Example sentences of "because they [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accomplished headers of the ball were less likely to suffer injury than those who were not as proficient , because they met the ball in a way which which imparted less strain . |
| 2 | By 1870 the old city ramparts and defensive gateways had been torn down because they hindered the greatly increased flow of traffic . |
| 3 | They transgressed fixity not only because they were without fixed abode , but also because they lacked the identity which , in a hierarchical society , was essentially conferred by one 's place in that society . |
| 4 | If the Situationist project is flawed , as I believe it is , it is not because antecedent theories of libertarians , Marxists and Council Communists are ignored by them , but rather because they lacked the will to build on this tradition a systematic utopianism consisting of critique and plausible projections into the future . |
| 5 | Once again , however , he discovered he had struck a chord with ordinary people , people who had felt they were unfit to pass judgement on modern buildings because they lacked the qualifications . |
| 6 | Many old brokers were unable to become independent advisers because they lacked the expertise and resources to win authorisation . |
| 7 | Because they lacked the capacity for complete cultural and political hegemony , he argues , not all elements in the movement were assimilated . |
| 8 | Much of this public criticism directed at practitioners , often reinforced and fuelled by the reports themselves , is that these tragedies and scandals have arisen because practitioners ‘ failed ’ , in part , because they lacked the knowledge about child abuse which a thorough grounding in the research and its findings would have given them . |
| 9 | The heterostracans were associated with the hagfishes , chiefly because they lacked the specializations of the nasohypophysial opening and because they have a single branchial opening ( see below ) . |
| 10 | In both cases this was because they exceeded the 5 per cent minimum threshold in terms of votes won in what was formerly East Germany , albeit not in Germany as a whole . |
| 11 | Because they restricted the area so much if you got a big plane that like , to by pass now . |
| 12 | The ALP finished with 0.2 per cent less of the two-party preferred vote than did the opposition coalition , and in at least 10 instances the ALP won because they received the second preference votes of supporters of the Greens . |
| 13 | But last weekend two adolescent courting couples were murdered in Novo Fribourgo because they witnessed the killing by military police of a youth considered to be tarnishing the town 's image . |
| 14 | She compromised on the kitchen garden with prayers , which seemed to be heard because they reached the stable unobserved . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The fat men : were they less fat because they were smaller , and so you needed less stomach to appear fat ; or were they more fat , because they developed the same stomachs , but had even less frame to support them ? |
| 17 | ‘ I was coming home with three lovely black horses which we always used on the road ; and I used to glory in trimming them up , because they wore the worsted — red , white and blue — and they used to look lovely . |
| 18 | They never complained that their music was n't on certain radio stations because they understood the scope of their work . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Already , in expectation , the four archbishops had produced a pastoral letter in which they condemned the legalizing of divorce on the grounds of the preservation of ‘ the common good ’ and because they feared the tendency that people had to accept as right that which was legally permissible ( Irish Episcopal Conference 1985 ) . |
| 21 | Voters turned away from Labour and the Liberal Democrats because they feared the consequences of a Labour government — and the sources of that fear go well beyond the circumstances of 1992 . |
| 22 | The rhetoric of cruelty and inhumanity in 1792 , and more clearly in 1806 , aroused ambivalence as to its persuasive effect in parliament , even amongst some abolitionists , because they feared the impact of ‘ enthusiasm ’ upon their colleagues . |
| 23 | British immigration officials had refused to allow the couple to be reunited because they feared the marriage would not last |
| 24 | Diana 's family took the drastic action after the late Earl Spencer suffered a stroke — because they feared the ghost of his father Jack was KILLING him . |
| 25 | What an insult the same responsible residents were the very first to organise a petition against the closure , because they feared the consequences in the delay to emergency services . |
| 26 | Soviet military planners tried to circumvent the treaty cutting conventional forces in Europe , because they thought the cuts agreed on by their foreign ministry went too deep . |
| 27 | ( But even they may not be accurate : census-takers last year reported that , in some areas , they found it hard to get people to fill in their forms , because they thought the census had some connection with poll tax . |
| 28 | That became a famous story , where they almost cancelled the record because they thought the Manson Family were after them or something ! |
| 29 | Another reason why the Greeks may have chosen the number 360 is because they thought the year was made up of 360 days and that the sun went round the earth once a year . |
| 30 | 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 . |