Example sentences of "[vb base] because [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People often turn from fiction to biography as they get older , I expect because the real world comes to seem more mysterious and more valuable to them the closer they come to leaving it . |
| 2 | ‘ Once they were shy , ’ he told me , ‘ but now they attack because the white man … ’ he pointed an imaginary rifle at the window and pulled the trigger . |
| 3 | Things matter because the precise form of words in which they are expressed indicates that the Council intended this particular passage to have an especially authoritative character . |
| 4 | But I know that 's what it was you know because the wee lassie done it with this special electronic thing |
| 5 | As the coal burns , these radioisotopes concentrate because the organic matter in the coal perishes . |
| 6 | These correlations arise because a normal mode , although formally involving the whole molecule , may actually involve significant motions of only a few atoms constituting a discrete group , and hence have a frequency primarily determined by the group and only slightly affected by the nature of the rest of the molecule . |
| 7 | Some problems arise because the new language contains sounds or constructions which are completely new to you . |
| 8 | The problems associated with the battle of the forms arise because the common law principles governing the formation of contracts are based on the concept of a bargain arrived at through a process of negotiation , while the whole purpose of standard conditions is to minimise or exclude the process of negotiation . |
| 9 | Such phyla so persist because the only way they can be recognized is by reference to themselves . |
| 10 | The process involved is known as diapirism , and diapirs rise because the hot rock of which they are composed is less dense than the cooler surrounding country rock . |
| 11 | The seasons occur because the spinning Earth is tilted on its axis relative to the sun . |
| 12 | Many field landing accidents occur because the initial decision to choose a field is left far too late . |
| 13 | These voltages occur because the permanent-magnet flux linking each winding varies sinusoidally with the position of the rotor . |
| 14 | Digital watches work because a small sliver of quartz inside them pulses at a rhythmic and unchanging frequency , which is stimulated by energy from the battery . |