Example sentences of "[verb] because [pers pn] [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 | Well it wo n't bounce because she got that money saved th , she got that money for her loan . |
| 4 | The concerts were not at well attended as normal Wedding Present shows , but this was partly expected because they had less promotion . |
| 5 | The Netherlands disagreed because it thought harmonised taxes would be too weak . |
| 6 | Ray Houghton , Liverpool 's star last season , was unloaded because he wanted more money or a move . |
| 7 | He is horrified by the contemptuous way in which fat Establishment cats speak of workers and it is particularly unfortunate that his enthusiastic support for co-operatives should have foundered because he backed dodgy horses . |
| 8 | A CLEVELAND pensioner may have died because he wore dark clothing , an inquest heard . |
| 9 | Mr Torode 's sources are also wrong in saying Fay Weldon and her allies were not invited because they held racist attitudes . |
| 10 | We 'd been in the same form for two terms without really speaking because we had separate friends and in any case at St Edward 's you were seated according to your exam results at the end of the previous term , so it was n't likely we 'd be close . |
| 11 | Jesus said simply that they failed because they had little faith . |
| 12 | Noboru Takeshita had to go because he received undeclared sums of money from the Recruit publishing-to-property conglomerate . |
| 13 | But Night Trap could not be exempted because it depicted violent actions involving realistic images of human beings rather than straightforward computer graphics . |
| 14 | His latest excuse — that the recession is masking the success of the economy — is the equivalent of ‘ we only lost because they scored more goals ’ . |
| 15 | Whereas initially sites were linked because they produced similar artefacts — stone tools rather than metal ones , for example — it soon became clear that there were different types of stone tools , to take just one group . |
| 16 | My name is Scruff and I am a very good dog but I 'm awfully expensive to keep because I needed two operations and I am still not fully recovered . |
| 17 | In the end , Ceauşescu fell because he degraded most Romanians without destroying them . |
| 18 | If he wept because he saw another world beyond sensible things , that , after all , is called ‘ Water of the Eyes ’ , then he has seen a thing which is a congener and perfecter of prayer , that is the object of prayer and his prayer is in order and even more perfect . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In the thirties , my father had been a painter and decorator , plumber , electrician , publican and boxer , but when I was growing up , he was a Spiritualist and a faith healer , talking about his negro spirit-guide , Massa , and explaining how he knew when people were cured because he felt burning coals in the palms of his hands . |
| 21 | Italy won because they made fewer mistakes . ’ |
| 22 | Then the thousand or so readers of a few imported fashion magazines ( which it seemed would be prohibited because they contained foreign tobacco advertisements ) momentarily rallied key support from the free speech lobby . |