Example sentences of "[noun sg] because it [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sartre had initially been attracted to her work because it seemed to demonstrate his own concern with the inauthenticity of human relationships , yet he would later reject her fiction simply on the basis that her novels are set in an upper-middle-class Parisian milieu . |
| 2 | A CASTLEREAGH councillor believes the Fair Employment Commission pursued a case against the council because it had disputed figures . |
| 3 | Legend has it that it was once fired on by a warship because it failed to reply to a signal ! |
| 4 | There could be said to be a ‘ Structural crisis ’ for Europe over its position in the World in the immediate post-war period because it had become as Churchill said ‘ A rubble heap , a charnel house , a breeding ground of pestilence and hate ’ . |
| 5 | It was the Second Law of Thermodynamics which gave Victorian intellectuals a certain frisson because it seemed to imply that the world was running down . |
| 6 | Under the old system , the Leader of the PLP would be seen to enjoy the confidence of that body because it had elected him through an exhaustive ballot . |
| 7 | It 's in the process of providing one at Benson , and it only provided the Heyford site because it had done a deal with the City Council over land and that |
| 8 | Mr Noyes will claim the MoD said nothing about the alleged landing because it wanted to save any embarrassment . |
| 9 | The Treasury , moreover , suffered a setback in its endeavour to recover its pre-war importance because it had failed to predict the convertibility crisis . |
| 10 | He had slipped up in using Tweed 's name because it had sounded as though he 'd been one of the casualties . |
| 11 | In Better Schools ( 1985 ) the government singled out ‘ peace studies ’ for criticism , saying that it had no place on the school curriculum because it failed to deal with certain issues in a balanced and objective manner . |
| 12 | Following her return to the ward Julie 's temperature was monitored every hour because it remained raised . |
| 13 | The second point is that , in the Hedley Byrne case , the bank providing the advice was able to escape liability because it had printed a clear disclaimer on the information excluding legal responsibility for the advice . |
| 14 | In the East End of London , some joined the BUF because it appeared to offer a kind of explanation for economic and social problems which had their roots in the interaction between a native working class and a stable Jewish minority . |
| 15 | Control of spending was crucial to the government 's strategy because it wanted to cut governmental borrowing and taxes . |
| 16 | For them , the survey embodied the scientific method because it sought to make basic observations of the phenomena of interest and out of this formulate generalisations . |
| 17 | The new image will be a big gamble for the star whose Wogan Show was axed last month because it had run out of steam . |
| 18 | Gandhi could not countenance such an approach because it involved rejecting ahi sā and relinquishing sarvodaya . |
| 19 | ‘ This does n't apply , ’ as the teenage Amis remarked in his army barracks , abandoning Marxism because it failed to fit the real world . |
| 20 | Perhaps it was too small a bed because it had to hold the ghosts of Mo Magill and Jenny Maxim 's dead wife as well . |
| 21 | Considering that NFS version 3 , which was a major re-do , is sitting on a shelf somewhere collecting dust because it failed to garner popular support , there will probably be some reluctance to call this puppy by the same name . |
| 22 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates says he is working with Time Warner Inc to bring experimental two-way television to some 5,000 Florida homes by early 1994 , the Orlando Sentinel reported , adding that the two companies are working toward making such two-way systems more user-friendly ; Gates said that he studied several other experimental two-way television systems but chose the Orlando project because it seemed to offer the best interactive possibilities of ordering movies , making financial transactions and ‘ creating a computer window into the world of information ’ . |
| 23 | He has a pregnant wife yet has given up his job as a physio because it started to interfere with his rugby preparation . |
| 24 | Ironically , this intervention was felt to be unhelpful to the Prime Minister because it seemed to lend legitimacy to the possibility of a contest in the autumn . |
| 25 | On the contrary , progress was essential to their optimistic vision of history because it seemed to guarantee that the world was moving in a purposeful direction towards a morally significant goal . |
| 26 | To men of the Middle Ages astronomy was of particular interest because it seemed to offer the best means of understanding , and possibly controlling , terrestrial events . |