Example sentences of "because it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd like to skip over this decision because it wakes me up in a sweat fairly often . |
| 2 | I do n't need an alarm clock because it wakes you up . |
| 3 | He chose a child as his lover because it fed that ego ; he lost her because he never cottoned on to the fact that children are children , no matter how grown-up they might appear . |
| 4 | I even joined a group for divorced men but in the end I left because it fed my negativity instead of alleviating it . |
| 5 | The method used by the original Canon laser engine is called ‘ write black ’ because it charges up those areas of the drum that are going to become black when printed . |
| 6 | The match was a 45,000 sell-out — even though the game was screened live on television — because it carried an air of glamour . |
| 7 | The area has made a unique contribution to Welsh commerce and to Welsh culture , not least because it produced Shirley Bassey , among others . |
| 8 | I tend to play with the wah on the treble setting all the time which gives you an incredibly trebly sound and it 's really hard to make that sound good because it distorts and feeds back all the time . |
| 9 | In the second case ( necessary false consciousness/irrational prejudice ) racism is seen as dysfunctional because it distorts the perception of reality and generates division amongst those who should be on the same side . |
| 10 | From that it follows that any tax , because it distorts the market , must be bad . |
| 11 | It 's like the story Mum used to read me when I was a kid about the white puppy-dog that got lost and its little girl owner looked everywhere for it and when she found it again she did n't recognize it because it 'd got so dirty it was n't her little white dog any longer . |
| 12 | He spoke of it a lot that evening : not to bring home to her all he 'd done but rather because it 'd been perhaps the biggest single event in his ( now rather dull ) life . |
| 13 | He decided to live in Dorset and chose this site ( where an earlier house had been ) , because it looked for all the world as though , when the house was built , it could sail straight out to sea . |
| 14 | Jinny remembered seeing it and slipping past it because it looked complicated and she was tired . |
| 15 | Miss Bowes said : ‘ There has been an upward trend in rates in the last few weeks because it looked like Labour were going to win . |
| 16 | In Lewis the effect of the decline in the inshore fishing industry was all the more dramatic because it looked for a time as if it might be averted . |
| 17 | She explored the cottage all over again , because it looked quite different — and even more attractive — in the clear light of a sunny February morning , and she found to her joy that there was a large garden at the back where they could grow vegetables . |
| 18 | He 'd caught a glimpse of the two of them reflected in the hall mirror and his heart had lurched because it looked as if he was propping up a corpse . |
| 19 | One was to be gold , since no-one had made a gold guitar before and such an instrument would be a perfect attention-grabber , and the other was to be black , black because it looked smart and also because it was the best colour for showing off the hands of the guitarist — provided the guitarist were Caucasian , of course . |
| 20 | There was no way we could put TI money into the company , we could n't justify doing that to the shareholders because it looked to us as though BA was going to go under . |
| 21 | A little embarrassed because it looked as though she had been prying , Meredith murmured , ‘ I 'm not much of a cook . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Everyone wanted to take Sir Edward away , because it looked as if you could n't make it . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ We came together because it looked as if he was going to try to take my line to the corner . |
| 25 | After re-packing her case , she fervently hoped for the last time , she had a wash , and because it looked sunny and warm outside dressed in a skimpy vest with a blouse over the top , and a rather strange Fifties-style skirt covered in poppies . |
| 26 | They said in the shop that the men who did it had been pretending to take up paving stones — nobody thought anything because it looked as if they were from the Council . ’ |
| 27 | More fundamental — because it looked towards a future international order rather than the waning one — was the critique of NATO and American hegemony that he developed on his return to power and that remained one of the hallmarks of his international policy throughout the 1960s . |
| 28 | At that point , it could be doing all sorts of weird things , and you 'd think oh , I 've got this wonderful graph and I plotted a lot of points close together , so I know my sketch was right , because it looked like this funny W thing or M or something |
| 29 | Rachel knew , however , there was no point trying to explain that she was merely going with David to see her new friends from Conway House , because it looked as if her mother , together with Nina , Greg and all the others , had jumped to conclusions and were ready to believe that what was a perfectly innocent friendship had developed into something more . |
| 30 | The sun is just a star , one of many thousands of millions of stars in our own galaxy , which is the milky way , which we see as we look up in the sky on a very dark night , and it was called the milky way by the ancients because it looked like a splash of milk across the sky , but we now know that it 's a flattened system consisting of these thousands of millions of stars . |