Example sentences of "[noun pl] because it [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keeping the Sabbath was originally one of the Ten Commandments because it kept aside time to honour the Creator . |
| 2 | sales and marketing director for Masters & Andren , explains , ‘ Induction cooking is becoming increasingly popular in kitchens because it brings together the key elements of energy saving and new technology . |
| 3 | Erm they would n't grow , they ca n't grow grain or use two or three times in succession , but then for that another seven years because it takes so much goodness out the erm thing , there 's so many diseases and they got to change their crop after a while |
| 4 | I have n't used the word poverty I 've used a phrase about lack of financial resources because it relates more obviously and directly to many of the concerns of the Board for example almost certainly the real reason why there was no room in the inn at Bethlehem is that the income of a village carpenter did n't go near the exorbitant prices being charged by mine host when , to use the good Scots phrase , the cow calved and there was this boom over the crows for the census . |
| 5 | If you 're gon na turn to stealing , then from then on it 's gon na be not the last resort any more , it 's gon na be one of the first resorts because it pays so much quicker . |
| 6 | In the barony of Lewes it was not unknown for heritable copyholds to be entailed , to such an extent indeed that even though the common law harboured reservations as to its legality , the judges ‘ haue bene sparinge to deliuer their opinions because it concerned very many of the kinges subjectes ’ . |
| 7 | A job with the KGB is much sought-after by young Russians because it pays well , offers many special privileges such as housing and foreign goods denied to the ordinary citizen , and also gives the chance of foreign travel . |
| 8 | That remains true : and the recent past , which is the one period open to direct study through life story testimony , is the least subject to research by either historians or sociologists because it falls uneasily between their concerns . |
| 9 | His symbols were circles with different patterns inside them ; presumably circles because it had always been taken for granted that atoms were spheres . |
| 10 | The Soviet Union was therefore perceived as a threat by both the military and the economic elites because it served both their interests . |
| 11 | Most other scientists , however , were willing to accept quantum mechanics because it agreed perfectly with experiment . |
| 12 | Witness could not say how much help in this a girl would need from the men because it varied so much , but she did not think it amounted to much , and no special men workers were employed for it " Lifting is therefore not denied , but its importance is distinctly minimized when a woman is speaking , maximized when a man is . |
| 13 | It 's easy to see why developers believe that Microsoft has an unfair advantage over its competitors because it produces both the GUI and the software that runs on it . |