Example sentences of "[vb past] because it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean how far extra it moved because it was accelerating . ’ |
| 2 | An inquest has been told that a plane crashed because it had a flat battery . |
| 3 | An inquest has been told that a plane crashed because it had a flat battery . |
| 4 | The Netherlands disagreed because it thought harmonised taxes would be too weak . |
| 5 | Daisy nearly said Perdita could start off by weight lifting some of her belongings upstairs , but desisted because it was such heaven to be on speaking terms again . |
| 6 | The idea was considered but rejected because it did not meet the Government 's timetable . |
| 7 | Do you remember Uncle Charles Lane building a bomb-proof wall outside the kitchen ? — and how you were so excited when the raids came because it meant Pop and I were able to stop work and play idiotic games with the three of you ? ! |
| 8 | The trouble came because it was also the place where Simon liked to pee — and on the newest plants from the market garden in Boston Spa . |
| 9 | and I just , I threw buckets of water on it to rinse it , and it dried because it was really warm and it came up like new |
| 10 | And what 's more , we want to see that ice rink filled because it 's the greatest family sporting entertainment you could ever wish to see and with the crowd behind you it gives you that extra buzz . |
| 11 | And I , I 'm going to be working from behind Denise because you all need to see , but you would be working from the front as I 've already talked about , so you need your triangular bandage , alright , and there 's your long edge , and there 's your point as we call it , a sort of elbow shaped , think of that as elbow shaped because it always goes towards the injured elbow . |
| 12 | But this jealousy actually happened because it was a question of making a decision without actually thinking through the consequences of it . |
| 13 | Woolwich paid because it calculated that it was in its commercial interest to do so . |
| 14 | ‘ Would this request from London have anything to do with the package and report I sent them , which never arrived because it was intercepted right here in this office ? ’ |
| 15 | Uniformitarianism triumphed because it provided a general theory that was at once logical and seemingly " scientific " . |
| 16 | ‘ As far as actually ‘ working out ’ is concerned , I 've been doing a lot this year , but not since rehearsals began because it 's just been so crazed . |
| 17 | I immediately agreed because it seemed like a natural idea for me . |
| 18 | It had ‘ failed to make my flesh creep ’ , he reports guardedly , in a phrase he was to repeat years later about it in his life of Ronald Knox ( 1959 ) , and failed because it had denied the existence of the soul and omitted all mention of the Church . |
| 19 | It failed because it precipitated a managerial revolution in Courtaulds , which in turn led to the defeat of the bid and the rapid recovery of the company . |
| 20 | First , it failed because it did not benefit the poor as much as it did the middle classes . |
| 21 | Some of these are explored in the pages to come : computers which siphon even more power from the people who operate them ; a dynamic but degraded city ; a hippie alternative to capitalism which failed because it never really analysed the problem . |
| 22 | This line of attack was argued by the Commission in the Continental Can case , but failed because it was unable to demonstrate that competition was sufficiently restricted . |
| 23 | A problem arose because it was believed that Macmillan had secured terms of reference which would entitle the Tribunal to investigate not merely Vassall , but also rumours relating to Vassall that were circulating at the time , rumours about many discreditable matters but mainly his sexual activities . |
| 24 | In 1900 a dispute arose because it was said that the Taff Vale Railway Company had victimized a trade unionist who led a wage demand . |
| 25 | It looks as if sex evolved because it 's in the interest of genes to constantly be re-combined self interest not always in company with the same others may want to be er mixing themselves up , so they launch themselves in continually different combinations , and this presumably each gene what , what , what is happening is a constant filtering process all the time , by means of which natural selection is working on basically random changes in the final point I want to make and that 's |
| 26 | The cup broke because it fell off the table . |
| 27 | It worked because it offered the combination of style and leisure which more refined sensibilities found coarsened in Brighton . |
| 28 | NCR lost because it was not prepared to develop yet another generation of the 9800 — derived from the company 's Criterion line , which dates back to 1976 . |
| 29 | we had Roy and then we had Simon for a bit and then we decided because it was n't working altogether an Edinburgh person and a Glasgow person |
| 30 | Among the numerous artifacts uncovered was a miraculously preserved carpet dating from the 5th century BC , which survived because it was frozen in a block of ice after early grave robbers had broken the seal and allowed water into the tomb . |