Example sentences of "because it [verb] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One was to be gold , since no-one had made a gold guitar before and such an instrument would be a perfect attention-grabber , and the other was to be black , black because it looked smart and also because it was the best colour for showing off the hands of the guitarist — provided the guitarist were Caucasian , of course . |
| 2 | After re-packing her case , she fervently hoped for the last time , she had a wash , and because it looked sunny and warm outside dressed in a skimpy vest with a blouse over the top , and a rather strange Fifties-style skirt covered in poppies . |
| 3 | Jinny remembered seeing it and slipping past it because it looked complicated and she was tired . |
| 4 | He said copyart can be practised by people of differing abilities because it takes little or no skill to produce exciting and impressive images . |
| 5 | The church 's spokesman , Bishop Joseph Duffy , said : ‘ We feel obliged to state that the wording proposed is basically flawed because it guarantees less than the total exclusion of deliberate abortion . ’ |
| 6 | The tremolo would probably need setting up properly because it feels stiff and uneven in use . |
| 7 | It was unoccupied , but whether that was because it went unnoticed or because every family was so large it was never taken by anyone , I do n't know . |
| 8 | Do n't eliminate somewhere because it sounds ridiculous or out of the question . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , girls may be encouraged to keep their voices high , perhaps because it sounds sweet and makes them appear vulnerable and feminine . |
| 10 | So we ca n't get there because it become impractical and those people get lost . |
| 11 | In each of these cases the behaviour falls short of some natural notion of full cooperation , because it violates one or another of the non-verbal analogues of the maxims of conversation . |
| 12 | But the rise of the PLO made the whole issue more dangerous and complex , partly because it became unclear whether the majority of people in the West Bank wanted either Jordan or the PLO back , and partly because Jordan 's East Bank population was 40 per cent Palestinian . |
| 13 | The trial succeeded in finding several organisational problems but did not achieve its secondary objective because it became clear that the breadth and depth of knowledge needed by the individuals were implicit in the experience needed to do the job and that the individual could work quicker and chop and change subject more easily than the expert system . |
| 14 | This was partly due to the imbalance in the sex ratio , which increased steadily from 1871 to 1911 , and dramatically as a result of World War I. This ‘ excess ’ of women caused considerable anguish , particularly in the nineteenth century , because it became inevitable that some women would not be able to fulfil their ‘ natural destiny ’ of marriage and motherhood . |
| 15 | He had been frightened somewhere in a tight locked-up place inside him because it seemed impossible that they would land safely , and the final swaying descent had made him ill . |
| 16 | It seemed to Maggie that the whole place was almost hanging in the air because it seemed impossible that such slender columns could hold such intricate , lacy arches and ornate ceilings . |
| 17 | It gives a terrific boost to the volume of your hair , and it can also be used for styling a few special details , because it stays pliable while you create them . |
| 18 | Frequent whitewashing or repapering , like John Barton 's ‘ clean stencilled pattern ’ , is often alluded to , no doubt because it made damp and derelict rooms look fresh and dry but that is the way that they remain for the reader . |
| 19 | There is no really well-defined pattern , but the constellation is not hard to identify , because it lies more or less between Altair and Fomalhaut ; the line of three stars of which Altair is the central member points to it . |
| 20 | Wilberforce saw very clearly that this was the issue and that evolutionism was damnable because it implied moral and cultural relativity . |
| 21 | APT is impressive , not least because it comes nearer than any rival to retaining essential qualities of open outcry , a feat unmatched by American exchanges which profess the greatest attachment to traditional trading . |
| 22 | Because it makes sure that it is democratically run . |
| 23 | Because it costs two and a half times as much to collect as the money that is received . |
| 24 | Thus Verkehrsberuhigung was described as ‘ an unfortunate word ’ , because it means more than making the traffic quiet , it means making surrounding areas better . |
| 25 | In other words , implied terms can not be introduced merely because it appears reasonable or equitable to do so . |
| 26 | On the whole we are too ashamed to use inconvenience as a way of changing behaviour because it seems dishonest and inefficient . |
| 27 | We might be inclined to reject the arrangement because it seems unattractive and not what we want . |
| 28 | The Prime Minister gave his go-ahead at a meeting with the Chancellor , Treasury Chief Secretary Michael Portillo , Social Security Secretary Peter Lilley and Employment Minister Michael Forsyth , after being told that doctors , especially in inner city areas , sign people on for the benefit because it pays more than dole money . |
| 29 | The Prime Minister gave his go-ahead at a meeting with the Chancellor , Treasury Chief Secretary Michael Portillo , Social Security Secretary Peter Lilley and Employment Minister Michael Forsyth , after being told that doctors , especially in inner city areas , sign people on for the benefit because it pays more than dole money . |