Example sentences of "[adv] because it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If access to the toilet is difficult , perhaps because it has steps , or the room is too small for a wheelchair and the carer to manoeuvre in , he may have to be provided with a commode . |
| 2 | Socialists and feminists oppose this move , not only because it enables landlords to evict tenants easily and raise rents , but because they recognise that the demise of this sector is , broadly speaking , a result of the decreasing profitability of investment in this sector ( Merrett , 1979 , p.281 ) , not of legislation concerning rent control and tenants ' rights . |
| 3 | The voices are few not only because it takes courage to speak out against the tide of opinion , but because few can see the issue in a wider context and take the longer perspective . |
| 4 | Meanwhile the 11 + began to be criticized not only because it divided children up absurdly young into different categories , within which they were more or less trapped , but also because it was intrinsically inequitable . |
| 5 | He ( among others ) perceived adolescent labour as an obstacle to efficiency not only because it lacked knowledge of employment opportunities and the ability to distinguish between the merits of different occupations , but also because its inherent ‘ adaptability ’ was ‘ wasted ’ ( always a key notion in National Efficiency circles ) by the ‘ haphazard ’ nature of the transition which left too many youths in dead-end jobs and failed to enrol them in any form of further education . |
| 6 | The group as a whole is in the black only because it has income from an American retailing chain Silo and from financial services and property deals in Britain . |
| 7 | The cinema debate screened on Channel 4 between four film-makers from countries not usually represented on the screen ( India , the Philippines , Lebanon , and Brazil ) , which took place under the auspices of Women Call the Shots , was perhaps especially effective in this way , not only because it called attention to the existence of cinematic traditions outside of the ones we usually view , discuss , and study , but also because the four women film-makers involved in the debate took up such diverse positions . |
| 8 | In fact swimming is undoubtedly the b–st possible form of exercise — not only because it develops stamina , suppleness and strength but because the buoyancy of the water removes the danger of straining an otherwise unfit body . |
| 9 | It is an emphatic enclosure : the more so because it permits movement , through its mouth , between outside and inside . |
| 10 | To this extent , Marxism 's universalizing narrative of the unfolding of a rational system of world history is simply a negative form of the history of European imperialism : it was Hegel , after all , who declared that ‘ Africa has no history ’ , and it was Marx who , though critical of British imperialism , concluded that the British colonization of India was ultimately for the best because it brought India into the evolutionary narrative of Western history , thus creating the conditions for future class struggle there . |
| 11 | Where Methodism took hold , the force of the new puritanism was vastly more effective , largely because it attached sections of the working class itself to the moral crusade and began that polarisation of " respectable " and " rough " which was a developing feature in working-class communities in the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | Sanitation causes more controversy than the problem of water supply , possibly because it affects people in cities . |
| 13 | The exception was clothing , which bucked the trend of the rest of the UK textile industry partly because it supplies Marks & Spencer , and partly because it makes very little in the UK . |
| 14 | One reason for this is that suitable up-to-date information on employment , prices , etc. may not be immediately available , partly because it takes time for such data to be collated . |
| 15 | Withdrawal now tends to be discouraged , partly because it is thought to be another form of segregation within the ordinary school , and therefore in danger of isolating and stigmatising children , and partly because it deprives children of access to lessons and activities available to other children . |
| 16 | But Bourdieu 's notion of structure ( partly because it includes agency ) in modernity has a number of advantages over these other analysts . |
| 17 | The best results were obtained with EV1 , probably because it permits user control of the intensity . |
| 18 | This is a distinctive feature of the arrangements , both because it identifies pressure at an early stage and also in that it establishes the source of disturbance and whether it is a weak or strong currency . |
| 19 | HyperCard has been a huge success , both because it combines power and ease-of-use so well and because Apple have given the software away bundled with every Macintosh sold since 1987 . |
| 20 | Poulantzas ' reply to this criticism is instructive , partly because it tells us more about pertinent effects themselves , but also because it casts light on his general approach . |
| 21 | Child labour recommended themselves to the early factory masters not only because it was cheap but also because it avoided dependence on adult labour whose traditional work habits were too deeply ingrained . |
| 22 | I invariably gain weight if I 've eaten rice the evening before because it retains water and is often served with spicy food which is dehydrating . |
| 23 | It was not the huge success that Lotus Development had anticipated mainly because it demanded hardware that seemed excessive at the time — an AT with at least 1MByte of RAM . |
| 24 | It fascinated pharmacologists , mainly because it displaced stores of adrenaline-like transmitter substances both from the brain and from other tissues ( see chapter 13 ) . |
| 25 | The party cell was afraid to have open meetings mainly because it feared criticism from what it called the ‘ kulaks ' . |
| 26 | On the previous day , the Space Station , priced at $30–$40 billion , with $8 billion spent , survived by only one vote , mainly because it provides jobs in a sickly aerospace industry . |
| 27 | I 'll tell you about Evan Roberts later , and there 's plenty to tell even to those who buy a magazine simply because it says Climber on the cover . |
| 28 | His recommendation to other caterers is to consider a unit with an internal filter system simply because it means oil can be re-used , maybe three times a day . |
| 29 | It is the total change in perspective and new semantic outlook which ensures that the subjective nature of the liminal journey can be used as an essential part of the analysis ; for it can produce a dynamic simply because it incorporates aspects of a newly created ideological disjunction , as some classic accounts have shown . |
| 30 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the encouragement of savings is important not simply because it gives security to the saver but because it provides funds for investment in the future of our country ? |