Example sentences of "because it [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More fundamental — because it looked towards a future international order rather than the waning one — was the critique of NATO and American hegemony that he developed on his return to power and that remained one of the hallmarks of his international policy throughout the 1960s . |
| 2 | As we have already discussed , bright light acts as a time-cue in humans and so might be helping patients not only because it fell in a critical period ( though how this might work is still not known ) , but in addition , or instead , because it adjusted the body clock and so removed a conflict of timing between the patient 's body clock and his sleep/wake rhythm . |
| 3 | ‘ Because it seemed like a good idea at the time . ’ |
| 4 | I immediately agreed because it seemed like a natural idea for me . |
| 5 | I picked out a selection , deciding on even numbers only because it seemed like a sensible thing to do at the time . |
| 6 | It did not work , for the reasons set out above , and it was not going to , because it sprang from a basic error . |
| 7 | Some from , a lot from the heavens , because it rained for a solid week after the excavator had left and erm from the springs , it 's a natural water-gathering area . |
| 8 | Technically , it was not a presidential system , because it provided for a dual executive , with a president and a prime minister . |
| 9 | This transaction ‘ exposed the myth of the Fourth Estate ’ because it confirmed in a stark fashion the well established close connections between the press and politics . |