Example sentences of "because it [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was told not to smoke on set because it spoiled the image : he smoked . |
| 2 | Edward VI 's Bill of 1547 encountered a great deal of opposition throughout English society not only because it concerned the chantries but also because it struck at the system of confraternities on which much of medieval life was based . |
| 3 | For example , when Rome 's first sundial was brought to the city from Sicily in 263 BC , during the first Punic war , and was erected in the Forum it was inaccurate because it indicated the time appropriate to the place whence it came which was more than four degrees to the south . |
| 4 | The definition can be made more accurate , but not wholly satisfactory by specifying that the other animal must have changed its behaviour because it perceived the signal through its sense organs , and was not physically forced . |
| 5 | National Savings were particularly competitive in the 1980's when emphasis was placed on raising government funds from this source , largely because it relieved the need somewhat to borrow from the banking system which created credit and therefore inflationary conditions , and because of the fear that government borrowing in the long-term capital markets would tend to ‘ crowd-out ’ industrial and commercial companies from that market , and impede their ability to raise funds for capital investment and long-term growth . |
| 6 | Many parents and would-be parents watching the play would understand the mother 's position because it reflected the consensus of public opinion . |
| 7 | Easy Rider happened to become the film of the moment because it reflected the mood of the moment . |
| 8 | Early in my journalistic career I learned that one should never use a preposition to end a sentence with — remembering it because it committed the error it condemned ; whatever the consequence , I was now fully convinced that Moose Jaw was not a bad place to be from . |
| 9 | Elizabeth 's reign is now seen to be of crucial importance because it saw the completion of the Protestantization of the English people and witnessed the creation of a uniquely English style of Protestant church which was later to be labelled Anglicanism . |
| 10 | For sure Cabinets were made and unmade on the floor of the House , but the Cabinet for its part could unmake the House of Commons because it enjoyed the right to ask for a dissolution and after the election it could look for support from amongst members in a new House of Commons . |
| 11 | ‘ We liked that site because it prepared the children for going to school . |
| 12 | Joyce Quin ( Labour , Gateshead East ) said her party favoured a Minister for Women , Suzanne Fletcher ( LibDem , Stockton North ) was opposed because it marginalised the issue and Brenda Thompson , a Tory on Cleveland County Council , said the appointment would be patronising . |
| 13 | It was denounced by many as economically dangerous and potentially unenforceable , not least because it specified the requirement of budgetary balance without providing the mechanism through which this could be achieved . |
| 14 | He regarded this system as inimical to the rule of law for a number of reasons : first , because it undermined the principles of equality and universality of law ; secondly , because it placed the State in a privileged position and would therefore threaten the historic achievement of bringing the Crown under law ; and , thirdly , insofar as it resulted in the establishment of special courts , it infringed the principle of the separation of judicial and ministerial powers . |
| 15 | The implication is that America lost the war because it lacked the will to win . |
| 16 | For a start he 'd given up being a hippie , which must have been a relief to the Fish , not only professionally but because it meant the Fish could play Charlie soul records — Otis Redding and all — the only music he liked . |
| 17 | Once VE Day was over , we were all very happy because it meant the end of air raids and bombing attacks on Germany , and we now turned our thoughts to the problem of subduing the little yellow perils . |
| 18 | To the chagrin of Buckingham , however , because it meant the postponement of the opening of the College , the CNAA declined in 1974 to approve Buckingham courses in general and a law degree in particular . |
| 19 | The new principle was a good one , because it forced the government to live in a world where inflation matters and can not be conveniently assumed away . |
| 20 | This concession to Vichy was unacceptable to de Gaulle on grounds of self-interest , because it reduced the stature and role of Free France . |
| 21 | Plundering en route was forbidden , probably because it reduced the speed of the army rather than for any ethical reasons . |
| 22 | The psychology of adolescence was crucial to the enterprise because it offered the possibility , indeed , the likelihood of change ; it was grist to the mill of those whom Peter Clarke has termed ‘ moral ’ as opposed to ‘ mechanist ’ reformers . |
| 23 | It worked because it offered the combination of style and leisure which more refined sensibilities found coarsened in Brighton . |
| 24 | By the middle of the nineteenth century , the offence had fallen into desuetude , but it was resurrected and found to be a handy prosecutorial weapon against gang fights , because it enabled the prosecutor to circumvent the limitations imposed by the laws of complicity . |
| 25 | The factory had come into being , Marglin argues , because it enabled the owner to force higher levels of output out of operators . |
| 26 | Learning , in short , was useful because it enhanced the style and substance of rulership . |
| 27 | He submitted that the order itself had made a compromise because it contained the words ‘ counterclaim withdrawn ’ and because it dealt with the rent so that the plaintiffs had no further claim in respect of it . |
| 28 | He also preferred the Durham system to the Cambridge system because it afforded the chance of more general courses of study . |
| 29 | The debate was revealing because it exposed the core of racism and bigotry beneath the liberal rhetoric of Canada 's much vaunted multiculturalism . |
| 30 | Devonport has claimed its original bid was provoked partly because it believed the navy intended to centralise nuclear refitting at Rosyth , thus undermining Devonport 's future , and is insistent that its proposal was unsolicited . |