Example sentences of "because it [is] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grid scheme of city layout with streets crossing one another at right angles and with a uniformity of street width and building design , which became the pattern for the classical world of Greece and Rome and was later adopted in Europe and modern America , was developed in Ionian Greece from the seventh century B.C. ; this street pattern is often referred to as Milesian because it is named after the city of Miletos on the coast of Asia Minor . |
| 2 | ‘ The box , because it is situated on the seafront , takes a fair battering from the weather and special paints , developed for the North Sea oil industry , have to be used to paint the box every year . ’ |
| 3 | It is , however , easy to recognise that the choreography for The Three-Cornered Hat has greater authenticity because it is based on the folk and flamenco dance Massine had studied in Spain . |
| 4 | Mr Ibrahim al-Beshari , Foreign Minister , said Libya would continue to fight UN Security Council Resolution 748 ‘ because it is based on the logic of force , not of law ’ . |
| 5 | An alternative explanation though , would say that the US model is not appropriate for Japan because it is based on the ideal of atomistic competition between a large number of small firms . |
| 6 | Their whole scheme is flawed , because it is based on the assumption that a Labour Government will have to raise £6.3 billion . |
| 7 | It may then resort to thieving , or whining every time you eat , because it is disturbed with the uncertainty of its own feeding arrangements . |
| 8 | This is vandalism , all the more wounding because it is authorised by the Secretary of State who is supposed to protect Scotland 's interests . |
| 9 | Sony 's position is less dangerous because it is building on the foundations of an already established physical format . |
| 10 | Albinos of any animal ( even humans ) have poor vision in strong light , so perhaps the Kigoi relies on the hand that feeds it because it is beaten to the foraging by normally-pigmented pondmates . |
| 11 | According to age-old local legends , the meaning of the word Carno comes from a hill in the centre of the Parish called ‘ clorin ’ because it is shaped like the back of a horse ; the Welsh farmers ’ word for the tail of a foal is ‘ torir clorin ’ . |
| 12 | On the face of it , this is offering a commander view because it is reporting on the command of the authority as a whole . |
| 13 | The nail is an indirect object because it is related to the verb through the preposition — on . |
| 14 | Some of the people who complain most bitterly about the community charge are those who discover after their homes have been repossessed that they must pay the charge not only on their new property — because it is imposed on the individual — but on the property which they lost , and which they thought was now the responsibility of the building society . |
| 15 | It prepared them for exactly the kind of material they can expect to see on the day — and because it is written by the examiners themselves , you can be sure that it tells you exactly what the examiners are looking for ! |
| 16 | So that in my judgment that regulation can be referred to because it is embodied in the Act itself and , having a quasi-parliamentary validity , is a good indication of the wishes of the legislature , just as much as if it were enacted in the Act itself . |
| 17 | However the pill is the method least preferred by the population controllers because it is taken at the discretion of the user . |
| 18 | Because it is used in the passive , ‘ said ’ in the Japanese text is understood to mean something like ‘ criticized ’ , and this meaning is correctly rendered in the English translation . |
| 19 | According to the Post , the government watchdog took the step because it is battling with the two companies over discount and marketing data , which it reckons it needs in order to determine whether it is paying fair prices for computer products . |
| 20 | ‘ The run is unique in Merseyside because it is aimed at the fun runner serious runners have to be prepared to take a back seat . |
| 21 | First we may consider the phrase : ( 25 ) acrobatic performance In the light of the discussion above we may remark that this can be understood in either of two ways : first , as covering any performance which is so described because it is linked with the idea of an acrobat in the execution of his or her professional duties ; this would include expertise in juggling , tightrope walking , standing on one 's hands , and so on , even if they are performed by an amateur lacking any natural talent for the task ; second , ( 25 ) may be used to designate any performance which is acrobatic in itself , even if not part of the normal repertoire of acrobats , for instance , grabbing hold of a branch growing out from a cliff just after falling from the top . |
| 22 | But , she says , it is a country where homelessness is non-existent and where central heating is very cheap because it is linked to the waste heat systems of local factories . |
| 23 | In such cases the phase information is superfluous because it is implied in the plot of the amplitude behaviour and only the latter is required . |
| 24 | We have included it here because it is required by the context ( i.e. a disciplinary report ) . |
| 25 | The word consensus ( agreement ) is spelt with an s because it is derived in the same way as consent , from the Latin sentire , to feel . |
| 26 | ( Census is spelt with a c at the beginning because it is derived from the Latin censere , to rate ) . |
| 27 | When the crystal stops growing , because it is removed from the solution , or for any other reason , these steps will remain on the surface and can often clearly be seen in the microscope . |
| 28 | Known as the sunshine vitamin because it 's absorbed from the sun , Vitamin D is a well-known treatment for psoriasis . |
| 29 | This too was slow to arrive , but it has bags of extra features and because it 's bundled with the DOS version for a mere £299 , it has to be a bargain . |
| 30 | " I ca n't make this out , " I say ( as myself , not the alien ) , to which several children respond : " No , that 's because it 's written in the alien 's language . " |