Example sentences of "because [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Colin and Eamon Meehan claimed that they were not guilty of trying to buy weapons in the US for the Provisional IRA because their internment by the British in the 1970s drove them insane . |
2 | The development of science and education has done something similar in the development of mankind , and is more successful than religions in providing real gains in the external world , because its image of the external world is more accurate than those which are based on religious notions . |
3 | SPY Ian Spiro killed his family and himself because his work in the Middle East returned to ‘ haunt ’ him , it was claimed yesterday . |
4 | He came , he told us , because his understanding of the ideological struggle makes him see Rhodesia as the most sensitive battlefield . |
5 | Perhaps because his view on the main point is the same as mine , but certainly because I consider it to be a clear exposition , I here reproduce the statement of Professor Smith in The Law of Theft , 6th ed. , ch . |