Example sentences of "because do so " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could never bring their husbands , because to do so , they would have to be considered as a head of a household , something which , as I have said earlier , no woman can be unless her husband is dead , or mentally or physically incapacitated . |
| 2 | This was the contention that the court ought not to entertain the action ‘ because to do so would be detrimental to national security ’ , the defence referring to the long-established practice of Secretaries of State not to disclose or discuss the existence of a warrant . |
| 3 | If you do n't , you may find yourself unable to add the subtitles because to do so would entail the loss of too many good shots . |
| 4 | Such people are unable to move because to do so would require them to make good a substantial deficit on the mortgage . |
| 5 | He warned there was no going back because to do so would make John Major 's word worthless abroad . |
| 6 | But Cohn-Casson also found it impossible to side uncritically with Jews , because to do so would deny modern thinking , by placing tribal loyalties above the mandates of science . |
| 7 | We think that retributivists and denunciationists are right to insist that there is no justification for punishing someone who has not deliberately and wrongfully broken a just law and thereby exercised a freedom to which they are not entitled ( because to do so has diminished other people 's freedom or has threatened to do so ) . |
| 8 | Perhaps Althusser was unwilling to acknowledge this outright , because to do so would be to run the risk of departing from the fundamental Marxist doctrine asserting the primacy of the economic in social explanation . |
| 9 | Sinn Fein , the political wing of the IRA , did not co-operate because to do so would be to recognize the partition of Ireland . |
| 10 | ACAS refused to recommend recognition partly because to do so would arouse strong opposition from the other unions with a risk of industrial action which would be damaging to the industry . |
| 11 | He decided not to wipe his face , which had started to run in its usual sleepy-fruit way , because to do so might have destroyed the impression . |
| 12 | In fact , of course , we can not even measure what the initial state was , because to do so we would have to take the brain apart . |
| 13 | Nobody had spoken of this new responsible attitude , because to do so would be to admit that his behaviour had previously left something to be desired , and my mother had spent too much time in implicit denial of this to waste it all now . |
| 14 | She would not explain herself to Luke Scott , because to do so would mean he mattered to her , and to let him matter in even the smallest way was to make herself vulnerable — to let him in at some level , and she had an intuitive sense of the havoc he could wreak once admitted to the number of those people who mattered in her life in their various ways . |
| 15 | True , she 'd only glanced through them , had n't read them properly , because to do so had seemed like prying ; but they 'd seemed innocuous enough , just letters from a young girl . |
| 16 | Nor did she dare ask for privacy , because to do so would look as if she had something to hide — which in fact she did . |
| 17 | Those national structures can not be enforced , because to do so would be self-defeating to the idea of a free Europe and to their struggles to break away from the Moscow-dominated communist monolith . |
| 18 | As in so many other matters , the judge should be given the discretion to tell the press that they may not publicise the name of a person , because to do so would be in contempt of court . |
| 19 | And Campbell ( 1987 ) demonstrates that indigenization in the Ivory Coast did not really challenge the dominance of foreign capital because to do so would have been to put the mode of accumulation at risk . |
| 20 | Although the defendant programmer would not be allowed simply to copy the programs in question , he would not be required to " wipe clean the slate of his memory " because to do so would unduly restrict his use of his own training , skill and experience . |
| 21 | No matter what benefits the salesperson discusses , the buyer may be reluctant to change from his present supplier or change his present model because to do so may give rise to unforeseen problems — delivery may be unpredictable or the new model may be unreliable . |
| 22 | In contrast , a categorical imperative bids me , as a rational being , do such and such , whatever my desires may happen to be , because doing so is essential to living up to my status as a rational being . |