Example sentences of "[verb] because it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking to the European Parliament ( EP ) after the summit Ruud Lubbers , Prime Minister of the Netherlands , said that the word federal had been dropped because it meant different things to different people . |
| 2 | Despite some significant developments by BBC and Marconi engineers , the system still did not give better quality than 78rpm discs ; it only succeeded because it gave longer running-time , and it had lower running-costs because the tape could be magnetically erased and reused . |
| 3 | The Netherlands disagreed because it thought harmonised taxes would be too weak . |
| 4 | After the war , ‘ unfilled ’ vinyl was used because it had much less surface noise , and a few sets of unfilled vinyl 78s were made for early hi-fi buffs . |
| 5 | That is the quantity of extra resources that a competitive industry would use because it has higher average and marginal costs . |
| 6 | Meribeth often recommends standing up to make important telephone calls because it puts more energy into the voice . |
| 7 | John has always said that prejudice is hard to combat because it means changing people 's inner feelings , ‘ their hearts and minds ’ . |
| 8 | But Night Trap could not be exempted because it depicted violent actions involving realistic images of human beings rather than straightforward computer graphics . |
| 9 | Besides , an idea is n't always abandoned because it fails some quality control test . |
| 10 | From Philips ' point of view , DVI looks threatening because it enables full frame full motion video to be accessed from a standard CD-ROM . |
| 11 | Was the herb Good King Henry — seen growing at Acorn Bank and at Hardwick — eaten because it tasted good , or because it was a valuable source of vitamin C ? |
| 12 | It is sometimes referred to as the ‘ broad monetary base ’ ( ‘ broad' because it includes operational balances in the Bank of England as well as cash ) . |
| 13 | Porto Alegre was identified because it has two of the very few general practice training programmes in the country . |
| 14 | One was subsequently excluded because it proved impossible to advance the colonoscope as far as the anastomosis in this patient . |
| 15 | The social welfare and material benefits which the imperialist state could grant to workers in Britain and Germany at the turn of the twentieth century allowed capitalism to survive because it divided Third World workers from their similarly exploited , if differently rewarded , working-class brethren in the industrialised centre of the world economy . |
| 16 | Thus ministerial responsibility is the main principle moulding the structure and outlook of the senior civil service and it is retained because it does much to reinforce the special position and powers both of ministers and of civil servants . |
| 17 | It must also be said that a plain boiled ham presented on or off the bone is a delight to the jaded palate and should not be ignored because it remains undistinguished by any special cure . |
| 18 | After her long successful career in criminal law a move to family law and civil proceedings generally is her preference and not chosen because it fits male prejudices about women . |
| 19 | ‘ Saturday was chosen because it has one of the smallest tides . |