Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [adj] because the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many GIS users assume , perhaps subconsciously , that data quality and reliability must be high because the technology used to manipulate them is sophisticated . |
| 2 | There was also no possibility of come-back from other parties : only one vehicle was involved , and the occupants could be satisfied because the insurance would take care of the damage . |
| 3 | According to observers , the compromise agreed at Houston was acceptable to the EC countries because it recognized the special nature of EC farming as mainly family based ( rather than corporate-based as in the USA ) , while the USA could be satisfied because the agreement spelled out what kinds of subsidies should be reduced . |
| 4 | ( e ) As we have seen , an intention to repay or substitute may be dishonest because the defendant can not replace the very thing taken , yet if he intends to return the property itself , he is not guilty of theft because he does not have the intention permanently to deprive . |
| 5 | The secretory response of gastric acid to pure ethanol and alcoholic beverages may be different because the action of the non-ethanolic contents of the beverage may overwhelm that of ethanol . |
| 6 | This is an example of where theological answers may be unwise because the doubter is insensitive . |
| 7 | Hence even a specific target , say " price to cover average costs ' , can be met in many ways , because average costs may be high because the firm is relatively inefficient , or low because it is relatively efficient . |
| 8 | In one sense , the characterisation of the transaction as being either sale or exchange may be important because the remedy for defective performance in exchange is not for the price , but rather a claim for unliquidated damages for non delivery . |
| 9 | If the shareholders agree on a value , and do not refer the matter to the company 's auditors , their agreement and the ensuing transaction may be invalid because the price of the shares has not been established in accordance with the company 's rules ; and as a practical matter it might be unfair to other shareholders . |
| 10 | Such a hypothetical difference would be tiny because the electron mass is only th of the nucleon mass . |
| 11 | The taxi , when it came back to the street , would be crawling because the driver would be looking for the number . |
| 12 | For these people use of the steel-jawed leghold trap by commercial trappers is wrong because it causes too much pain , whereas other , ‘ more humane methods ’ of trapping would be permissible because the pain they cause , though real enough , is not excessive . |
| 13 | The slower children will be disadvantaged because the work offered is too difficult ; the more able children will be disadvantaged because the challenge that school should offer them has disappeared . |
| 14 | The slower children will be disadvantaged because the work offered is too difficult ; the more able children will be disadvantaged because the challenge that school should offer them has disappeared . |
| 15 | There must always be the fear that , however good a writer may be involved , the depiction of mental handicap will be unrealistic because the writer will have no real understanding about the subject . |
| 16 | These can be disappointing because the camcorder 's auto-exposure system , in opening up the lens aperture to maximise the average brightness of the shot , will probably record the coloured lights as colourless points of light . |
| 17 | Books can be dangerous because the reading and writing of them involves us in an exercise of intellectual freedom . |
| 18 | When the radio is playing , they think to themselves that nothing serious can be wrong because the background noise is still there and it reassures them . ’ |
| 19 | None of this need be numerical , sometimes numbers are used to provide a pseudo precision which can be counterproductive because the validity of the numbers can so easily be questioned . |
| 20 | This can be difficult because the consumer has no means of knowing what goes on ( or went on ) in the factory . |