Example sentences of "because it [modal v] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord MacDermott CJ found such an argument surprising because it would create a large loophole in the legislation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This idea is attractive because it would mean a nice symmetry between the expanding and contracting phases . |
| 4 | A proposal to allow professors to retire on full pension at 63 instead of 65 has met with little support from state finance ministers because of its cost , and also because it would set an expensive precedent for all other civil servants . |
| 5 | And it was a belief that to cut at the roots with small scissors would make a difference , because it would have a cumulative effect and that 's why I think we can do it in our own society . |
| 6 | Mr Ford also forecast that Railtrack , the proposed state-owned track authority , would be less likely to invest in improved services , because it would have no commercial incentive , and would concentrate only on safety . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | erm and that presumably in , in part is because there is this radical groundswell from the peasants in , in part because it would need a new policy after nineteen forty five would n't you because not just on , on the financial side but er er a lot of your mobilization has come through , a as you say , nationalism now once the Japanese are defeated , that 's finished . |
| 9 | But Stroud District Council says the shopkeepers ca n't put metal sutters over their windows at night because it would spoil a conservation area . |
| 10 | That being the first reason , the second reason is because it would put an intolerable burden of security on us . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The behaviour of the Sun was therefore well worth watching , because it could influence the coming harvest . |
| 13 | Do you , for instance , want a disco because it will bring a welcome break to an otherwise ( necessarily ) heavy and demanding programme , or could it prove too sharp a contrast and interrupt the concentration you 're trying to establish ? |
| 14 | ‘ It 's fair to say that we liked the thought of it going to somewhere like Embsay , which does n't have any other big engines , because it will do a good bit of flag flying for us there . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is potentially superior to the grammatical syllabus because it will produce a communicative competence . |
| 18 | The detector for a word like REAP will also be switched off , despite its similarity to READ , because it will receive an inhibitory input from the letter detector for D-in-the-fourth-position . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | However , composers very frequently use a free ordering of the note-material at such points : This is an excellent method of serial usage , and because it can produce a varied horizontal flow of notes in each part , a single version of a series can be used for a long piece ( Luigi Nono 's choral-orchestral work Il canto sospeso , for example , is written entirely with one series , never transposed and always in its ‘ O ’ form ) . |
| 24 | It can be a pig to set up in the most efficient way as regards memory , because it can use a tremendous amount of the base 640k of a PC . |
| 25 | ( Wiping the mouth is discouraged , because it can over-stretch the delicate soft tissues and muscles . ) |