Example sentences of "[adv] because it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So because it worked last time I used it . |
| 6 | The film itself should not be written off just because it uses unsophisticated material . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A good scientific law or theory is falsifiable just because it makes definite claims about the world . |
| 9 | The ‘ democratic-participant ’ media theory is also the result of recent debates on media issues though this theory is ‘ difficult to formulate , partly because it lacks full legitimation and incorporation into media institutions and partly because some of its tenets are … to be found ’ elsewhere . |
| 10 | ‘ It is more difficult to be precise about this than about the earlier phases , partly because the pictures are rarer and less accessible , and have not been adequately photographed , partly because it includes considerable variations . ’ |
| 11 | Towards the mid-1970s Thai boxing was introduced into the United States , where it has become very popular , partly because it resembles another art introduced at that time , called full-contact karate . |
| 12 | Acid rain affects trees partly because it dissolves essential nutrients out of the soil , such as magnesium and calcium — but again releases aluminium , which the trees take up to their detriment . |
| 13 | This is , of course , a particularly tricky area , mainly because it needs systematic teaching , in both spelling and reading teaching . |
| 14 | The court , however , did not permit to a corporation , simply because it has legal personality , all the rights of a natural person to sue for defamation . |
| 15 | The government of the day will often let it be known to one of its aspiring party members that it would greatly welcome his ballot victory to promote a particular piece of legislation which it , the Government , does not wish to devote its own time to , either because of its controversial nature or simply because it has better things to do . |
| 16 | This suited me very well because it had large rooms and wide doors . |
| 17 | Temporary upsurges in militancy during the year , in particular around the question of British intervention in Russia and Ireland , provoked principled stands at national and local levels , not least because it deflected anti-Bolshevik propaganda that had been used consistently against Labour . |
| 18 | It did not worry about women 's invisibility precisely because it accepted prevailing views that politics should be left to men , that the proper forum for female participation is inevitably the family and that the main function of the politically competent woman is to socialise the children and to filter the needs of home and family into the political system . |
| 19 | Moreover , as specialized professionals , medics warmed to an ideology of national efficiency precisely because it privileged rational experts over those generalist administrators who had earlier curbed the power of the Simonian specialist . |
| 20 | Ophiolimna is included in this subfamily because it has elongated jaws , a similar arrangement of the oral and adoral shields to the other genera in the Ophiotominae . |
| 21 | As the term suggests , these are letters from the Commission to notifying parties stating that the Commission does not believe that there is any need to take action in relation to the agreement or arrangement either because it falls outside Article 85(1) or because it may satisfy the requirements of Article 85(3) , although in such a case the issue of a comfort letter does not amount to an exemption pursuant to Article 85(3) . |
| 22 | A local authority that spends less on special educational needs does so either because it has less incidence of such needs or because it is in dereliction of its duties to pupils with those needs . |