Example sentences of "[coord] because [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Or because they had specific reasons ? |
2 | A dismissal may be unfair either because it was procedurally arbitrary or because it lacked good cause . |
3 | The better-known Worsted Acts of 1777 ( 17 George III c. 11 and c. 56 ) , which set up an inspectorate to work with a prosecuting committee of employers , were described by the Hammonds as a piece of " class legislation " because they allowed conviction on the oath of the employer who owned the yarn in question and because they empowered extensive searching of weavers ' homes . |
4 | And because it had that name she did n't link it up to other terms like masturbation or whatever . |
5 | Buckingham was baited , trapped and killed because my uncle hated him and because he had royal blood in his veins . ’ |
6 | This was to be precisely the starting assumption of positivist criminologists ( although they were interested in these differences not because they justified different levels of desert , but because they suggested different types of treatment ) . |
7 | I linked both books to the theme of ‘ Outsiders ’ , not because of the title but because I felt both books told the story of two lives lived on the edge of society . |
8 | Wheat was favoured , not merely because of its immediate importance as a basic food , but because it demanded least capital and least care , even where it meant wretched cultivations : only one-tenth of the cereal secano was farmed in regular rotations of wheat and legumes ; a quarter was cultivated only once every six or ten years . |