Example sentences of "[coord] because it had " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 And because it had that name she did n't link it up to other terms like masturbation or whatever .
5 Their rugby was essentially unlovable , not because it was dull ( it was n't ) but because it had a rock-hard edge which caused opponents to feel intimidated before they went on the field — and sometimes with good cause since there were plenty of occasions when the ‘ manliness ’ of which Neath made so much was actually foul play , plain and simple .
6 We can be fairly certain that such a reaction did occur , not merely because it is observable among modern primates , but because it had to exist if young males were , in due course of time , to supplant the fathers , and this , for the purposes of reproduction , they had to do .
7 At the time the offer had thrilled her , not because of the pearls but because it had indicated she would be in his life in the future .
8 Tax and bill collectors faced more practical confusion , not only with a ‘ re-timed ’ calendar but because it had also been decided to start the legal year on January 1 instead of March 25 , which had been New Year 's Day since the twelfth century .
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