Example sentences of "because they [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The listeners tuned in to the German wavelengths because they found Joyce amusing unintentionally or for his anecdotes , or else because they wished to hear both sides of the argument , or even because they did not trust their own authorities to tell them the whole truth . |
| 2 | They were turned down at the one where they were married and christened because they 'd moved five miles outside the parish . |
| 3 | I could n't have gone to a better place because they 'd got most parts of the country and one thing and another and I fitted their bill to a tee . |
| 4 | I feel it was an enormous privilege to have known them because they made work such fun . |
| 5 | Our teachers were the nearest guides because they had travelled these routes before us ( though of course we would n't teach ) . |
| 6 | Now although the only known brother of Æthelred named Edmund died in the early 970s , when Thietmar of Merseburg describes events in England in 1016 he tells how , after a battle in which Edmund was killed , the Danes fled from before London because they had heard that help was on the way from Edmund 's brother Æthelstan and the Britannis . |
| 7 | Ultimately the pressure for reform came from the Whitehall ministries because they had to use local government to execute many of their plans , particularly for local economic development and urban renewal and they found that the machinery was simply ineffective . |
| 8 | The scale of the defeat was laid firmly at the doors of several established players , who failed to turn out because they had made other arrangements on the basis that the match would fall victim to the frost . |
| 9 | The districts were chosen because they had made some progress in care programming . |
| 10 | But I did it through the love , fo , that I had for the couple , and that because they had waited sixteen year before they eventually found out they could n't have children ! |
| 11 | Other prostitutes were killed because they had shown some sympathy towards the organizations , I knew " Chilindrina " , who was only 17 or 18 when she was murdered . |
| 12 | Darwinism was certainly incorporated into the philosophy of progress through struggle , but the Victorians did not turn to that philosophy because they had abandoned all hope that the universe has a moral purpose . |
| 13 | These managers did not come across as having expert power , because they had had minimal training and appeared to be unorganised and therefore unprofessional in their conduct . |
| 14 | By the early fourteenth century , however , both king and pope were embarrassed by this : Edward I and Edward II because they preferred to invoke royal prerogative and national custom ; the pope because he was anxious to disown , tacitly at least , any such concession . |
| 15 | The Kurds have been and are being massacred , and are dying of neglect — our neglect — by the tens of thousands because they tried to escape that massacre , which we did nothing to prevent . |