Example sentences of "[coord] because it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand an ambassador might refuse a present because he thought it insultingly small , because his mission had been unsuccessful , or because it seemed that the monarch he represented was about to go to war with the one whose court he was leaving . |
| 2 | A dismissal may be unfair either because it was procedurally arbitrary or because it lacked good cause . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I cried over that old letter , that fragment of academe , because it said in part what I had wanted , then wanted and still want to say to you and only to you , and because it expressed in part some of the physical ache and fear and disappointment I had felt , then felt and still ( in an increased measure ) feel . |
| 5 | The vole had eaten seeds and nuts and because it sensed the long winter to come it had eaten a little of everything : acorns , hazels , haws , hips , sweet catkins , sour apples , sharp sloes , soft blackberries . |
| 6 | The board agreed to Crocker 's demands because it believed that the bank was well managed , and because it knew that the Midland did not have the management strength to tackle retail banking in an entirely alien environment . |
| 7 | " I felt threatened by Marxism because it was the doctrine of a friend , and because it cut across our friendship " , noted Sartre . |
| 8 | After-care was considered necessary in order to ease the employer-employee relationship and because it added ‘ the personal touch which is the breadth of life to this and every form of charitable effort ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ The Blue Angel ’ was made in Germany in 1930 in both German and English versions , and because it became a world-wide smash hit , it remains one of the best-known and best-loved movies of all time . |
| 10 | Opera was rejected in the 60s because modernism found its dependence on human emotions embarrassing and messy , and because it seemed politically inept — a medium housed in monuments to the establishment and inadequate for the expression of political ideologies . |
| 11 | I did it for a bet — with one of my uncles , his side being that I would n't stick to anything — and because it seemed as good a way as any of getting away from home , but I was not uninterested and I have not forgotten my subject . ’ |
| 12 | I chose the example I did because it gave an important history of another library , Glasgow , and because it had also belonged at one time to the Guildhall Library , which had passed it on to them . |
| 13 | The weather became very bitter up here and because it had been a bad summer I had kept two of my cattle in the byre by the house all the time . |
| 14 | It was quite a lengthy questionnaire and because it had to cater for teachers whose experiences of SSE had differed considerably , for some teachers was not easy to complete . |
| 15 | And because it had that name she did n't link it up to other terms like masturbation or whatever . |
| 16 | Entry to this body was much sought after by wealthy young men , because of the prestige it conferred and because it guaranteed proximity to the Emperor . |
| 17 | Of its kind it was unique because of its importance and because it covered the period from 1906 to 1914 , from Modigliani 's arrival in France until the general call-up in 1914 . |
| 18 | He loved it because of the colours and because it needed his nimble fingers . |
| 19 | The part 26-way tree , part linked list method was implemented for comparison purposes , and because it appeared to be a simple way of reducing the amount of memory necessary . |
| 20 | The Committee 's reason for retaining buggery as a separate offence to deal with non-consensual anal intercourse is once again because of the distinctive nature of the conduct and because it considered that it was ‘ an especially humiliating and distressing experience . ’ |
| 21 | And told the cat Hastings , to whom she talked , because cats liked to be talked to , it comforted them , and because it comforted her , too , helped her marshal her thoughts . |
| 22 | e.g. The passage on p. 16 argues that monarchy provided the important political people in Europe because of its universality as a form of government and because it embodied the values and aspirations of contemporary society-monarchy led society ( e.g. patronage ) and also fulfilled conservative role by sanctioning the established order- monarchy 's authority and status in large part derived from alliance with the landed aristocracy and army-the rise of industrial and commercial classes challenged this status quo as the new providers of national wealth , though agriculture still important- industrialists absorbed into status quo . |
| 23 | Fortunately , the classroom located below this block was the smaller of the two , and because it adjoined the kitchen , it made a logical dining-room . |
| 24 | He submitted that the order itself had made a compromise because it contained the words ‘ counterclaim withdrawn ’ and because it dealt with the rent so that the plaintiffs had no further claim in respect of it . |
| 25 | His amber skin was suffused with the roseate glow of a red Tet lantern hanging from the ceiling , and because it cast a shadow across the dark valley of his groin he brushed his hand quickly down the funnel of his lower belly as though seeking reassurance of his completeness . |
| 26 | The old system had fallen into disrepute because of its widespread use as a tax dodge , and because it encouraged conifer planting , but it is recognised that grants are not as effective . |
| 27 | The public library has lost its soul because it has been absorbed into the modern semi-literate culture and because it did not have the knowledge and experience gained across generations that the old private libraries had to enable them to cope with the world of mass circulation popular fiction , for example , rather than the People 's University that Hoggart remembers from his youth in the Hunslet district of Leeds . |
| 28 | Bush rejected the campaign finance bill , the first such measure to have been approved by Congress in more than a decade of partisan dispute over the issue , on the grounds that it offered public subsidies to House and Senate candidates and because it did not eliminate donations from political action committees ( PACs ) . |
| 29 | It claims Michael Heseltine wrote two letters to SFV saying he 'd read the company 's brochure and because it did n't run package holidays there was no need for insurance . |
| 30 | Others said Hong Kong should be optimistic , not because 1997 meant so much , but because it meant so little . |