Example sentences of "because it seems [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Teaching a new methodology , he argues , may alienate the reader because it seems remote from what they know and there seems to be no " convenient point of entry " . |
2 | But it is also attractive , just as Ron Hubbard 's dianetics or Wilhelm Reich 's orgone theories are attractive , because it seems capable of grasping great truths while casting orthodox science in the role of the lame and purblind also-ran . |
3 | He says this because it seems pointless for the sun to have done all this work , and then let war spoil everything and killing off the sun 's children . |
4 | On the whole we are too ashamed to use inconvenience as a way of changing behaviour because it seems dishonest and inefficient . |
5 | It is dangerous , however , to argue that there is no reason for the large antlers just because it seems unnecessary to give a reason . |
6 | We might be inclined to reject the arrangement because it seems unattractive and not what we want . |
7 | And the grandmother 's homily in all its macabre detail , leading up to ‘ so if the dead could shave there 's no excuse for the living ’ releases a humorous response because it seems just what a respectable parent would say , in desperation to whip her errant son back to the straight ‘ n ’ narrow . |
8 | Some of us are puzzled by this phenomenon , because it seems incompatible with another idea we cherish , which is that people must not be blamed for acts over which they had no control , nor held responsible for unfair gains when they have gained nothing themselves . |
9 | I call this an alternative theory because it seems obvious to me that the committee did think that clause 12 was necessary — and I am not simply referring to the definition of ‘ deception . ’ |