Example sentences of "[noun sg] because it [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He hated the word department because it suggested bureaucracy . |
2 | The atomic theory thus came by the 1860s to have two functions : it might be a fundamental theory of matter , about which it was appropriate to argue in a very general way ; or it might be a teaching aid , helpful to students who learned it as a dogma because it made sense of a great number of facts . |
3 | At the end of the second century , Montanism was a Spirit-centred movement which had great strengths but fell into terrible error because it lost sight of Jesus as the controlling factor in spirituality . |
4 | Launched on Dec. 2 , it had attracted media attention because it transported Toyohiro Akiyama , 48 , a Japanese journalist , to the Mir space station [ see p. 37437 ] . |
5 | Tait , with William Thomson , had published a Treatise on Natural Philosophy in 1867 which became a standard advanced textbook because it treated physics from the point of view of conservation of energy — fathering the doctrine , as became two Cambridge men , upon Newton : the ‘ return to Newton ’ was for them the key to modernity . |
6 | Luke was ruthlessly dismissive , utterly without conscience , and she could welcome this further evidence of his hypocrisy because it reinforced resistance . |
7 | A BAN has been slapped on an art exhibition due to be staged in railway station because it featured photographs of a full-frontal nude man and woman . |
8 | An example of this sort of difficulty in English law is Launchbury v. Morgans in which the House of Lords declined to extend the vicarious liability of the owner of a car for negligence of its driver because it lacked information about the impact this would have on the insurance industry . |
9 | The permission of the Chief Constable was also a disadvantage in the field because it raised doubts among respondents about the purpose of the researcher 's questions over and above those that naturally arise from the political situation in Northern Ireland . |
10 | Sally Lyle , who lives next door to the Stewarts ' luxury historic townhouse , said : ‘ No one ever spoke about the case because it upset Glenn so much . |
11 | In sharing the Reds ' upset win in that national trial he proved a bit of success as a distributor and made two scorching breaks which hinted at a swashbuckling touch to his nature : ‘ I was very keen to make a good impression in the trial because it took place a week after my ‘ B ’ debut against Ireland and I wanted to make up for two particular errors in that game . |
12 | He came before the meeting as Chairman of the Legal Aid and Fees Committee , and moved the resolution in sadness and anger — sadness because it soured relations with the Lord Chancellor and the LCD and because time that he would rather have spent constructively had to be wasted on futile bickering , and anger because of the way that barristers and solicitors had been treated by the Government , especially a Government that spoke of the need for the business community to make prompt payment . |
13 | To her it was just a means of getting from A to B , but she welcomed its invention because it lessened cruelty to horses . |
14 | For much of the nineteenth century this strategy was attractive to local government because it enabled localities to maintain to a large degree their prized autonomy . |
15 | But The Sun thought that ‘ the meeting was a bogus one , if it was held at all ’ , further alleging that this clandestine organisation ( which said that it had met in secrecy because it feared Hooligan reprisals ) was a put-up job by someone in the pay of The Daily Telegraph . |
16 | MR JUSTICE MILLETT said that the particular question was whether a decision of a commons commissioner that certain land was not registrable as common land because it formed part of a highway was capable of giving rise to an estoppel per rem judicatam so as to preclude the landowner from afterwards asserting , in proceedings unconnected with the register , that the land in question did not form part of a highway . |
17 | It was of course a political problem because it concerned property , land and land values ; its resolution was equally a political matter and has proved on more than one occasion to be a fundamental point of divide between Conservative and Labour attitudes . |
18 | Buxton 's strength was his sense of conscience on behalf of distant slaves but it was also a weakness from the perspective of militants in the country because it resisted dictation from collective antislavery opinion . |
19 | In the 16th century , when Antwerp had a population of 100,000 , it became the world 's busiest port because it welcomed merchants from England , Germany , Portugal and Spain . |
20 | It is important to realize , however , that the introduction of the Aristotelian corpus into medieval Christendom had occasioned alarm because it contained doctrines that clashed with Christian belief . |
21 | Many other desiderata of the socialist revolution came into the same category , but women 's education was of particular interest because it ran counter to widespread expectations shared by most men and probably most women . |
22 | State law could not provide discipline because it met resistance from consciences . |
23 | The next antibiotic to be discovered , streptomycin , was of great value because it attacked microbes which were insensitive to penicillin , especially those which caused tuberculosis . |