Example sentences of "[vb pp] because it [vb past] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | But Night Trap could not be exempted because it depicted violent actions involving realistic images of human beings rather than straightforward computer graphics . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | One was subsequently excluded because it proved impossible to advance the colonoscope as far as the anastomosis in this patient . |