Example sentences of "because it [be] [verb] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The criterion-referencing of assessments is not an essential feature of graded tests , but it is an approach which has been strongly recommended because it is intended to make clearer the targets which pupils need to aim for and to provide information on achievements for parents , teachers and employers . |
| 2 | Precisely because it is seeking to bring some awareness of spirituality to those mostly brought up in a spiritual desert , great care is needed to avoid conveying misleading impressions . |
| 3 | A report by the Social Security Research Consortium calls for the discretionary Social Fund to be abandoned because it is failing to help those who most need it . |
| 4 | This conception of the mind is now almost universally regarded as disastrously wrong , for two reasons : first , because it creates a dualism of mind and body and second , because it is held to create insuperable sceptical problems . |
| 5 | Superficially , Mr Akhtar 's compromise has appeal in a liberal/secular society because it is designed to protect human sensitivities which we all recognise , rather than to appease a deity in whom relatively few believe . |
| 6 | I do n't want a discussion about this because it 's going to engender more problems than it will solve . ’ |
| 7 | Because it 's going to finish one of those days it 's going to be |
| 8 | Obviously not all shaman practices are applicable in the modern world , one procedure involved blowing tobacco smoke over a sick person because it was believed to have magical healing powers — I ca n't see that selling too well today ! |
| 9 | ‘ I wanted a legitimate way to increase my profile , ’ Shelley says , ‘ but I do n't like doing things just for my own benefit , so I was very comfortable with this idea because it was intended to benefit all its members . ’ |