Example sentences of "because it [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iraq did not need a nuclear device , because it already had stocks of binary chemical weapons and , he went on , any country which threatened Iraq with an atomic bomb would be " annihilated " by the chemicals . |
| 2 | But because it already occupied the existing space for electoral politics , the layer of educated and professional younger community leaders who might have become involved in politics was atomised . |
| 3 | People could n't see the danger we were in — in fact Lee could n't see it either — because it just looked as though his ball was in a sand hole . |
| 4 | But then they came back and said it was changed to ‘ Everything We Do Is Driven By You ’ and my initial thought was ‘ Yuk , I do n't think I can do anything with that either , ’ because it just sounded like motor cars and I 'm not interested in singing songs about motor cars . |
| 5 | Fair enough yeah because it just struck me that there 's a lot of er a lot of disgusteds all at once there . |
| 6 | Because it just took so much of our energy last time helping people fill in forms and everything . |
| 7 | All outlined how fab System 10 was , and how it would help them , with PeopleSoft rooting for database cursors and the new Open Client because it wants to offer customers better performance , distributed data management , system administration tools and very large database support , and Bachman promising to support System 10 — well , because it just liked Sybase so much . |
| 8 | All outlined how fab System 10 was , and how it would help them , with PeopleSoft rooting for database cursors and the new Open Client because it wants to offer customers better performance , distributed data management , system administration tools and very large database support , and Bachman promising to support System 10 — well , because it just liked Sybase so much . |
| 9 | ’ . I listened , looking vague I expect , but did nothing — not from ill-will but because it just did not occur to me to change . |
| 10 | Israel did not want the refugees to return because it desperately needed their land and villages to absorb Jewish immigrants . |
| 11 | The copper map had evidently been fastened to the concrete plinth through the medium of some nineteen-thirties metallurgical technology which is sadly lost to us today , because it ruggedly defied even the most enterprising attempts to prise it free and bear it off to the smelting pot . |
| 12 | Two of its lead investors declined to participate : MIPS because it had problems of its own and Singapore-based Wearnes Technology Pte , its manufacturing arm , because it reportedly got distracted by a PC deal with IBM . |
| 13 | Because it soon became apparent to Sarah , if not Peter , that this was what it was . |
| 14 | Because it eventually went it a high court you remember . |
| 15 | Being stationed next to the stage , Rousseau complained , its maître de musique could not manage the ensemble properly ; audible use of the baton was loud and frequent ; French music was doomed to this crude practice because it intrinsically lacked regular rhythm ( unlike Italian music ) . |
| 16 | She disliked losing her temper against her will because it rarely achieved useful results and symbolised impotence rather than strength : always better to channel anger than display it , she thought . |
| 17 | And although she felt she was being torn apart inside , at the same time the older woman 's brutal candour was welcome , because it finally answered so many unhappy questions . |
| 18 | This law was widely criticised as racist because it effectively barred entry from the so-called new Commonwealth while allowing continued emigration from the predominantly white old Commonwealth countries . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , the peace was an Athenian triumph because it effectively acknowledged Athens ' empire by sea . |
| 20 | General Aoun 's ‘ war of liberation ’ against Syria served the Christian cause because it effectively postponed discussion of the reforms which Muslims believe are essential if their numbers are to be fairly represented in a future government . |
| 21 | Sinatra also held the rights to the movie and withdrew it from the public domain shortly after release because it closely shadowed the Kennedy assassination . |
| 22 | ‘ Because it never occurred to one person not to keep that running total . ’ |
| 23 | I do n't know if it was because it never happened , or because they did n't think I was the right person to talk to . ’ |
| 24 | It would n't last , because it never did , and the end of October might even bring the first tentative snows of winter — but until then people would continue to be caught out , and to shiver and sweat as a penance for their gullibility . |
| 25 | Nor did early twentieth-century state welfare provision do much to alleviate the position of working class wives because it too assumed the existence of the bourgeois family model and a family wage . |
| 26 | The body in its stiff ungainliness , beginning already , or so it seemed to his over-sensitive nose , to emit the first sour-sweet stink of decay , yet had an inalienable dignity because it once had been a man . |
| 27 | Even a turn of phrase could affect her , however worn and faded in its application , and one of her mother 's favourite sayings " What ca n't be cured must be endured , " never failed to give her a certain thrill , partly because of the grim inevitability of the rhyme , and partly because it almost managed to lend a little spare dignity to her mother 's stoic outlook . |
| 28 | Under ideal conditions it was estimated that ice formation could exert a maximum pressure of around 200 MPa ( at which point the freezing temperature is -22°C ) , but it was appreciated that this theoretical maximum pressure could never be attained under natural conditions , not the least because it far exceeded the tensile strength of most rocks ( around 25 MPa ) . |
| 29 | Ruth had to smile because it certainly did n't sound like her . |
| 30 | Anne Hammond 's courageous acceptance of the cruel hand fate had dealt her had moved her far more than she would have believed possible , the more so because it only seemed to emphasise her own feeling of helplessness . |