Example sentences of "because he [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He promised the Turks assistance not because he wished to establish a protectorate over them , but because he wanted their regime to survive and Britain had been unable to assist them . |
| 2 | ‘ I do not live with you , ’ she snapped , which was , of course , exactly what he 'd wanted her to do , because he began to grin the second the angry disclaimer left her mouth . |
| 3 | Dillon and Mann L.JJ. held that he had erred in English domestic law , because he had misunderstood the Hoffmann-La Roche case as extending to local authorities a privilege which belonged to the Crown alone ; and furthermore that he had erred in Community law because , since it is the duty of the national court to ensure the legal protection which persons derive from the direct effect of provisions of Community law , it was necessary to require an undertaking in damages to protect any current right which Wickes might have , by virtue of article 30 , to open their doors for Sunday trading . |
| 4 | Khrushchev explicitly stated to me that one of his reasons for suspending tests was because he had studied the effect of the CND on the British public . |
| 5 | Although Gregory states in his Histories that Quintianus of Rodez was suspected of treason by the Visigoths , in his Life of the bishop he reveals that the local catholics were opposed to him , because he had moved the bones of a favourite saint . |
| 6 | Namawar , because he had said the Ismailis were no longer bound by Islamic law ! ’ |
| 7 | It was only because he had noticed a tree with a particular marking carved into the trunk , which he had himself incised , that he found the cave at all . |
| 8 | The authorities claimed that Jorge Quintana Silva was rearrested because he had contravened the conditions of his earlier release , although they did not specify how he had done this . |
| 9 | However , the trailer 's loss was not merely nominal because he had lost a sale . |
| 10 | Eric was inconsolable , desperate with grief because he had made the thing Blyth had used to destroy our beloved pets . |
| 11 | The amount should have been reduced because he had received an advance on his wages . |
| 12 | In May last year the Court of Appeal upheld a judgment against the friend for more than £5,500 damages for negligence because he had owed the accountant a duty of care . |
| 13 | Jarvis came down from Cambridge with a degree in engineering ; not a very good one because he had done no work . |
| 14 | Paul Crossland admitted in court that he 'd taken the cash out of union funds , but said he 'd felt entitled to it because he had saved the union so much money . |
| 15 | One man explained that he was unable to continue payment in support of his mother because he had joined the Navy , and he was given exemption . |
| 16 | Sarah Taylor of the parish of St. Paul was admitted as an in-patient on the recommendation of Mr. Barnard , and John Field from the same parish was accepted as an out-patient without recommendation because he had suffered an accident . |
| 17 | I do n't remember what I recited , but I do remember being acutely embarrassed on another occasion when people were telling anecdotes , and I recounted one about a soldier being saved from a court martial because he had heard a clock strike thirteen at midnight , and this fact had saved him from being found guilty of sleeping on duty . |
| 18 | Most children would rather learn about Julius Caesar who was a real person with a long nose , killed by his own friends because he had become a dictator , than study the rise of Meroe or Axum which have little interest to an eleven-year-old . |
| 19 | Well , the city was n't a nice place to live because of all the silly laws the merchant had passed , and people started to leave it and go to other towns and other countries , and the merchant was spending so much time passing new laws and trying to make people obey the ones he 'd already passed that his own business started to fail , and eventually the city was almost deserted , and the merchant found that he owed people much more money than he had in the bank , and even though he sold his house and everything he owned he was still broke ; he was thrown out of his house and out of the city too , because he had become a beggar , and beggars were n't allowed in the city . |
| 20 | Local press reports stated , however , that President Jorge Serrano Elias had already decided to remove Hurtado , because he had become an embarrassment to his administration and had allegedly misused funds intended to pay Chilean carabineros ( security police ) , contracted by the government to assist in the restructuring and training of the Guatemalan National Police . |
| 21 | Chapman was keen on the plan because he had seen the advances made on the Continent , where such classes were already established . |
| 22 | Barrie had lost his youth , but he , too , had been happy , because he had met the children there . |
| 23 | He was there simply and solely because he had attended a service when help forms were given out . |
| 24 | He was sure it was her because he had smelt the peppermints . |
| 25 | Hew was convicted on the basis of confessions he had made under torture and because he had read The Dogs of War , a novel about a coup in an imaginary country widely thought to be based on Equatorial Guinea . |
| 26 | I do not know of any Hellenistic evidence to show that a Gentile became a Jew or a sympathizer because he had read the Bible . |
| 27 | A little later , another customer complained about the employee because he had started a relationship with the customer 's wife . |
| 28 | The father of one family had no contact with their Irish Catholic grandparents because he had married a Protestant — although he did later inherit one of the grandfather 's pawnshops . |
| 29 | When he addressed the audience it was to remind them of ‘ one of my lovely wives ’ — a sly reference to the Fifties tour when he was hounded by the British press because he had married a 13-year-old . |
| 30 | In this particular case the client , who had a copy of the source code , could carry out error correction himself but , because he had brought the contract to an end , the supplier would cease to be liable for unremedied defects . |