Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] so [adv] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that 's had it , I think the er man from customs Simon was saving that , the man took it all apart and I think that 's why it probably got broken so quickly because I think they messed with it . |
| 2 | Certainly one is not under an obligation to look after the child if one did not promise to do so just because it would have been a good thing to promise . |
| 3 | It has survived so long because abolishing it would have been more trouble than it was worth , but that does not make it any better in itself . |
| 4 | I think that 's why the play has survived so long because it has this peculiar charm . ’ |
| 5 | I only began to work so hard because it was a way of filling all those empty hours without you . ’ |
| 6 | Those eggs that did survive would have done so only because they contained , as hang-overs from the species ' earlier aquatic way of life , genes pertinent to a more aqueous existence , including perhaps the genes for nuptial pads . |
| 7 | Not until 1859 , when he was forty-eight years old , did he publish it and even then he was driven to do so only because another younger naturalist , Alfred Wallace , working in Southeast Asia , had formulated the same idea . |
| 8 | And sometimes they decide to do so just because the alternatives seem so appalling . |
| 9 | I hope it will be agreed that those who think that the tax law is justified do so partly because they believe that there is in the circumstances imagined a reason voluntarily to contribute a sum which is equivalent to a just tax . |
| 10 | Sometime before he became king in 1625 , James I 's son Charles had adopted as his personal religion a conservative version of Protestantism known as Arminianism ; he had done so either because he disagreed with the doctrine of predestination , or more probably because he found the austere liturgy of undiluted Calvinism distasteful . |
| 11 | The General Council of British Shipping quotes a survey as reporting that those ships which had been found to use the Minches route had done so only because of poor weather conditions . |
| 12 | Although that is not this case , I have done so both because we were told that it would be helpful to all those concerned with the treatment of minors and also perhaps the minors themselves and because it seems to be a logical base from which to proceed to consider the powers of the court and how they should be exercised . |