Example sentences of "because they [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , about the same time , there was a view in Europe that non-Europeans were mentally degenerate because they lacked Western culture . |
| 2 | These writers criticized the industry for being a second-rate imitation of Hollywood , but that was because they despised American cinema and the ‘ box-office bogey ’ , not because they appreciated the economic gap between the two industries . |
| 3 | His latest excuse — that the recession is masking the success of the economy — is the equivalent of ‘ we only lost because they scored more goals ’ . |
| 4 | Staff would begin to cluster in groups , perhaps because they needed common equipment and facilities , perhaps because they discovered common ground in what they taught . |
| 5 | There was also an acceptance , as the implications were worked out later in the paper , that Terminal courses with ‘ a good deal of teaching at quite an elementary level ’ were ‘ a most important part ’ of the WEA 's work ; that university graduates , who usually had a narrow academic education , could benefit from the breadth of learning offered by the WEA quite as much as manual workers ; that courses in literature and the arts were clearly a valid part of the WEA 's total provision because they attracted new members , taught the processes of serious study and by enriching lives helped ‘ in raising the quality of the public which has the power of judgement upon those set in authority over it ’ . |
| 6 | Riborg approved of the Iraquis because they wore clean shirts every day , but disapproved of the Welsh because they were dirty and noisy and went round in droves . |
| 7 | ‘ Some of our fans said they were happy we did n't get a second goal because they feared more trouble , ’ said Bangor secretary Freddie Anderson . |
| 8 | Italy won because they made fewer mistakes . ’ |
| 9 | In one hit-and-run case , one of the jurors had the effrontery to challenge the coroner 's authority , stating that he was a cyclist himself and that pedestrians were often at fault because they took insufficient care . |
| 10 | Acute social divisions may indeed have induced violence , a disruption of settled married life and so on , but there is no need to assume that relationships within the working class were intrinsically any more lacking in feeling than relationships amongst other classes , just because they took different forms . |
| 11 | Now people are n't as open , but that 's because they got taken advantage of . ’ |
| 12 | Oh they do yes , well because nowadays , because they got more men on each job now than they really want . |
| 13 | The differences suggest that those in the non-manual occupational groups were more likely to choose early retirement than skilled manual workers , presumably because they had greater resources and hence more freedom of choice . |
| 14 | The 1980 Women and Employment Survey showed that 36 per cent of employed women were not eligible for redundancy payments , primarily because they had insufficient lengths of service ( Martin and Roberts , 1984 , p. 35 ) . |
| 15 | Or because they had specific reasons ? |
| 16 | They were lucky because they had each other . |
| 17 | Until then Frank had been safe because they had each other , and the things that troubled him were half buried and might well have sunk past danger . |
| 18 | And all the guys at the back the T T S put my name down for it because they had great hilarity |
| 19 | Jesus said simply that they failed because they had little faith . |
| 20 | Labour members in those constituencies would have to be expelled from the party because they had little chance of ousting the sitting Tory MP . |
| 21 | For example , in North Wales , Derbyshire and the main part-time farming areas ( North Yorkshire , Wester Ross and Orkney ) , the number who were confident in all stock tasks was fairly high , no doubt because they had little option but to tackle stock work . |
| 22 | Kondratieff presented few data for growth from 1789 to 1814 from countries other than Britain because they had little growth to analyse . |
| 23 | Thus , for example , it was excusable for a pretty young girl to avoid wearing a seat-belt because she had been topping up her tan on the sun bed and got burnt , for two middle-class school children to ride their bikes without lights late at night because they were trying to stay up on their last might of the summer holidays , and for lads to urinate in the street because they had three miles to walk home . |
| 24 | The smaller , specialised firms , on the other hand , offered more personal contact and service ; charged lower fees ; and , because they had fewer clients than the large consultancies , had access to a wider range of candidates because fewer executives were off-limits . |
| 25 | Because they had large paw marks , came the answer . |
| 26 | This deficiency he shared with a whole crew of leaders of third-world or so-called ‘ non-aligned ’ countries , who like him had gained power because they were against foreign rulers , not because they had any idea of what to put in place of foreign rule . |
| 27 | Others had undergone a test because they ‘ needed to know ’ , not because they had any intention of terminating . |
| 28 | But , and I have no concerns about sports ground sale , we 've regulated the numbers because they had some concerns about the and that , that itself has caused 's fellow supporters some problems , but we 've actually restricted the number of people who can use the sports ground . |
| 29 | He could n't get my bag back for me , or the other contents , because they had some value — although very little I 'm sure — whereas the letter , having no value at all ( except for me of course ! ) was thrown away . |
| 30 | The concerts were not at well attended as normal Wedding Present shows , but this was partly expected because they had less promotion . |