Example sentences of "because it [vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is significant because it affected a wide proportion of the inhabitants of Spain and because the preconditions of its strength persisted until very late . |
| 2 | He attacked the dominance of formal logic because it reflected a misplaced confidence in the powers of human reason . |
| 3 | Well the only thing is that I hope that the next generation that is coming along now will appreciate what has been done for their generation because it took a long time for us to get what we wanted for our children and now with our grandchildren are coming along I hope the town will improve with their growth . |
| 4 | The United Kingdom opposed sending a peacekeeping force because it represented a long-term commitment but suggested an oil embargo . |
| 5 | Spain united the Left because it represented a real struggle between Fascism and the Left , more vital than the battles against the British Union of Fascists in the streets of London . |
| 6 | One can only speculate that the GMC took the easy option and avoided testing the issue of clinical ecology head on because it feared a lengthy presentation of evidence on both sides , with the risk of an inconclusive result . |
| 7 | Huxley had been suspicious of evolutionism because he could see no plausible explanation of how species might change , and he welcomed Darwin 's theory with open arms because it offered a new hypothesis that confirmed the scientist 's right to treat the origin of species as a problem susceptible to natural explanation . |
| 8 | While there was , at least for Monnet and Schuman , an altruistic motive behind the scheme , it is clear that France found the idea attractive because it offered a better way than the International Ruhr Authority of binding the new West Germany to external control while it was still relatively weak . |
| 9 | One of the most telling studies — because it scored a direct hit on the interventionists ' favourite example — was a paper published in 1973 by Steven Cheung , then at the University of Washington : ‘ The Fable of the Bees ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ The Blue Angel ’ was made in Germany in 1930 in both German and English versions , and because it became a world-wide smash hit , it remains one of the best-known and best-loved movies of all time . |
| 11 | For nearly 45 years , it was unable to function properly because it became a political battleground in the Cold War . |
| 12 | According to the Chilean Human Rights Commission the distinction was unacceptable because it made a prior judgment of guilt . |
| 13 | The trouble is , once one article said it , then other articles copied it because it made a good story . |
| 14 | The 500-year-old building was moved to its present position by Canadian Army engineers , who floated it on cement and rolled it a quarter of a mile because it obstructed a planned runway ! |
| 15 | It failed because it precipitated a managerial revolution in Courtaulds , which in turn led to the defeat of the bid and the rapid recovery of the company . |
| 16 | Their rugby was essentially unlovable , not because it was dull ( it was n't ) but because it had a rock-hard edge which caused opponents to feel intimidated before they went on the field — and sometimes with good cause since there were plenty of occasions when the ‘ manliness ’ of which Neath made so much was actually foul play , plain and simple . |
| 17 | An inquest has been told that a plane crashed because it had a flat battery . |
| 18 | An inquest has been told that a plane crashed because it had a flat battery . |
| 19 | So you ca n't have a full mortgage but they could n't get a mortgage on it because it had a flat roof . |
| 20 | Nor from the point of view of the speaker , is there any hard and fast boundary between these and a non-restrictive adjective used in order to make explicit some property , when it is suspected that the hearer is unaware that it is implied by the use of the noun , as with poisonous in : ( 10 ) she threw Maisie 's lunch-box out of the window because it had a poisonous red-back spider in it Note that ( 10 ) further exemplifies the fact that whether an adjective is taken as restrictive or not depends on the rest of the entity-identifying phrase rather than just on the head noun . |
| 21 | Harvard could implement sweeping changes in its medical curriculum because it had a forceful dean and access to large grants to fund a very ambitious project . |
| 22 | Oliver wanted to go there because it had a sheltered terrace where they could sit outside , but it was too full of memories : it was the place where Rain had sat on her own while Sabine Jourdain was fighting for her life on board the Jonquil , where Tim had left behind his wallet , where Rain had first seen the pedlar . |
| 23 | Asked what had happened , she answered : " The horse was shot because it had a broken leg . " |
| 24 | Cos he chucked one away the other day because it had a little chip in it . |
| 25 | That administrative reality is important , because it played a large part in determining what things are like now . |
| 26 | It was at his suggestion that the name taekwondo be used , because it bore a close similarity to the old name of tae-kyon . |
| 27 | It is difficult for us to imagine now , but at the time this was a revolutionary book , not only because it put a new type of archaeological field monument , the deserted medieval village ( DMV ) , firmly on the map , but also because it heralded a new era in the study of rural settlements in this country . |
| 28 | It is difficult for us to imagine now , but at the time this was a revolutionary book , not only because it put a new type of archaeological field monument , the deserted medieval village ( DMV ) , firmly on the map , but also because it heralded a new era in the study of rural settlements in this country . |
| 29 | It was in the context not of an isolated individual saying it to another isolated individual , but actually feeling that this identity had a social location , a political and moral location , because it involved a whole series of things which meant you were n't just a voice crying in the wilderness . |
| 30 | It could be regarded as the original monocoque , because it used a lightweight structure of four small-diameter steel tubes and a stressed aluminium skin . |