Example sentences of "[noun sg] because [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He chose a child as his lover because it fed that ego ; he lost her because he never cottoned on to the fact that children are children , no matter how grown-up they might appear . |
| 2 | And the central government 's socialism , it 's restriction of socialist rights to Libyan nationals , set the seal on the discrimination between foreign and national labour because it encouraged Libyan employers to employ foreigners . |
| 3 | In one hit-and-run case , one of the jurors had the effrontery to challenge the coroner 's authority , stating that he was a cyclist himself and that pedestrians were often at fault because they took insufficient care . |
| 4 | I know he was a ratepayer because he repeated this fact in the subsequent inquiry , a dozen or so times , adding that he did n't pay rates to have his hat ruined , a view I could understand . |
| 5 | The district committee , the A G E W district committee , er recognized that it was something that er was a confederation exercise because it covered all aspects of the workforce , and therefore you had er engineers and , and the sheet metal workers and electricians and pattern makers , everybody within the confed in Brothers was affected by it . |
| 6 | So far as the Cossacks were concerned , just as much as for the British , the overriding question was not whether certain individuals should be excluded from repatriation because they held non-Soviet passports , but whether the various formations of " Cossacks " as a whole should or should not be repatriated . |
| 7 | The relevant statute empowered the minister to set up such a committee but in this case he refused to do so on the ground that the complaint was unsuitable for investigation because it raised wide issues ; that if the committee upheld the complaint he would be expected to make an order to give effect to the committee 's recommendations ; and that the complaint should be dealt with by the Board rather than by the committee of investigation . |
| 8 | Peter added : ‘ It 's a shame because we had four teams ready to play this year — more than in any previous year . |
| 9 | Marx condemned capitalism because it frustrated human potential and self-actualization , but believed it was a necessary stage in human dialectical development . |
| 10 | I do n't think it could be done today but there was a lamentable lack of security because nobody thought this sort of thing could happen |
| 11 | I did n't employ you on that business because you had other duties . |
| 12 | Poor Philip was particularly bothered by this symptom because he had perfect pitch and being in the music business used to go over music in his mind most of his waking hours . |
| 13 | Britain encouraged the growth of Zionism in Palestine in the early years of the First World War because she wanted American Jews to ally their country in the war against Turkey . |
| 14 | Hers was also a significant name because she had black hair and her disappearance was reported on May 17th . |
| 15 | Although I wanted to go down the pit because you got more money you see . |
| 16 | Bubbly Julie , 45 , was awarded the Wales Tourist Board 's ‘ Welcome Host ’ title because she offered super service with a smile at her hotel . |
| 17 | She deserved it , she 'd been tormenting me for weeks , calling me Comic Stripper because I told better jokes than she did . |
| 18 | but mind you we had much worse a problem that day because we had two sets of sniffer dogs who did n't like something and the first lot that were in and did n't like something that we 'd |
| 19 | A person would only be liable as a constructive trustee of money he had received in payment of a commercial liability , and which had already passed through his hands , if it was possible to show that he knew that the money was misapplied trust money because he had actual knowledge of the breach of trust or he had wilfully shut his eyes to the obvious or had wilfully or recklessly failed to make inquiries that an honest and reasonable man would have made . |
| 20 | Mothers welcomed the short hair because it presented less problems than long hair . |
| 21 | From 1629 to 1640 , Charles I tried to rule without Parliament and his chief advisers were the Earl of Stafford and Archbishop Laud , who annoyed the Puritans in Parliament because he favoured outward ceremonial in religious observance . |
| 22 | That non-enrollers were more likely than migrants to say that they had n't done a course because they needed other qualifications could imply ignorance of entry requirements . |
| 23 | The NMA argued from the outset for a negotiated settlement , in part because of a fear that intransigence might lead to total defeat and in part because it had little money with which to fight the strike following the run-down of its funds during the 1921 lockout . |
| 24 | She knew it was right to go to London University because she hoped one day to teach in Africa , and they had a special course in education in relation to tropical areas . |
| 25 | A Yorkshire pay clerk 's widow was able to play a ‘ big part ’ in her granddaughters ' upbringing because she lived next door across a common yard and could be ‘ always there ’ , in and out of the house . |
| 26 | Heads may have gone into primary teaching because they liked young children ; no matter . |
| 27 | There was also an acceptance , as the implications were worked out later in the paper , that Terminal courses with ‘ a good deal of teaching at quite an elementary level ’ were ‘ a most important part ’ of the WEA 's work ; that university graduates , who usually had a narrow academic education , could benefit from the breadth of learning offered by the WEA quite as much as manual workers ; that courses in literature and the arts were clearly a valid part of the WEA 's total provision because they attracted new members , taught the processes of serious study and by enriching lives helped ‘ in raising the quality of the public which has the power of judgement upon those set in authority over it ’ . |
| 28 | She resented the claim because it raised some barrier between them . |
| 29 | ‘ Many … had a complete ban and had been no-smoking from the start because they perceived that smoking did not fit in with their ethos — Boots , for example , or the Body Shop . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Nobody could say it was right or wrong because nobody had any insight into what the answer should be , ’ he says . |