Example sentences of "because it [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | That she 'd done what she 'd done — made this Will , that is — not to spite him but because it seemed the right thing . |
| 6 | Schellenberg gasped , mainly because it seemed the right thing to do . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This is because it raised the real sterling exchange rate , rendering ‘ marginal ’ manufacturing exports uncompetitive . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The birth of Jesus thus came to be regarded as dividing time into two parts , because it ended the first phase of the divine purpose and initiated the second . |
| 24 | And the writer had n't spared the legends , because it explained the Bolshevik obsession with the Relic . |
| 25 | It aroused a lot of opposition initially because it upset the existing viewpoint : " How can a black hole emit anything ? " |