Example sentences of "was [vb pp] because it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( None the less , it should be noted that a critical essay of Eliot 's was dismissed because it said " nothing new " three years later. ) 50 A. C. Ward , reviewing a book called The Trend of Modem Poetry in 1936 , notes the impossibility of achieving " neutrality in the face of the conflict between right and left groups in contemporary poetry " , and therefore applauds attempts to " bring the apparently isolated modernists into the main traditional stream of English poetry " . |
| 2 | Unionist control of local government was resented because it represented minority control and the resentment was kept alive by accusations of discrimination in the allocation of council jobs and housing . |
| 3 | Constable when he was giving evidence it only takes a second to fire a gun was n't that the reason that the bed was tipped because it had to be checked quickly that was n't underneath otherwise Constable may might have got shot . |
| 4 | Our use of some light music on the Fort San Programme was excused because it had been requested for those patients recovering in hospital . |
| 5 | 1952 solution was adopted because it reflected what had become a more theologically certain position on the matter . |
| 6 | Asked what had happened , she answered : " The horse was shot because it had a broken leg . " |
| 7 | After the war , ‘ unfilled ’ vinyl was used because it had much less surface noise , and a few sets of unfilled vinyl 78s were made for early hi-fi buffs . |
| 8 | When the housing market collapsed , it appears that this property was affected because it became the subject of a forced sale . |
| 9 | According to this theory the earlier generational pairing was abandoned because it led to so much inbreeding that people who practised the gens system were genetically more fit for natural selection and therefore survived better . |
| 10 | Joyce Quin ( Labour , Gateshead East ) said her party favoured a Minister for Women , Suzanne Fletcher ( LibDem , Stockton North ) was opposed because it marginalised the issue and Brenda Thompson , a Tory on Cleveland County Council , said the appointment would be patronising . |
| 11 | In the 1970s this ‘ elitist ’ stance was criticised because it implied that ‘ culture ’ and ‘ art ’ were inherently undemocratic . |
| 12 | Porto Alegre was identified because it has two of the very few general practice training programmes in the country . |
| 13 | Thus it was welcomed because it seemed to bring together on the one hand the idealized liberalism of the l960s and 1970s — when pupils and teachers hoped to romp together through an uninhibited dance of individualized learning , projects , pupil-centred learning-situations , and an end to authoritarian concepts of knowledge — with , on the other hand , the 1980s demand for ‘ standards ’ . |
| 14 | But in a letter dated January 7 , the claim was rejected because it had not arrived within 120 days of his leaving Michelin . |
| 15 | In the case of Gothic architecture , the pointed arch was evolved because it became the key to constructing buildings which were then desirable . |
| 16 | The paper was returned because it did not suit the magazines 's readership , but was accepted by Infection and Immunity . |
| 17 | Mr Bleasdale said the pool was chosen because it had ‘ every facility known to man ’ and added the staff had all been very helpful as had the mothers and toddlers from the Colchester area employed as extras . |
| 18 | The BCG matrix was chosen because it had clearly measurable axes for hypothetical examples , which is not the case for the McKinsey-GE matrix . |
| 19 | Race organiser Dennis Gill said Vicki 's fund was chosen because it touched the heart of the organisers . |
| 20 | Dounreay was chosen because it possesses cable links to the national grid and a suitable coastal site . |
| 21 | The dose of 40 mg omeprazole once daily is higher than that recommended for peptic ulcer therapy , but is regularly used in reflux oesophagitis , while a duration of five days was chosen because it has been shown that the effect of omeprazole on gastric acid and serum gastrin stabilises after three days of treatment . |
| 22 | ‘ Saturday was chosen because it has one of the smallest tides . |
| 23 | CLV was chosen because it maximises the CD 's playing time , an important feature for CD audio discs . |
| 24 | There were a few complaints about the rough was too rough and the coarse was too bad and whatnot , but I quite liked the fact that it was labelled because it meant that Rosemary could and could play the . |
| 25 | And when he said that he could n't agree with me , but please , please could n't we let the matter drop since nothing we said or did could alter the course of events , I was enraged because it seemed to me that this really was his attitude , he wanted a quiet life , not to be involved . |