Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [noun] because it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people are attracted to Yugoslavia because it offers such great value for money . |
| 2 | That Burgess ' model can not really be accurately applied to Nottingham because it is too rigid in its form . |
| 3 | And , attempts to encourage greater accountability and competition between authorities have tended to flounder because it has been accompanied by a higher degree of centralization and control and a wider gap between the possibilities of locally generated finance and overall levels of spending . |
| 4 | As a result work has started on the Blisworth tunnel ( on the Grand Union canal ) , which was closed to navigation because it was dangerous , and a reservoir which feeds the Oxford canal . |
| 5 | An individualized approach based on a concept of efficacy can be sold to dischargers because it is ‘ scientific ’ . |
| 6 | Somewhere here were the contributions of Duroc 's ancestors : a series of articles co-written by Pierre Henri Duroc and Donatien Alphonse Francois , Marquis de Sade , speculating on the limits of the human mind when confronted with endless pain ; some transcripts from the meetings of Robespierre 's Committee of Public Safety , in which the fates of some of the first families of France were decided on a whim ; a suppressed account of certain discoveries in a pre-human city that came to light in 19th-century French Equatorial Africa before the cyclopean stones mysteriously sank into the soft jungle earth ; Cauchemar et Fils , Maitres des Mondes Perdues , an unpublished novel by M. Jules Verne that was purchased from the author by a Great-Great-Great-Uncle and consigned to obscurity because it described a steam-driven engine to open up a gateway to a world of dreams that bore a remarkable similarity to a device that the Duroc of the time had indeed developed . |
| 7 | An alternative view is that s.64 is restricted to explosives because it falls within the part of the Act dealing with explosives . |
| 8 | It was brought to Burford because it was found unable to feed itself . |
| 9 | But she made no move to leave , so I had to say not at all , I 'd gone to bed because it seemed the warmest place . |
| 10 | The institutional church , preoccupied with orthodoxy and fundamentally opposed to Marxism because it is viewed as materialistic and atheistic , is made up of bishops , priests , laity and religious movements who , though not very numerous , are powerful , partly because the laity of the group belong to the wealthier classes . |