Example sentences of "[verb] because it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Despite some significant developments by BBC and Marconi engineers , the system still did not give better quality than 78rpm discs ; it only succeeded because it gave longer running-time , and it had lower running-costs because the tape could be magnetically erased and reused .
2 That is the quantity of extra resources that a competitive industry would use because it has higher average and marginal costs .
3 Meribeth often recommends standing up to make important telephone calls because it puts more energy into the voice .
4 Besides , an idea is n't always abandoned because it fails some quality control test .
5 From Philips ' point of view , DVI looks threatening because it enables full frame full motion video to be accessed from a standard CD-ROM .
6 The social welfare and material benefits which the imperialist state could grant to workers in Britain and Germany at the turn of the twentieth century allowed capitalism to survive because it divided Third World workers from their similarly exploited , if differently rewarded , working-class brethren in the industrialised centre of the world economy .
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