Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] because it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is all grist to the mill of those who like to argue that Japan has succeeded because it works by different rules from those in the West . |
| 2 | This experiment has succeeded because it held out the goal of political as well as economic barriers overcome , of a Europe united . |
| 3 | This plant exports the chips to Japan for processing but the scheme to replace the original forest with plantation to sustain the plant indefinitely has foundered because it has not been demonstrated that timber-growing is a worthwhile economic activity that does not threaten ownership of the land . |
| 4 | That is a major anomaly which the British Parliament has accepted because it has no alternative . |
| 5 | I shall be elaborating upon this point in a short while , but for the moment let us observe that fundamentalism has flowered because it has concluded that liberalism is effete , ineffectual and impoverished . |
| 6 | It will not be easy but , even if it emerges as a successful project in the early 1990s , it will have succeeded because it suited the market , rather than because it was implemented as national policy . |
| 7 | First of all , though , my words must have stuck because it started to blow a bit during the round , about 20 miles-per-hour I 'd say , but Tony shot a 73 , which was a fair score . |
| 8 | The aged had , nevertheless , acquired ‘ a definite status in the community … and the ‘ pauper taint ’ [ was ] removed by a system of personal thrift organized by the state' , a provision for which the Conference congratulated itself , claiming to have succeeded because it had placed national interests over and above political tactics . |
| 9 | ‘ A lot of people like to get worked because it knocks the fear out of them . |
| 10 | The third practice had overspent because it had taken over a smaller practice after the preparatory work on budget setting had been completed , and it had not been able to make an accurate estimate of prescribing costs for the 1300 patients involved . |
| 11 | That I 've done what I 've done because it seemed to me right , not because I wanted to spite him . ’ |
| 12 | He 'd caught a glimpse of the two of them reflected in the hall mirror and his heart had lurched because it looked as if he was propping up a corpse . |
| 13 | It had survived because it had got a metallic thread running through it . |
| 14 | The clothing industry , including flax , had flourished because it supplied both the Tsarist and the Red Armies which trampled through Belorussia . |
| 15 | This synthesizer is by far the best I have heard because it varies the intonation and does n't speak like a Dalek . |
| 16 | Many attempts have been made in the House to reform the private Bill procedure and many of them have collapsed because it has always been easier for a private measure to be introduced . |