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

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1 Speaking to the European Parliament ( EP ) after the summit Ruud Lubbers , Prime Minister of the Netherlands , said that the word federal had been dropped because it meant different things to different people .
2 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 .
3 The Netherlands disagreed because it thought harmonised taxes would be too weak .
4 But Night Trap could not be exempted because it depicted violent actions involving realistic images of human beings rather than straightforward computer graphics .
5 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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