Example sentences of "because it [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He decided to live in Dorset and chose this site ( where an earlier house had been ) , because it looked for all the world as though , when the house was built , it could sail straight out to sea . |
| 2 | Miss Bowes said : ‘ There has been an upward trend in rates in the last few weeks because it looked like Labour were going to win . |
| 3 | At that point , it could be doing all sorts of weird things , and you 'd think oh , I 've got this wonderful graph and I plotted a lot of points close together , so I know my sketch was right , because it looked like this funny W thing or M or something |
| 4 | Although Mr MacKarness wo n't confirm it , the Fowlers claim the price was just £70,000 because it came with sitting tenants . |
| 5 | That is not to say that banks faced no competition ; but because it came from mutual-fund companies , savings banks or manufacturing firms ' finance arms , they were slower to spot it and restricted by regulators in reacting to it . |
| 6 | She switched to London Weekend because it went on all night and watched another film , then a comedy about a Los Angeles police precinct . |
| 7 | It was big but it was n't tall because it walked on four feet . |
| 8 | The outlines of his life are familiar but , because it fell into three parts separated by place as well as time , it is obscure in detail even to those who were closest to him at any given time . |
| 9 | Because it applied to all bodies everywhere , the universe had at last become a universe . |
| 10 | The regime 's tendency to conservatism was all the more serious because it coincided with huge socio-economic upheavals associated with modernization and the coming to maturity of the postwar baby boom . |
| 11 | The first , by a Bank of England official , must be presumed to have been highly critical because it led to drastic reform of the island 's supervisory procedures . |
| 12 | Mr Donnellan 's tutor said the case was important because it dealt with such a sensitive issue . |
| 13 | In prosecutions for many other crimes , for instance assault , testimony varied more because it built on actual incidents . |
| 14 | Therefore , to a degree , the ‘ social gospel ’ was criticized not because it called for political action but because it called into question Victorian cultural and economic truisms . |
| 15 | Nevertheless it requires separate assessment , not least because it drew on certain areas of experience not directly dominated by the monarch . |
| 16 | The stone flew in the air across the surface of the water , skimming as free as a bird but only because it bounced on that surface every now and then and refused to sink at the first contact . |
| 17 | In theory , the committees were to provide opportunities for skilled and apprenticed employment , though members admitted that formal apprenticeship , at least , was not always possible , partly because it appeared to many observers that machines had eradicated a number of handicrafts , turning the worker into a ‘ machine-tending artisan ’ , and partly because ‘ skill ’ was a relative concept , demanding different degrees of training . |
| 18 | One or two of the excellent ones was spent , was spoiled by a little bit of er need to erm edit very carefully introdu introduction of concepts you must be careful not to , if you 've got a couple of hundred words only , but do n't introduce er concepts diversity of design must of been er a phrase picked up from the video itself because it appeared in two or three of them , but it 's no use talking about diversity and divine is it , de design as if , as if it 's a concept which everybody else is going to understand . |
| 19 | Indeed , one must infer that the policy was deliberately not expressed in the legislation because it appeared in express terms in other legislation relating to other transactions . |
| 20 | Thirty I think because it started at thirty when we pressed and went down |
| 21 | When the volume of work increased , as it did throughout central government , the wind of change hit the Lord Chancellor 's Office with particular force because it started from such a tiny base . |
| 22 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |
| 23 | Hughes established that 36% of the single thesis which she studied was unpublished because it consisted of raw analytical data . |