Example sentences of "because it [vb past] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reformers knew that the peasant commune stood in the way of economic diversification in the countryside , but felt that it had to be retained because it served to protect the interests of peasants against those of outsiders . |
| 2 | This queer way of writing filled me with foreboding , because it seemed to indicate a cold , self-centred nature , the reverse of the outgoing geniality he displayed to one and all . |
| 3 | The recapitulation theory was seductive because it seemed to offer a powerful guide to the reconstruction of those steps in the history of life hidden by gaps in the fossil record . |
| 4 | To men of the Middle Ages astronomy was of particular interest because it seemed to offer the best means of understanding , and possibly controlling , terrestrial events . |
| 5 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates says he is working with Time Warner Inc to bring experimental two-way television to some 5,000 Florida homes by early 1994 , the Orlando Sentinel reported , adding that the two companies are working toward making such two-way systems more user-friendly ; Gates said that he studied several other experimental two-way television systems but chose the Orlando project because it seemed to offer the best interactive possibilities of ordering movies , making financial transactions and ‘ creating a computer window into the world of information ’ . |
| 6 | Some could even accept Spencer 's philosophy of progress through struggle , because it seemed to offer an updated version of the Protestant work ethic in which thrift and industry were rewarded in this world as well as the next . |
| 7 | ‘ This does n't apply , ’ as the teenage Amis remarked in his army barracks , abandoning Marxism because it failed to fit the real world . |
| 8 | The report of the Select Committee is notable because it managed to clarify the Government 's position in relation to the generators commitment to retrofit flue-gas desulphurisation systems to coal-fired power stations . |
| 9 | The crime bill was opposed largely because it sought to enact a five-day waiting period for the purchase of handguns , while the education legislation , which aimed at upgrading the country 's schools , was opposed by Republicans following a congressional decision to remove an administration proposal to provide government vouchers to assist parents in sending their children to private schools . |
| 10 | He cites Oracle Corp as a victim of this lack of openness — Oracle saw turnover rise last year , but its profits were flat , Graham said , because it had to spend a fortune developing different versions of its database for different Unixes . |
| 11 | Perhaps it was too small a bed because it had to hold the ghosts of Mo Magill and Jenny Maxim 's dead wife as well . |
| 12 | He said because it had to cross the busy East Coast line at Darlington the timing was crucial and did not allow for a call at Allen 's West . |
| 13 | I do n't think the other members of the band were too impressed by the washy sort of effect that resulted , because it tended to bury the textures of the bass and the drums . |
| 14 | Its intentions were not borne out , perhaps could not be borne out , because it attempted to find a niche within a competitive industry without engaging in the sort of competition which guaranteed its rivals , success . |
| 15 | In the East End of London , some joined the BUF because it appeared to offer a kind of explanation for economic and social problems which had their roots in the interaction between a native working class and a stable Jewish minority . |
| 16 | First of all , though , my words must have stuck because it started to blow a bit during the round , about 20 miles-per-hour I 'd say , but Tony shot a 73 , which was a fair score . |
| 17 | Firstly because , by giving the EEC its own resources from agricultural levies and customs duties , it would give the Commission greater independence ; and secondly because it proposed to widen the budgetary powers of the European Parliament , again strengthening the supranational element in the EEC to which the General was opposed . |
| 18 | Paul Girouard in The Return to Camelot pointed out that the chivalric code of conduct ‘ never recovered from the Great War partly because the War itself was such a shattering of illusions , partly because it helped to produce a world in which the necessary conditions for chivalry were increasingly absent ’ and that the absence of so many men at the Front ‘ had put women in a position of responsibility which made many of them distrust chivalry as a form of concealed slavery ’ . |