Example sentences of "because it [vb past] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are still languishing in the Edwardian era , when our great British Women 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore long flannels … when the bulk of entrants at Wimbledon were British because it took six weeks to cross the Atlantic , and another six to reach Australia ! |
| 2 | The defendant garage was liable in damages because it took eight weeks to repair a motor vehicle when a normally competent garage would have taken about five weeks . |
| 3 | Perhaps , they argue , it is because it suffered two sudden floods in quick succession at a time of year — summer — when the invertebrate populations are least adapted to cope . |
| 4 | A curious mixture of shade , energy and colour , it transcended most of the other material on the album because it contained one of the group 's main strengths — a great chorus . |
| 5 | Provisions in the General Revenue Act of 1992 to make deductible against tax the current value of both tangible and intangible property donated to a non-profit organisation ( for example , a painting to a museum or shares to a hospital ) rather than their value at acquisition failed along with the whole bill when it was vetoed by President Bush last month because it contained forty tax increases . |
| 6 | A SNOOTY hospice lost a £1,250 gift for its sick kids — because it banned three bikers . |
| 7 | All I was told is that you 're getting twelve months guarantee , but you 've got to have a three thousand mile service , and as the gentleman said erm I recorded the deliveries and sent them all back and on the third one , when I took it in I asked if they 'd put a new set of points in for me and erm unfortunately when it came out there was no compression at all and because because I it was suggested that I dug my heels in a bit and got an independent report and erm basically they told me to get lost because it cost fifty pound to do the report . |
| 8 | He said the Budget was anti-poor and anti-Scottish because it cost 30 per cent more to heat homes in some parts of Scotland than the south-east of England . |
| 9 | Piaget 's work is important because it provided one of the first developmental accounts of the emergence of logical thought . |