Example sentences of "because it [modal v] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say it would be cheaper because it would avoid the difficult tunnelling terrain of waterlogged sand and gravel which has prevented the building of Tube lines to much of south London . |
| 2 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that a tax-raising Scottish assembly would be the worst thing for Scotland because it would discourage the inward investment which will be encouraged into the United Kingdom by the fact that we are not part of the social charter ? |
| 3 | The shadow Health Secretary , Mr Robin Cook , said Labour was fundamentally opposed to the principle of the bill and would vote against it because it would destroy the public sector ethos of the NHS and was designed to do so . |
| 4 | The behaviour of the Sun was therefore well worth watching , because it could influence the coming harvest . |
| 5 | In the chapters which follow , I will attempt to offer a more satisfying and , hopefully , iconoclastic alternative ; satisfying because it will place the explanatory emphasis on definite social processes which perpetuate the invidious position of blacks both in and out of sport ; and iconoclastic because it will at least go some way towards smashing the outdated image of the black man as possessing natural physical abilities that are determined , in the last instance , by his race . |
| 6 | Tandem is in there because it will provide the central switch for the network , and British Telecom 's BT North America unit may provide a connection into its own wire network . |
| 7 | A typical entry would be for , say , E233 , a preservative , chemical name thiabendazole , a man-made material , with a note of caution attached warning that it should be avoided during pregnancy because it can damage the unborn child . |
| 8 | Gregory believes the new toolkit , which is also scalable , is a technical breakthrough because it can assume the available processing power and memory resource on the target . |
| 9 | Individual people may come and go , but society carries on continuously — because it can shape the incoming individuals to fit the existing state of affairs . |
| 10 | See , on the other hand , because it can evoke the bare fact of visual perception , is capable of evoking perception merely as a cause of knowledge and no more than that . |
| 11 | ( Wiping the mouth is discouraged , because it can over-stretch the delicate soft tissues and muscles . ) |