Example sentences of "[adv] because it [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile the 11 + began to be criticized not only because it divided children up absurdly young into different categories , within which they were more or less trapped , but also because it was intrinsically inequitable . |
| 2 | He ( among others ) perceived adolescent labour as an obstacle to efficiency not only because it lacked knowledge of employment opportunities and the ability to distinguish between the merits of different occupations , but also because its inherent ‘ adaptability ’ was ‘ wasted ’ ( always a key notion in National Efficiency circles ) by the ‘ haphazard ’ nature of the transition which left too many youths in dead-end jobs and failed to enrol them in any form of further education . |
| 3 | The cinema debate screened on Channel 4 between four film-makers from countries not usually represented on the screen ( India , the Philippines , Lebanon , and Brazil ) , which took place under the auspices of Women Call the Shots , was perhaps especially effective in this way , not only because it called attention to the existence of cinematic traditions outside of the ones we usually view , discuss , and study , but also because the four women film-makers involved in the debate took up such diverse positions . |
| 4 | To this extent , Marxism 's universalizing narrative of the unfolding of a rational system of world history is simply a negative form of the history of European imperialism : it was Hegel , after all , who declared that ‘ Africa has no history ’ , and it was Marx who , though critical of British imperialism , concluded that the British colonization of India was ultimately for the best because it brought India into the evolutionary narrative of Western history , thus creating the conditions for future class struggle there . |
| 5 | Where Methodism took hold , the force of the new puritanism was vastly more effective , largely because it attached sections of the working class itself to the moral crusade and began that polarisation of " respectable " and " rough " which was a developing feature in working-class communities in the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | Child labour recommended themselves to the early factory masters not only because it was cheap but also because it avoided dependence on adult labour whose traditional work habits were too deeply ingrained . |
| 7 | It was not the huge success that Lotus Development had anticipated mainly because it demanded hardware that seemed excessive at the time — an AT with at least 1MByte of RAM . |
| 8 | It fascinated pharmacologists , mainly because it displaced stores of adrenaline-like transmitter substances both from the brain and from other tissues ( see chapter 13 ) . |
| 9 | The party cell was afraid to have open meetings mainly because it feared criticism from what it called the ‘ kulaks ' . |
| 10 | Again , this was not a PNP initiative but is reported here because it concerned parents , children and schools and gives an example of the practice from which the LEA 's unwritten policy on home-school links has to be inferred . |
| 11 | The English-language feature film came of age in the 1930s first because of its singularity as a piece of entertainment and then because it prompted responses which were important in defining cultural positions generally . |
| 12 | The area has made a unique contribution to Welsh commerce and to Welsh culture , not least because it produced Shirley Bassey , among others . |
| 13 | Precisely because it lacked access to captive overseas markets for cheap raw materials and for the sale of manufactured goods , the German economy had been forced into developing high-quality competitive produce for cut-throat international markets . |