Example sentences of "[noun sg] because it [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Christianity was a high religion because it implies a clear-cut discontinuity between ethically conscious human beings , who have souls , and irrational beasts , who do not . |
| 2 | The barley which is grown in the Borders is particularly useful to the whisky industry because it has a high starch and low nitrogen content . |
| 3 | The United Kingdom opposed sending a peacekeeping force because it represented a long-term commitment but suggested an oil embargo . |
| 4 | Yet it is a model which has some force because it provides a neat conceptualisation of relationships between those designated managers and those not . |
| 5 | Nor from the point of view of the speaker , is there any hard and fast boundary between these and a non-restrictive adjective used in order to make explicit some property , when it is suspected that the hearer is unaware that it is implied by the use of the noun , as with poisonous in : ( 10 ) she threw Maisie 's lunch-box out of the window because it had a poisonous red-back spider in it Note that ( 10 ) further exemplifies the fact that whether an adjective is taken as restrictive or not depends on the rest of the entity-identifying phrase rather than just on the head noun . |
| 6 | This bilateralism ‘ contributes to an ‘ orderly ’ outward appearance of the law because it facilitates a precise identification of who has a right or a claim against whom and who may enforce it' . |
| 7 | The society says that the Crown Estate , the governmental agency responsible for leasing the seabed to fish farmers , is an inappropriate overseer because it has a financial interest in promoting the industry . |
| 8 | Indeed , he cut from his published version his original account of the hospitality they experienced — a pity because it constituted a valuable little sliver of social history , describing their arrival in ‘ a low parlour ’ of this two-storeyed house , to be greeted with tea from a silver service . |
| 9 | Incidentally , the round African hut is highly appropriate for keeping cool in hot sun because it presents a smaller surface area than a square building would . |
| 10 | I mean that 's the rules of debate , but I thought I 'd make that particular point because it has a little bit of poetic licence er in that . |
| 11 | In drama magic is both blessing and a curse ; a blessing because it creates a wonderful control device , and because it can be very stimulating to the imagination ; a curse because children can — and often do — use it as a way of saying " This is not a problem " , using magic to get them out of seeking a solution . |
| 12 | Peter thought it best to start with the diary because it provided a chronological framework . |
| 13 | A c.c.d. delay line provides a delay because it takes a certain amount of time for each input sample to be passed along the chain of capacitors and to finally emerge at the output . |
| 14 | The 500-year-old building was moved to its present position by Canadian Army engineers , who floated it on cement and rolled it a quarter of a mile because it obstructed a planned runway ! |
| 15 | Cos he chucked one away the other day because it had a little chip in it . |
| 16 | Harvard could implement sweeping changes in its medical curriculum because it had a forceful dean and access to large grants to fund a very ambitious project . |
| 17 | Dr Hugh Rushton , Research Director for the Philip Kingsley Trichology Clinic , believes that hormone replacement therapy ( HRT ) is very effective in restoring condition to hair because it maintains a better balance of hormones , particularly oestrogen . |
| 18 | The reason for this is interesting , and worth a digression because it provides a good genetic analogy . |
| 19 | In the late twentieth century compulsory retirement has depressed social status , a point also made by Alan Walker , and has led to medical , educational and social service provision receiving a low priority because it gives a low marginal rate of return on investment . |
| 20 | Roberton has taken what can best be described as an artistic look at this subject and I must compliment him on his approach because it provides a valuable visual record of what can never be again . |
| 21 | He attacked the dominance of formal logic because it reflected a misplaced confidence in the powers of human reason . |
| 22 | Pressure groups in industries that produce selected goods ( like good X ) have a reason to push for such selective subsidy because it implies a higher demand for their output . |
| 23 | This type of structure is a very inefficient way of filling space because it contains a regular network of empty spaces which run both parallel to , and at right angles to , the puckered lattice layers . |
| 24 | What we mean by a grapheme is the written representation of a single phoneme — so , for example , the PH in CHOOPH , is a single grapheme because it represents a single phoneme . |
| 25 | Families favour the Arts Centre over bed and breakfast accommodation because it offers a greater privacy . |
| 26 | The system does not need dedicated hardware because it uses a standard DECsystem server . |
| 27 | Somewhere here were the contributions of Duroc 's ancestors : a series of articles co-written by Pierre Henri Duroc and Donatien Alphonse Francois , Marquis de Sade , speculating on the limits of the human mind when confronted with endless pain ; some transcripts from the meetings of Robespierre 's Committee of Public Safety , in which the fates of some of the first families of France were decided on a whim ; a suppressed account of certain discoveries in a pre-human city that came to light in 19th-century French Equatorial Africa before the cyclopean stones mysteriously sank into the soft jungle earth ; Cauchemar et Fils , Maitres des Mondes Perdues , an unpublished novel by M. Jules Verne that was purchased from the author by a Great-Great-Great-Uncle and consigned to obscurity because it described a steam-driven engine to open up a gateway to a world of dreams that bore a remarkable similarity to a device that the Duroc of the time had indeed developed . |
| 28 | Word order is extremely important in translation because it plays a major role in maintaining a coherent point of view and in orienting messages at text level . |
| 29 | Of course , the statement that an animal can solve a problem because it has a cognitive map is not the end of the matter . |
| 30 | Dealing with the threat of logical security breaches poses much more of a problem because it demands a thorough understanding of the computer systems and the workings of the business they support . |