Example sentences of "[adv] because it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Evidence that long tails impose viability costs is very limited , yet without this it remains possible that tail elongation has sometimes been driven by natural selection , perhaps because it improves aerodynamic efficiency , manoeuvrability or stability .
2 Forestry is to a certain extent in conflict with agriculture not only because it removes large areas of land from farming for 50 or more years , but also because in its modern forms of organisation it tends to employ fewer local people .
3 The film itself should not be written off just because it uses unsophisticated material .
4 A good scientific law or theory is falsifiable just because it makes definite claims about the world .
5 The ‘ democratic-participant ’ media theory is also the result of recent debates on media issues though this theory is ‘ difficult to formulate , partly because it lacks full legitimation and incorporation into media institutions and partly because some of its tenets are … to be found ’ elsewhere .
6 ‘ It is more difficult to be precise about this than about the earlier phases , partly because the pictures are rarer and less accessible , and have not been adequately photographed , partly because it includes considerable variations . ’
7 Acid rain affects trees partly because it dissolves essential nutrients out of the soil , such as magnesium and calcium — but again releases aluminium , which the trees take up to their detriment .
8 This is , of course , a particularly tricky area , mainly because it needs systematic teaching , in both spelling and reading teaching .
9 The court , however , did not permit to a corporation , simply because it has legal personality , all the rights of a natural person to sue for defamation .
10 This suited me very well because it had large rooms and wide doors .
11 Temporary upsurges in militancy during the year , in particular around the question of British intervention in Russia and Ireland , provoked principled stands at national and local levels , not least because it deflected anti-Bolshevik propaganda that had been used consistently against Labour .
12 It did not worry about women 's invisibility precisely because it accepted prevailing views that politics should be left to men , that the proper forum for female participation is inevitably the family and that the main function of the politically competent woman is to socialise the children and to filter the needs of home and family into the political system .
13 Moreover , as specialized professionals , medics warmed to an ideology of national efficiency precisely because it privileged rational experts over those generalist administrators who had earlier curbed the power of the Simonian specialist .
14 Ophiolimna is included in this subfamily because it has elongated jaws , a similar arrangement of the oral and adoral shields to the other genera in the Ophiotominae .
15 As the term suggests , these are letters from the Commission to notifying parties stating that the Commission does not believe that there is any need to take action in relation to the agreement or arrangement either because it falls outside Article 85(1) or because it may satisfy the requirements of Article 85(3) , although in such a case the issue of a comfort letter does not amount to an exemption pursuant to Article 85(3) .
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