Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [vb -s] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But it could be argued that she has been placed in a high turn-over establishment because she possesses an authoritarian style of leadership .
2 ‘ Would you believe , because she knows a soft touch when she sees one ? ’
3 Ashton 's careful build-up to this climax makes Vera 's discovery of them in each other 's arms all the more poignant because she shows a child-like petulance at losing one she so longed to have for her own .
4 So , I think that in the opinion of Miller the family was the most important thing for B. and should have been for Eddie and all parents , but the priority for Catherine was her own life and I think that as far as Miller is concerned she is right , because she has a whole future ahead of her while B. and Eddie have settled down .
5 She seems to think the doctors believe she is a bad mother because she has an anorexic daughter .
6 I did n't ring him because he plays a mean alto-sax , though he is one of the best reed men currently not working out of a studio in the Windward Isles ( wherever ) .
7 Incidentally , mooning is n't one of my habits but for another canoeist to refer to the ‘ dork2 who owns a red Escort van is a rather nebulous description of someone who could fall into that category simply because he owns a red van and whose hobby happens to be canoeing — it makes one feel guilty without trial .
8 As an obvious example , I would cite Billy Sheehan , because he has a distinctive style using essentially a Precision , now a Yamaha , coupled with a slightly distorted sound . ’
9 Milosevic carries with him a great charge of evil , but he has a limited mind ; but precisely because he has a limited mind , he was very impressed by that Academy document .
10 I do not envy his successor , because he has a hard job in trying to follow him .
11 IF Gorbachev the Great is looking more and more like Mixed-up Mikhail , it is not just because he has an impossible job .
12 The key text , from within Hugh Gaitskell 's inner circle , is Roy Jenkins ' book , A Life at the Centre , one of the most engaging political memoirs of recent times , not least because he shows an unusual generosity of spirit to those with whom he was out of tune , most notably Harold Wilson .
13 I wish that it were possible to bring more of those who are responsible for them to justice , but , as my hon. Friend knows , because he makes a close study of such matters , it is often impossible for the police to identify those who are responsible .
14 Remember that a lecturer is usually appointed , not because he can teach , but because he knows a great deal about a particular topic in which he has specialised .
15 Like one that on a lonesome road doth walk in fear and dread , Tasha sang on her Ancient Mariner Mambo album , and having once turned round walks on , and turns no more his head ; because he knows a frightful fiend doth close behind him tread .
16 I 'm not all that keen on the race because he prefers a flatter track .
17 I 'm not all that keen on the race because he prefers a flatter track .
18 A c.c.d. delay line provides a delay because it takes a certain amount of time for each input sample to be passed along the chain of capacitors and to finally emerge at the output .
19 ‘ There are only one hundred mountain guides in the country at the moment , probably because it takes a long time to qualify and the standards are very high .
20 Both Roche and Berk are companies of repute , and I do not think that Berk would like to be described by Dalyell as ‘ fly by night ’ simply because it produces a cheaper product .
21 It is successful because it produces a high quality product on time at a price the customer can afford .
22 The report will also reject the argument that Japan needs special trade sanctions because it operates a different sort of capitalism .
23 Because it goes a good deal wider , I will not myself be supporting it .
24 In drama magic is both blessing and a curse ; a blessing because it creates a wonderful control device , and because it can be very stimulating to the imagination ; a curse because children can — and often do — use it as a way of saying " This is not a problem " , using magic to get them out of seeking a solution .
25 Is not his solution of private consultants to be engaged by competitive schools asking for trouble , because it creates an automatic conflict of interest and renders their reports suspect by definition ?
26 Their response is depressing — and also debilitating — because it creates an instant polarity between what might be termed the old and new agendas of the left , when what is actually required is a synthesis .
27 The system does not need dedicated hardware because it uses a standard DECsystem server .
28 Dearlove 's analysis of local government reorganization in the early 1970s , The Reorganization of Local Government ( Cambridge , Cambridge University Press ; 1979 ) is particularly important because it encourages a political analysis of change and develops an impressive critique of more traditional or orthodox approaches .
29 Making the decision to resume a demanding job or career is a serious and sometimes hazardous business ; not least because it requires a thorough review and reappraisal of your lifestyle .
30 The logarithmic technique is not normally used because it requires an extra search for every power-of-two increase in the number of records , while a higher-level index only needs to be built when an index has reached three or four tracks in size .
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