Example sentences of "because it [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He chose a child as his lover because it fed that ego ; he lost her because he never cottoned on to the fact that children are children , no matter how grown-up they might appear . |
| 2 | The melee was extraordinary , because it took some time for Hunt to realize that he was world champion . |
| 3 | Marx condemned capitalism because it frustrated human potential and self-actualization , but believed it was a necessary stage in human dialectical development . |
| 4 | Research evidence suggests that old-fashioned formal teaching of grammar had a negligible , or , because it replaced some instruction and practice in composition , even a harmful , effect on the development of original writing . |
| 5 | Temporary upsurges in militancy during the year , in particular around the question of British intervention in Russia and Ireland , provoked principled stands at national and local levels , not least because it deflected anti-Bolshevik propaganda that had been used consistently against Labour . |
| 6 | A dismissal may be unfair either because it was procedurally arbitrary or because it lacked good cause . |
| 7 | This was the case in the Weimar Republic , where the parliament , although endowed with strong formal powers , was vulnerable because it lacked public support . |
| 8 | Yeah and we 've seen some different erm they had I think it was actually waiver paper as well when Murdoch bought it , and for a while he honoured the political content and then he decided he was gon na do major changes , and this may all sound familiar to you but erm the effect that that had I mean not only on the , on the , on the end up being this side , but also on erm the Mirror because it meant that Page Three Girls were in on the Daily Record in Scotland erm it was , it was quite profound I mean there 's a broader argument here as to whether you you should get pampered to those possible denominator to taste erm it 's interesting that the Daily Sport and the Sunday Sport which are two I do n't know if they have anything like it in Japan , but they 're a bit like the National Enquirer erm it 's all made up baseball there 's a sad proportion of erm journalist stories of fantasy land stuff erm along with erm photographic content and er copy content which probably |
| 9 | The BBC says it chose Stewart Park , Middlesbrough , for a Bank Holiday special because it offered better car parking than parks in Stockton , while Stockton did not have an auditorium to compare with the size of Middlesbrough Town Hall . |
| 10 | Provisions in the General Revenue Act of 1992 to make deductible against tax the current value of both tangible and intangible property donated to a non-profit organisation ( for example , a painting to a museum or shares to a hospital ) rather than their value at acquisition failed along with the whole bill when it was vetoed by President Bush last month because it contained forty tax increases . |
| 11 | Using the Temple as a short cut was also forbidden by Jewish Law and yet the priests turned a blind eye to it because it brought more trade into the Temple . |
| 12 | The social welfare and material benefits which the imperialist state could grant to workers in Britain and Germany at the turn of the twentieth century allowed capitalism to survive because it divided Third World workers from their similarly exploited , if differently rewarded , working-class brethren in the industrialised centre of the world economy . |
| 13 | She resented the claim because it raised some barrier between them . |
| 14 | Wheat was favoured , not merely because of its immediate importance as a basic food , but because it demanded least capital and least care , even where it meant wretched cultivations : only one-tenth of the cereal secano was farmed in regular rotations of wheat and legumes ; a quarter was cultivated only once every six or ten years . |
| 15 | And because it had that name she did n't link it up to other terms like masturbation or whatever . |
| 16 | The NMA argued from the outset for a negotiated settlement , in part because of a fear that intransigence might lead to total defeat and in part because it had little money with which to fight the strike following the run-down of its funds during the 1921 lockout . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Throughout the Communist world , the videotape recorder was the greatest status symbol because it implied ready access to a constant supply of Western videotapes . |
| 20 | ‘ Customers said it was great that we were open because it showed some normality in the town . ’ |
| 21 | So because it worked last time I used it . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The Great Storm was a setback to woodland conservation because it drew public attention to trees and woods without adding to public understanding . |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Gloucester 's power was valuable because it ensured royal control of a significant and troublesome part of the country . |