Example sentences of "because they [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely it is possible that a jury might decline to convict of murder a person who intentionally killed under gross provocation , even though they knew that the judge could give a lenient sentence , because they wished to signify the reduction in the defendant 's culpability by using the less stigmatic label of manslaughter . |
| 2 | Women who did not deliberately choose to remain single out of conviction or because they wished to pursue a career , but who nevertheless ‘ got left on the shelf , were often made to feel that they were failures . |
| 3 | Well , alas , in that particular case , there was a panicky policy , because they delayed drawing the proper consequences from their data for too long . |
| 4 | He goes on to say of course federal laws were not being obeyed in the confederacy because they 'd rejected the entire panoply of federal laws and Lincoln goes on to point out must they these laws and the confederacy be allowed to state the question more directly , are all the laws but one to go unexecuted and the government itself to go to pieces less that one be violated . |
| 5 | Betty 's Betty has lived on they had roast beef for Christmas because they 'd eaten no red meat for so long |
| 6 | Because they 'd got a tremendous struggle on , they 'd got a tremendous struggle on , they were struggling against tremendous odds , they were struggling against er er all sorts of er er of er of trickery , that er was being conducted by quite a quite a few of the er quite a few of the major powers . |
| 7 | The the Jolly George er was a ship that was loaded with arms er to send to Russia , to for our the use of our troops in Russia , and the sailors refused to sail it , and there was quite a to do about this because they 'd got the steam up and it was ready to go but they never went . |
| 8 | Well they 'd sell you the most expensive because they 'd got the most commission |
| 9 | By the end , of course , they were thoroughly enjoying themselves because they 'd had a bit to drink and it was a jolly convivial evening . ’ |
| 10 | You know , I was on the phone to a customer for fifteen to twenty minutes because they 'd had a bad experience and I was actually making an appointment for Roy to go in and that twenty minutes is a long time , and I think really if anything , it 's just brought to me really , , how little time sometimes , it 's not always the case , it does vary , that , depending on the incoming calls , depending if you 've got got through the emerging paperwork for whatever reason , how little quality time perhaps you do actually spend on the phone , making outgoing calls to sell . |
| 11 | Some of them were in a terrible state because they 'd had an electric shock from the lightning . |
| 12 | It was n't very fair to feel betrayed by someone you loved , someone very close to you , simply because they 'd had the misfortune to die suddenly … |
| 13 | None of this lot aches because they failed to change the world . |
| 14 | But diversifying companies found it much harder to exploit economies of scale and scope in these new fields — usually , says Mr Chandler , because they failed to make the same kind of first-mover investments they had made in their primary businesses . |
| 15 | THE drivers of three 30-tonne lorries were able to stay behind the wheel for longer than the legal limit because they managed to cheat the ‘ spy in the cab ’ . |
| 16 | THE drivers of three 30-tonne lorries were able to stay behind the wheel for longer than the legal limit because they managed to cheat the ‘ spy in the cab ’ . |
| 17 | He had taken an instant dislike to both Bodie and Doyle , not only because they had bungled the surveillance job on the van containing his potential assassins , but because they dressed casually , more suited to a Sunday afternoon jog than the serious business of the Secret Service . |
| 18 | Because they had taught a topic , it followed that the children had learned it . |
| 19 | ‘ It was a conscious decision to sign to Rough Trade because they had done a lot of good work in the past and right from day one they were our friend which is the most important thing . |
| 20 | the ones who are , who have seen it all before , and done it from last year , because they had to split a smaller section of them up into the first year . |
| 21 | They held me one night on a holding charge because they had to analyse the pharmaceuticals . |
| 22 | Members of the CSJ , the NILP , the CPNI , the Belfast Wolfe Tone Society , the Republican Clubs and private individuals worked together because they had developed a personal commitment to the association , and not because they were directed by any outside agency . |
| 23 | He should be used to them by now because they had become a frequent occurrence during the past few months , particularly since Martin had been bringing Miss Crosbie to the house . |
| 24 | Not a few men lost teeth because they had met the big man at the wrong moment . |
| 25 | In another case , a director of an investment company was disqualified for 10 years and his co-director for six years because they had caused the company to continue trading while insolvent , had transferred assets to other companies which subsequently failed , and had been seriously negligent . |
| 26 | The activation molecule is an enzyme called ‘ tyrosine kinase ’ and in both individuals this molecule was not functioning properly because they had inherited a faulty kinase gene . |
| 27 | They behaved like brave soldiers because they had inherited the genes of a long line of ancestral queens whose lives , and whose genes , had been saved by soldiers as brave as themselves . |
| 28 | The Bogsiders felt that they had won — not only because they had kept the RUC out of their area but because they had forced the British Army to intervene . |
| 29 | The Serbian authorities were also preventing 350,000 Albanian pupils and students from re-entering school because they had followed an Albanian curriculum . |
| 30 | The 2/2 Independent Company could now fulfil this role because they had remained a cohesive force , not just as a result of their training and leadership but in no small measure because these were men used to living in dry country and capable of fending for themselves in the basic departments of survival . |