Example sentences of "[modal v] be [verb] [adv] because " in BNC.

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1 At the present stage of scientific development , it is surely sad that a healthy human fetus should be destroyed merely because it is not of the sex the mother prefers .
2 The answer sometimes given is that murderers should be treated differently because they are particularly dangerous : anyone who chooses to kill once can choose to kill again .
3 It angered her that anyone 's work should be treated cavalierly because someone with a little authority regarded a newsroom as a draughts board .
4 These patients should be treated parenterally because attempted oral treatment may be hazardous .
5 In addition , disincorporation should be made easier because the commercial and fiscal environment has changed drastically since the 1960s when companies were ‘ well-advised to incorporate to obtain the benefits of limited liability and easier access to new finance ’ .
6 It should be collected primarily because government needs it for its own businesses . ’
7 Ideally , risk and responsibility should be apportioned together because the party who is responsible for performing a task should carry the risk if it is carried out incorrectly .
8 The Old Cumberland Beggar is more obviously a sermon addressed to the political economist , who believes that only ‘ people who show a profit ’ are important , and that people who are poor or old or ill should be shut away because they are ‘ useless to society ’ .
9 Counsel contended that the demand should be set aside because it falls foul of this provision .
10 And I think the buses should be banned anyway because they go so fast .
11 Glaxo 's scientists say omeprazole should be used sparingly because it might cause cancer ; Astra believes its drug is no more dangerous than ranitidine and has worked hard to prove it .
12 Simple statements , questions and commands should be introduced early because of the student 's immediate need of communication with the people among whom he/she is living .
13 Care should be taken here because it was the wording of SOGIT 1973 which was considered , and although this is substantially similar to the 1977 Act , it is , in some respects , different .
14 This result should be interpreted cautiously because serial biopsies were not available in these tumours .
15 For example , Miguez Bonino who inaugurated this series of lectures , talked of his own personal discovery of ‘ the unsubstitutable relevance of Marxism ’ and went on to argue that it must be taken seriously because ‘ it offers a scientific , verifiable and efficacious way to articulate love historically ’ .
16 she says , she thinks Michael must be coming home because he has n't rung her .
17 These three factors must be considered together because it seems that both parental mental illness and parental separation or divorce may have a particularly damaging effect on the children if they are associated with prolonged overt marital discord , especially where the child becomes directly involved .
18 Even when they get back into GCHQ they 'll be welcomed here because it 's an institution .
19 This meant that the effect of factors ( for example , female activity rate ) which might be extremely important in particular instances could be lost simply because of the impact of much more general variables ( such as low density of manufacturing employment ) .
20 Independence was not compromised , it was stated , and although the identification of causes deserving of support and finance from the advice agency might be questionable , in practice only those problems which gave real cause for community concern could be pursued successfully because of the need for public support .
21 Thus , an uncompetitive market structure may be maintained indefinitely because of barriers to entry and exit ; products are not , as in the model , homogeneous , but have differentiating characteristics which enable producers to raise prices without causing a total shift in demand to their rivals ; and finally , purchasers lack perfect information and hence may pay higher prices than they would if aware of alternative , cheaper , sources of supply .
22 Also , the increase in the number of liquid or soft stools , an important item of CDAI , may be caused either because of worsening of the intestinal disease or as a side effect of enteral nutrition .
23 Expatriates may be sent overseas because there is a specific demand for their skills , because they are needed to train local employees in particular procedures or because the expatriates themselves are to receive training so that they can return to their home countries to pass on their newly acquired skills .
24 They may be defended simply because in certain circumstances not helping is to be preferred to helping .
25 In such cases , the reverse punch may be given simply because the referee failed to recognise the snap punch .
26 The romantic days which have seen the bold David McTaggart striding the Pacific main in the Greenpeace ketch Vega to challenge the French bomb testers at Moruroa atoll may be passing simply because , in that particular case , the military reasons for testing are passing .
27 Such signals may be performed regularly because , like a human hand-shake , the cat maintains stable social relationships in this way and reduces the chances that it will be disrupted in its daily round by the other individuals with which it lives .
28 At the other end of the spectrum family events such as weddings may be brought forward because the dying person says they want to live to see it .
29 They Those would evaporate at the same rates , although that one would be gone sooner because there 's less off it .
30 Thus if all cancers discovered at necropsy were identified clinically and treated then 26 out of 27 patients would be treated unnecessarily because these tumours do not represent a threat to their lives .
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