Example sentences of "because it [vb past] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She switched to London Weekend because it went on all night and watched another film , then a comedy about a Los Angeles police precinct . |
| 2 | It was big but it was n't tall because it walked on four feet . |
| 3 | In prosecutions for many other crimes , for instance assault , testimony varied more because it built on actual incidents . |
| 4 | Nevertheless it requires separate assessment , not least because it drew on certain areas of experience not directly dominated by the monarch . |
| 5 | The stone flew in the air across the surface of the water , skimming as free as a bird but only because it bounced on that surface every now and then and refused to sink at the first contact . |