Example sentences of "because it [modal v] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to establish the appropriate conditioned responses ( or expectancies ) during the first stage of training , the subjects would have to attend to and discriminate those features that distinguish A from C and those that distinguish B from C. Any plausible mechanism capable of allowing a subject to do this would also endow the subject with an enhanced ability to discriminate between A and B because it would involve the animal in coming to respond to the distinctive features of each of the three stimuli . |
| 2 | He accepted that the introduction of a night sleeper was something which could n't be contemplated in their present accommodation because it would involve the carer sleeping in the same room as the plaintiff . |
| 3 | Mr Heseltine had accepted the Monopolies and Mergers Commission recommendation that the merger should not be allowed , because it would give the board more than a 50 per cent share of the market . |
| 4 | The CAJEC document , issued last November ( see ACCOUNTANCY , December 1992 , p 11 ) proposed the rotation of audit partners , not only because it would help avoid situations that could lead outsiders to question the auditor 's objectivity , but also because it would give the client the benefit of a fresh , objective scrutiny and new ideas without losing the benefit of the knowledge of the business that the audit firm had already acquired . |
| 5 | Gascoigne suspected that MacArthur wanted a peace conference to take place because it would convey the impression of activity to the Japanese but that MacArthur did not necessarily desire a treaty to emerge from it . |
| 6 | Because it would make the table bend . |
| 7 | Not just because it would ruin the trust that my relationship is built on and that I so much believe in , but because being unfaithful would require me to be the kind of woman I choose not to be . |
| 8 | Geography was important because it would help the evolutionist to explain how populations were able to migrate and adapt to new locations . |
| 9 | he 's recommended to her that instead of making the third bedroom bigger , to make four bedrooms because it would increase the value of the house more . |
| 10 | but he recommended to her to actually make it into a fourth bedroom because it would increase the value of the house |
| 11 | Mike Barlow , who has a tourist business in Kyleakin , opposes the bridge because it would spoil the island 's ‘ magic ’ . |
| 12 | Many scientists also favoured the idea of pooling biotechnology patents because it would reduce the possibility of secrecy and the delay of publication . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought it over again and I have decided there must be an announcement , because it would indicate the merits of the matter and make it perfectly clear that I was in the right . ’ |
| 14 | This was rejected by the other Commonwealth countries and Britain because it would allow the USA to gain an unbeatable advantage . |
| 15 | I would think that 's out because it would destroy the value of the house er that , that has got to be sold some time . |
| 16 | The possibility that crop plants could be engineered to exhibit herbicide resistance is also significant because it may eliminate the need to produce target-specific herbicides such as those discussed in section 6.4.3 . |
| 17 | As the term suggests , these are letters from the Commission to notifying parties stating that the Commission does not believe that there is any need to take action in relation to the agreement or arrangement either because it falls outside Article 85(1) or because it may satisfy the requirements of Article 85(3) , although in such a case the issue of a comfort letter does not amount to an exemption pursuant to Article 85(3) . |
| 18 | The Anglian Water Authority , which said it had been constrained from discussing the problems because it might affect the price of shares during privatisation , refused last night to attend a meeting of local people worried about the problem . |
| 19 | In a perceptive question , one of our committee members , Russell Mulford , asked whether the scheme was a bad thing for Shropshire — because it might attract the funding that could otherwise be used to electrify the Wolverhampton — Shrewsbury line — or a good thing — because of the boost it will give to rail travel generally . |
| 20 | This again met with a cool reception from the other five , first because it might foreclose the question of EEC enlargement , and second because it seemed to seek to push the EEC more in an intergovernmental direction . |
| 21 | The imperial preference aspect was important because it might arrest the trends pulling the Empire apart ; reciprocity had shown the danger and there was little time left to halt the slide . |
| 22 | It is not advisable to give the dog free run of the car , however , simply because it could damage the interior , by scratching the upholstery , for example , if it wants to come out at first light before you are awake . |
| 23 | A church organist has been told not to play low notes because it could damage the spire . |
| 24 | The voluntary non-statutory sector was able to extend provision because it could attract the services of people who would not be prepared to work for a public authority . |
| 25 | We must assume , therefore , that explicit discrimination training will enhance the size of the effect , presumably because it will compel the subject to attend to distinctive and invariant aspects of each stimulus , and to ignore irrelevant aspects . |
| 26 | Intervention in the market economy can only lead to harmful results , therefore , because it will disrupt the workings of the overall economic order . |
| 27 | Training and support for history teachers is as important as the provision of packaged datasets because it will enable the teachers to develop their own materials . |
| 28 | The Bill concerns major issues because it will determine the future of further , higher and adult education for many years . |
| 29 | They ask the Duke to do away with the Act , because it will turn the Atholl Highlanders into slaves , and if he will not , they will fight to the last drop of their blood . ’ |
| 30 | Now , it 's mot going to be easy , not least because it will require the politicians to be more cooperative and less combative . |