Example sentences of "[noun] because it [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The markets have been earmarked for closure because it will cost more than £6m to bring them up to new EC hygiene standards . |
| 2 | For example , does an animal recoil from a naked flame because it can feel the heat or because it can ‘ see ’ the heat — or because it has some completely different sense that alerts it to the danger ? |
| 3 | They all spent time reassuring Fiona until the worst of the worry unwound from her body and I watched the movement of her silver-blond hair in the soft lights and made no attempt to throw doubts because it would have achieved nothing good . |
| 4 | For example , in the 1980s the UK appears to have hosted parts of an international car industry because it could provide a relatively cheap , disciplined and flexible labour force and , as a resuIt , the parts of the production process it could host were similar to those found in some Third World countries . |
| 5 | *John wound up the toy car because it would go . |
| 6 | I warn Ministers that if the machine tool industry goes under , it will act as a deterrent to inward investment because it will show that the Government are not committed to the principle of assistance . |
| 7 | Mr Delors is accused of sabotaging any chances of a deal because it would hit French farmers and as a result agriculture commissioner Ray MacSharry has resigned as the EC 's chief negotiator in the talks with the US . |
| 8 | It is an exciting future because it will put linguists in the forefront to meet the greatest contemporary social challenge which is , as we see every day from our newspapers , language groups learning to live together within one country . |
| 9 | but he recommended to her to actually make it into a fourth bedroom because it would increase the value of the house |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This needs serious appraisal because it may indicate that recovery is far more fragile than might have been appreciated . |
| 12 | That , Mr Seymour told the inquiry , he rejected as a general rule because it would have placed ‘ unreasonable restrictions ’ on the railway . |
| 13 | The Office of Fair Trading scrutinised the bid because it might have affected competition in the UK towage industry . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ I think the election result will have a very positive effect because it will restore people 's confidence . |
| 15 | Coe tells me that he was attracted to writing some kind of thriller because it would help him tighten up his plotting , but he still has some way to go ; the book 's resolution is simply too arbitrary and fanatical . |
| 16 | She chose a dry martini because it would have an olive she could eat . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | and they said if we , in turn , as it stands we could never give you exemption and therefore the only thing is to render it completely enoxious and then we can give you negative clearance because it will have no impact upon competition |
| 19 | Most of us have been taught to see the Davy lamp as a scientific advance in that it saved the lives of miners because it would burn without causing explosions in a methane-rich atmosphere . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The saving throws for troops is not given on their profile because it can vary depending on the armour they wear . |
| 23 | ‘ Flying planes can be dangerous ’ is the type-sentence of semantic ambiguity because it can yield both a passive and an active interpretation , and here a variation is used to demonstrate the danger of paying too much attention to public opinion . |
| 24 | It pointed out , however , that an annotation of the changed sex on the register would not safeguard privacy because it would reveal Rees 's change of sexual identity . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The Greens had decided against contesting the two seats because it would cost £1,500 to enter each candidate and the money would probably be lost . |
| 27 | Expressing such views requires courage because it would appear to be taboo to talk about protecting fee income . |
| 28 | But at least two years because it would take us that time to furnish the house . |
| 29 | 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 ? |
| 30 | Because we must remember that Iraq has already had an eight years war and they 're used to a war , they used to withstanding a war and it was the only reason that Britain survived in the last world war because it could withstand attack , and wait and wait until they were ready to counter attack . |