Example sentences of "[coord] because they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or because they had specific reasons ? |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the possibility remains that , as Wallace argued , many of the sex differences in plumage and coloration ascribed by Darwin to the action of female choice may have evolved because they help the sexes to recognize or locate each other or because they improve male success in competitive interactions . |
| 3 | The better-known Worsted Acts of 1777 ( 17 George III c. 11 and c. 56 ) , which set up an inspectorate to work with a prosecuting committee of employers , were described by the Hammonds as a piece of " class legislation " because they allowed conviction on the oath of the employer who owned the yarn in question and because they empowered extensive searching of weavers ' homes . |
| 4 | And because they have bigger appetites , they could eventually deplete the rivers ' resources , leaving them empty of salmon of any description . |
| 5 | The definitions are , at this early stage of our knowledge of Myrinian culture , valuable in themselves , not only because they reveal something of the inadequacy of our own language , but because they throw some light on to the mysteries of an alien culture . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | This is not because they are immediately transferable to this country but because they illustrate particular features of transition . |
| 11 | ‘ farmers do not make the best Group Organisers : not because they are less effective but because they have insufficient time ’ ( this from seven respondents ) |
| 12 | People who make such assertions do so not so much on a scientific basis , but because they have another axe to grind . |
| 13 | But because they have less control over muscles , it 's harder for them to form words and sounds . |
| 14 | They have as much interest in learning to talk as any other child , but because they have less control over the muscles in the mouth , it 's harder for them to express themselves . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |