Example sentences of "because it [vb past] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was because it meant so much that I ca n't remember ! ’ she protested . |
| 2 | Others said Hong Kong should be optimistic , not because 1997 meant so much , but because it meant so little . |
| 3 | In Britain , the great limestone development of early Carboniferous ( Mississippian ) age used to be called the " Mountain Limestone " because it formed so much of our upland scenery . |
| 4 | I was even more nervous because it mattered so much , and then I could n't stop talking and did n't answer the questions . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ At first I thought I 'd hooked a tree because it felt so solid . |
| 6 | These were songs that laced their natural exuberance with a strain of English satire that was remarkable because it seemed so unaffected . |
| 7 | ‘ I could n't take it seriously at first because it seemed so ridiculous , but then you look in the statute book and realise the maximum penalty for this is seven years . |
| 8 | As she gathered up the bedding and cushions she had hung out of the windows to air before the evening earth began to exhale dew , she wondered whether she should fetch out her best mantilla , the white lace her mother had given her for her first communion , which she never wore because it seemed so showy , and had n't worn even yesterday for the Easter Mass . |
| 9 | I remember how he signed it because it sounded so impressive : ‘ T. Buckland Kettering ’ . ’ |
| 10 | The ears are thickened , they 're cracking , they 're bleeding , they itch and they hurt ; she almost scratched a hole on the outside of her ear because it hurt so much . |
| 11 | Witness could not say how much help in this a girl would need from the men because it varied so much , but she did not think it amounted to much , and no special men workers were employed for it " Lifting is therefore not denied , but its importance is distinctly minimized when a woman is speaking , maximized when a man is . |
| 12 | One man I met on holiday even suggested that sending aid to Africa was ‘ compounding the problem ’ because it allowed so many potential breeders to survive . |
| 13 | One man I met on holiday in Greece even suggested that sending aid to Africa was ‘ compounding the problem ’ because it allowed so many potential breeders to survive . |
| 14 | This was partly because it proved so difficult to crush or even to assess the strength of the ‘ People 's Will ’ . |
| 15 | The attempt to put a stop to the moving earth stands out because it proved so tragic an aberration — a personal tragedy for Galileo and , in the long run , a tragedy for the Church , which overreached itself in securing a territory that would prove impossible to hold . |