Example sentences of "because it had [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end we chose Viseu as a diversion , because it had a VOR/DME and we could descend safely overhead to 1,500 feet agl above the airfield . |
| 2 | He sought resolve and found a little and went to lie down on the bed to read a paperback of Anna Karenina , which he had always fancied because it had a scene on a railway platform . |
| 3 | I decided on the Waterside because it had a phone , beer you could n't get anywhere else in London and a very interesting turnover in young French female chefs . |
| 4 | But today in a faxed letter , he confirmed he bought the property because it had a clause allowing eviction and added : |
| 5 | The estate in Bradford where people told us they could not get credit because it had a reputation for housing defaulters ( see Appendix II , section 5 ) is an example of a physical credit ghetto , and depth-interview respondents in Finsbury ( London ) told us that their experience suggested that ‘ it has a bad name for credit ’ . |
| 6 | They slept it off , not getting up till around eleven next morning , Rufus in the principal guest room , Adam at the other end of the house in what he christened the Pincushion Room because it had a picture on the wall of St Sebastian stuck full of arrows . |
| 7 | On into the Room Without a Name they had passed and through to the room it communicated with , the Room of Astonishment , so called because it had a cupboard in it with a little staircase inside that wound its way up into the loft . |
| 8 | Bunny drove an old Vauxhall , probably older than himself , because it had a bench front seat and column change and gear levers got in the way . |
| 9 | I liked the Les Paul because it had a lot of knobs ! |
| 10 | During World War II MI6 produced few worthwhile results , largely because it had no agents in place before Hitler occupied the whole of Europe . |
| 11 | ‘ I grew up in the country , ’ she murmured , not sure why she had told him that because it had no bearing on the subject . |
| 12 | Low Birk Hatt has three bedrooms but the back bedroom was n't used very much because it had no fireplace and could n't be heated . |
| 13 | The government had to retreat over a plan to sell British Leyland trucks to America 's General Motors — partly because of a rooted popular affection for Britain 's ‘ Land Rovers ’ , partly because it had the air of a Westland mark II . |
| 14 | Here were editions esteemed as being the first , and there stood scarcely less regarded as being the last and the best ; here was a book valued because it had the author 's final improvements , and there is another which ( strange to tell ! ) was in request because it had them not . |