Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] because it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was affecting Debenham more than most because it is in Debenham that the River Deben is first starting out on its course . |
| 2 | It 's just hitting you harder than most because it 's taken you longer than the rest of us to discover the joys and the agonies of falling in love . |
| 3 | The Reik is actually the longest single river in the Old World , although only because it bears its name from its source in the Upper Reik to where it joins the sea at Marienburg . |
| 4 | than here because it 's erm so damp down here is n't it , near the river ? |
| 5 | When the campaign opened , it was not immediately obvious which particular issues the parties would choose to stress ; but by the middle of the campaign it was clear that the Conservatives were focusing on defence issues where their policy was so much more popular than Labour 's , if only because it seemed so much simpler to explain . |
| 6 | Not exactly , if only because it is precisely at this point that Volpone shows how the normal is parasitic upon the perverse . |
| 7 | If I had to give a single criterion of that dubious category , the homosexual sensibility , it would be this connection between perversity and paradox — if only because it suggests why that sensibility does not exist as such . |
| 8 | Transgressive reinscription will always remain controversial , if only because it raises such disturbing questions about desire itself , making it profoundly social and thereby asking equally disturbing questions about culture , representation , and social process . |
| 9 | The Boston text is more obviously an exhibition catalogue , if only because it includes a ‘ checklist ’ of the exhibition , which , ignoring the problematic identity of some of the works , distinguishes between works of art and other items ( books , tracts , pamphlets , etc. ) and also carefully identifies the status of individual exhibits by signifying their producer 's relationship to the formally identified Situationist group . |
| 10 | For long-distance cruising , the Calibra is the better choice , if only because it has a more absorbent and quieter motorway ride . |
| 11 | Obviously , this is a total IFR aircraft if only because it is pressurised , so some hours are devoted to what can best be described as ‘ autoflight programming and monitoring ’ . |
| 12 | There are plenty of good reasons why nationalism thirsts for identification with ethnicity , if only because it provides the historical pedigree ‘ the nation ’ in the great majority of cases so obviously lacks . |
| 13 | James 's own description of the accident is worth repeating , if only because it shows how much ( and how little ) racing drivers really observe in a multi-car shunt : |
| 14 | The stored or potential energy in a raised weight can be used , for instance , to drive the mechanism of a grandfather clock though in most clocks a spring is usually more convenient , if only because it stores the same amount of energy which ever way up it is . |
| 15 | There was a distinct risk that an import licence might be refused , for one thing ; also the medical profession was , and is , against it , if only because it could prolong the , to them , archaic practice of burying the dead . |
| 16 | The Neroccio recently sold in Rome has to be regarded as a forgery , if only because it bears a spurious signature and date . |
| 17 | When a colony was launched as the property of a single owner he , or one of his family , might go out to oversee the administration but he was unlikely to cut his links with England , if only because it was important to be able to maintain the court favour which was part of the political strength needed by anyone who wanted to run a colony on his own . |
| 18 | There can be no mistaking Aldebaran , if only because it lies in line with Orion 's Belt . |
| 19 | Among city-states Athens was not the only democracy in the ancient Greek world but it was the most stable and long-lived , and the best documented , if only because it was politically the most important and culturally the most brilliant and creative of all the city-states . |
| 20 | All discourse is more or less reciprocal , if only because it is based upon assumptions about receivers . |
| 21 | Although not strictly speaking within the scope of this book , since it is an entirely artificial substance , enamel needs to be mentioned if only because it served as an alternative to natural stones in enriching jewellery and other symbolic objects . |
| 22 | Even in the fading light it impressed her , if only because it was worse even than she had imagined — or Lionel had said . |
| 23 | ‘ Disability medicine ’ has not found wide support , if only because it has been ( wrongly ) interpreted to imply the medicalisation of disability . |
| 24 | Paragraph ( b ) , however , is likely to give rise to difficulty with its concept of ‘ abnormal ’ characteristics , if only because it may be so difficult to determine the ‘ normal ’ characteristics of a species . |
| 25 | Laura was not in a great hurry to find a new designer if only because it was dawning on her that the company needed more of a skilled copier than an original artist . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , in the wake of the retreat of American power and the demise of SEATO neutralisation remained the regional strategic stance of Southeast Asia , if only because it was considered by the region to be the only plausible defence against becoming a Chinese sphere of influence . |
| 27 | The school stories are still the major fodder of the magazine , if only because it is something universal to everyone in this country . |
| 28 | This in itself presents a powerful argument against change , for it is clearly desirable that national and EC policies should be broadly similar if only because it is less confusing to the business community . |
| 29 | Exploitations of this maxim are , as Grice notes , a little harder to find , if only because it is hard to construct responses that must be interpreted as irrelevant . |
| 30 | Certainly , the school should not be confused with the workshop — as is frequently the case — if only because it is then difficult to credit the " school " with any real meaning . |