Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] because it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adis who appeared before news cameras at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford earlier this week was transferred to Stoke Mandeville because it houses the national spinal injuries centre . |
| 2 | Africa was always nasty to Miss Mates because it had maimed and nearly killed her treasure . |
| 3 | The extremists ' behaviour helps Mr Yeltsin because it convinces voters who do not much like him that they have to vote for the president in order to keep out people like Messrs Baburin and Isakov . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | He also preferred the Durham system to the Cambridge system because it afforded the chance of more general courses of study . |
| 6 | I am speaking now of its Belgrade side , of the old men in the Academy who wished to complete Serb history because it seemed to them that it had not been properly completed back in 1918 . |
| 7 | Although the major bookmaking firms are represented on the users committee , they were originally not keen on Hong Kong because it meant bringing in extra staff in the mornings . |
| 8 | The September speech was said to have disappointed many in the Würzburg area because it provided no comforting words about the situation on the eastern Front . |
| 9 | I liked the Les Paul because it had a lot of knobs ! |
| 10 | The Bosnian Serbs under Karadzic are against the plan drawn up by mediators Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen because it demands they give up a third of the territory they control and proposes dividing Bosnia into ten ethnic cantons . |
| 11 | Very anxious to promote the Wales in Europe scheme because it 's been very important to us , including the links that er we have been able to build up with other regions of Europe in Catalonia , , Lombardy and Battenberkaburg above all er which our our sort of strong erm er neighbours which can teach us a lot about industry and these are the areas that we will want to link up with by having this extra seat in the European parliament , er and obviously I mean there are sorts of areas where we have some sympathy with the occasional point that is made by the anti-Europe speakers on the other side . |
| 12 | But erm the forty six is an artificial figure , it represents neither the capacity of the city nor the calculated needs , so I would not wish to er have this figure of forty six in our York plan because it does n't actually relate to either . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | Mr. Gardiner submitted that this case supported the Woolwich principle because it showed that a sum unlawfully demanded as of right by a person in authority could be recovered . |
| 15 | According to observers , the compromise agreed at Houston was acceptable to the EC countries because it recognized the special nature of EC farming as mainly family based ( rather than corporate-based as in the USA ) , while the USA could be satisfied because the agreement spelled out what kinds of subsidies should be reduced . |
| 16 | WAD general secretary Margaret Williams , said : ‘ At present , a lot of disabled people are unable to go to Grange Road because it involves too much walking . |
| 17 | They removed a detective novel by Dame Ngaio Marsh because it bore the picture of a goat on the front cover . |
| 18 | A room that British civil servants moan about but defend the way New Yorkers do New York because it shows how unique they are in coping so splendidly in such surroundings . |
| 19 | The report deeply angered Price Waterhouse because it had not given evidence to Senator Kerry 's subcommittee . |
| 20 | She switched to London Weekend because it went on all night and watched another film , then a comedy about a Los Angeles police precinct . |
| 21 | Well I hope there 's nobody in Coulson House because it 's boarded up and I can not see how you get a vacant bed in Coulson House and this is this exercise . |
| 22 | The hon. Member for Foyle ( Mr. Hume ) has , much more eloquently than I could , told us of the damage that it does and the effect that it has on the young people of Northern Ireland because it gives them a future of either migration or unemployment . |
| 23 | And and I think that 's why this particular policy is very important to the Selby district because it allows us to address the balance between meeting what I would call the justifiable development but also the equally important environmental consideration . |