Example sentences of "but because it [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had always had difficulty with the idea of a long-bearded god sitting on a throne on high , but because it came in the form it did , as an energy , I had no difficulty with it … |
| 2 | That is not to say that banks faced no competition ; but because it came from mutual-fund companies , savings banks or manufacturing firms ' finance arms , they were slower to spot it and restricted by regulators in reacting to it . |
| 3 | Public prosecutor Andrei Makarov declared afterwards that it had been significant " not so much because it punished Ostashvili , but because it brought to light the forces standing behind this small figure and exposed the fascism which is growing in society " . |
| 4 | Therefore , to a degree , the ‘ social gospel ’ was criticized not because it called for political action but because it called into question Victorian cultural and economic truisms . |
| 5 | On the prototype a 100VA transformer , which was unnecessarily big , but because it happened to be standing on the shelf , was used . |
| 6 | Even the Darwinian theory of evolution was impressive , not because the concept of evolution was new — it had been familiar for decades — but because it provided for the first time a satisfactory explanatory model for the origin of species , and did so in terms which were entirely familiar even to non-scientists , since they echoed the most familiar concept of the liberal economy , competition . |
| 7 | Homer referred to the ‘ wine-dark sea ’ not because the Mediterranean was the colour of wine , but because it intoxicated with its obscurity . |