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

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1 Again , this was not a PNP initiative but is reported here because it concerned parents , children and schools and gives an example of the practice from which the LEA 's unwritten policy on home-school links has to be inferred .
2 It fascinated pharmacologists , mainly because it displaced stores of adrenaline-like transmitter substances both from the brain and from other tissues ( see chapter 13 ) .
3 One might argue , indeed , that his departure from power was a blessing in disguise for him , because it left others with the disagreeable but unavoidable job of extricating France from this cul-de-sac , by recognizing a powerful West German state and ultimately accepting German rearmament , by fighting and then retreating from a bloody colonial conflict in Indochina .
4 Although initially withheld because it depicted conditions of extreme deprivation , the Commission 's report was nonetheless instrumental in the decision , taken at Montego Bay in 1947 , that the West Indies , under a federal system of government , should be guided toward Dominion-hood .
5 The Church of Ireland rejoined in 1860 , because it lacked funds to continue its own system .
6 For much of the nineteenth century this strategy was attractive to local government because it enabled localities to maintain to a large degree their prized autonomy .
7 In London , the British Board of Film Censors insisted that the rape scene should be cut because it contained elements of ‘ kinky sex associated with black magic ’ .
8 It is important to realize , however , that the introduction of the Aristotelian corpus into medieval Christendom had occasioned alarm because it contained doctrines that clashed with Christian belief .
9 Meanwhile the 11 + began to be criticized not only because it divided children up absurdly young into different categories , within which they were more or less trapped , but also because it was intrinsically inequitable .
10 Although the New Movement faded in its significance , because it ignored parts of the practical experience of educational management which practitioners themselves regarded as important , what was left was still a recognition that education management is a field of application which allows fruitful connections to be made between theory and practice .
11 The next antibiotic to be discovered , streptomycin , was of great value because it attacked microbes which were insensitive to penicillin , especially those which caused tuberculosis .
12 The permission of the Chief Constable was also a disadvantage in the field because it raised doubts among respondents about the purpose of the researcher 's questions over and above those that naturally arise from the political situation in Northern Ireland .
13 He came before the meeting as Chairman of the Legal Aid and Fees Committee , and moved the resolution in sadness and anger — sadness because it soured relations with the Lord Chancellor and the LCD and because time that he would rather have spent constructively had to be wasted on futile bickering , and anger because of the way that barristers and solicitors had been treated by the Government , especially a Government that spoke of the need for the business community to make prompt payment .
14 If the costs were lower than before , so too were the risks : the police force was well informed because it had members who were also members of the local lineages ; and it was ready to intervene to prevent escalation of disputes into further bloodshed .
15 Two of its lead investors declined to participate : MIPS because it had problems of its own and Singapore-based Wearnes Technology Pte , its manufacturing arm , because it reportedly got distracted by a PC deal with IBM .
16 This was the most interesting thing she had ever heard Elizabeth say , because it had undertones of cynicism , of self-mockery .
17 Because it had features so distracting and so inexplicable that no-one could simply explain them away ?
18 This tree was different from the others because it had branches hanging down very low .
19 A BAN has been slapped on an art exhibition due to be staged in railway station because it featured photographs of a full-frontal nude man and woman .
20 The English-language feature film came of age in the 1930s first because of its singularity as a piece of entertainment and then because it prompted responses which were important in defining cultural positions generally .
21 Critics of the decision by the Bush administration said yesterday that continuing US production was destabilising because it encouraged countries capable of producing chemical weapons to begin developing new production lines immediately .
22 In the 16th century , when Antwerp had a population of 100,000 , it became the world 's busiest port because it welcomed merchants from England , Germany , Portugal and Spain .
23 Where Methodism took hold , the force of the new puritanism was vastly more effective , largely because it attached sections of the working class itself to the moral crusade and began that polarisation of " respectable " and " rough " which was a developing feature in working-class communities in the nineteenth century .
24 On the most trivial of levels it could be claimed that Version 3.0 had caught up with Ventura because it supported stylesheets and graphics wraparound .
25 In July 1990 , the House of Lords held that a byelaw prohibiting entry to the Greenham Common military bars was invalid because it infringed rights of common .
26 The conjoint condemnation of enlightened reform from above and a radicalism which derived from doctrines of popular sovereignty was useful because it allowed conservatives to discredit any effort to reform traditional society ; it was possible because the generation of 1760 included pious bureaucrats like Floridablanca , esprits forts like Aranda , and cosmopolitan experts like Olavide ; it was made plausible by the Janus-like face of reform itself .
27 The rise is particularly interesting because it confounded expectations .
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