought that the answer was expected of them . |
| 6 | And I think erm the article itself erm s says in , in the , the first part it , it seems to be written in a very sort of erm very pro-peasant style , it 's like a justification of things that are happening , he s says that the reasons for the , the peasant movement were the exact opposite of what the gentry in Hankow and Changchun were saying erm that the , that the Party , that the revolutionary authorities had , had taken wrong measures because they thought that the reasons for these movements were , were otherwise and these we they were considered detrimental so they had to change these , these er original wrong meas measures to benefit the future of the revolution . |
| 7 | It seems possible that people located hostility in groups because they knew that the others , their opponents , would expect reprisals from any members of the group they opposed . |
| 8 | The British administrators were patient because they knew that the whole of the Masai respect for them lay in |
| 9 | Indeed , some went so far as to ‘ play dumb ’ when they were with male students because they knew that the men did n't like clever women . |
| 10 | For the first time , a public debate began over whether doctors , in consultation with parents , had the right to terminate life because they believed that the life concerned was not worth the living . |
| 11 | But in fact they stopped well short of this principle , because they believed that the peculiar organization of meaning in poetry led back in the end to the ‘ real ’ world . |
| 12 | All major opposition parties boycotted local elections in November 1990 because they believed that the results would be rigged . |
| 13 | The architects duly made economies , although they were dismayed that these had to include the reduction to a dwarf wall of the high wall intended for the street side of the car park because they felt that the omission of a high wall at this point would detract from the character of Rotherhithe Street . |
| 14 | She could not offer advice as a grandmother , despite her long experience of children ; and now her own children had ceased to confide in her ‘ because they felt that the time had come when I ought to be ‘ spared ’ every possible worry . |
| 15 | During the Yorkist period there were undoubtedly some movements of popular discontent ; in 1471 the Essex men seem to have joined Fauconberg 's attack on London because they felt that the citizens were paying insufficient prices for dairy supplies . |