Example sentences of "because it [vb past] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The match was a 45,000 sell-out — even though the game was screened live on television — because it carried an air of glamour . |
| 2 | However , in Ronbar Enterprises Ltd v Green Jenkins LJ , having reviewed some earlier business sale cases in which severance had taken place viz Goldsoll v Goldman [ 1914 ] 2 Ch 603 and British Reinforced Concrete Engineering Co Ltd v Schelff [ 1921 ] 2 Ch 563 , said that Attwood v Lamont could be distinguished because it concerned an employment contract . |
| 3 | County were battered and bruised , but they still had a bit of bounce left and came back with a goal from Dean Thomas which sent Nicky Hammond the wrong way , only because it took a deflection . |
| 4 | In Aragon 's eyes , the pact was a major step in the direction of peace , not only because it represented a curbing of fascist aggression towards the Soviet Union , but also since it was not in theory incompatible with the signing of a tripartite agreement between France , Great Britain and the USSR . " , |
| 5 | However , the NGC said this route had already been rejected , partly because it meant a concentration of lines at Norton . |
| 6 | The Community Charge was unpopular because it meant an increase in tax for many families , especially those with a number of adults living in one household . |
| 7 | That was just about the only redeeming feature of that winter because it formed a kind of bridge which made walking up to the road a lot easier . |
| 8 | Lofoten was chosen for this first large raid because it offered a chance to hit back at the enemy as well as such economic targets as the destruction of fish oil supplies , which might impair German manufacture of nitro-glycerine and would reduce supplies of vitamin A and B capsules issued to German troops . |
| 9 | The discovery led to the migration of iron works from the small forges of the south-east and elsewhere to the coalfields of the Midlands and the north , because it became a mass-production industry . |
| 10 | The Habash affair assumed great political significance largely because it became a focus for the Socialist ( PS ) government 's overall performance . |
| 11 | She had expected to get satisfaction from refusing Faith 's jewellery , because it seemed an action on principle , and because there was always a surreptitious pleasure to be gained from snubbing Isabel . |
| 12 | In the end we chose Viseu as a diversion , because it had a VOR/DME and we could descend safely overhead to 1,500 feet agl above the airfield . |
| 13 | He sought resolve and found a little and went to lie down on the bed to read a paperback of Anna Karenina , which he had always fancied because it had a scene on a railway platform . |
| 14 | I decided on the Waterside because it had a phone , beer you could n't get anywhere else in London and a very interesting turnover in young French female chefs . |
| 15 | But today in a faxed letter , he confirmed he bought the property because it had a clause allowing eviction and added : |
| 16 | The estate in Bradford where people told us they could not get credit because it had a reputation for housing defaulters ( see Appendix II , section 5 ) is an example of a physical credit ghetto , and depth-interview respondents in Finsbury ( London ) told us that their experience suggested that ‘ it has a bad name for credit ’ . |
| 17 | They slept it off , not getting up till around eleven next morning , Rufus in the principal guest room , Adam at the other end of the house in what he christened the Pincushion Room because it had a picture on the wall of St Sebastian stuck full of arrows . |
| 18 | On into the Room Without a Name they had passed and through to the room it communicated with , the Room of Astonishment , so called because it had a cupboard in it with a little staircase inside that wound its way up into the loft . |
| 19 | Bunny drove an old Vauxhall , probably older than himself , because it had a bench front seat and column change and gear levers got in the way . |
| 20 | I liked the Les Paul because it had a lot of knobs ! |
| 21 | His amber skin was suffused with the roseate glow of a red Tet lantern hanging from the ceiling , and because it cast a shadow across the dark valley of his groin he brushed his hand quickly down the funnel of his lower belly as though seeking reassurance of his completeness . |
| 22 | The Procurator-General , however , on Jan. 10 declared this agreement null and void because it contravened an October 1989 ruling of the federal court in Brasília [ see p. 37292 ] . |
| 23 | It is difficult to speak of popular religion or to define it in a satisfactory way , because it included an amalgam of magic and superstition , belief and doubt , the pagan and the Christian . |
| 24 | One smaller Catalan industry , cork , was more consistent in its growth because it held a monopoly of raw material . |
| 25 | But it was clear the statement was written yesterday because it hailed a vote by the House of Representatives on Tuesday night to make the extradition of drug traffickers a topic for a referendum . |
| 26 | Reduction of the fares was also invalid because it involved a breach of the fiduciary duty owed by the G.L.C. to the ratepayers . |
| 27 | Because it solved a business problem , the reduction was a step forward . |
| 28 | On the other hand though , it must be noted that this was an important phase of feminist film-making because it established a foothold in Britain for avant-garde work , extending an already existing interest in ( and audience for ) the films of continental women directors such as Agnes Varda and Marguerite Duras . |
| 29 | Administration officials argue that Mr Bush 's speech at the United Nations was in fact a turning point in the US efforts to ban the prodictoion of chemical weapons because it created an atmosphere in which the Geneva negotiations are likley to be accelerated . |
| 30 | The Aldershot principally because it gave a structure to what I had to say at least went up there fairly confident of what I had . |