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

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1 These sentences seem unnatural perhaps because they lack short words like in and the and because consequently their rhythmic foot structure is irregular .
2 Staff would begin to cluster in groups , perhaps because they needed common equipment and facilities , perhaps because they discovered common ground in what they taught .
3 Staff would begin to cluster in groups , perhaps because they needed common equipment and facilities , perhaps because they discovered common ground in what they taught .
4 Of course , if we put too low a price on the asset we are selling , perhaps because we want large queues of buyers for this asset so we can claim how popular it is , we make a loss on the sale and you make a profit .
5 Evidence that long tails impose viability costs is very limited , yet without this it remains possible that tail elongation has sometimes been driven by natural selection , perhaps because it improves aerodynamic efficiency , manoeuvrability or stability .
6 I set off again , maintaining for some reason — perhaps because I expected further farm creatures to wander across my path — my slow speed of before .
7 The court office can not refuse to issue proceedings by the process requested by the plaintiff/applicant merely because it considers such process to be inappropriate ( Baker v Thatcher ( 1984 ) 134 NLJ 863 ) .
8 Our opponents say we do cause such disturbance but I suspect that is only that is only because they see all canoeists as a noisy bunch of exuberant youngsters .
9 The lysosome is called a ‘ suicide bag ’ said Prof Mayer , not only because it digests any waste materials by the use of powerful enzymes but also because this cocktail can kill off the cell .
10 Forestry is to a certain extent in conflict with agriculture not only because it removes large areas of land from farming for 50 or more years , but also because in its modern forms of organisation it tends to employ fewer local people .
11 And that 's only because I had good teachers — I do n't think that I have any special superhuman gift for it . ’
12 The detention of COWAN 's president serves as a lesson especially because we had similar experiences with Brooklyn Village in Acornhoek , between 1989 and 1990 .
13 They would do so because they receive convergent input from cells at the lower levels of the system that represent the defining properties of that object .
14 So because it worked last time I used it .
15 He won the Republican nomination this year largely because he persuaded conservative voters that he favoured ‘ life ’ more than his two principle opponents .
16 I then broke away because I saw two fighters above on the port side .
17 Doctors fear Mrs Conlan may have taken her daughter away because she thinks further treatment is futile .
18 Acute social divisions may indeed have induced violence , a disruption of settled married life and so on , but there is no need to assume that relationships within the working class were intrinsically any more lacking in feeling than relationships amongst other classes , just because they took different forms .
19 The film itself should not be written off just because it uses unsophisticated material .
20 Mr Wallace expects to get support for his view that the Scottish Constitutional Convention should go into cold storage , not just because it has little relevance but also to expose Labour as uninterested in cross-party co-operation .
21 A good scientific law or theory is falsifiable just because it makes definite claims about the world .
22 Just because you eat blasted snails does n't mean you 've got to behave like one ! ’
23 Finally , I use dampened white toilet tissue to get rid of any hard lines that may have occurred in my sky , and most importantly I try not to overwork or rework the sky once I am satisfied , just because I see another effect .
24 This is normally because they have some fear , conscious or otherwise , about what they will unearth during the course of the treatment .
25 Well I rang them up yesterday because I got two cheques left .
26 Peak users paid more because they force extra plant to be built .
27 Many supermarkets now have bottle-banks , but returnable bottles are better still because they save natural resources and energy — manufacturers need to be pressured into recognizing this .
28 Flies can see in all directions at once because they have large eyes with thousands of lenses .
29 Hall ( 1987 ) , for example — possibly because he uses different definitions and sample size — presents a somewhat contrasting picture .
30 The marshal 's reception of the news was predictably sour , but he refrained from any overt suggestion that Thiercelin had been at fault , possibly because he accepted some share of the blame himself .
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