Example sentences of "[verb] because they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The concerts were not at well attended as normal Wedding Present shows , but this was partly expected because they had less promotion . |
2 | If an outsider attacks a Zuwayi , then all Zuwaya should unite because they have common descent ; if an Amiri attacks a Mannaia , all Mannaia should unite because they , too , have a common descent from a single ancestor — from the brother of the common ancestor who defines membership of Awlad Amira . |
3 | Graham reckons these three will succeed because they have critical mass , but also offer what users want : proprietary systems that are open . |
4 | Other fluids are sometimes used because they give better values of the governing parameters or because they have properties particularly appropriate to an experiment . |
5 | Although criticising the Africans , whom many Chinese do not like because they have more money because of higher scholarships and a greater degree of freedom , there is a legitimate case to be made for the view that the students had found another excuse to bring attention to their own problems and views about conditions in China . |
6 | Prest ( 1968 ) notes that studies can at least be consistent , so that situations where all income tax is allocated to labour ( plausible if Fig. 9–9(a) applies ) and all indirect taxation borne by consumers ( plausible if Fig. 9–9(b) applies ) should be avoided because they involve contradictory pictures of the supply side of the economy . |
7 | Everybody has situations that they are inclined to avoid because they provoke some anxiety . |
8 | Mr Torode 's sources are also wrong in saying Fay Weldon and her allies were not invited because they held racist attitudes . |
9 | We can always tell who is speaking because they speak different languages . |
10 | This ageing will vary with the spirit ( higher-distillation-proof spirits need less age because they have less flavour ) , the material of the cask ( whether it is new or used and how deeply the interior is charred ) , the size of the cask ( which determines the wood-to-liquid ratio ) , and the storage conditions ( which are affected by temperature and humidity ) . |
11 | A demand for a reduction in public expenditure can mean that the weaker services suffer because they lack powerful support groups . |
12 | Although the teams have an important role in constructing the plan , they have tended to be marginalised because they control few resources . |
13 | But as I suggested in the last part of Chapter 2 , this difference is not of any great practical significance : whether deviant motivations are taken as given because they express free will ( classical theory ) or because it is not deemed fruitful to attempt their explanation ( control theory ) does not , in itself ; have any practical implications for the subsequent criminological enterprise . |
14 | Jesus said simply that they failed because they had little faith . |
15 | His latest excuse — that the recession is masking the success of the economy — is the equivalent of ‘ we only lost because they scored more goals ’ . |
16 | Whereas initially sites were linked because they produced similar artefacts — stone tools rather than metal ones , for example — it soon became clear that there were different types of stone tools , to take just one group . |
17 | Relatively few molluscs — snails and their relatives — are venomous , although some are poisonous when eaten because they accumulate toxic substances through feeding . |
18 | They 're cheaper and easier to learn because they have fewer features . |
19 | The currents , on the other hand , do not cancel because they represent opposite charges moving in opposite directions ( remember , minus one times minus one is equal to plus one ) . |
20 | They are particularly intercsting because they produce several calls and each call is specific to a particular type of predator : a low grunt in response to eagles , a high chutter in response to snakes like pythons and a rather pure tone in response to leopards . |
21 | According to Hocking , paper cups can not be recycled because they contain chemical additives . |
22 | Italy won because they made fewer mistakes . ’ |
23 | ‘ Certain scholars have reservations about the kind of exhibitions she did because they lack factual perspective ’ , says Harold Koda , ‘ but in terms of a larger concept of truth , she captured the truth of fashion ’ . |
24 | Then the thousand or so readers of a few imported fashion magazines ( which it seemed would be prohibited because they contained foreign tobacco advertisements ) momentarily rallied key support from the free speech lobby . |
25 | The firm also offers opportunities to travel because they have many offices abroad and internationally based clients . ’ |