Example sentences of "it [adv] because it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason HP is rated ‘ difficult to arrange ’ by more people than other credit types is not that people think it would be more difficult to arrange , but that people generally were quicker to apply any comments to it presumably because it has a more prominent image for them . |
| 2 | I ENJOYED it most because it made me laugh so much . |
| 3 | The Queen and Prince Philip survived it only because it came upon them in middle age — when any youthful indescretion or misbehaviour had long since been enjoyed and then forgotten in the mists of time . |
| 4 | I 'll read it aloud because it does make it I think it makes it stick in your mind more . |
| 5 | That is getting away from the old system whereby the County Council held a vast store of advisers in Macclesfield House , stacked up , and schools that needed them requested them and off they went , but schools in fact that wanted perhaps a different sort of advice , was n't able to get it from Macclesfield House , and could n't buy it outside because it did n't have the money to do so . |
| 6 | Wurlitzer originally wrote a quite different last chapter to his novel but threw it away because it seemed too analytical . |
| 7 | Jinny remembered it clearly because it had been quite different from all the solemn newspaper cuttings Keith had shown her , and she had stopped to make fun of one or two of Harriet Shakespeare 's more nauseating remarks . |
| 8 | you know , where I belong , I , I do n't quite honestly do n't really like Harlow New Town any more , I al I did up until about oh eight or nine years ago I thought it was a great place and all , all the cockneys that said , you know , oh I 'd love to be back in London , I thought they were barmy , you know to live in London the di the difference is , I mean my husband 's a cockney and he would n't , would never , well now he would never go back to London you know , it 's a dump , he , he likes Harlow , but er I think I do n't like it now because it 's expanded so much , you know when we , when we were first here , mind you when we first moved in it was ever so difficult for us kids because , there , there was the Old Town kids versus the New Town kids and they hated us , they really |
| 9 | In turn , they prefer it precisely because it enables them to be with fellow immigrants and avoid the hostility of white workers on the day-shift . |