Example sentences of "be [adj] because a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , we do put children off by being rigid because a child , I am sure , does n't see the world in a rigid way . |
| 2 | Yes , we do put children off by being rigid because a child , I am sure , does n't see the world in a rigid way . |
| 3 | Neighbours were concerned because a daughter with a psychiatric history , marital difficulties and debts , had moved in with the old couple . |
| 4 | Well , it is really strange , because I 've done quite a lot of stage work , but it 's funny because a lot of people — even other film actors — do n't know about it . |
| 5 | An accurate drive is crucial because a hook means a certain bogey , or worse . |
| 6 | And this is important because a man might look very well from one side but he might look like a cheese from another , and that would be a distraction . |
| 7 | We believe that this is important because a study of police forces and the way in which they make decisions is essential to an understanding of the role of the law and rights and thus of the distribution of power in societies . |
| 8 | ( A sister carpet to the Ardebil , which is incomplete because a portion of it was used to repair the one in London , is held in the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art . ) |
| 9 | This aspect of assessment is essential because a person 's verbal consciousness is critical for making sense of the world . |
| 10 | Graphemic parsing is necessary because a phoneme is often represented in English by more than one letter ( for example , PH represents one phoneme in ‘ graph ’ , OO represents one phoneme in ‘ boot ’ ) . |
| 11 | Assertion ( 4 ) is falsifiable because a ray of light incident on a mirror at some oblique angle could conceivably be reflected in a direction perpendicular to the mirror . |
| 12 | The assertion that a trust is valid because a testator wants it to be is misleading . |
| 13 | The shaikh was concerned because a man 's arm had been broken ; but the cause of the dispute was the use of government resources to damage the interests of rival lineages . |
| 14 | Astronomers know that the early universe was uniform because a remnant of that period , the cosmic microwave background radiation which bathes the Earth from all directions , is remarkably uniform . |
| 15 | The fuel situation in western Romania was desperate because a lot was being smuggled into Yugoslavia before it even got to the petrol stations . |