Example sentences of "because it [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is because it touches on many aspects of life that are deeply important to us : |
| 2 | I mean it 's not anything like as dramatic as that , but it 's , because it fluctuates in different quarters in the area , in different towns . |
| 3 | Although Mr MacKarness wo n't confirm it , the Fowlers claim the price was just £70,000 because it came with sitting tenants . |
| 4 | That is not to say that banks faced no competition ; but because it came from mutual-fund companies , savings banks or manufacturing firms ' finance arms , they were slower to spot it and restricted by regulators in reacting to it . |
| 5 | As we shall see , a gene may increase in frequency not because it increases the fitness of its carrier but because it associates with other genes that do , or even because it is in a sense parasitic on other genes . |
| 6 | It was big but it was n't tall because it walked on four feet . |
| 7 | This has a dual benefit in that : ( a ) the increase in value should not be caught by the unapproved share schemes legislation because it derives from entrenched rights of the ratchet variety described above ; and ( b ) it provides a justification for the managers paying less per share than the institutions at the outset , since the ratchet characteristics of the shares , and the possibility that Newco may never achieve the profitability targets , would be relevant in valuing that class of shares . |
| 8 | It is inevitable because it derives from shared values which are a necessary part of all social systems . |
| 9 | The outlines of his life are familiar but , because it fell into three parts separated by place as well as time , it is obscure in detail even to those who were closest to him at any given time . |
| 10 | many people see it [ the employment of women ] as a challenge to society , because it breaks with long-established patterns of family life , and with the values and beliefs supporting them … |
| 11 | It is possibly the least effective method of change because it depends on two steps both of which are unnatural . |
| 12 | Because it applied to all bodies everywhere , the universe had at last become a universe . |
| 13 | N.T.A. was considered the alternative to phosphates in washing powders at the start of the 80's , but it is now banned in the USA because it combines with heavy metals , as does E.D.T.A. In this way carcinogenic substances such as lead , mercury etc. , which normally remain at the bottom of lakes and rivers , are reintroduced to the water supply . |
| 14 | NCR Corp will be showing-off its Disk Array Plus software , which , the company says , allows users the benefits of RAID — redundant array of inexpensive disks — technology without the need to purchase new disks , because it works with existing disks . |
| 15 | It is all grist to the mill of those who like to argue that Japan has succeeded because it works by different rules from those in the West . |
| 16 | The newer antiherpes agent , acyclovir , is of great interest , because it acts in virally-infected cells , but only to a negligible extent in healthy human cells . |
| 17 | If it succeeds , it will be because it concentrates on achievable tasks . |
| 18 | In prosecutions for many other crimes , for instance assault , testimony varied more because it built on actual incidents . |
| 19 | Neither does the idea of Mary Leakey and her team — that walking upright helped to scavenge dead carcases left behind by carnivore predators — survive close scrutiny , because it appears from hominid fossils that they ate probably more grain than meat . |
| 20 | Nevertheless it requires separate assessment , not least because it drew on certain areas of experience not directly dominated by the monarch . |
| 21 | It provides a good training for any biologist because it looks at living organisms from many different viewpoints . |
| 22 | In theory , the committees were to provide opportunities for skilled and apprenticed employment , though members admitted that formal apprenticeship , at least , was not always possible , partly because it appeared to many observers that machines had eradicated a number of handicrafts , turning the worker into a ‘ machine-tending artisan ’ , and partly because ‘ skill ’ was a relative concept , demanding different degrees of training . |
| 23 | Indeed , one must infer that the policy was deliberately not expressed in the legislation because it appeared in express terms in other legislation relating to other transactions . |
| 24 | This modified theory is not ad hoc because it leads to new tests . |
| 25 | I have argued with my district health authority for many years I know that many hon. Members have done the same with theirs — because it has for various reasons shifted the problem of elderly sick people to the private sector . |
| 26 | As a resort it has changed though , having passed out of the possession of the royals and their followers and into that principally of the world 's surfers , who come to this coast for technical reasons , because it has by all accounts the best waves in Europe on which to perch for the ride into town . |