Example sentences of "because [pron] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your family doctor may know one end of a thyroid gland from another-with any luck — but no especial wisdom is granted him because he sits in a surgery seeing one coughing person after another all day ; peering into ears and wombs and hearing tales of insomnia and worms . |
| 2 | If the facilitator is successful , it is because he acts as a traffic cop ; he rephrases the conversation whenever it is necessary ; he clarifies issues ; he points out messages that may be upsetting others , and so on . |
| 3 | Er , a village blacksmith has had his been told by the council to close down because he lives in a greenbelt area . |
| 4 | It consists of making categorical and systematic certain distinctions made , and preferences expressed , by Eliot in his essays ; and then dismissing Pound merely because he writes with a measure of respect of certain writers ( Swinburne is one example ) on whom Eliot , the arbiter of taste , is supposed to have conclusively turned down his thumbs . |
| 5 | People usually remember Mel Smith because he looks like a potato . |
| 6 | In the case of the Middle East , however , Hurd 's proposed new system will almost certainly be unworkable because it suffers from a set of internal contradictions . |
| 7 | The Learning that goes on in higher education justifies the label ‘ higher ’ precisely because it refers to a state of mind over and above conventional recipe or factual learning . |
| 8 | A common problem is a clash between two people modifying modules ; that is , one person is unable to activate a DC because it refers to a module which is also part of a DC activated by someone else on another package . |
| 9 | Logically , critical reflection is ‘ higher ’ because it calls for a state of mind reflecting on that learning . |
| 10 | Foucault is particularly critical of the appropriating structure of totalization , Marxist or otherwise , insofar as it implies the superiority of the theorist who produces the totalization of knowledge ; in the same way , he distrusts the use of history as an encompassing framework because it works as a power structure that enables the expropriation and control of the past according to the perspective and truth of the present . |
| 11 | So it is possible that , in the course of evolution , the preening activity of the male has been accentuated because it signals to a female that he is in a state of conflict . |
| 12 | ( d ) We have made explicit the reason for focusing on the last novel — we chose it because it acts as a summary of Tey 's work , and so is an appropriate topic for a conclusion . |
| 13 | Even a temporary relapse back to old behaviour and its damaging consequences may itself hopefully be a therapeutic process because it acts as a reminder that recovery is a continuing process that has to be worked for on a continuing basis by each and every recovering person . |
| 14 | The main thing to prevent is a solid sheet of ice forming because it acts like a lid and prevents the escape of poisonous gases , given off by deteriorating pond vegetation . |
| 15 | The report comes out strongly against the imposition of trade sanctions against countries on environmental grounds : in an implicit reference to the recent US action against tuna imports from Mexico [ see ED 55 ] , the report says , " a country may not restrict imports of a product solely because it originates in a country whose environmental policies are different . " |
| 16 | This is because it stands in a position closer to totally autonomous behaviour ( at the top ) than the others . |
| 17 | Bone is normally strong because it consists of a lattice-work of collagen fibres with calcium , the chalk-like material , in the gaps . |