Example sentences of "because it [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Backing up your data is vital , so book a lunch date if you choose level two , because it takes about one minute per megabyte of hard disk space to set up . |
| 2 | That is because it touches on many aspects of life that are deeply important to us : |
| 3 | I mean it 's not anything like as dramatic as that , but it 's , because it fluctuates in different quarters in the area , in different towns . |
| 4 | Although Mr MacKarness wo n't confirm it , the Fowlers claim the price was just £70,000 because it came with sitting tenants . |
| 5 | That is not to say that banks faced no competition ; but because it came from mutual-fund companies , savings banks or manufacturing firms ' finance arms , they were slower to spot it and restricted by regulators in reacting to it . |
| 6 | Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning , probably because it smacks of divine intervention . |
| 7 | Because it reproduces inside another cell in this parasitic way , erm , it does n't have to find a mate or even bother to split in half to reproduce by asexual means . |
| 8 | As we shall see , a gene may increase in frequency not because it increases the fitness of its carrier but because it associates with other genes that do , or even because it is in a sense parasitic on other genes . |
| 9 | I trust , I trust that if there 's going to be any question of names coming forward to be a approved locally , not selected , I hope not selected , that they will be er they 'll come from the local level at which the police authority actually functions and not from other counties without that particular area and so My Lords , I would suggest er that er the best step to go for is er Lord MacIntosh 's Amendment Number Five and his er supplements and I would suggest My Lords that Amendment Number Twenty is resisted by your Lordships because it talks about one half of the members shall be members of a relevant council and I suggest above all My Lords that Amendment Number Twenty Seven is cast into outer darkness . |
| 10 | The balance-of-payments deficit is not as bad as it looks , partly because it stems from private sector choices rather than public sector profligacy , and is thus inherently less inflationary as individuals can not resort to the printing press to ease the burden of their debt ; and partly because much of it may be imaginary , since the figures omit the ‘ balancing item ’ of unrecorded net receipts from overseas assets . |
| 11 | She switched to London Weekend because it went on all night and watched another film , then a comedy about a Los Angeles police precinct . |
| 12 | It was big but it was n't tall because it walked on four feet . |
| 13 | This has a dual benefit in that : ( a ) the increase in value should not be caught by the unapproved share schemes legislation because it derives from entrenched rights of the ratchet variety described above ; and ( b ) it provides a justification for the managers paying less per share than the institutions at the outset , since the ratchet characteristics of the shares , and the possibility that Newco may never achieve the profitability targets , would be relevant in valuing that class of shares . |
| 14 | It is inevitable because it derives from shared values which are a necessary part of all social systems . |
| 15 | Such a tax is seen as having lower disincentive effects than an income tax because it relates to past effort ; i.e. there is no disincentive effect to work for additional income that is to be consumed . |
| 16 | The outlines of his life are familiar but , because it fell into three parts separated by place as well as time , it is obscure in detail even to those who were closest to him at any given time . |
| 17 | many people see it [ the employment of women ] as a challenge to society , because it breaks with long-established patterns of family life , and with the values and beliefs supporting them … |
| 18 | It is possibly the least effective method of change because it depends on two steps both of which are unnatural . |
| 19 | Braille is a particularly useful tool for probing predictions from different models because it depends on fine discrimination of raised dot patterns , and a rule system of contractions . |
| 20 | Because it applied to all bodies everywhere , the universe had at last become a universe . |
| 21 | N.T.A. was considered the alternative to phosphates in washing powders at the start of the 80's , but it is now banned in the USA because it combines with heavy metals , as does E.D.T.A. In this way carcinogenic substances such as lead , mercury etc. , which normally remain at the bottom of lakes and rivers , are reintroduced to the water supply . |
| 22 | The first , by a Bank of England official , must be presumed to have been highly critical because it led to drastic reform of the island 's supervisory procedures . |
| 23 | The centre piece of the act is the onymous toad , unique among the frogs and toads because it has lost the horny pads ( the so-called nuptial pads ) that grow on the male 's hands during the breeding season and because it mates on dry land rather than in water . |
| 24 | Yes that seems to me to fit that sort of bill , erm to be quite honest I would prefer that we base the promises on a previous paper that T six six one , er you know , sort of er typical success of the fact looking forward cos at least erm that 's not so erm , you know , sort of difficult to erm you know achieve as erm sort of repairing potholes within , when you consider that the reason that the potholes do n't get mended is because government legislation has it that we have to actually erm have lines painted all round them , so that they can be part of the package of er road mending in many cases , I mean urgently erm difficult ones are not that common er so I think that perhaps some of these promises are so difficult because it gives with one hand and takes back with the other , you know , it says we promise , but , I , I would say that 's not much of a promise , you say I promise to erm , you know , erm merge , I forgot about , but if it said but , you know , if it rains I wo n't tell you , er it would be very sad |
| 25 | NCR Corp will be showing-off its Disk Array Plus software , which , the company says , allows users the benefits of RAID — redundant array of inexpensive disks — technology without the need to purchase new disks , because it works with existing disks . |
| 26 | Because it works by external combustion , the engine could in theory power a pollution-free vehicle and run on almost any fuel . |
| 27 | It is all grist to the mill of those who like to argue that Japan has succeeded because it works by different rules from those in the West . |
| 28 | The newer antiherpes agent , acyclovir , is of great interest , because it acts in virally-infected cells , but only to a negligible extent in healthy human cells . |
| 29 | If it succeeds , it will be because it concentrates on achievable tasks . |
| 30 | In prosecutions for many other crimes , for instance assault , testimony varied more because it built on actual incidents . |