Example sentences of "[conj] because [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Or because they had specific reasons ?
2 Nevertheless , the possibility remains that , as Wallace argued , many of the sex differences in plumage and coloration ascribed by Darwin to the action of female choice may have evolved because they help the sexes to recognize or locate each other or because they improve male success in competitive interactions .
3 A dismissal may be unfair either because it was procedurally arbitrary or because it lacked good cause .
4 Severe actions may be sanctioned against Ireland because it is naturally cursed , or because it needs extreme measures to bring it the fruits of reformation ( desired by God ) , or because it holds some particular horror for England which the English will deserve unless they do something about it .
5 But they assume that deep down , ‘ human potential ’ is universal , and that because they address this potential , they are themselves irreproachably feminist .
6 It 's not relative , because anybody who does er more er er a great number of miles , then you would i i imagine that because they do this amount of miles that their ability would be overall better because of the experience they gain by doing to extra miles .
7 So you 're saying that because they have these names , their probably is an equation .
8 The better-known Worsted Acts of 1777 ( 17 George III c. 11 and c. 56 ) , which set up an inspectorate to work with a prosecuting committee of employers , were described by the Hammonds as a piece of " class legislation " because they allowed conviction on the oath of the employer who owned the yarn in question and because they empowered extensive searching of weavers ' homes .
9 And because they have bigger appetites , they could eventually deplete the rivers ' resources , leaving them empty of salmon of any description .
10 And because it allows more tests in less time , mathematical modelling has become an essential tool for aircraft designers .
11 And because it takes several months , and often a year or more , before a lender seeks to repossess , the 1991 repossession figures reflect the interest rates charged in 1990 .
12 And because it had that name she did n't link it up to other terms like masturbation or whatever .
13 This is interesting both because it suggests that non-Hebbian forms of potentiation occur in the hippocampus , and because it provides implicit evidence for the existence of a diffusible extracellular messenger ( see text ) .
14 And because it has open server in front of it from the client 's side it looks like a server , so any of those two hundred clients or any of front end tools can have access to the email system as if it was a resource or server .
15 ‘ they 're going to give it to me for being such a nice chap and because I want this guitar so badly . ’
16 Buckingham was baited , trapped and killed because my uncle hated him and because he had royal blood in his veins . ’
17 ‘ We 're not laying claim to a social plan just for the pleasure of doing one , but because we believe accompanying measures must be put in place and the occasion must be seized to explore all possible avenues towards preserving the maximum employment , ’ the representative is quoted as saying .
18 The definitions are , at this early stage of our knowledge of Myrinian culture , valuable in themselves , not only because they reveal something of the inadequacy of our own language , but because they throw some light on to the mysteries of an alien culture .
19 Martin Sinnatt , Club Secretary of the Kennel Club , explained that they object to this on the grounds of potential cruelty — not because indelibly marking a dog would hurt , but because they fear unscrupulous owners would try to remove the mark before dumping an unwanted pet .
20 They are redundant , but not because the world can be described in terms of eternal " propositions which are true or false in virtue of being the propositions they are , but because they advertise certain claims which can equally successfully be conveyed implicitly , viz. by asserting the proposition or its negation , as the case may be .
21 McLeod 's family placed a similarly strong emphasis on the value of education but failed , not because of the methods the parents chose to ram it home — on his own admission , they were not ‘ overstrict ’ — but because they set unachievable objectives for him ; nothing short of these objectives would satisfy and so there was no reward for his best efforts .
22 These examples have been chosen not because they are necessarily typical or representative but because they illustrate interesting practices which are now underway to a greater or lesser extent both across different areas of adult education , ( Local Education Authority , mainstream provision , Further Education colleges , the Responsible Bodies ) and outside the formal boundaries of adult education ( an employment project , and the Trades Union Congress Centres ) .
23 This is not because they are immediately transferable to this country but because they illustrate particular features of transition .
24 ‘ farmers do not make the best Group Organisers : not because they are less effective but because they have insufficient time ’ ( this from seven respondents )
25 People who make such assertions do so not so much on a scientific basis , but because they have another axe to grind .
26 But because they have less control over muscles , it 's harder for them to form words and sounds .
27 They have as much interest in learning to talk as any other child , but because they have less control over the muscles in the mouth , it 's harder for them to express themselves .
28 This was to be precisely the starting assumption of positivist criminologists ( although they were interested in these differences not because they justified different levels of desert , but because they suggested different types of treatment ) .
29 I linked both books to the theme of ‘ Outsiders ’ , not because of the title but because I felt both books told the story of two lives lived on the edge of society .
30 It ‘ is more dynamic , not in the sense that it expresses movement ( which a noun can also express ) but because it creates more activity between the words of the sentence in which it is used ’ ( 1955a:75 ) .
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