Example sentences of "because it [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This is the line taken by the United States Supreme Court , which rejected the ‘ bad tendency ’ grounds for abridging freedom of expression because it lacked the all-important factor of ‘ clear and present danger ’ .
2 The directors have chosen ABC first before several other companies not because it offered the most money , but because it is the organisation most in tune with Name 's philosophy , shares its commitment to growing the business and is most able to deliver ;
3 That was because it enabled the whole rugby fraternity to participate , with financial reward being the last thing on anyone 's mind .
4 The signal FX 75383 ( reproduced opposite ) sent by Gen Robertson from AFHQ on the evening of 14 May was central to the events which are the subject of this report , because it contained the two orders on which 5 Corps was to proceed in making preparations for the handovers of the two groups of surrendered personnel with whom we are concerned .
5 This was principally because it contained the old Baghdad-Tehran highway .
6 But as a general attack upon industrial co-operatives as a means of organising production and provision , it is ill-founded and ill-considered : ill-founded , because it proceeds from the unproven principle that the public ownership of industry was a necessary pre-requisite of the good society ; and ill-considered , because it ignored the democratic virtues — accountability to and responsibility from the workforce — of the industrial co-operative form .
7 ‘ Do n't lie ! ’ she said bitterly , deeply hurt by his endless obsession with power because it attacked the very roots of her growing feelings for him .
8 Her eyes leapt from Abraham begat Isaac and Isaac begat Jacob to Verse 25 of the Gospel According to St Matthew , to which she had turned simply because it began the New Testament and she had been unable to make anything of the Old .
9 That she 'd done what she 'd done — made this Will , that is — not to spite him but because it seemed the right thing .
10 Schellenberg gasped , mainly because it seemed the right thing to do .
11 But she made no move to leave , so I had to say not at all , I 'd gone to bed because it seemed the warmest place .
12 There was something I did n't tell you at your father 's funeral because it seemed the wrong time , but two days after he died , I received a letter from him .
13 This is because it raised the real sterling exchange rate , rendering ‘ marginal ’ manufacturing exports uncompetitive .
14 The vole had eaten seeds and nuts and because it sensed the long winter to come it had eaten a little of everything : acorns , hazels , haws , hips , sweet catkins , sour apples , sharp sloes , soft blackberries .
15 Since the NPT 's adoption in 1968 , the French government 's position had been that it would abide by the terms of the treaty but would not sign it because it granted the two superpowers a privileged position in international relations .
16 Darwin 's theory was controversial because it challenged the conventional view that the Creator designed each species , and implied that the human race was just another animal .
17 He chose to sleep in Three because it had the best view of the Jubilee Line , unobstructed by trees , and as he came into the room and crossed to the window , he saw beyond the garden and the trees and the rhubarb plantation a silver train speeding southwards .
18 The room was sparse and tidy , as fresh-looking and tasteful as the rest of the apartment , and like the rest of the place it told her nothing about Carson — except , perhaps , that he employed somebody to clean up for him , because it had the impersonal neatness which could only be achieved by an outsider .
19 He predicted that Democrats would support it because it had the greatest chance of securing enough backing to become law by overriding a presidential veto .
20 The marriage between Robert the Pious 's daughter and the count of Nevers brought obvious political gain to the king because it strengthened the royal hold upon Burgundy ; the count on the other hand gained only temporary advantage , and subsequent generations in Nevers made little of their royal connection .
21 So it might be assumed that Scott 's design was placed higher than the other Gothic entries because it showed the two offices as separate structures , rather than one .
22 On 4 December he took his leave of the observers from other Churches in a prayer service which scandalized a number of the bishops because it breached the old rules against communicatio in sacris .
23 According to observers , the compromise agreed at Houston was acceptable to the EC countries because it recognized the special nature of EC farming as mainly family based ( rather than corporate-based as in the USA ) , while the USA could be satisfied because the agreement spelled out what kinds of subsidies should be reduced .
24 Also in Scandinavia was an important study of the mass movement processes on the slopes of Kärkevagge ( Rapp , 1960 ) and this was important not only because it endeavoured to quantify all of the processes that affect a slope in a subarctic environment , but also because it established the relative significance of the different processes and concluded that the most effective agent of removal was running water removing material in solution .
25 The loss of Ozawa was seen by many as a serious blow to Kaifu 's position , not least because it removed the chief architect of the process of co-operation between the LDP , Komeito and the DSP which Ozawa had been constructing in the Diet .
26 It left quite an impression , because it needed the brilliant virtuosity that Repin already had at that time , and it needed powerful playing from the orchestra , not just loud but with a lot of richness for the fast passages — you know how to judge a great orchestra when you hear let's say thousands of notes in a few seconds , and there 's still a special timbre .
27 ‘ We dropped the name ( and image ) because it gave the wrong impression by sounding like an extension of an army camp , ’ says a Raleigh International spokeswoman .
28 America lavished $1 billion on Liberia in the 1980s , partly because it provided the freed slaves who settled the country last century , mainly because Liberia gave a home to a Voice of America transmitter , a navigation beacon , a relay station for diplomatic communications , and a huge airfield where arms could be discreetly trans-shipped .
29 Nevertheless , Meyer 's stalking-horse challenge in 1989 may well have been a necessary prerequisite for the substantive challenge in 1990 because it broke the psychological barrier against mounting a challenge when the party was in office .
30 Rather , as the polls came to trouble the Tories , the ‘ troubles ’ suddenly became of interest — purely because it appeared the Conservative Revolution might just be sustained with the assistance of that unlikely revolutionary , James Molyneaux , leader of the Ulster Unionists .
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