Example sentences of "[adv] because [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps because Western Christianity tended to express the faith in more rational and conceptual terms , mysticism never became as normative in popular and official piety as it did in other traditions . |
| 2 | But unfortunately there are few descriptive accounts of people 's efforts to reduce the likelihood that an event will occur , perhaps because effective responses are self-evident , or because they are not easily assessed by investigators in that successful action will have removed the difficulty . |
| 3 | Larger libraries were also more likely to want trainee supernumerary posts , perhaps because small libraries did not expect to be able to achieve this and therefore rarely mentioned it . |
| 4 | The subject itself is taboo in many Muslim families , perhaps because Muslim parents regard it ( as do the white media ) as a choice between two life styles — one Asian and one British . |
| 5 | The statues ( a late example , fig. 72 ) seem always to have been undifferentiated kouroi or korai , but the stelai , perhaps because low relief belongs essentially to narrative art , show the dead man bearded or beardless and often as warrior or athlete . |
| 6 | There have been some exceptions ( again , perhaps because insufficient phase-one training was given ) ( Arnoult 1953 ; McAllister 1953 ; McCormack 1958 ) but for the most part the test performance of control subjects has turned out to be inferior to that of subjects pre-trained with the relevant stimuli ( G. Cantor 1955 ; J. Cantor 1955 ; Cantor and Hottel 1957 ; Smith and Means 1961 ; Hendrickson and Muehl 1962 ) . |
| 7 | This provision is seldom used , perhaps because reasonable employers reward such employees sufficiently well so that they do not apply for compensation . |
| 8 | There were problems in a few centres , perhaps because the idea of a closing date was new or perhaps because local computer systems caused delays . |
| 9 | Perhaps because different agencies have been involved , the term ‘ international judicial assistance ’ tends to be replaced in this new context by ‘ mutual assistance in criminal matters ’ or simply ‘ mutual legal assistance ’ . |
| 10 | They might consider , for instance , that their own welfare is linked to the size of the enterprise independently of whether the return to shareholders is maximised , perhaps because high remuneration , power , or prestige are associated with large scale rather than profitability . |
| 11 | They argued contentiously that high unemployment might cause mature entry rates to fall , ‘ perhaps because potential entrants would prefer to retain their existing employment rather than risk unemployment following a spell of full time higher education . ’ |
| 12 | A database requires maintenance , not merely because new records will have to have their content assessed and controlled , but because when new ideas permeate the academic disciplines , this too should properly be reflected in the terminology used in the construction of records . |
| 13 | Cynics believe that the forums have come about merely because royal patronage has made them a fashionable activity for business leaders seeking a knighthood . |
| 14 | Some of these matters clearly fall within the ‘ good neighbour ’ concept , ’ while others are based on the principle that compensation is not to be paid merely because maximum exploitation has been prevented so long as development of a reasonably remunerative character is allowed . |
| 15 | These patients should be treated parenterally because attempted oral treatment may be hazardous . |
| 16 | The advice could vary greatly because medical opinion is deeply divided over this issue and many doctors have the same lack of understanding as the general public . |
| 17 | When Lord John Russell declared that ‘ the whisper of a faction could not prevail over the voice of a nation ’ , he was appealing to moral principle ; and if , when that appeal was made , it chimed in with political expediency it was only because factious and sometimes unprincipled Tory opposition had made it to do so . |
| 18 | It should be said that many of the problems which make quality control of elements of the course above subject level a challenge for modular courses are not a challenge for conventional courses only because insufficient comparability exists to make quality control a serious possibility . |
| 19 | Some of those on the left have assumed that there is an inherent socialist majority in Britain which has failed to surface only because successive Labour governments , in pursuing a policy of managing rather than opposing capitalism , have never given that majority its political cue . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , we must consider some central issues , if only because associated policy has to be assessed in the light of the scale and intensity of the decline . |
| 21 | They chose Ermentrude not only because young men tend to do silly things but also because Ermentrude is one of the heroines of The Magic Roundabout . |
| 22 | He set himself to heal the rifts in the party , and apparently succeeded , not only because Labour politicians are hungry for office but also because of his position of centrality , born and bred in the Labour movement . |
| 23 | IT 'S far from roses all the way here , if only because other members of the family are experiencing difficulties and you end up having to bear the emotional brunt of it all . |
| 24 | The Danes said Yes to Maastricht only because other governments solemnly reassured them at Edinburgh last December that they need not consider themselves European citizens , or adopt a European money , or join a European army . |
| 25 | The flight of religious sects seeking greater freedom to pursue their often rather peculiar activities was probably less significant than in the previous half-century , if only because mid-Victorian governments held no strong views about orthodoxy as such , though probably not displeased to see the heels of the British or Danish Mormons , whose penchant for polygamy created problems . |
| 26 | It is real all the same , if only because close finishes , in which the result is determined by a marginal number of votes , are just as likely to occur under the STV as under any other electoral system . |
| 27 | This ‘ moral conquest ’ could not take root , if only because modern government meant efficient taxation . |
| 28 | Strategic planning with a diversified U-form organization is difficult not only because top management 's limited attention is more frequently diverted to operational matters . |
| 29 | For an isolation experiment can not eliminate all possible environmental influences , all sources of experience ; it can not prove a universal negative , if only because universal negatives can not be proved . |
| 30 | These incidents are rare not only because national emergencies are mercifully infrequent , but because for much of the time there is an instinctive understanding between the governors of the broadcasting organization and the government of the nation , as the corporation 's behaviour on issues like appeasement demonstrates ; Reith succumbed to the same collective delusion that had seized Chamberlain , his foreign secretary , Halifax , and most of the population . |