Example sentences of "because it [verb] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously this second variant will tend to become common , because it happens to manipulate streams to its own ‘ advantage ’ . |
| 2 | The earth does not spin on its axis for profit , the sun does not shine because it happens to have shares in a household firm . |
| 3 | Before that she could not bear to leave because it meant leaving Brian behind . |
| 4 | But really you should celebrate such uncertainty because it helps undermine myths of scientific omniscience . |
| 5 | This last convention is invaluable in early training because it helps to stabilise balance during the transfer from one foot to the other and is also valuable in such ballets as Birthday Offering as it echoes the period and style of Glazounov 's music . |
| 6 | Some of it has been seen as justifiable because it seeks to ensure competition and prevent monopoly . |
| 7 | Ironically , this intervention was felt to be unhelpful to the Prime Minister because it seemed to lend legitimacy to the possibility of a contest in the autumn . |
| 8 | It offended the religious , because it seemed to make God out to be untruthful or deceitful ; in the scientific age , science was after all a route to truth , and only the Devil was the father of lies . |
| 9 | ‘ I fancied getting married in black because it seemed to throw tradition to the winds , and looked very dramatic . |
| 10 | The ANC does not like this fact to be mentioned , because it purports to eschew tribalism in favour of an all-embracing black nationalism . |
| 11 | A CASTLEREAGH councillor believes the Fair Employment Commission pursued a case against the council because it had disputed figures . |
| 12 | In addition , Lord Meston submits that the court also had ‘ rights of custody ’ in the context of the Convention , because it had made orders in the course of the cross-motions before it which indicated that it was seized of the matter and that it had not determined either the father 's or the mother 's substantive applications and had adjourned the hearing of the mother 's substantive application for custody and for leave to remove the child from the jurisdiction until a date in August . |
| 13 | ECOMOG officials , however , categorically denied Taylor 's claim that Ulimo had been able to advance so rapidly because it had received aid from countries contributing to the ECOMOG force . |
| 14 | The company , which is a wholly owned subsidiary of AGB Research , had been chosen by Ben Lowe partly because it had done market research for other papers , including an abortive workers ' co-operative , the Scottish Daily News . |
| 15 | Because it had taken place so long ago and was one of those things which could happen to anyone , she was quite unconcerned about the accident itself . |
| 16 | because it 's got gold wheels right it 's got a better suspension . |
| 17 | Is it just erm , because it 's got sugar in it , or because |
| 18 | I 've had to , this cupboard 's because it 's got cutlery and the plates and that , so I 've just put a piece of er material over it . |
| 19 | The thing is , I ca n't do the environment , well it 's not that I ca n't do it when I was talking to er to the tuto the form tutors yesterday er they 're biggest keen I think Catherine had happened to notice some work that Sandra had done that she found er , interesting enough and where the kids should be knowing about , it was about banking how to sign a cheque , how to look after finances erm you know , do I have to buy a pair of trainers because it 's got Reebok on them , this sort of thing . |
| 20 | I would n't recommend this one it 's just this is good for me because it 's got sort of |
| 21 | The project could not be an emergency service , because it tried to recruit workers after obtaining a client , rather than beforehand , so that client and worker could be matched . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , from my point of view , by far the greater part of this material is completely misleading because it fails to take account of the fact that while kinship words in most European languages are applied , with rare exceptions , only to relationships within the private domain and thus have quite specific meanings , the corresponding words in most other languages are highly polysemic . |
| 23 | The issue has been cast in scientific circles and the press as a clash between ‘ good ’ science and what is scornfully described as ‘ junk ’ science because it fails to meet tests of scientific legitimacy . |
| 24 | The Government has delayed responding to the need to equalise pension rights because it means equalising State retirement ages . |
| 25 | On the surface the Government 's plan is reasonable because it aims to give employers the right to choose how they negotiate with staff . |
| 26 | Gandhi could not countenance such an approach because it involved rejecting ahi sā and relinquishing sarvodaya . |
| 27 | At present his status in the three books is relevant because it serves to establish Buchan 's particularly energetic version of Ruritanian adventure and the irony and humour with which he tempers the romantic colour of his fiction . |
| 28 | The Single European Act disappointed many federalists because it tended to codify practices which had developed since 1958 , rather than to reform the EC in any radical way . |
| 29 | Businessman John Foy and his wife Sally have been told the Pounds 250,000 house must go because it flouts planning regulations . |
| 30 | It was only when the government started to cut drug prices after 1980 , because it wanted to stop health bills rising further as the population greyed , that the drug makers were pushed into thinking about export markets . |