Example sentences of "because it had [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Africa was always nasty to Miss Mates because it had maimed and nearly killed her treasure . |
| 2 | The government kept the army small in the past mostly because it had noticed that autocratic regimes with large armies are vulnerable to military coups . |
| 3 | If the House were to decide at a later stage to enter a single currency , it would be , first , because it had decided that the economic convergence conditions in Europe were right for a single currency to be beneficial to this country . |
| 4 | There could be said to be a ‘ Structural crisis ’ for Europe over its position in the World in the immediate post-war period because it had become as Churchill said ‘ A rubble heap , a charnel house , a breeding ground of pestilence and hate ’ . |
| 5 | We can be fairly certain that such a reaction did occur , not merely because it is observable among modern primates , but because it had to exist if young males were , in due course of time , to supplant the fathers , and this , for the purposes of reproduction , they had to do . |
| 6 | He had slipped up in using Tweed 's name because it had sounded as though he 'd been one of the casualties . |
| 7 | In re Polemis [ 1921 ] 3 KB 560 was wrongly decided because it had held that once liability was established , a person was responsible for the direct consequences of his acts even though these were not foreseeable . |