Example sentences of "because it [vb past] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The borough argued that the leaflet was misleading because it omitted all references to the joint liability of spouses and cohabiting couples .
2 They 'd spent part of the morning carrying boxes of some sort from one hut to another , apparently fairly heavy boxes , because it took both men to carry them .
3 I said , ‘ Cynthia would n't let him ’ , which was silly of me because it aroused several emotions in my mother .
4 Mothers welcomed the short hair because it presented less problems than long hair .
5 The district committee , the A G E W district committee , er recognized that it was something that er was a confederation exercise because it covered all aspects of the workforce , and therefore you had er engineers and , and the sheet metal workers and electricians and pattern makers , everybody within the confed in Brothers was affected by it .
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