Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] because it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eastman Kodak put Interactive on the block at least six months ago because it did not fit its core business interests . |
| 2 | And I cleared the lot except six baskets and they were all in good condition , so I was glad of these six baskets really because it helped you to give them one or two more . |
| 3 | COSE continues to resist any designation as a group or collective appellation as the COSE companies reportedly because it expects to expand . |
| 4 | It is dangerous , however , to argue that there is no reason for the large antlers just because it seems unnecessary to give a reason . |
| 5 | Well , er , I became er , unhappy with the communist party many years ago because it did n't follow the philosophical teaching on which works , the erm , erm , dialectical materialism . |
| 6 | It was a face that Joseph and Flavia Sherman would have recognized instantly from their encounter with the Annamese journalist in the palace of Khai Dinh at Tet exactly five years earlier because it had changed little , if at all , in the interval of time . |
| 7 | Depressed production , costly for Leyland at the time , is good news for investors now because it has endowed the Stag with scarcity appeal . |
| 8 | Like its author , this is a book which insists you forgive it every one of its manifest faults simply because it presumes to be no other than it is . |
| 9 | Hanson buys firms either because it believes them to be under-managed , or because it believes the firms ' existing managers have over-extended themselves . |
| 10 | The party cell was afraid to have open meetings mainly because it feared criticism from what it called the ‘ kulaks ' . |
| 11 | Acid rain affects trees partly because it dissolves essential nutrients out of the soil , such as magnesium and calcium — but again releases aluminium , which the trees take up to their detriment . |
| 12 | He said said the Government was keeping interest rates high because it did not know what else to do . |
| 13 | Geraldine did not watch the Golden Girls tonight because it clashed with News at Ten . |
| 14 | I picked out a selection , deciding on even numbers only because it seemed like a sensible thing to do at the time . |
| 15 | The Ministry of Internal Affairs placed the circle under surveillance and delayed making arrests only because it wanted to demonstrate , by compiling the fullest possible dossier , that its investigative abilities were superior to those of the Third Department . |
| 16 | This clearly affects women adversely because it overlooks their discontinuous patterns of employment ( Martin and Roberts , 1984 ) . |