Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] because [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have that freedom because the law has not taken it away , though it does limit its exercise . |
| 2 | But I knew this was a vain hope because the house was always locked securely . |
| 3 | Sailing along at forty five degrees to the wind the sail is in tightly and it needs constant adjustment on the tiller to stay on that right course because the wind is never totally steady . |
| 4 | He also suffered severe cramps in his right foot because the brake pedals were too sharp . |
| 5 | As my honourable friend said from the front bench , the Labour party is absolutely firmly committed now both by the voices of the leadership and the votes and the resolutions at our party conference that we are in favour of a proportional representation system for the European parliament and I hope that when the elections come Mr Deputy Speaker , and people will be arguing about why they 're voting for Europe on June the ninth in one boundary as opposed to another and why they 've got erm erm different rules for this election of course as indeed for the last European election because the registration will be different , allowing all kinds of erm how can I put it foreigners in inverted commas , to vote in our elections in this country because it is the European elections that we will actually put the point across that er for the future there will be different arrangements made indeed . |
| 6 | ‘ Now it seems an odd decision because the film was such a big success , but I did n't want to be under contract to anyone for any length of time with whom I did n't feel much in common . |
| 7 | The Education Committee evaluated Village school for possible closure because the teacher had reached the age of retirement . |
| 8 | But we er are welcoming the fact that there is a recognition of the rising population of Wales er in giving us this er this additional seat er primarily the additional population has not come in industrial South Wales which er er which er people think of perhaps as the most typically Welsh area , it 's actually in two counties of Clwyd and Dyfed that are erm growing most rapidly because of lifestyle migration , retirement migration erm into those two areas and that is why the additional seat , if you can put it that way , er takes from all the other four of course , is is the mid and West Wales seat which has been compared by the honourable member for Cornwall er tonight and it has only got a population of four hundred and one thousand but on the other hand of course it is such an extensive seat because the population sparsity in that area is much , much worse than even in Cornwall and therefore it is going to stretch from South of Milford Haven to the Llanrwst area really within probably twenty miles of the North Wales coast , it 's a who it 's the whole of two counties plus one additional very badly populated constituency erm in in the county of Gwynedd , an awkward constituency but one that we are certainly looking forward fighting and winning to give us the five out of five er now that er the boundaries are going through tonight and obviously it 's all in line really er to look at the other , the third order of course , the question of the registration of overseas voters in the nineteen ninety two election overseas voters had their first opportunity to participate in Westminster elections . |
| 9 | Note that where the speaker / writer is deliberately flouting a convention , upsetting an expectation for a stylistic effect , he can only bring off that effect because the convention / expectation exists . |
| 10 | Counsel for the appellants had attacked this finding because the patient had been an outpatient at a different hospital in the past and a practitioner there could have fulfilled this function ; and he submitted that in any case it was a duty of the hospital managers to find out if it was practicable to obtain the recommendation of a practitioner who had previous acquaintance with the patient : he relied on the form of the question ‘ explain why you could not get a recommendation from a medical practitioner who did know the patient ’ on the hospital admission application form . |
| 11 | There may be more than one relationship between two entities , for example , in this case because a PRODUCT is supplied by SUPPLIER . |
| 12 | You should always seek veterinary advice without delay in this case because the condition of a young puppy can deteriorate very rapidly if it becomes dehydrated . |
| 13 | As regards highways , they do in this case because the nature of the road pattern in this part of Skelton is such as to contribute materially to the characteristics of this ancient part of the village . |
| 14 | Brenda 's daddy , who had a van , always had to take his produce to a railway station in a different direction because the van was just too high for the bridge . |
| 15 | An exception is made in this instance because the policeman 's task in maintaining law and order exposes him to a greater risk of attack than other members of the public . |
| 16 | It 's very important to prove yourself at the top level because the gap between top amateurs and pros is not as wide as it was a couple of years ago , ’ he says . |
| 17 | This is an interesting monument because the architect , Rodolfo Vantini , who completed the work in 1828 , wanted to get away from the conventional Roman triumphal arch , ( a decision said to have been as much due to the local inhabitants complaining that they did not want their view of the Lombardian Pre-Alps blocked as to any creative urge ) . |
| 18 | Achieving the correct action will take some practice because the hand action will feel different from other iron shots you play . |
| 19 | These points have been emphasised in this chapter because the implementation of many contemporary policy initiatives — privatization , the limitation of social expenditure , the extension of community care — involve changing the balance between the various ingredients in the ‘ political economy of welfare ’ . |
| 20 | The Bill will be a special one in that the political parties are allowing their members in both Houses a free vote because the issue is deemed to be one of conscience . |
| 21 | Even the notorious " one consonant or two ? " problem can sometimes be solved this way : " reccommend " can be seen to be the wrong spelling because the word is made by adding the prefix " re " to the word " commend " . |
| 22 | I had already heard about this plan because the doctor had discussed it with my father ; but it was apparent that Eric himself was not at all enthusiastic about it . |
| 23 | The result became apparent in cases such as In re Missouri S.S. Co. where an English court held that a bill of lading issued in Massachusetts , to an American shipper for goods loaded in Massachusetts , was subject to English law because the carrier was British and the parties were presumed to have intended the application of English law . |
| 24 | However , the courts may gradually have fewer and fewer decisions to make on this issue because the pendulum , swinging between control and decontrol since 1915 , has swung once again in favour of the landlord . |
| 25 | Thus an invention which represents a remarkable advance on the prior art in a particular field may nevertheless fail this requirement because the employer neglects ( or is simply unable ) to market it properly . |
| 26 | It was suggested that the extension of the period to three years from one required the attribution of a different meaning because the Theophile construction meant that it did not really matter what the period was ; as long as there was a debt , a bankruptcy petition could be presented . |
| 27 | Accountability will remain in this place because the Secretary of State will be accountable to the House for the exercise of his duties in the provision of further education . |
| 28 | Mr Mayor I think we , we owe a debt of gratitude to councillor this evening because the sort of motions he 's been putting forward has effectively united the progressive forces . |
| 29 | My suggestion is that the eight working-class women who say they ‘ like ’ or ‘ do n't mind ’ housework but show evidence of being dissatisfied with it , are in fact committing this contradiction because the speech mode they are used to makes the presentation of individual feelings difficult . |
| 30 | The government saw chena cultivation as a threat to the state 's right to forest land , a matter of some importance because the sale of Crown land provided a significant proportion of official revenue in the nineteenth century . |