Example sentences of "because it was [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The broad support that the ECSC Treaty did receive was perhaps possible because , despite its complexity , it was rather inchoate : because it was couched in rather vague and ambiguous terms , it could be interpreted in different ways . |
| 2 | The court held that the guidance was defective because it was couched in mandatory terms , and inconsistent with the intended flexible nature of the scheme . |
| 3 | 's instructions : Rex Chainbelt 's conduct was interference by unlawful means because it was done in obedience to the orders of S.1. which were in contempt of court . |
| 4 | But it was only because it was done in er er I think . |
| 5 | But that said , erm what what it what the position is , er i is that we have put into the model Well we have n't put it into the model because it was given to us a part of the model and possibly by now North Yorkshire may have the revised model , No they have n't yet . |
| 6 | The Government promoted Swahili as a national language not only because it was useful in administration but also because it was seen as an instrument ‘ for uniting the people of the nation 's different tribes ’ . |
| 7 | This was a crucial consideration , especially for the unskilled , because it was seen to be their only asset . |
| 8 | The ring glows because it was heated to more than 20 000 °C by radiation produced by the supernova blast . |
| 9 | I am disappointed that the statement does not contain a commitment to get rid of the poll tax in Scotland a year earlier , because it was inflicted on Scotland a year before everyone else . |
| 10 | It was not quite an oration because two days earlier speech had been phased out because it was discovered to be the ‘ root of all evil ’ , by somebody who never talked and was consequently the most unevil person in the world . |
| 11 | Section 8 only came into the argument because it was contended on behalf of Mrs. Gillick that , but for section 8 , no minor could ever consent to medical treatment and that section 8 was designed only to lower the age of consent to such treatment from 18 to 16 : see [ 1986 ] A.C. 112 , 123 , per Parker L.J. , and at p. 144D , per Fox L.J . |
| 12 | It is called ball clay because it was cut in cubes , about a spade size , and these were called ‘ balls ’ of clay ! |
| 13 | Lawton suspected nothing , merely practised caution because it was trained into him and was not an instinct . |
| 14 | The reason I did this , because some sixteen months ago , like over a year ago we brought it and lost it , it was n't a victory for anybody or er or er a real loss for anyone because it was lost by one vote . |
| 15 | Because it was listening to my advice on the ‘ phone , of course ! |
| 16 | ‘ He liked Joe Allen 's because it was filled with theatricals , people whom he thought always minded their own business , ’ said Pat . |
| 17 | We have already had one Christmas parcel , but that was from Hong-Kong , and arrived early because it was posted in England at the convenience of the man of the family , who flies jet airliners for Cathay Pacific . |
| 18 | Laura was not in a great hurry to find a new designer if only because it was dawning on her that the company needed more of a skilled copier than an original artist . |
| 19 | To the south their influence controlled Y'frike and Dr'gasia , though far away N'czuan was ruled by default for part of every year because it was hidden across the Gulf of Mists , which only the men of the islands knew how to sail safely . |
| 20 | Clara was not fully aware of Miss Haines ' interest , because it was hidden by a sharp and brisk demeanour , and by an almost excessive severity , so she worked all the harder in her efforts to impress . |
| 21 | Now , independent taxation means that th that you 've both got an allowance of fourteen thousand two hundred before age allowance is abated , but for teachers who 're you know retired early , er some years ago , and they perhaps got a pension for themselves , a pension for their wife , then obviously when they got to sixty five , quite ou because it was calculated as a , as er one total , it actually abated their allowance quickly . |
| 22 | The modern order , because it was based on industry , would produce a rational society . |
| 23 | And that 's what causes tragic failures like Matthew Smith and Augustus John — they 've done the Paris rat and they live ever after in the shadow of Gauguin and Matisse or whoever it may be — just as G.P. says he once lived under the shadow of Braque and suddenly woke up one morning to realize that all he had done for five years was a lie , because it was based on Braque 's eyes and sensibilities and not his own . |
| 24 | No direct comparison can be made with last year 's figures , as chairman Hugo Biermann reversed his company into a quoted shell company called Pathfinder Plc , and then changed its name to Maddox — because it was based in Maddox Street in London . |
| 25 | I accept it because it was said by Breton whose opinions I respect greatly , but that 's all . |
| 26 | Was it so much better than anything else I 've read on Hawking because it was written with the sensitivity and understanding of someone suffering from a disability in some ways similar to his ? |
| 27 | Yeah but I , I think that 's the importance basically I mean reading through this it 's very easy to sort of in , in a way you know go , go to this point of view because it was written at the time , but I mean we , we still now that it was a very sort of say left wing point of view |
| 28 | Their distinctive features have been chronicled ( with evident pride ) by Schaffer ( 1970 ) and Evans ( 1972 ) ; the first because , as a civil servant , he had been much associated with the programme , the second because it was written for the Town and Country Planning Association , long the champions of planned dispersal . |
| 29 | Somehow she managed to keep her self-control , opened it at the right page and began reading it slowly , as though she had never seen it before , although she knew every word by heart — because it was written from the heart . |
| 30 | ‘ Because it was written by someone who seems to have taken a particular dislike to you . ’ |