Example sentences of "because it had [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A CASTLEREAGH councillor believes the Fair Employment Commission pursued a case against the council because it had disputed figures .
2 In addition , Lord Meston submits that the court also had ‘ rights of custody ’ in the context of the Convention , because it had made orders in the course of the cross-motions before it which indicated that it was seized of the matter and that it had not determined either the father 's or the mother 's substantive applications and had adjourned the hearing of the mother 's substantive application for custody and for leave to remove the child from the jurisdiction until a date in August .
3 ECOMOG officials , however , categorically denied Taylor 's claim that Ulimo had been able to advance so rapidly because it had received aid from countries contributing to the ECOMOG force .
4 The company , which is a wholly owned subsidiary of AGB Research , had been chosen by Ben Lowe partly because it had done market research for other papers , including an abortive workers ' co-operative , the Scottish Daily News .
5 Because it had taken place so long ago and was one of those things which could happen to anyone , she was quite unconcerned about the accident itself .
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