Example sentences of "[noun sg] because it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He chose a child as his lover because it fed that ego ; he lost her because he never cottoned on to the fact that children are children , no matter how grown-up they might appear . |
| 2 | It is a sound rule because it facilitates social contact . |
| 3 | Divorce has this effect because it suggests that remarriage in the lifetime of one 's first partner is socially and even morally acceptable' ( Irish Times , 6 June 1986 ; also 31 May 1986 ; 14 June 1986 ) . |
| 4 | We recommend this Plan because it offers financial protection in no less than THREE important ways areas where you are likely to be most vulnerable should an accident strike . |
| 5 | I favour a long-reaching front guard because it has less distance to travel before it strikes the opponent , and it is able to intercept attacks closer to source . |
| 6 | Marx condemned capitalism because it frustrated human potential and self-actualization , but believed it was a necessary stage in human dialectical development . |
| 7 | Putting names to faces : You may wish to be able to look at someone and think instantly of his name because it makes social life so much easier ; or you may wish to improve your chances of impressing a business acquaintance ( and possibly making a deal as a result ) . |
| 8 | MANY people believe that the Royal Navy is referred to as the Senior Service because it has some sort of superiority to the Army , but the term was not even heard before the 17th Century . |
| 9 | That is longer than the standard truncheon and would be useful to police officers who patrol alone at night because it affords additional protection against all kinds of assaults , excluding of course , assaults using firearms . |
| 10 | There is no iron in the new faith because it lacks personal conviction . |
| 11 | ‘ I do not like the law change because it puts greater pressure on referees , who now have more power than ever . |
| 12 | The NMA argued from the outset for a negotiated settlement , in part because of a fear that intransigence might lead to total defeat and in part because it had little money with which to fight the strike following the run-down of its funds during the 1921 lockout . |
| 13 | It also gives a more useful reduction because it guarantees lexical output . |
| 14 | She resented the claim because it raised some barrier between them . |
| 15 | Secondly , disease is occasionally seen in an individual adult penned in a heavily contaminated calf paddock because it requires daily attention for some other reason . |
| 16 | Town water , although potable , is often unsuitable for textile processes such as package-dyeing because it contains suspended matter and soluble calcium and magnesium salts ; filtration and softening may be necessary before it can be employed with confidence in a process in which impurities can filter out upon yarn or fabric . |
| 17 | The Great Storm was a setback to woodland conservation because it drew public attention to trees and woods without adding to public understanding . |
| 18 | Psychological empowerment is broader than a pure intrapsychic variable because it measures individual change within one 's social setting , such as one 's belief in one 's ability to act for community change , and one 's belief in the value of group action ( Chavis and Wandersman , 1990 ; Zimmerman , 1990 ) . |
| 19 | Provisions in the General Revenue Act of 1992 to make deductible against tax the current value of both tangible and intangible property donated to a non-profit organisation ( for example , a painting to a museum or shares to a hospital ) rather than their value at acquisition failed along with the whole bill when it was vetoed by President Bush last month because it contained forty tax increases . |
| 20 | Yeah and we 've seen some different erm they had I think it was actually waiver paper as well when Murdoch bought it , and for a while he honoured the political content and then he decided he was gon na do major changes , and this may all sound familiar to you but erm the effect that that had I mean not only on the , on the , on the end up being this side , but also on erm the Mirror because it meant that Page Three Girls were in on the Daily Record in Scotland erm it was , it was quite profound I mean there 's a broader argument here as to whether you you should get pampered to those possible denominator to taste erm it 's interesting that the Daily Sport and the Sunday Sport which are two I do n't know if they have anything like it in Japan , but they 're a bit like the National Enquirer erm it 's all made up baseball there 's a sad proportion of erm journalist stories of fantasy land stuff erm along with erm photographic content and er copy content which probably |
| 21 | A PWR was economic , displacing old plant ; it was a good thing because it used other fuel than coal , or , rather , it was in line with the |
| 22 | Was the government-supported Remploy , for instance , a good thing because it provided sheltered employment for disabled people , or a bad thing because it ghettoised them ? |
| 23 | The Brazilian government , apparently unaware of the huge unrealised economic asset going up in flames across the Amazon , says it can not afford to preserve the rainforest because it needs economic development . |
| 24 | Robbins ’ Dances at a Gathering could be called a romantic ballet because it uses classical technique coloured by natural emotional expression . |
| 25 | We call it monkey brain because it looks that way . ’ |
| 26 | Throughout the Communist world , the videotape recorder was the greatest status symbol because it implied ready access to a constant supply of Western videotapes . |
| 27 | It is also a particularly useful structure because it allows further information to be stored at the nodes . |
| 28 | it has more explanatory power because it involves direct observation and can hence lead to remedies . |
| 29 | But European Commissioner Bruce Millan has long argued that Britain is out of step because it includes European money in its allocations to local authorities . |