Example sentences of "because it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The woman wore a dress that seemed very short when I recalled the picture through the next few years : broad shoulders , a straight skirt that hung the way it did — I know now — because it had some rayon in it . |
| 32 | Cedars , he told them , was a special school because it had special teachers with special skills and training . |
| 33 | On July 18 , Byelorussia , regarded as one of the more compliant republics , refused to recognise a resolution of the USSR Cabinet of Ministers on production during the transition to a market economy , because it contradicted Byelorussian legislation . |
| 34 | Throughout the Communist world , the videotape recorder was the greatest status symbol because it implied ready access to a constant supply of Western videotapes . |
| 35 | A SNOOTY hospice lost a £1,250 gift for its sick kids — because it banned three bikers . |
| 36 | ‘ Customers said it was great that we were open because it showed some normality in the town . ’ |
| 37 | So because it worked last time I used it . |
| 38 | And the central government 's socialism , it 's restriction of socialist rights to Libyan nationals , set the seal on the discrimination between foreign and national labour because it encouraged Libyan employers to employ foreigners . |
| 39 | I said , ‘ Cynthia would n't let him ’ , which was silly of me because it aroused several emotions in my mother . |
| 40 | Not surprisingly , Shaughnessy found it ‘ extremely disturbing , because it suggested serious wrong-doing by the government and suggested that Pan Am employees placed the bomb on Flight 103 ’ . |
| 41 | All I was told is that you 're getting twelve months guarantee , but you 've got to have a three thousand mile service , and as the gentleman said erm I recorded the deliveries and sent them all back and on the third one , when I took it in I asked if they 'd put a new set of points in for me and erm unfortunately when it came out there was no compression at all and because because I it was suggested that I dug my heels in a bit and got an independent report and erm basically they told me to get lost because it cost fifty pound to do the report . |
| 42 | Mothers welcomed the short hair because it presented less problems than long hair . |
| 43 | The Great Storm was a setback to woodland conservation because it drew public attention to trees and woods without adding to public understanding . |
| 44 | A PWR was economic , displacing old plant ; it was a good thing because it used other fuel than coal , or , rather , it was in line with the |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | The city 's Central Station incorporates a large viaduct section over Argyll Street , which is locally nicknamed the Highlandman 's Umbrella , because it provided useful shelter for the homeless and unemployed in the city . |
| 47 | Was the government-supported Remploy , for instance , a good thing because it provided sheltered employment for disabled people , or a bad thing because it ghettoised them ? |
| 48 | On the other hand , there were those feminists represented by Josephine Butler who believed that prostitution was evil because it destroyed human dignity but who also believed the prostitute had a right not to be harassed , and if she was an adult she even had a right to choose to become a prostitute . |
| 49 | The Independent Broadcasting Authority banned a radio advert of the Friends of John McCarthy to mark his fourth Christmas as a hostage because it broke political rules . |
| 50 | The district committee , the A G E W district committee , er recognized that it was something that er was a confederation exercise because it covered all aspects of the workforce , and therefore you had er engineers and , and the sheet metal workers and electricians and pattern makers , everybody within the confed in Brothers was affected by it . |
| 51 | Gloucester 's power was valuable because it ensured royal control of a significant and troublesome part of the country . |
| 52 | Gloucester 's power was valuable because it ensured royal control of a significant and troublesome part of the country . |