Example sentences of "[noun prp] because it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the most trivial of levels it could be claimed that Version 3.0 had caught up with Ventura because it supported stylesheets and graphics wraparound . |
| 2 | California 's SIP was rejected by the EPA because it did not provide for attainment of the photochemical oxidant standard for Los Angeles . |
| 3 | Party rivalry was so intense in England under the later Stuarts because it affected not just the political elite at the centre , but cut deep into society . |
| 4 | But the harsh fact is that the UN was able to operate effectively in liberating Kuwait because it suited US national interests to undertake this task ; and America and its allies clearly preferred to operate with the Security Council 's approval . |
| 5 | Editor , — An important reason why paracetamol-methionine is rarely prescribed is that when Sterling Winthrop introduced it in 1986 under the brand name Pameton the Department of Health refused to add it to the list of medicines prescribable within the NHS because it saw ‘ no clinical need . ’ |
| 6 | 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 ’ |
| 7 | Dorothea had told Florence Ames the story of Gaily in the church twice before , and neither of them was yet tired of it , Dorothea because it pleased her friend so to hear it , and Florence because it pleased her that the man had been somehow vindicated , turned out to be as good as she had thought , and a friend . |
| 8 | For sure Cabinets were made and unmade on the floor of the House , but the Cabinet for its part could unmake the House of Commons because it enjoyed the right to ask for a dissolution and after the election it could look for support from amongst members in a new House of Commons . |
| 9 | Forestry interests and landowners in Scotland had been lobbying the Scottish Office to draw the teeth of the NCC because it had been too successful in defending the uplands from conifers . |
| 10 | Esther was also offered places at both universities , and chose Cambridge because it offered her a scholarship , and because her brother had been at King 's , and because she heard an owl hoot thrice in the college garden when she retired to her narrow bed after the glass of wine with Flora Piercy . |
| 11 | Iraq demanded on Sept. 26 that Kuwait be expelled from the NAM because it had signed a defence agreement with the United States , a move which it claimed compromised Kuwait 's neutrality . |
| 12 | but she said er , they did n't do too well with Anna because it did n't drain |
| 13 | Robert Byrd ( West Virginia ) , the appropriations committee chairman , came under attack from Nunn because it allowed unauthorized " pork-barrel " programmes to be funded and because no money was given to restart production of the F-117 A fighter , a stealth aircraft Nunn called the " star " of the Gulf war . |
| 14 | Although the major bookmaking firms are represented on the users committee , they were originally not keen on Hong Kong because it meant bringing in extra staff in the mornings . |
| 15 | The food was called Herakleophorbia because it suggested that food made you strong and tall . |
| 16 | THE US Secretary of State , James Baker , hinted yesterday that the US withheld military support for Tuesday 's failed coup in Panama because it believed it had little chance of success . |
| 17 | No I had , I had of the chemist in Chapel because it came |
| 18 | It led to a vast improvement for everybody in Baldersdale because it provided a regular income . |
| 19 | For example , the Dalradian succession in Scotland was chosen for attention by the MRP because it included the stratiform ‘ pyrite belt ’ similar to the area around the economic Stekenjokk Cu-Zn-Pb deposit in Sweden . |
| 20 | THE drivers who moaned about the parking problems at the Genesis concert at Knebworth because it took them a long time to get out make me mad . |
| 21 | It was a film made some years ago in black and white , but , despite the difficulty of watching it in a foreign language , the power of the drama gripped them both , Sarella because she was a professional and was impressed by the intensity of the acting , and Marc because it seemed to strike some deep chord within him . |
| 22 | After the fight with the beggars he had left the sack with Allen and Marian because it had seemed to him an ingenious way of saving himself the trouble of carrying it to Simon 's hut and back again while at the same time it was a guarantee that the children would remain until he returned . |
| 23 | The main target for the Auld Report 's criticisms was the LEA because it had interpreted its responsibilities in terms largely confined to the provision of resources . |
| 24 | Dorothea had told Florence Ames the story of Gaily in the church twice before , and neither of them was yet tired of it , Dorothea because it pleased her friend so to hear it , and Florence because it pleased her that the man had been somehow vindicated , turned out to be as good as she had thought , and a friend . |
| 25 | They removed a detective novel by Dame Ngaio Marsh because it bore the picture of a goat on the front cover . |
| 26 | Water for the Eastern mind was a very precious gift of God because it spelt the difference between life and death . |
| 27 | In November 1983 Milan Kundera wrote an essay for Le Débat , in which he argued that Russia could never really be considered part of Europe because it had for so long been dominated by Caesaropapism , where the civil emperor is also the supreme religious leader . |
| 28 | It was not , of course , merely the noisome aspect which needed to be dealt with ; Asiatic cholera made its appearance in 19th-century Europe because it found virtually Asiatic conditions in the open sewers and cesspits of the great cities . |
| 29 | Africa was always nasty to Miss Mates because it had maimed and nearly killed her treasure . |
| 30 | One of the richest made for Julius II later escaped the sack of Rome because it happened to be in pawn at the time . |