Example sentences of "because it [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no way we could put TI money into the company , we could n't justify doing that to the shareholders because it looked to us as though BA was going to go under . |
| 2 | More fundamental — because it looked towards a future international order rather than the waning one — was the critique of NATO and American hegemony that he developed on his return to power and that remained one of the hallmarks of his international policy throughout the 1960s . |
| 3 | He 'd caught a glimpse of the two of them reflected in the hall mirror and his heart had lurched because it looked as if he was propping up a corpse . |
| 4 | ‘ Everyone wanted to take Sir Edward away , because it looked as if you could n't make it . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ We came together because it looked as if he was going to try to take my line to the corner . |
| 6 | They said in the shop that the men who did it had been pretending to take up paving stones — nobody thought anything because it looked as if they were from the Council . ’ |
| 7 | Rachel knew , however , there was no point trying to explain that she was merely going with David to see her new friends from Conway House , because it looked as if her mother , together with Nina , Greg and all the others , had jumped to conclusions and were ready to believe that what was a perfectly innocent friendship had developed into something more . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In Lewis the effect of the decline in the inshore fishing industry was all the more dramatic because it looked for a time as if it might be averted . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | The sun is just a star , one of many thousands of millions of stars in our own galaxy , which is the milky way , which we see as we look up in the sky on a very dark night , and it was called the milky way by the ancients because it looked like a splash of milk across the sky , but we now know that it 's a flattened system consisting of these thousands of millions of stars . |
| 13 | That was the first occasion when I saw my exercising as an irritating use of time , because it got in the way of our friendship . |
| 14 | Backing up your data is vital , so book a lunch date if you choose level two , because it takes about one minute per megabyte of hard disk space to set up . |
| 15 | Will the Secretary of State answer that question truthfully because it strikes at the very heart of democracy ? |
| 16 | " I felt threatened by Marxism because it was the doctrine of a friend , and because it cut across our friendship " , noted Sartre . |
| 17 | That is because it touches on many aspects of life that are deeply important to us : |
| 18 | This is an enormous area to consider briefly because it touches on the central issue of what is sometimes called ‘ the second industrial revolution ’ and , more precisely , on the relationship between labour and technological change . |
| 19 | I will tell you my secret belief : that for Gustave , in a way he only half-apprehended , I represented life , and that his rejection of me was the more violent because it provoked in him the deepest shame . |
| 20 | I mean it 's not anything like as dramatic as that , but it 's , because it fluctuates in different quarters in the area , in different towns . |
| 21 | One proposal is to take a 2-kg piece of tellurium and leave this for a year ; tellurium is chosen because it transmutes into xenon , which is unreactive and relatively easy to detect . |
| 22 | The group 's concern with rocketry was hardly respectable in those days : its existence was tolerated mainly because it came under the wing of Theodore van Karman , one of the world 's greatest aerodynamicists . |
| 23 | Although Mr MacKarness wo n't confirm it , the Fowlers claim the price was just £70,000 because it came with sitting tenants . |
| 24 | If you invited him to make one at a dinner-party , you expected him to talk intelligibly ; if he published a volume of poems you expected him to write the sort of thing that the average well-educated man could understand because it came within the orbit of his own experience . |
| 25 | The Queen and Prince Philip survived it only because it came upon them in middle age — when any youthful indescretion or misbehaviour had long since been enjoyed and then forgotten in the mists of time . |
| 26 | What does my hon. Friend think of the actions of Derbyshire county council , which refused one low-cost tender because it came in the wrong coloured envelope and ended up accepting a higher tender from its own work force at an enormous extra cost to charge payers ? |
| 27 | I had always had difficulty with the idea of a long-bearded god sitting on a throne on high , but because it came in the form it did , as an energy , I had no difficulty with it … |
| 28 | Last week the society took the incredibly high-handed decision to refuse a cheque for £50,000 because it came from the profits of the famous Dianagate tapes . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Mia has now flown back to America with the one-year-old dog , which she has named Tip because it came from Co Tipperary . |