Example sentences of "[adj] in [adj] [noun] because [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marx and Engels were interested in primitive cultures because they wanted to construct a general history and theory of society in order to explain the coming to be of capitalism . |
| 2 | Co-operative R&D ventures are interesting in this respect because they are a way of organizing the process of innovation which promises to minimize static inefficiencies without sacrificing dynamic efficiency . |
| 3 | Decisions on these matters are as equally vital as industrial location but things are not so clear-cut in this sphere because it is subject to political controversy about the best means of achieving political goals . |
| 4 | However , the term ‘ disease ’ is slightly unfortunate in this context because it conjures up notions of a ‘ cause ’ that has little or nothing to do with the natural state of the organism but which is imposed on it , having a discontinuous effect ; as , for example , in infectious diseases . |
| 5 | ‘ But , as you can imagine , it got pretty sick in some places because we were being so exact . |
| 6 | It is a bypass an and it , it 's good in that respect because it will do erm a lot indeed for people who live on Road , for example , people who live on Road and I know that Mrs knows that area particularly well and might agree with what Mr says that it , it does n't actually get into at all , therefore it 's er |
| 7 | I find it very difficult to breathe , but it was quite good in those days because they used to pay me well and I used to get up very early in the morning and go round with my dogs and that . |
| 8 | The Prussian blue rectangular tiles came from Rye Pottery : ‘ they 're all in irregular shapes because they were a discontinued line being sold off cheaply . ’ |
| 9 | Britain is particularly vulnerable in this matter because she does not have a written constitution . |
| 10 | The word ‘ mothering ’ is sexist in many contexts because it reinforces the ‘ natural ’ connection of women with children and childcare — a connection that feminists have criticised , since under our present social arrangements it has the entirely sexist consequences of defining non-mothers as non-women , restricting women 's opportunities to do other things if they wish , exploiting their unpaid labour and in some cases causing them to be seen as less important than the children they give birth to . |
| 11 | This last convention is invaluable in early training because it helps to stabilise balance during the transfer from one foot to the other and is also valuable in such ballets as Birthday Offering as it echoes the period and style of Glazounov 's music . |
| 12 | Mr Mayor er I do n't want to be long in this debate because I 'm sure we 've probably all made up our minds exactly what we 're going to vote on because long evenings it stretches and turns |
| 13 | Now erm the wealthy peasants or and sort of and , and other people who , who were possibly sort of er small landlords , they were trying to get involved in these associations because they felt they , they could see they were gathering pace and that the , the cost of exclusion would be very high . |
| 14 | " I love foliage and I think you have to rely a lot on that in small gardens because you do n't have room to leave dormant areas where nothing is happening for a long period , " she says . |
| 15 | Our data might have been less affected by bias than those in other studies because we considered only women in whom the primary diagnosis was endometriosis . |
| 16 | The study by Butler and his associates is the most important in this area because they found not only that health visiting favoured no one class but also when a more sensitive analysis of the data was made that took account of over-crowding , house amenities , parental education , as well as father 's occupation , they found that the lower socio-economic groups received more health visiting . |
| 17 | This issue will be discussed first in this section because it is controversial and because it is also related to the issues of salinisation and soil erosion which will be examined below . |
| 18 | Lakatos 's account was presented first in this book because it is best seen as a culmination of the Popperian programme and as a direct response to and an attempt to improve on the limitations of Popperian falsificationism . |
| 19 | Incidentally , the round African hut is highly appropriate for keeping cool in hot sun because it presents a smaller surface area than a square building would . |
| 20 | The reason why we differentiate between the south east and south west is also important because the southern of the bridges , the Skeldergate Bridge in York is by far the most heavily congested on the inner ring road and in particularly in going in the west to east direction , so the south west sector scores worse in that respect because it feeds traffic on to the most congested bridge of the inner ring road . |
| 21 | Probably he was so successful in this field because he himself was an artist . |
| 22 | And if you remember your distributions of deep sea sediments you will recall that calcium carbonate based deposits are rare in deep waters because it 's all dissolved but are more common under regions where there is a high productivity because the C C D will have been depressed . |
| 23 | It is a necessary step if IBM is to remain competitive in networked environments because it enables data to move at the same speed between the CPU and peripherals as it moves over Ethernet . |
| 24 | This can be illustrated by the hydration of iron oxide : This reaction is significant in chemical weathering because it aids other chemical processes by introducing water molecules deep into crystal structures . |