Example sentences of "because he [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among Wright 's many charitable actions was the building of the church of St Martin at Osmaston ( because he disapproved of the high-church tendencies of the parish church ) and the founding of Trent College in 1866 , one of whose houses was named after Wright . |
| 2 | IAN Gow , the Conservative member for Eastbourne , is famed for three things : a doglike devotion to the Prime Minister , a deadpan sense of humour , and his quixotic resignation as housing minister because he disapproved of the Anglo-Irish Agreement . |
| 3 | ‘ just because he fought in the International Brigade . |
| 4 | The widow of a Melbourne barman who died of lung cancer has been awarded A$20,000 from the man 's employers because he suffered from the adverse effects of passive smoking , despite the fact that he himself smoked 10 cigarettes a day . |
| 5 | It was a favourite of his , because he identified with the third line of its first verse — He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword . |
| 6 | He provides one of the vagaries of political life , in that in 1984 he was deselected as a European candidate because he believed in the European Community , whereas he was imposed as the Labour party 's candidate a few weeks ago — |
| 7 | Perhaps the most significant intellectual advance of the mid-20th century was indeed made by Karl Popper , not because he provided any kind of method for scientists to pursue ( as he decidedly did not ) but because he showed for the first time in formal philosophy , that science is inescapably a human activity , and that if its underlying human-ness is ever shelved it is only temporarily , and for convenience , to ameliorate human frailty . |
| 8 | with the ineffable modesty that , because he stood in the direct line of the Apostolic Succession , he had a better right to preach the Gospel and to administer the Sacraments , and was more a minister of Christ than Dr Dale or Mr Spurgeon or Henry Ward Beecher … what could they do but laugh ? |