Example sentences of "[art] [noun] because it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ferranti carried on with the contracts because it did not want to give the purported customers an excuse not to pay back the credit . |
| 2 | In sharing the Reds ' upset win in that national trial he proved a bit of success as a distributor and made two scorching breaks which hinted at a swashbuckling touch to his nature : ‘ I was very keen to make a good impression in the trial because it took place a week after my ‘ B ’ debut against Ireland and I wanted to make up for two particular errors in that game . |
| 3 | There was no way we could put TI money into the company , we could n't justify doing that to the shareholders because it looked to us as though BA was going to go under . |
| 4 | Sally Lyle , who lives next door to the Stewarts ' luxury historic townhouse , said : ‘ No one ever spoke about the case because it upset Glenn so much . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The permission of the Chief Constable was also a disadvantage in the field because it raised doubts among respondents about the purpose of the researcher 's questions over and above those that naturally arise from the political situation in Northern Ireland . |
| 7 | C C T to some extend preceded the recession because it brought on members down to conditions that other people are now suffering . |
| 8 | The shooting itself caused three days of riots ; and although a racially mixed jury found Mr Lozano guilty of manslaughter shortly afterwards , an appeals court threw out the verdict because it thought the jury had been intimidated by the unrest . |
| 9 | They wanted me for the part because it seemed they wanted someone younger . |
| 10 | California 's SIP was rejected by the EPA because it did not provide for attainment of the photochemical oxidant standard for Los Angeles . |
| 11 | Even though he had been expecting it — hoping for it , really — he resented the interruption because it broke his chain of concentration . |
| 12 | A curious mixture of shade , energy and colour , it transcended most of the other material on the album because it contained one of the group 's main strengths — a great chorus . |
| 13 | Nor from the point of view of the speaker , is there any hard and fast boundary between these and a non-restrictive adjective used in order to make explicit some property , when it is suspected that the hearer is unaware that it is implied by the use of the noun , as with poisonous in : ( 10 ) she threw Maisie 's lunch-box out of the window because it had a poisonous red-back spider in it Note that ( 10 ) further exemplifies the fact that whether an adjective is taken as restrictive or not depends on the rest of the entity-identifying phrase rather than just on the head noun . |
| 14 | The idea that a player was bound to a company for the rest of his life , and could be bought and sold like a chattel with no real say in the matter , went out of the window because it offended against the principles of individuality . |
| 15 | RISC watcher Andrew Allison remembered FRISC as a merchant chip attempt and says he laughed at Micron months ago when it announced the subsidiary because it did n't have the resources or market presence to pull off a new proprietary architecture . |
| 16 | A CASTLEREAGH councillor believes the Fair Employment Commission pursued a case against the council because it had disputed figures . |
| 17 | They distrusted predictions about the far reaches of the universe because it did not seem they could be tested by observation . |
| 18 | There was nobody to take immediate advantage of the breakthrough because it had until then been universally believed that the learning of language and the understanding of ideas depended on the ability to hear words . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | Easy Rider happened to become the film of the moment because it reflected the mood of the moment . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The implication is that America lost the war because it lacked the will to win . |
| 23 | In the light of Williams v. Roffey , should Mocatta J. have held that the performance of their contract by the yard was a benefit , and therefore consideration , to the owners because it enabled them to perform their very advantageous charter agreement with Shell ( corresponding to the avoidance of the penalty in Williams and the encouragement of the potential defaulters in Anangel ) ? |
| 24 | In 1986 the Norwegian government had demanded the return of the water because it suspected that , contrary to the original agreement , it was not being used for peaceful purposes but for the manufacture of plutonium for nuclear weapons [ see p. 36942 ] . |
| 25 | Umpires Barry Dudleston and John Holder — the man who reported England for tampering with the ball on the same ground against West Indies last year — changed the ball because it had been suspiciously scuffed . |
| 26 | Surrey 's problems started during the 1990 drawn game at Cheltenham when umpires Chris Balderstone and Barrie Leadbeater changed the ball because it had been tampered with . |
| 27 | Personally , from a personal view during those years I was erm going for a neutral stance on the conflict because it did n't help any cause and it only hurt and harmed the peoples of both Iraq and Iran . |
| 28 | The marriage between Robert the Pious 's daughter and the count of Nevers brought obvious political gain to the king because it strengthened the royal hold upon Burgundy ; the count on the other hand gained only temporary advantage , and subsequent generations in Nevers made little of their royal connection . |
| 29 | The psychology of adolescence was crucial to the enterprise because it offered the possibility , indeed , the likelihood of change ; it was grist to the mill of those whom Peter Clarke has termed ‘ moral ’ as opposed to ‘ mechanist ’ reformers . |
| 30 | 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 . |