Example sentences of "[coord] because [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or because they had specific reasons ? |
| 2 | Severe actions may be sanctioned against Ireland because it is naturally cursed , or because it needs extreme measures to bring it the fruits of reformation ( desired by God ) , or because it holds some particular horror for England which the English will deserve unless they do something about it . |
| 3 | And because they have bigger appetites , they could eventually deplete the rivers ' resources , leaving them empty of salmon of any description . |
| 4 | And because it allows more tests in less time , mathematical modelling has become an essential tool for aircraft designers . |
| 5 | And because it takes several months , and often a year or more , before a lender seeks to repossess , the 1991 repossession figures reflect the interest rates charged in 1990 . |
| 6 | ‘ We 're not laying claim to a social plan just for the pleasure of doing one , but because we believe accompanying measures must be put in place and the occasion must be seized to explore all possible avenues towards preserving the maximum employment , ’ the representative is quoted as saying . |
| 7 | Martin Sinnatt , Club Secretary of the Kennel Club , explained that they object to this on the grounds of potential cruelty — not because indelibly marking a dog would hurt , but because they fear unscrupulous owners would try to remove the mark before dumping an unwanted pet . |
| 8 | They are redundant , but not because the world can be described in terms of eternal " propositions which are true or false in virtue of being the propositions they are , but because they advertise certain claims which can equally successfully be conveyed implicitly , viz. by asserting the proposition or its negation , as the case may be . |
| 9 | McLeod 's family placed a similarly strong emphasis on the value of education but failed , not because of the methods the parents chose to ram it home — on his own admission , they were not ‘ overstrict ’ — but because they set unachievable objectives for him ; nothing short of these objectives would satisfy and so there was no reward for his best efforts . |
| 10 | These examples have been chosen not because they are necessarily typical or representative but because they illustrate interesting practices which are now underway to a greater or lesser extent both across different areas of adult education , ( Local Education Authority , mainstream provision , Further Education colleges , the Responsible Bodies ) and outside the formal boundaries of adult education ( an employment project , and the Trades Union Congress Centres ) . |
| 11 | This is not because they are immediately transferable to this country but because they illustrate particular features of transition . |
| 12 | This was to be precisely the starting assumption of positivist criminologists ( although they were interested in these differences not because they justified different levels of desert , but because they suggested different types of treatment ) . |
| 13 | I linked both books to the theme of ‘ Outsiders ’ , not because of the title but because I felt both books told the story of two lives lived on the edge of society . |
| 14 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 15 | It does n't , sometimes it goes more slowly sometimes it goes more quickly , sometimes it stops but because it takes two hours to do the hundred miles we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 16 | Professional Footballers ' Association spokesman Brendan Batson said : ‘ Paul spoke to us following his injury , but because it involves two members of our association we have to adopt a neutral position . |
| 17 | Literature is based on ‘ the very plurality of meanings ’ ( 1966 : 50 ) ; or , put in a slightly different way which nicely reverses an old critical saw , ‘ a work is ‘ eternal ’ , not because it imposes one meaning on different men , but because it suggests different meanings to one man' ( p.51 ) . |