Example sentences of "[is] [adj] because [art] " in BNC.

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1 The closure of Faskally in particular is controversial because the centre was bought about 20 years ago by the old Glasgow Corporation to give slum children a taste of adventure in the open air .
2 It is undesirable because the patient is totally dependent on someone coming into the home from outside and of course it is extremely expensive in terms of nursing time .
3 However the use of straightforward viscous friction is undesirable because the operation of the motor at high speeds is severely limited by the friction torque .
4 Although this is distressing and frustrating for the patient , the confusion is understandable because the two disorders do present a very similar picture in terms of symptoms .
5 This is understandable because the Gospels were written at a time when the Church had to exist in a Roman world .
6 It is similar to the nursing agency arrangement but is preferable because the Health Authority is able to be more selective about whom it employs .
7 The yield of the plant is low because the flower buds and immature fruit frequently drop off .
8 th th the building went ahead and people every year or two sometimes twice in a year get flooded and they get sewages the the sewer with the volume of rain water they ca n't otherwise get away , but it brings to light what happens i i i in the ditches and , and the waterways that are spread across the direction of Airport and then out into the river when the tide is low because the switches close when the tide comes in and basically er and this is up to date information the information that I have is that the channels are the responsibility of the er you know responsibilities are either kept cleared or not clogged up and in connection with the , with the incident I , I did hear it said that in , in a place where once said it usually counts that possibly and more than the that the first flood was due because the drains and the ditches could n't take the volume of water after they were cleared and things have been pretty reasonable erm since that time , so it would seem to confirm what , what I have to say about keeping clear erm but it may be that authorities that were n't responsible had the job of cleaning them , I do n't know .
9 ‘ The major chains have taken up the promotion in a big way , but so have many independents , which is terrific because the promotion was n't designed just for the chains ; we wanted everyone to get involved . ’
10 This comparison is possible because the list size remained largely unchanged over the two year study .
11 This is possible because the ability of even very young children to engage in reflective thought has now been recognized in many educational circles ( see Chapters 5 and 7 for discussion of this ) .
12 The interaction between CP 96345 and His197 is specific because the binding affinity for the perhydroisoindole antagonist RP67580 ( ref. 14 ) was not affected by the H197A mutation ( Table 1 ) .
13 The Lords in both cases argued that the seller would not have proceeded with the sale , had he known of the lack of authority , but the argument is hypothetical because the seller did not know .
14 The cattle ranching option is popular because the outgoings are low .
15 Now such a delay is risky because the pace of innovation has quickened and the profitable life ofa new drug has dropped from 15 years to three or four .
16 Some of the more creative forms of privatization adopted in the late 1980s have opened up the possibility that any asset could be sold but , regardless of that , the argument is fallacious because the net realizable value of an asset is not the only value which can be placed on it .
17 It is so-called because the bêche plate must be reused to cut up the even denser marc .
18 The complication in this example is that the concept birds appears to be simple , because it is the subclass of animals on which the function ’ genus ’ has the value bird ; but at the same time , the concept of birds is ontological because the function length-of-feathers is defined only on it .
19 When the frequency is lower than ο max the permanent dipoles can follow the field quite closely and so ε′ is high because the dipoles align easily with each change in polarity ; ε′′ on the other hand is low again because now the voltage and the current are approximately 90° out of phase .
20 Facivermis is peculiar because the anterior region bears five pairs of lobopod-like appendages , whereas the rest of the body is smooth .
21 The situation is grave because the bank interest rate is at 15 per cent .
22 If you like styling products , we recommend using a gel when your hair is wet because the moisture in your hair will dilute it .
23 To act in such a way is wrong because the employee may be denied a full opportunity to respond to every point being made against him .
24 That is wrong because the Bill and the Local Government Bill were published before that .
25 This finding is interesting because the mutant allele retains the intact D β1 , J β 1.1 and J β 1.2 segments despite the 15-kb deletion , and therefore can potentially undergo extensive DJ or VDJ rearrangements .
26 Well , it is really strange , because I 've done quite a lot of stage work , but it 's funny because a lot of people — even other film actors — do n't know about it .
27 And it 's funny because the last car that I saw the fellow 's from I saw the fellow 's who did it .
28 Yes , it 's different because the
29 ‘ A lot of it is charming because the way of speaking and attitudes of people in those days now becomes an amusing factor .
30 I just think it 's wrong because every day a tiny bit the ground loo looks much much better than if I do n't give them for weeks an they do , well .
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