Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | I liked the Les Paul because it had a lot of knobs ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They removed a detective novel by Dame Ngaio Marsh because it bore the picture of a goat on the front cover . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The report deeply angered Price Waterhouse because it had not given evidence to Senator Kerry 's subcommittee . |
| 11 | 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 . |