Example sentences of "[verb] because it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aged had , nevertheless , acquired ‘ a definite status in the community … and the ‘ pauper taint ’ [ was ] removed by a system of personal thrift organized by the state' , a provision for which the Conference congratulated itself , claiming to have succeeded because it had placed national interests over and above political tactics . |
| 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 | Our use of some light music on the Fort San Programme was excused because it had been requested for those patients recovering in hospital . |
| 5 | Constable when he was giving evidence it only takes a second to fire a gun was n't that the reason that the bed was tipped because it had to be checked quickly that was n't underneath otherwise Constable may might have got shot . |
| 6 | In re Polemis [ 1921 ] 3 KB 560 was wrongly decided because it had held that once liability was established , a person was responsible for the direct consequences of his acts even though these were not foreseeable . |
| 7 | There was n't a great deal else to remember because it had all been pretty damn straightforward . |
| 8 | I was often called Hamlet because I so resembled my father 's appearance in his most famous film , the ‘ Coronation ’ Hamlet , so named because it had been released in Coronation year . |
| 9 | In truth , the Beirut front line could not be repaired , restructured , rebuilt or re-roofed because it had become necessary to the Lebanese . |
| 10 | Asked what had happened , she answered : " The horse was shot because it had a broken leg . " |
| 11 | He appears to have maintained in the Court of Session that the provisions of that Act should not be applied because it had been passed without his having had notice as required by Standing Orders … |
| 12 | Some of the manuscript has been saved because it had been printed off for a friend to proof-read . |
| 13 | Here were editions esteemed as being the first , and there stood scarcely less regarded as being the last and the best ; here was a book valued because it had the author 's final improvements , and there is another which ( strange to tell ! ) was in request because it had them not . |
| 14 | After the war , ‘ unfilled ’ vinyl was used because it had much less surface noise , and a few sets of unfilled vinyl 78s were made for early hi-fi buffs . |
| 15 | He had a bike which she 'd stopped letting him use because it had become dangerous . |
| 16 | On into the Room Without a Name they had passed and through to the room it communicated with , the Room of Astonishment , so called because it had a cupboard in it with a little staircase inside that wound its way up into the loft . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The third practice had overspent because it had taken over a smaller practice after the preparatory work on budget setting had been completed , and it had not been able to make an accurate estimate of prescribing costs for the 1300 patients involved . |
| 19 | Mrs McMahon felt herself incapable of assisting Terry to dress because it had only just burst upon her that it was her daughter getting married and she would leave and never be seen again . |
| 20 | Michael Heseltine , the Trade and Industry Secretary , said the decision had been taken because it had become ‘ virtually impossible ’ for UK insurers to obtain reinsurance protection against ‘ terrorism-related claims ’ . |
| 21 | He sought resolve and found a little and went to lie down on the bed to read a paperback of Anna Karenina , which he had always fancied because it had a scene on a railway platform . |
| 22 | Thomas got up at last from his new place in the middle of the table , which he had quite liked because it had leg access to a rung where he could wriggle his feet when he was bored . |
| 23 | He said because it had to cross the busy East Coast line at Darlington the timing was crucial and did not allow for a call at Allen 's West . |
| 24 | He said 3i had always taken a long-term view and had not been as badly hit by the recession as the banks had because it had been cautious . |
| 25 | Was he trying to say that they could n't recapture what they once had because it had n't existed ? |
| 26 | It had survived because it had got a metallic thread running through it . |
| 27 | But in a letter dated January 7 , the claim was rejected because it had not arrived within 120 days of his leaving Michelin . |
| 28 | There was culatello , part of the pig 's bottom — this was difficult to produce because it had to be carefully matured , and was correspondingly expensive . |
| 29 | If the costs were lower than before , so too were the risks : the police force was well informed because it had members who were also members of the local lineages ; and it was ready to intervene to prevent escalation of disputes into further bloodshed . |
| 30 | Mr Bleasdale said the pool was chosen because it had ‘ every facility known to man ’ and added the staff had all been very helpful as had the mothers and toddlers from the Colchester area employed as extras . |