Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun] because it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people are attracted to Yugoslavia because it offers such great value for money . |
| 2 | The political right is attracted by workfare because it resents the idea that people might be paid by the state to do nothing . |
| 3 | But The Sun thought that ‘ the meeting was a bogus one , if it was held at all ’ , further alleging that this clandestine organisation ( which said that it had met in secrecy because it feared Hooligan reprisals ) was a put-up job by someone in the pay of The Daily Telegraph . |
| 4 | This is not done in man because it leads to Charcot joints and a deafferentation phantom , two signs the horse may not be able to display . |
| 5 | Gunpowder is not used in rifles because it produces smoke an leaves a residue in the barrel . |
| 6 | And , attempts to encourage greater accountability and competition between authorities have tended to flounder because it has been accompanied by a higher degree of centralization and control and a wider gap between the possibilities of locally generated finance and overall levels of spending . |
| 7 | Somewhere here were the contributions of Duroc 's ancestors : a series of articles co-written by Pierre Henri Duroc and Donatien Alphonse Francois , Marquis de Sade , speculating on the limits of the human mind when confronted with endless pain ; some transcripts from the meetings of Robespierre 's Committee of Public Safety , in which the fates of some of the first families of France were decided on a whim ; a suppressed account of certain discoveries in a pre-human city that came to light in 19th-century French Equatorial Africa before the cyclopean stones mysteriously sank into the soft jungle earth ; Cauchemar et Fils , Maitres des Mondes Perdues , an unpublished novel by M. Jules Verne that was purchased from the author by a Great-Great-Great-Uncle and consigned to obscurity because it described a steam-driven engine to open up a gateway to a world of dreams that bore a remarkable similarity to a device that the Duroc of the time had indeed developed . |
| 8 | They said speculation focused on BP because it has expressed interest in refining and marketing in the western US . |
| 9 | An alternative view is that s.64 is restricted to explosives because it falls within the part of the Act dealing with explosives . |
| 10 | This database will be protected by copyright because it has required skill and judgment in the design of the structure of the database ( that is , number and type of fields and their lengths ) and in the selection of the information to be entered . |
| 11 | But she made no move to leave , so I had to say not at all , I 'd gone to bed because it seemed the warmest place . |
| 12 | Or does a difficult birth seem to be associated with schizophrenia because it causes the mother to feel overprotective or guilty towards the child who started life so badly ? |
| 13 | Some seed should not be covered with soil because it needs light to germinate , some needs an acid-reacting soil , and some needs a period of cold between harvest and sowing . |
| 14 | The scheme is being widely debated within television because it sets a precedent for other companies . |
| 15 | An historical ( diachronic ) account of the form of language is rejected by Saussure because it implies a less than arbitrary relationship between signifier and signified . |
| 16 | WORKERS at a state-run poultry plant near St Petersburg , Russia , are being paid in EGGS because it has run out out of roubles . |
| 17 | An episode of the new series was banned in England because it referred to the ‘ victory of the IRA over the English in the 21st century ’ |