Example sentences of "because it [vb past] [art] [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 | The Royal Bank of Scotland said it had pulled out because it saw no continuing need for its participation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The United Kingdom opposed sending a peacekeeping force because it represented a long-term commitment but suggested an oil embargo . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In it they asserted quite clearly that permitting divorce would certainly affect the stability of all Irish marriages because it rendered every Irish marriage dissoluble : ‘ It is as though the legal availability of divorce builds up a social pressure which , for large numbers of people , becomes stronger than moral or religious resistance ’ ( abridged version , Irish Times , 14 May 1986 ) . |
| 8 | This is the line taken by the United States Supreme Court , which rejected the ‘ bad tendency ’ grounds for abridging freedom of expression because it lacked the all-important factor of ‘ clear and present danger ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The directors have chosen ABC first before several other companies not because it offered the most money , but because it is the organisation most in tune with Name 's philosophy , shares its commitment to growing the business and is most able to deliver ; |
| 13 | That was because it enabled the whole rugby fraternity to participate , with financial reward being the last thing on anyone 's mind . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | The signal FX 75383 ( reproduced opposite ) sent by Gen Robertson from AFHQ on the evening of 14 May was central to the events which are the subject of this report , because it contained the two orders on which 5 Corps was to proceed in making preparations for the handovers of the two groups of surrendered personnel with whom we are concerned . |
| 16 | This was principally because it contained the old Baghdad-Tehran highway . |
| 17 | But MI5 deliberately ignored them as and when it suited because it believed no prime minister or Home Secretary would interfere nor would any member of the service break ranks and tell the truth about what really went on inside MI5 . |
| 18 | But as a general attack upon industrial co-operatives as a means of organising production and provision , it is ill-founded and ill-considered : ill-founded , because it proceeds from the unproven principle that the public ownership of industry was a necessary pre-requisite of the good society ; and ill-considered , because it ignored the democratic virtues — accountability to and responsibility from the workforce — of the industrial co-operative form . |
| 19 | ‘ Do n't lie ! ’ she said bitterly , deeply hurt by his endless obsession with power because it attacked the very roots of her growing feelings for him . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | For nearly 45 years , it was unable to function properly because it became a political battleground in the Cold War . |
| 22 | Her eyes leapt from Abraham begat Isaac and Isaac begat Jacob to Verse 25 of the Gospel According to St Matthew , to which she had turned simply because it began the New Testament and she had been unable to make anything of the Old . |
| 23 | That she 'd done what she 'd done — made this Will , that is — not to spite him but because it seemed the right thing . |
| 24 | Schellenberg gasped , mainly because it seemed the right thing to do . |
| 25 | But she made no move to leave , so I had to say not at all , I 'd gone to bed because it seemed the warmest place . |
| 26 | There was something I did n't tell you at your father 's funeral because it seemed the wrong time , but two days after he died , I received a letter from him . |
| 27 | According to the Chilean Human Rights Commission the distinction was unacceptable because it made a prior judgment of guilt . |
| 28 | The trouble is , once one article said it , then other articles copied it because it made a good story . |
| 29 | 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 ! |
| 30 | This is because it raised the real sterling exchange rate , rendering ‘ marginal ’ manufacturing exports uncompetitive . |