Example sentences of "because they [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She compromised on the kitchen garden with prayers , which seemed to be heard because they reached the stable unobserved . |
| 2 | On the other hand the open villages , because they attracted the surplus labour force , contained workers on depressed wages who could ill afford rents which would make housing improvements profitable . |
| 3 | But the rejoicing and the laughter which followed the tears were of equal importance , because they powered the erotic joy that was as important as the water falling from the sky . |
| 4 | It would certainly give a new twist to the arms race ; indeed some of Reagan 's advisers appeared to be recommending SDI precisely because they thought the Soviet economy would collapse under the strain of attempting to emulate it . |
| 5 | And then they could n't be on their own because they had the elderly relatives to care for . |
| 6 | Chávez stated that constitutional amendments currently being debated by the Congress represented a " setback " because they ignored the social grievances existing in the country . |
| 7 | They were feverishly engaged in anti-Francoist conspiring , partly because many monarchists were opposed to Franco 's gestures of support for Hitler and Mussolini , and partly because they resented the national and international prominence given to Serrano and the Falangists Serrano had chosen as his closest personal and professional associates . |
| 8 | We 'd rather lose some riders than have any dissatisfied because they chose the wrong holiday . |
| 9 | A poll carried out into the reasons why people voted for the SDP candidate in the Warrington by-election of 1981 revealed that only 9 per cent did so because they supported SDP policy ; 8 per cent did so because they admired the well-known candidate ; and nearly 70 per cent voted for negative " reasons — the most frequently cited being their opposition to the extremism of the two established parties . |
| 10 | The presence of its members was normally tolerated because they supported the industrial action of the TUC , 1,200 of them being arrested during the dispute , and because some of its leading figures , such as Robin Page Arnot who did sterling work in organizing the councils of action in the North East , were active in the dispute . |
| 11 | These goblins hated the old man and the boys , because they tended the sacred fire at the sun 's shrine and kept it burning even at night , so that there was always a light in the forest . |
| 12 | However , the struggle was conducted at the expense of the woman worker and , within the family , the family wage system benefited men disproportionately , because they gained the full-time household services of their wives . |
| 13 | These writers criticized the industry for being a second-rate imitation of Hollywood , but that was because they despised American cinema and the ‘ box-office bogey ’ , not because they appreciated the economic gap between the two industries . |