Example sentences of "[verb] because it [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A CONTROVERSIAL plan to charge foreign three-day-event riders a £500-a-season licence fee to compete in Britain has been dropped because it could run up against European regulations . |
| 2 | OSF because it might get additional royalties for its technologies , particularly the Distributed Computing Environment ( DCE ) . |
| 3 | The agreement was cancelled because it should have been put out to competitive bidding . |
| 4 | The NFU is also against undergrounding because it would disrupt farming during installation , repair and maintenance work . |
| 5 | ‘ This may have seemed like a good idea when the rink was being built because it should give long term durability , but when a problem like this arises then the whole rink has to be closed and dug up . |
| 6 | Oh I should get that done because it might do something . |
| 7 | Canada was valued because it would bring peace and security to the American colonies and would allow them to continue to increase their imports of British goods in a much more tranquil continent . |
| 8 | An editorial alleged that the Government would welcome headlines saying that a patient had died because it would swing public opinion against the unions . |
| 9 | Whatever he backed or took over — insecure but deserving commercial ventures , a struggling publishing firm , an inefficient factory which he refused to modernize because it would make some workers redundant-always miraculously turned the corner and became financially successful . |
| 10 | And it is true that if , for example , there were a library catering specifically for the mentally retarded , this would be the first to be closed because it would create the greatest publicity . |
| 11 | If anybody if anything survives because it can chew better or gallop better or bring forth it 's young alive or has a better circulation , it 's not the species . |
| 12 | A knowledge of geometry was to be highly prized because it could help one to visualize the geometrical forms alluded to in Scripture . |
| 13 | But you know they they really need to watch how much part time work they are doing because it could mean that their pension will be suspended if they did work too much . |
| 14 | She does n't want to be pictured because it might interfere with her observation work . |
| 15 | Stroud District Council says it ca n't allow the face to stay because it might tempt other people to paint their dishes . |
| 16 | The very act of changing a supplier may be resisted because it may imply criticism of a past decision on the part of the buyer . |
| 17 | because of the government reforms , is unlikely to survive because it will carry into competition a third additional overheads . |
| 18 | Excess debris should be removed because it will use up large amounts of oxygen as it decomposes . |
| 19 | He told us to hurry back home after the picture had finished because it might get foggy later . |
| 20 | This interface will function optically as a convex mirror , and light incident on it — which normally would not be perceived because it would fall on the blind spot , will be reflected back into the eye . |
| 21 | and sort of guarded and slept I do n't I do n't know how she slept because it must have been very uncomfortable . |
| 22 | The plan was rejected because it would result in an unacceptable loss of light to the High Altar of the RC Church next door . |
| 23 | The Prison Officers ' Association announced that the action was being suspended because it would hit patients . |
| 24 | You will need to have your stake ready well before planting begins because it will have to be prepared properly if it is not to be a waste of time . |
| 25 | In sharp contrast to most of his contemporaries , Pétain seemed unambitious almost to the point of self-extinction ; when offered the post of Commandant to the Rifle School , he refused because it would have meant his promotion over the heads of more senior majors . |
| 26 | We all know that Parliament will not pass statutes condemning blue-eyed babies to death , so why worry because it could do so ? |
| 27 | It 's for each person , that 's why like the playwright does n't specify what each thing 's supposed to mean because it can mean whatever it wants to each member of the audience . |