Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent survey of BHRCA members found they had joined principally because they wanted an effective voice to put the industry 's case to Government . |
| 2 | A miracle had happened but the miracle had fallen flat because you could n't have miracles these days , because nobody cared , not even a clergyman . |
| 3 | He worried about that , but even if it had succeeded simply because it was just another of the ridiculous and unbelievable antics in a ‘ Carry On ’ film , succeed it did . |
| 4 | The doctor had announced that the boy 's mother was dead and that she would have had twins but they had come prematurely because of her lifting something heavy . |
| 5 | Philippa had come early because she wanted to get in in the hope of finding an earring she had lost , before the cleaner started on the room . |
| 6 | Kate was the first member of the Force he had met socially because he wanted to . |
| 7 | Within a short time , however , most of Reagan 's proposed changes had foundered either because they were inherently unworkable or because of his failure to consult with those who would have to approve the necessary changes in the law , i.e. members of the state legislature . |
| 8 | Her eyes leapt from Abraham begat Isaac and Isaac begat Jacob to Verse 25 of the Gospel According to St Matthew , to which she had turned simply because it began the New Testament and she had been unable to make anything of the Old . |
| 9 | It had been very hot all day ; they had had exams in the morning and she had done badly because she felt so tired . |
| 10 | For the first time in all my life I had done right because I wanted to do right . |
| 11 | Although Chancellor Kohl later agreed to an apparent compromise it was clear even then — how much more so now — that West Germany had killed the programme , and it had done so because it sensed far better than any of its Nato partners how completely President Gorbachev had changed the situation in Europe . |
| 12 | The directors added that they had done so because ‘ this is the basis adopted in the accounts of the overseas subsidiaries ’ , and that the group accounts should be drawn up on the same basis in order to show a true and fair view . |
| 13 | If he had done so because he genuinely believed himself to be alone and was unaware that a mounted rider was behind a clump of trees nearby , though the horse as a result took fright , he might still plead that his action was not reckless . |
| 14 | It seemed to me that the hot compresses had not only prevented the pain , but had done so because there must be living matter there which was capable of being alleviated by pain . |
| 15 | When questioned , Mason , the carpenter , agreed that it was he who had raised the flag , but said that he had done so because he had been prematurely informed of the relief of Mafeking . |
| 16 | ‘ Those who had followed Peel with open eyes ( to abolish protection and destroy his own party ) … had done so because population was growing at the rate of 300,000 per annum . |
| 17 | Reflecting these last results is the finding that fixed-contract workers tended to have taken their temporary jobs in response to a lack of permanent work , whilst seasonal , temporary or casual workers had done so because they did not want permanent work . |
| 18 | Unemployment had risen partly because of the demobilization of large numbers of soldiers following the Vietnamese withdrawal from Cambodia in 1989 , and also because of the return of workers from eastern Europe . |
| 19 | It was not the huge success that Lotus Development had anticipated mainly because it demanded hardware that seemed excessive at the time — an AT with at least 1MByte of RAM . |
| 20 | Shildon closed in on them and mentioned he had arrived late because Wickham had wanted to question him . |
| 21 | But to the men of Kufra whose fathers or grandfathers had settled there because it was so centrally placed on trade routes , or because it was so remote from Ottoman , Italian or British control , ‘ central government ’ appeared indeed as a real force , but as one located — so to speak — in the extreme northwestern corner , in Tripoli . |
| 22 | Felipe had definitely stopped being amused and Ana had appeared merely because she considered it polite . |
| 23 | Many garrisons had surrendered quickly because they knew they could rely on Saladin to keep his word to spare their lives . |
| 24 | He was able to express his own upset at his mother 's absence and said that he thought she had gone away because he had been naughty . |
| 25 | The week had gone quickly because she had been busy . |
| 26 | He had gone early because he was going on a surveying job . |
| 27 | About a third of those interviewed said they had run away because of ‘ problems at home ’ . |
| 28 | I was astonished — no one in my family had ever suffered from it but the doctor explained that it had happened entirely because of the shock of the mugging . |
| 29 | More significant than that , no one had lived there because the sink was n't even connected . |
| 30 | So many of them had married simply because they had no idea that homosexuals could have relationships . |