Example sentences of "[vb pp] because [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually , on stage it 's also mixed because I put one Fender cab on top and a Marshall cab on the bottom and then a Marshall cab on top and a Fender cab on the bottom . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 ‘ expert ’ may have to be interviewed because she has special knowledge of a situation which it is vital for the researcher to have guidance on . |
| 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 | Other fluids are sometimes used because they give better values of the governing parameters or because they have properties particularly appropriate to an experiment . |
| 9 | A CLEVELAND pensioner may have died because he wore dark clothing , an inquest heard . |
| 10 | So erm Well first you you welcome them and then say , erm you know , how much time have they got because we offer two tours . |
| 11 | Prest ( 1968 ) notes that studies can at least be consistent , so that situations where all income tax is allocated to labour ( plausible if Fig. 9–9(a) applies ) and all indirect taxation borne by consumers ( plausible if Fig. 9–9(b) applies ) should be avoided because they involve contradictory pictures of the supply side of the economy . |
| 12 | Mr Torode 's sources are also wrong in saying Fay Weldon and her allies were not invited because they held racist attitudes . |
| 13 | Although the teams have an important role in constructing the plan , they have tended to be marginalised because they control few resources . |
| 14 | But as I suggested in the last part of Chapter 2 , this difference is not of any great practical significance : whether deviant motivations are taken as given because they express free will ( classical theory ) or because it is not deemed fruitful to attempt their explanation ( control theory ) does not , in itself ; have any practical implications for the subsequent criminological enterprise . |
| 15 | But Night Trap could not be exempted because it depicted violent actions involving realistic images of human beings rather than straightforward computer graphics . |
| 16 | ‘ We met on this show , got married , and now we 're getting divorced because I earn more money than him . |
| 17 | Besides , an idea is n't always abandoned because it fails some quality control test . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Relatively few molluscs — snails and their relatives — are venomous , although some are poisonous when eaten because they accumulate toxic substances through feeding . |
| 20 | According to Hocking , paper cups can not be recycled because they contain chemical additives . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Shakespeare 's centrality has been achieved because there remains continued debate about the plays , these texts do not come down to us as ‘ dead on arrival ’ , to borrow a phrase from Stephen Greenblatt . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | After her long successful career in criminal law a move to family law and civil proceedings generally is her preference and not chosen because it fits male prejudices about women . |