Example sentences of "[adj] because it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We stayed in a tent for four days and got very wet because it rained all the time , ’ she says . |
| 2 | We are still languishing in the Edwardian era , when our great British Women 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore long flannels … when the bulk of entrants at Wimbledon were British because it took six weeks to cross the Atlantic , and another six to reach Australia ! |
| 3 | All I was told is that you 're getting twelve months guarantee , but you 've got to have a three thousand mile service , and as the gentleman said erm I recorded the deliveries and sent them all back and on the third one , when I took it in I asked if they 'd put a new set of points in for me and erm unfortunately when it came out there was no compression at all and because because I it was suggested that I dug my heels in a bit and got an independent report and erm basically they told me to get lost because it cost fifty pound to do the report . |
| 4 | Gloucester 's power was valuable because it ensured royal control of a significant and troublesome part of the country . |
| 5 | Gloucester 's power was valuable because it ensured royal control of a significant and troublesome part of the country . |
| 6 | But everything else about the electoral coverage left me cold because it had such a restricted view of politics as a game with rules that do n't actually touch people . |
| 7 | One was to be gold , since no-one had made a gold guitar before and such an instrument would be a perfect attention-grabber , and the other was to be black , black because it looked smart and also because it was the best colour for showing off the hands of the guitarist — provided the guitarist were Caucasian , of course . |
| 8 | He said the Budget was anti-poor and anti-Scottish because it cost 30 per cent more to heat homes in some parts of Scotland than the south-east of England . |
| 9 | This was the case in the Weimar Republic , where the parliament , although endowed with strong formal powers , was vulnerable because it lacked public support . |
| 10 | This development was important because it made possible the invention of the domestic clock and also the watch . |
| 11 | Piaget 's work is important because it provided one of the first developmental accounts of the emergence of logical thought . |
| 12 | On the other hand , there were those feminists represented by Josephine Butler who believed that prostitution was evil because it destroyed human dignity but who also believed the prostitute had a right not to be harassed , and if she was an adult she even had a right to choose to become a prostitute . |
| 13 | She 'd only been annoyed because it upset all her work plans . |
| 14 | ‘ Customers said it was great that we were open because it showed some normality in the town . ’ |
| 15 | The borough argued that the leaflet was misleading because it omitted all references to the joint liability of spouses and cohabiting couples . |
| 16 | From a therapeutic aspect , penicillin was marvellous because it cured many dangerous bacterial infections , but it was tiresome because it was inactive by mouth ( it was destroyed by the acidity of the stomach contents ) , it acted for a very short time ( it was rapidly excreted by the kidneys ) and so was of little value unless given by injection at intervals of not longer than 3 hours , and because , after a time , the normal processes of evolution led to the appearance of resistant strains of the microbes which had previously been sensitive to penicillin . |
| 17 | Wilberforce saw very clearly that this was the issue and that evolutionism was damnable because it implied moral and cultural relativity . |
| 18 | Liberal policy was unpatriotic because it recognised other national interests and threatened dissolution of the empire . |
| 19 | The BBC says it chose Stewart Park , Middlesbrough , for a Bank Holiday special because it offered better car parking than parks in Stockton , while Stockton did not have an auditorium to compare with the size of Middlesbrough Town Hall . |