Example sentences of "be [adj] because [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That would have been absurd because the word , ‘ converts , ’ itself implied that the bailee had done something with the bailed goods which was not authorised by the terms of the bailment . |
| 2 | Many nations are apprehensive because the treaty establishes no controls to prevent the ruthless industrial and trading practices that built Japan 's pre-war commercial empire . |
| 3 | Longer addressing times are possible because the display need not be refreshed at TV frequencies while it is read on the screen . |
| 4 | This has been possible because the phrase ‘ sufficient interest ’ is very vague and leaves it largely up to the courts to decide what interests are sufficient . |
| 5 | Such combinations make up the particles known as mesons , which are unstable because the quark and antiquark can annihilate each other , producing electrons and other particles . |
| 6 | ‘ The directors have been impotent because the deal was between Martin Edwards and Michael Knighton . |
| 7 | The taxi ride from the airport to the little village where she was staying , only six kilometres from Nice , had been uncomfortable because the air-conditioning in the car had broken down three days before her arrival and was waiting to be repaired , and all in all her last vestiges of good humour had finally bitten the dust as she 'd stood in front of the house and realised that it had n't finished being built . |
| 8 | They are normative because the assessment will depend in part on the value judgements adopted by the assessor . |
| 9 | Such contracts are appropriate because the timing and level of the peak can be determined with a high degree of certainty . |
| 10 | The Court of Appeal held that the buyer dealt as a consumer , so that the clause was inapplicable ; however , Dillon LJ , obiter , suggested that had the buyer not been dealing as a consumer , the clause would have been reasonable because the buyer ( 1 ) was " ex hypothesi dealing in the course of business and [ the managing director ] was not devoid of commercial experience " and ( 2 ) the supplier was a hire purchase company , not a dealer , and had never had possession of or inspected the car . |
| 11 | But the controls are complex because the machine is immensely powerful . |
| 12 | Furthermore , the process may be unpredictable as far as individual yields are concerned because the movement in the prices of financial assets is subject to the variable and uncertain expectations of the market . |
| 13 | They are angry because the site is a greenfield open space . |
| 14 | Translation here must be indeterminate because no amount of evidence will guarantee that the translation we offer will be uniquely correct . |
| 15 | The slower children will be disadvantaged because the work offered is too difficult ; the more able children will be disadvantaged because the challenge that school should offer them has disappeared . |
| 16 | The slower children will be disadvantaged because the work offered is too difficult ; the more able children will be disadvantaged because the challenge that school should offer them has disappeared . |
| 17 | ( e ) As we have seen , an intention to repay or substitute may be dishonest because the defendant can not replace the very thing taken , yet if he intends to return the property itself , he is not guilty of theft because he does not have the intention permanently to deprive . |
| 18 | There must always be the fear that , however good a writer may be involved , the depiction of mental handicap will be unrealistic because the writer will have no real understanding about the subject . |
| 19 | Hence even a specific target , say " price to cover average costs ' , can be met in many ways , because average costs may be high because the firm is relatively inefficient , or low because it is relatively efficient . |
| 20 | Many GIS users assume , perhaps subconsciously , that data quality and reliability must be high because the technology used to manipulate them is sophisticated . |
| 21 | will be different because every work record and experience is different . |
| 22 | The secretory response of gastric acid to pure ethanol and alcoholic beverages may be different because the action of the non-ethanolic contents of the beverage may overwhelm that of ethanol . |
| 23 | When the radio is playing , they think to themselves that nothing serious can be wrong because the background noise is still there and it reassures them . ’ |
| 24 | I was supposed to be interested because the chap had sometimes been here doing electrical repairs . |
| 25 | Such a hypothetical difference would be tiny because the electron mass is only th of the nucleon mass . |
| 26 | ‘ This basis may not be appropriate because the group incurred a loss after taxation and extraordinary items of £1,616,249 during the year ended 31 March 1992 and at that date its current liabilities exceeded its current assets by £6,870,214 and the net deficit was £679,853 . ’ |
| 27 | Books can be dangerous because the reading and writing of them involves us in an exercise of intellectual freedom . |
| 28 | The place was supposed to be dangerous because the path was too narrow between the gorse bushes and the edge : it stood to reason , she stumbled over in the wind . |
| 29 | The overall effect on sensitivity may actually be negative because the focusing of attention on redundant information may be at the cost of attention to peripheral information which might have otherwise been useful . |
| 30 | It is necessary first to consider an argument which has throughout been presented by the Attorney-General as decisive ; namely , that the answer to this question must inevitably be negative because the district judge had no power , or no power that he could properly exercise , to do anything other than proceed with the cases assigned to his court , without any regard at all to the pendency of the B.M.F.L. prosecution , destined for committal to the High Court . |