Example sentences of "because they [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Life was faster , demands changed more quickly , and people were included because they met a particular need at a particular time . |
2 | An example of this was given in Chapter 4 , concerning female users with children who did not seek help from their GP because they assumed a direct link between the GP and social services . |
3 | The ALP finished with 0.2 per cent less of the two-party preferred vote than did the opposition coalition , and in at least 10 instances the ALP won because they received the second preference votes of supporters of the Greens . |
4 | On the other hand the open villages , because they attracted the surplus labour force , contained workers on depressed wages who could ill afford rents which would make housing improvements profitable . |
5 | The fat men : were they less fat because they were smaller , and so you needed less stomach to appear fat ; or were they more fat , because they developed the same stomachs , but had even less frame to support them ? |
6 | An exception are altar-pieces which , because they played an important role in Catholic worship , were kept in their original settings . |
7 | But the rejoicing and the laughter which followed the tears were of equal importance , because they powered the erotic joy that was as important as the water falling from the sky . |
8 | It would certainly give a new twist to the arms race ; indeed some of Reagan 's advisers appeared to be recommending SDI precisely because they thought the Soviet economy would collapse under the strain of attempting to emulate it . |
9 | In many ways the amoral blood baths were preferable because they made no such pretence . |
10 | He said : ‘ The reason KimberlyClark chose Humberside is because they got a higher level of grant aid . |
11 | Because they had no lasting influence , they were regarded as minor . |
12 | Parents knew what was wrong , but were powerless to act , because they had no effective choice of schools or of curriculum ; they simply had to suffer the advice of ‘ experts ’ and the diktats of local officials . |
13 | Actually , scientists thought for many years that whales had no sense of hearing because they had no external ear lobes like ourselves , a clear example of anthropomorphic projection . |
14 | In every case the farmer reporting evidence said he was not against badgers in principle , but wanted either adequate compensation for the damage they did or someone to control them , because they had no natural predators . |
15 | Well because they had a better goal average in all the other games . |
16 | And because they had a stupid name and a fat bastard with glasses for a singer . |
17 | Researchers concluded that chocolate addiction should be treated seriously but also pointed out that many people who called themselves chocoholics because they had a strong liking for the food were not addicts in the true sense of the word . |
18 | I used to be able to go to a park and swim , or check out a ball to play with , because they had a part-time supervisor there , then they take that away and the park becomes a land mass , then it becomes a turf , you see ? |
19 | It did seem that the main force squadrons in other Groups had more casualties than we did , partly because they had to cope with fully awakened defences , gun and searchlight crews as well as fighters , after PFF had done their job , and perhaps also because they had a higher proportion of new , inexperienced crews who were usually the first to come to grief . |
20 | Family was Jim and the others ; family was her women 's group and squabbling at two-thirty in the morning about whether women could be said to constitute a separate class because they had a separate relation to the mode of production , while still making each other coffee and giving each other hugs . |
21 | Because they had a beautiful house anyway did n't they ? |
22 | To say that a dog eats because it wants to is as uninformative as to say that dinosaurs got larger because they had an inner drive to do so . |
23 | One because the nation was sort of a people who had seen themselves homeless from these start and God had given them a home so they took special care of sojourners and aliens , and secondly , I think , because they had an enlightened attitude towards debt . |
24 | And then they could n't be on their own because they had the elderly relatives to care for . |
25 | Chávez stated that constitutional amendments currently being debated by the Congress represented a " setback " because they ignored the social grievances existing in the country . |
26 | Some Girls accepted marriage offers simply because they saw no other alternative . |
27 | One group of sites could be seen to be more or less contemporary because they produced the same types of tool , while those which produced other types could be shown to be earlier or later in date . |
28 | There was some recognition by planners that schools would provide particularly vulnerable targets , especially dangerous because they contained a high concentration of glass . |
29 | All claimed that they had attacked La Tablada because they believed a military coup was under way and that they were trying to forestall it ; they also said that their attempts to surrender had been ignored and that at least four of their comrades had been tortured and killed . |
30 | Ultimately Cambridge were well worth their victory by two goals , a try and two penalties to a goal , a try and a penalty because they displayed a predatory instinct for making the most of their chances . |