Example sentences of "[be] [adj] because it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , the placebo could be powerful because it meets some psychological need for attention and treatment . |
| 2 | But the potency with which c-Myc induces apoptosis suggests that deregulated c-Myc expression by itself is likely to be lethal because it kills any cell that encounters growth-limiting conditions , an almost invariable outcome in vivo . |
| 3 | He explained to me that it must be stronger because it contained stronger bonds and more of them than any previous material . |
| 4 | She 'd only been annoyed because it upset all her work plans . |
| 5 | We are still languishing in the Edwardian era , when our great British Women 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore long flannels … when the bulk of entrants at Wimbledon were British because it took six weeks to cross the Atlantic , and another six to reach Australia ! |
| 6 | ‘ Customers said it was great that we were open because it showed some normality in the town . ’ |
| 7 | Practical English Usage is invaluable because it solves many problems which are frequently not dealt with in coursebooks . |
| 8 | Well that 's good because it means that |
| 9 | Do not use if deep sepsis is present because it promotes rapid healing which will seal the sepsis ( infection ) in . |
| 10 | It has become fashionable to say that this kind of equality is unimportant because it offers little protection against tyranny . |
| 11 | Chupp says the correlation of events is important because it lets ground-based observers know what to look for ; it is possible that earlier observations of solar neutrons went unrecognised . |
| 12 | The question is important because it gives some clue as to the likely rise in the long-run house price to income ratio ( because demand for housing has shifted upwards , while supply remains relatively constant ) . |
| 13 | Piaget 's work is important because it provided one of the first developmental accounts of the emergence of logical thought . |
| 14 | Your attitude is important because it shows other people how you feel . |
| 15 | This doctrine is satisfying because it invests early death with meaning , whilst emphasising the innocence of childhood . |
| 16 | But our system is defective because it lacks coherent principles for reviewing the substance of decisions . |
| 17 | It is probably this incidental side-effect of education which has given currency to another widespread heresy of our times : that education is desirable because it promotes economic growth . |
| 18 | Gloucester 's power was valuable because it ensured royal control of a significant and troublesome part of the country . |
| 19 | Gloucester 's power was valuable because it ensured royal control of a significant and troublesome part of the country . |
| 20 | This was the case in the Weimar Republic , where the parliament , although endowed with strong formal powers , was vulnerable because it lacked public support . |
| 21 | On the other hand , there were those feminists represented by Josephine Butler who believed that prostitution was evil because it destroyed human dignity but who also believed the prostitute had a right not to be harassed , and if she was an adult she even had a right to choose to become a prostitute . |
| 22 | This development was important because it made possible the invention of the domestic clock and also the watch . |
| 23 | From a therapeutic aspect , penicillin was marvellous because it cured many dangerous bacterial infections , but it was tiresome because it was inactive by mouth ( it was destroyed by the acidity of the stomach contents ) , it acted for a very short time ( it was rapidly excreted by the kidneys ) and so was of little value unless given by injection at intervals of not longer than 3 hours , and because , after a time , the normal processes of evolution led to the appearance of resistant strains of the microbes which had previously been sensitive to penicillin . |
| 24 | The borough argued that the leaflet was misleading because it omitted all references to the joint liability of spouses and cohabiting couples . |
| 25 | Liberal policy was unpatriotic because it recognised other national interests and threatened dissolution of the empire . |
| 26 | Wilberforce saw very clearly that this was the issue and that evolutionism was damnable because it implied moral and cultural relativity . |