Example sentences of "because they [vb past] [to-vb] [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 | None of this lot aches because they failed to change the world . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They held me one night on a holding charge because they had to analyse the pharmaceuticals . |
| 9 | Because they had to exercise a bit of faith . |
| 10 | ‘ I went away and left him ’ , now even if they went , went away and left and , because they had to bring the children home , or if they went away and left him because they knew it was the best thing for everyone concerned , because the foreign office wants as many people , we all need as many people to get out of the area as possible ; their guilt will be huge . |
| 11 | I conceive they acted judicially , because they had to determine the offence , and they had to apportion the punishment as well as the remedy . |
| 12 | Long before Plowden many teachers had rejected traditional approaches to learning because they seemed to deny the way children thought and reasoned , the way in which children could grasp complex ideas , the way in which children dealt with information ( not in the neatly boxed subject areas beloved by academics but in broad chunks ) . |
| 13 | An Inquiry headed by an Irish High Court Judge , Mr Justice Declan Costello , firmly placed the responsibility for this on two corporations , Total and Gulf , who deliberately decided not to carry out necessary repair work costing a mere £130,000 because they intended to sell the tanker . |
| 14 | An Inquiry headed by an Irish High Court Judge , Mr Justice Declan Costello firmly placed the responsibility for this on two corporations , Total and Gulf , ‘ who deliberately decided not to carry out necessary repair work costing a mere £130,000 because they intended to sell the tanker' ( The Observer 27.7.80 : 2 ) . |
| 15 | For example , David Walker and his colleagues at the University of Sheffield approached us because they wanted to take a new look at photosynthesis . |
| 16 | Marx and Engels were interested in primitive cultures because they wanted to construct a general history and theory of society in order to explain the coming to be of capitalism . |
| 17 | The raft of policies that the Opposition are putting before the British people would be devastating to job prospects , and so ashamed are they of the consequences of their policies that four Labour members of the Select Committee on Employment last week voted down a proposal to hold an inquiry into the effects of national statutory minimum wage because they wanted to hide the truth about that policy from the British people . |
| 18 | The dragon-lady 's in a sober tizzy , eh ? , because they tried to give a bucket of beer to the horse . |
| 19 | ‘ Would you say your father and others were traitors because they tried to remove the Führer ? ’ |
| 20 | Although a sixth of the clergy of the diocese 's 272 parishes were deprived because they refused to take the oath of allegiance to Elizabeth 's church , the remainder stayed on , modifying their public practices if not their private beliefs . |
| 21 | Last night she and her mother bedded down on a mattress in the back of their secondhand horse-box eating food heated up on a mobile stove because they refused to pay the London prices of the arena 's eating places . |