Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [noun sg] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have not touched on the difficult question of localization here : it is a lively issue where the brain is concerned , but not for the digital computer because , depending on how you interpret its operations , information can be thought of as being anywhere at all in the machine ( i.e. not localized in the sense of being associated with a particular place in it ) , or ( and in some sense conversely ) all operations of the machine can be thought of as going on in one very small and specific place . |
| 2 | Labelling can be a nightmare for the behavioural analyst because it can divert attention away from the real problems . |
| 3 | Erm I do look for opportunities to talk to people about God but I , I certainly think that you have to wait for the right opportunity because , if people are ill or very down , then it often is n't the right time when they 're vulnerable erm to try and erm talk to them about something . |
| 4 | UNEMPLOYMENT is poised to top three million for the second time because the quality of jobs created in the late 1980s was poor , according to a report by the Employment Policy Institute . |
| 5 | And Rover is right : by no stretch of the imagination could it be called a replacement for the dogged Montego because it competes in a different class . |
| 6 | We pointed out earlier that such a proposal can not be accepted for the prenominal case because the prenominal and the clause structures are far from equivalent ; they admit different ranges of adjective , and the relation of the adjective to the head noun is different in the two cases . |
| 7 | Michael went with her to meetings and joined her when she worked for the Liberal cause because it was the next best thing to Labour . |
| 8 | Symbol seems to be thought of just as standing in place for the real thing because that is absent . |
| 9 | These verbs are of great interest for the present study because , unlike may , can , shall , will and must , they can shift from the bare to the to infinitive , according to the meaning they express in discourse , a fact which lends confirmation to the hypothesis that it is the meaning of the modals which explains their use with the bare infinitive . |
| 10 | Okay now at this stage you do n't normally have to ask for volunteers for the first group because it usually sort of role then off they go . |
| 11 | So consequently every time I moved school , moved into different I had to fight me way there for the first week because I hated anyone to call me Ginger you see ? |
| 12 | In times past , I had tried to get across to the continent as much as possible , but now , while other people were going abroad for the first time because of all the cheap travel around , I was ( without intending to be anti-social ) doing exactly the opposite and taking a look around the British Isles . |
| 13 | Hard work by the ground staff enabled play to begin on Friday afternoon , whereupon Richards , leading West Indies for the first time because of Lloyd 's injury , gleefully put England in . |
| 14 | The Great War also caused the appointment , for the first time because of the absence of men in the Forces , of lady teachers to the staff . |
| 15 | Wh when you put people on the patches for the first time because the hormone goes straight into the system , rather than having to go through the gut , |
| 16 | They may feel New York for the first time because its fast-dealing busyness is something the screen does n't catch and may smell it for the first time if they come in high summer but one of the great first sights of the world is gone for ever . |
| 17 | Some black children may have had their first experience of Jamaican Creole from reggae lyrics , while others may have been attracted to Creole for the first time because of the music . |
| 18 | It was no help to discover that I was not alone in my distaste for the new order because , along with the ever-present sexism , I had to fight the crueller jibes of ageism . |
| 19 | We first observe that T1 is uniquely optimal for the objective function because we would have . |
| 20 | Previously , Kiss have had to print different sleeve for the German market because their distinctive logo was felt to be too close to the nazi SS emblem . |
| 21 | Previously , Kiss have had to print different sleeve for the German market because their distinctive logo was felt to be too close to the nazi SS emblem . |
| 22 | He would not , for example , work for the Cuban government because Fidel Castro was not elected in a democratic election . |
| 23 | Maybe it will not provide much new material for the dedicated enthusiast because there are so many other books devoted to the early history of railways . |
| 24 | For the bear because it was his thing , for the little girl because of the shouting — " |
| 25 | He became a suspect for the double rape because he was the goalkeeper for a local amateur soccer team and police were able to match his footprints to those found on a floor in his victim 's house . |
| 26 | This fish is not suitable for the brackish aquarium because it is amphibious . |
| 27 | The trouble is that nobody can speak for the whole profession because of the various ways in which the profession is divided . |
| 28 | Policyholders were able to benefit from higher levels of retirement benefits for the same premium because the death provision was limited . |
| 29 | If a functional group on CP 96345 interacts with His197 , removing that functional group should result in a dissociation constant for the H197A mutant equal to that for the wild type because the His197 specific interaction is no longer present . |
| 30 | For mortality , the intensity of selection in a stable population ( r=0 ) remains constant during the pre-reproductive period because the consequences of death for reproductive success remain constant ; selection intensity starts to decline only at the time of first breeding . |