Example sentences of "because it [verb] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He cites Oracle Corp as a victim of this lack of openness — Oracle saw turnover rise last year , but its profits were flat , Graham said , because it had to spend a fortune developing different versions of its database for different Unixes . |
| 2 | I say minimal both because it is rather modest , in contrast say to Jakobson 's , and because it seems to present a demand that it should be very difficult for modern literary studies to deny : that in describing the language of literary texts a degree of rigour is required such as has been notably absent from the work of a great many critics . |
| 3 | Its intentions were not borne out , perhaps could not be borne out , because it attempted to find a niche within a competitive industry without engaging in the sort of competition which guaranteed its rivals , success . |
| 4 | In the East End of London , some joined the BUF because it appeared to offer a kind of explanation for economic and social problems which had their roots in the interaction between a native working class and a stable Jewish minority . |
| 5 | First of all , though , my words must have stuck because it started to blow a bit during the round , about 20 miles-per-hour I 'd say , but Tony shot a 73 , which was a fair score . |
| 6 | Because it starts to get a bit more complicated now . |
| 7 | Paul Girouard in The Return to Camelot pointed out that the chivalric code of conduct ‘ never recovered from the Great War partly because the War itself was such a shattering of illusions , partly because it helped to produce a world in which the necessary conditions for chivalry were increasingly absent ’ and that the absence of so many men at the Front ‘ had put women in a position of responsibility which made many of them distrust chivalry as a form of concealed slavery ’ . |