Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] because it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dream . |
| 2 | They were turned down because it did not fit the criteria . |
| 3 | Texas Instrument Inc 's chest is all puffed out because it managed to make and deliver 20,000 Viking SuperSparc chips by the end of the third calendar quarter last week . |
| 4 | This third National Government , like the Conservative-Liberal Unionist coalition of 1895–1905 , was the type of coalition government with which British history is much more familiar : a coalition between one major party and a fragment from another which has broken off because it disagrees with one of its parent party 's central tenets — in 1886 Home Rule , in 1931 unwillingness to reduce unemployment benefit on the part of Labour and unwillingness to tamper with free trade in the case of the Liberals . |
| 5 | He had chosen this world , Minginish , out of all the others he could have thought up because it had seemed good to him . |
| 6 | One had tried using a hand-held scanner for the job but had given up because it made too many mistakes . |
| 7 | The Royal Bank of Scotland said it had pulled out because it saw no continuing need for its participation . |
| 8 | It might of course have been a more acceptable blue when it was put on because it changes |