Example sentences of "because it [vb past] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before that she could not bear to leave because it meant leaving Brian behind . |
| 2 | Ironically , this intervention was felt to be unhelpful to the Prime Minister because it seemed to lend legitimacy to the possibility of a contest in the autumn . |
| 3 | It offended the religious , because it seemed to make God out to be untruthful or deceitful ; in the scientific age , science was after all a route to truth , and only the Devil was the father of lies . |
| 4 | ‘ I fancied getting married in black because it seemed to throw tradition to the winds , and looked very dramatic . |
| 5 | A CASTLEREAGH councillor believes the Fair Employment Commission pursued a case against the council because it had disputed figures . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The project could not be an emergency service , because it tried to recruit workers after obtaining a client , rather than beforehand , so that client and worker could be matched . |
| 11 | Gandhi could not countenance such an approach because it involved rejecting ahi sā and relinquishing sarvodaya . |
| 12 | The Single European Act disappointed many federalists because it tended to codify practices which had developed since 1958 , rather than to reform the EC in any radical way . |
| 13 | It was only when the government started to cut drug prices after 1980 , because it wanted to stop health bills rising further as the population greyed , that the drug makers were pushed into thinking about export markets . |