Example sentences of "because it contains [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has received little attention since its ascent in 1983 , possibly because it contains such mind-blowing attractions as a 40-feet skyhook section . |
| 2 | Space is limited and the only other tank I have is a 21″ cube and I ca n't put him in there because it contains two small G. jurupari , a pair of G. brasiliensis , a pair each of Crenicara filamentosa , Cichlasoma sajica and Butterfly Rams , and an Ancistrus . |
| 3 | This is a complex table , because it contains four variables ; work through the effect of each explanatory variable systematically , looking at the relevant marginal relationships as well . |
| 4 | In my view it is just as vital not to ignore Marxist work because it contains one inadequate generalization , as it is not to ignore pluralist work because it is based on an idealized view of liberal democracy in Japan . |
| 5 | This body , because it contains fifty thousand million million tons of sodium chloride and similarly massive quantities of other dissolved salts , is undrinkable by most living creatures , but in scores of other ways is central — vital , indeed — to the existence of all life . |
| 6 | Zeolite-softened water may be quite alkaline because it contains substantial quantities of sodium carbonate and bicarbonate . |
| 7 | Britain is geologically interesting because it contains many different rock formations containing a large range of metals . |
| 8 | Of all three heuristic functions , fc is almost certainly the best , because it contains most information . |
| 9 | Town water , although potable , is often unsuitable for textile processes such as package-dyeing because it contains suspended matter and soluble calcium and magnesium salts ; filtration and softening may be necessary before it can be employed with confidence in a process in which impurities can filter out upon yarn or fabric . |
| 10 | That would have been risky with ‘ Ye gentle spirits of the air ’ — also a continuo song — because it contains difficult display passages in the bass line as well as the vocal part . ) |