Example sentences of "[vb past] because it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An inquest has been told that a plane crashed because it had a flat battery . |
| 2 | An inquest has been told that a plane crashed because it had a flat battery . |
| 3 | The Netherlands disagreed because it thought harmonised taxes would be too weak . |
| 4 | The idea was considered but rejected because it did not meet the Government 's timetable . |
| 5 | Do you remember Uncle Charles Lane building a bomb-proof wall outside the kitchen ? — and how you were so excited when the raids came because it meant Pop and I were able to stop work and play idiotic games with the three of you ? ! |
| 6 | Woolwich paid because it calculated that it was in its commercial interest to do so . |
| 7 | Uniformitarianism triumphed because it provided a general theory that was at once logical and seemingly " scientific " . |
| 8 | ‘ As far as actually ‘ working out ’ is concerned , I 've been doing a lot this year , but not since rehearsals began because it 's just been so crazed . |
| 9 | I immediately agreed because it seemed like a natural idea for me . |
| 10 | It failed because it precipitated a managerial revolution in Courtaulds , which in turn led to the defeat of the bid and the rapid recovery of the company . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | First , it failed because it did not benefit the poor as much as it did the middle classes . |
| 13 | The cup broke because it fell off the table . |
| 14 | It worked because it offered the combination of style and leisure which more refined sensibilities found coarsened in Brighton . |
| 15 | ‘ I knew because it 's got a band of those black and white checks across the bonnet and the roof and running down the back . |
| 16 | Damon rubbed Lee 's stomach with his foot the way you would a dog 's and Lee screamed because it tickled . |
| 17 | As she gathered up the bedding and cushions she had hung out of the windows to air before the evening earth began to exhale dew , she wondered whether she should fetch out her best mantilla , the white lace her mother had given her for her first communion , which she never wore because it seemed so showy , and had n't worn even yesterday for the Easter Mass . |
| 18 | He sipped his coffee and hissed because it scalded his lip . |
| 19 | She was always quiet , which I liked because it gave me a chance to talk without interruption . |
| 20 | So um it 's much I suppose it makes the world a slightly safer place if you can say it was to do with something that you did because it brings the world slightly back under your control , maybe . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Put it on , design it she said because it dries very quickly . |
| 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 | I even joined a group for divorced men but in the end I left because it fed my negativity instead of alleviating it . |
| 27 | ( In fact it is Grade II starred because it has been inhabited for more than 1,000 years . ) |
| 28 | But MI5 deliberately ignored them as and when it suited because it believed no prime minister or Home Secretary would interfere nor would any member of the service break ranks and tell the truth about what really went on inside MI5 . |