Example sentences of "[vb pp] because [pers pn] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This none-too-creditable story is probably included because it forms part of the family-tree of the ( later ) royal house , from which the Messiah himself was descended ( Matthew 1:3 ; Luke 3:33 ) . |
| 2 | Despite these encouraging results this technique was not widely adopted because it proved time consuming , generally insensitive , did not localise the neoplastic lesion , and was associated with false positive results . |
| 3 | The judge said he had asked for the case to be re-listed because he had anxiety about the sentence he imposed . |
| 4 | Woolly alder aphids are so named because they produce clumps of woolly wax from their bodies . |
| 5 | These are selected because they have characteristics close to early social group work practice : the operationalization of values ; and a detailed method of enquiry . |
| 6 | I have an intarsia carriage which I have rarely used because I find intarsia slow and tedious . |
| 7 | got these two , I think she would of had because she loves children |
| 8 | Ransom strips are so called because they change hands at high values , often up to one third of the total site value . |
| 9 | Local people are left waiting while less urgent cases from outside the district are treated because they bring money in with them . |
| 10 | RADIO 1 's Newsbeat programme — a show DJs initially resented because they thought listeners just wanted music and chat — is 20 years old tomorrow . |
| 11 | Unionist control of local government was resented because it represented minority control and the resentment was kept alive by accusations of discrimination in the allocation of council jobs and housing . |
| 12 | Spaight questioned the facile view that the bombings of Japan were justified because they saved lives in the end , and he indicated that atomic bombs , if they have the after-effects reported , ‘ are condemned by inference or analogy if not specifically ’ . |
| 13 | Meals-on-wheels are not generally provided to disabled people on the grounds that they can not afford to eat ; rather they are provided because they need assistance to prepare a meal , and providers find it more convenient to meet this need by providing the meal itself . |
| 14 | This will be much appreciated because it saves agency staff time and effort in trying to find you work unnecessarily . |
| 15 | New machines , new technology introduced because it cuts production costs can indeed reduce the total demand for labor , that is , for the total number of jobs available in all sectors of the economy taken together at any given price of labor — in other words , at any given wage rate ( Leontief 1978 , 28 ) . |
| 16 | In London , the British Board of Film Censors insisted that the rape scene should be cut because it contained elements of ‘ kinky sex associated with black magic ’ . |
| 17 | Taken together with the fact that this region is required for DNA-PK directed phosphorylation of c-Jun and , since Ser-249 of c-Jun was initially identified because it contains homology to sites of DNA-PK phosphorylation in other proteins , these data strongly suggest that the DNA-PK phosphorylates c-Jun at Ser-249 . |
| 18 | It is reported that the Seiko wordlist , for example , can always be easily identified because it accepts M-O-W-S-E as a correct spelling of the word ‘ mouse ’ ! |
| 19 | 2 were excluded because they studied monochemotherapy ( etoposide and nitrogen mustard ) , and 1 because the supportive care group was in fact a ‘ wait and see ’ group with treatment by chemotherapy or radiotherapy only when symptoms appeared . |
| 20 | I was not only a late mistake but my mother had just had her breast removed because she had cancer before I was born . |
| 21 | In my Hip and Thigh Diet eggs are not allowed because they contain fat in the yolk , whilst one occasionally is allowed in this programme . |
| 22 | Thomas got up at last from his new place in the middle of the table , which he had quite liked because it had leg access to a rung where he could wriggle his feet when he was bored . |
| 23 | This is mistaken because it allows errors to be repeated . |
| 24 | Consider now the various kinds of argument which can be used in approaching these points of focus in your material and making something new and interesting from them : mode of argument ( a ) : Revalue a reputation ( or assess relative achievement ) ; example An extended essay which argues that Josephine Tey is a major Scottish writer , and that she has been neglected because she wrote detective fiction . |
| 25 | Although initially withheld because it depicted conditions of extreme deprivation , the Commission 's report was nonetheless instrumental in the decision , taken at Montego Bay in 1947 , that the West Indies , under a federal system of government , should be guided toward Dominion-hood . |
| 26 | Perhaps they have survived because they contain topics and behaviour that deeply engage the unconscious . |
| 27 | If the costs were lower than before , so too were the risks : the police force was well informed because it had members who were also members of the local lineages ; and it was ready to intervene to prevent escalation of disputes into further bloodshed . |
| 28 | This may explain the kind of contradictory evidence about Minor schools highlighted by another DCSL 's comment that " some Minors were chosen because they needed support but could n't cope with a Major " . |
| 29 | Dounreay was chosen because it possesses cable links to the national grid and a suitable coastal site . |