Example sentences of "because [det] would [vb infin] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ca n't tear out the page because that would upset the numbering system . |
| 2 | ‘ I hope he will remove income tax from endowment funds tied to large properties like mine because that would ease the burden . |
| 3 | It meant that no more Slavs should be taken into the Dual Empire , because that would distort the balance of races there . |
| 4 | Rising from the toilet , she pulls the nightdress over her head and steps into the bath , not first pulling the chain of the toilet because that would affect the temperature of the water coming through the showerhead on the end of its flexible tube , with which she now hoses herself down . |
| 5 | The worst thing to do would be to impose swingeing increases in personal taxation of the sort advocated by the Labour party , because that would undermine the incentive and enterprise on which jobs depend . |
| 6 | The early universe could not have been completely homogeneous and uniform because that would violate the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics . |
| 7 | It could not have been completely uniform , because that would violate the uncertainty principle of quantum theory . |
| 8 | Because that would plunge the country deeper into violence . |
| 9 | No , Helen thought — I will not ask where Pauline hails from because that would prolong the conversation and anyway I do n't want to know . |
| 10 | This new pond would be connected to the present rear header pool using 4″ pipework and the header pool itself would be raised higher because this would control the level of the water in the new pond . |
| 11 | The campaign to have creation science taught in schools makes little of the supposed moral harm of evolutionary theory because this would expose the fundamentalism of its proponents and make the subject inadmissable as being religious teaching . |