Example sentences of "had [verb] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only two subjects in the nicotine patch and one in the placebo group had withdrawn because of side effects . |
| 2 | Rounding up the elephants and trying to count them was a hellish job , much more difficult than anyone had foreseen because of the vast area , the confusing vegetation and terrain , and the impossibility of labelling the beasts or keeping track of them once they had been found and counted once . |
| 3 | She was sent to me by her doctor , whom she had consulted because she suffered from anxiety attacks and what she called ‘ turns ’ . |
| 4 | I ai n't been to no doctor 's , well I 'm lying I had to go again , I had to like because I 've been getting these here bloody , I must 've had them ten or fifteen year or more and , cos I 'm on these here tablets now for the old stomach like , and that like . |
| 5 | Five different classes we had to cancel because nobody turned up . |
| 6 | At first it was felt that the variety of reference systems in use had developed because of inept control mechanisms and general lack of discipline in applying procedures , but as the analysts ' knowledge increased , it became apparent that the references had evolved to suit the needs of users , needs which were considerably different throughout the departments . |
| 7 | I think a medical problem different say for instance for myself I got an awful bash on the nose playing badminton and they thought it was broken , however it mended and I wished it had broken because its mended a bit , but I do not believe in spending money on cosmetic surgery because I think if you make the best of what you have and think of all the people were mutilated by disease |
| 8 | The third practice had overspent because it had taken over a smaller practice after the preparatory work on budget setting had been completed , and it had not been able to make an accurate estimate of prescribing costs for the 1300 patients involved . |
| 9 | In his view Fraser had delayed because he did n't want to face the truth . |
| 10 | She remonstrated with him and explained that she had stopped because she had never seen such a fish before . |
| 11 | They had stopped because of his need for rest . |
| 12 | No , I I agree with that but I wondered if you had stopped because you introduced the topic and then when when this involuntary and unexpected answer came up you sat down and I thought you might have pursued your original questions . |
| 13 | After a birdie at the first , we ran into a bit of trouble at the 6th , a hole Lee had criticized because he felt you should n't have to ‘ lay up ’ on any par-4in an Open . |
| 14 | Noboru Takeshita had to go because he received undeclared sums of money from the Recruit publishing-to-property conglomerate . |
| 15 | Yes , you you 've got to extend the route , well of course you 've got to put up , trolley poles every for about forty yards and then of course there was two lengths of trolley wire that had to go because as you know trolley buses used to have two arms , positive and negative supply and er , of course the bus had to come back er alongside the premiu the outward route , it come on , so you had four wires up there and the cost of copper wire was terrific so the motor buses were developed and we expenim experimented with the buses on , on extensions mainly but when the extensions were finished we then begradged because trolley wires were then beginning to wear out , rather than replace them they would convert a trolley route into a bus route , and erm because the erm , there was a lot of people hated to see the demise of the trolley buses because they were so clean and silent and the buses came , you got the deal sloke and lumbering of the old engines , that a lot of people hated to see the trolley buses go but cos that was the , the reason that they went . |
| 16 | I think it was Old Harlow or Hoddesdon somewhere I used to go , I know a long way off we had to go because there was n't anything round here was there ? |
| 17 | A spokesman for the Coxwell Hall private nursing home sayy the trees are on clay foundations and had to go because they were a potential danger to residents and school pupils . |
| 18 | It had to go because he could make more money having erm the three caravans on the site that this occupying . |
| 19 | But Eddie Richardson , branch secretary of Nupe , was concerned operation lists had fallen because patients were not seeing consultants . |
| 20 | He had won because , over 20 miles of open country , he had eluded the patrols of the Presidential Guard . |
| 21 | I suspect that there 'll there 'd been a certain amount of alienation for a long time things that the men had to accept because the people with the money and therefore the power said that they had to you know a I think quarry men are very proud on one level great sort of craftsmen in a way and erm I 'm sure that you know th the last couple of years well I 've heard them say really tha that there 'd been things niggling them with the management but I suppose this was just like a blatant smack in the face and they realize that if they accepted this if they let the management walk all over them this was the thin end of the wedge you know that . |
| 22 | Siddhi , who had been removed as Foreign Minister and SAP leader in August [ see pp. 37655-56 ] , said that he had resigned because he was tired of politics . |
| 23 | In his annual report to the Supreme Soviet Matiukhin said that he had resigned because ( i ) the government had taken no effective steps to solve the cash shortage ; ( ii ) inter-enterprise debt stood at 2,000,000 million roubles for which the Bank was criticized although it was following government policy ; and ( iii ) the Supreme Soviet was demanding a reduction of the 80 per cent interest rate to 50 per cent . |
| 24 | Plummer argued that D was partly derived from a predecessor of the St Augustine 's chronicle , and that this was itself descended from an Abingdon manuscript which also lies behind C. He thus explained the presence in E of various entries on abbots of Abingdon which are also in C. Possibly an Abingdon version of the Chronicle was taken to Canterbury in 1044 when its abbot , Siward , replaced Archbishop Eadsige , who had resigned because of ill-health , or was subsequently sent there at Siward 's request . |
| 25 | She confirmed that she had resigned because she was expected to work five days a week instead of the three initially agreed . |
| 26 | However , someone in Wilson 's office proceeded to leak my name to the press , which used it as an opportunity for jibes at him , particularly as he had contrived an impression that the negotiations had succeeded because of him . |
| 27 | Mandy had come because she was worried about her parents and she did n't know who else to turn to . |
| 28 | Susie said quietly that she did n't know what she wanted — she had come because Peter had asked her to . |
| 29 | The Iraqi delegation left abruptly for Baghdad the next day , and Sa'adoun Hammadi announced that the talks had collapsed because the Kuwaitis had not shown any serious willingness to tackle the " major damage inflicted on Iraq " . |
| 30 | The banks ' own private deposit insurance scheme had collapsed because of what were termed " extremely high delinquency rates " among borrowers . |