Example sentences of "because it [verb] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a shot worth practising because it takes confidence to know you can hit this shot quite hard and the ball still might not pass the flag . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This practice is condemned by the WHO because it routinises bottle feeding . |
| 4 | Dounreay was chosen because it possesses cable links to the national grid and a suitable coastal site . |
| 5 | Some say this is in fact useful because it keeps people busy at a time when , as we have seen , it is probably too painful to have time on your hands to sit and reflect . |
| 6 | I find newspaper bingo even more repulsive than the cinema-hall type , because it encourages people to read newspapers for the wrong reason . |
| 7 | The practice of providing secondments to education and business is unique in education business liaison because it requires participants to transcend the barriers of classroom or workplace to break out of their normal work pattern behaviour and to learn by direct experience from others ' work settings . |
| 8 | The Church of Ireland rejoined in 1860 , because it lacked funds to continue its own system . |
| 9 | The thinking of politicians for whom education is only important if it helps boost the national economy , and this is important because it helps people enjoy what they want , and this is important because it encourages consumption and thus industry , either goes round in a vicious circle or takes off on an interminable regress . |
| 10 | For much of the nineteenth century this strategy was attractive to local government because it enabled localities to maintain to a large degree their prized autonomy . |
| 11 | This is an essential skill in managing people , because it gets others involved and committed . |
| 12 | This tree was different from the others because it had branches hanging down very low . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is a necessary step if IBM is to remain competitive in networked environments because it enables data to move at the same speed between the CPU and peripherals as it moves over Ethernet . |
| 15 | He asserts cautiously that there is a ‘ possibility that both genetic and environmental influences , and interactions between them , may be important in the causation of mental processes , including awareness ’ and goes on to say that awareness probably has survival value because it enables animals to respond to the complexities of the world in which they behave . |
| 16 | Mountain View , California-based Parallan Computer Inc says it expects its shipments of manufactured products to IBM Corp to fall , because it expects IBM to assume manufacturing responsibilities for the PS/2 Server 295 this year — the jump in its first quarter sales ( see page five ) was primarily down to increased ships to IBM , it said . |
| 17 | The Labour party can not have it both ways : it attacks the system either because it expects people to claim or because it requires a register . |
| 18 | The trouble with fitness is that it leads to mistakes about evolution because it makes people think in terms of qualitative terms . |
| 19 | I do n't like these sockets to be on the front , because it means cables trailing all over the amp ( and there 's so much empty space at the rear ) , although it does save having to crawl around the back before and after the gig . |
| 20 | Hastily he added , ‘ Because it means Laura keeps the kids in better order if there 's a visitor . |
| 21 | It is not helpful because it restricts ability to play with the full face of the bat . |
| 22 | According to yet another study , this one published in the Lancet , red wine in moderation is thought to protect against coronary disease because it contains substances known as phenolic flavonoids . |
| 23 | If the hour and 25 minutes sometimes drags through moments that are spun out for too long , and through some unnecessary tricksiness with the screens , that 's because it seems Lepage has n't yet quite found what he wants Miles Davis and Jean Cocteau to reveal to him . |
| 24 | The conjoint condemnation of enlightened reform from above and a radicalism which derived from doctrines of popular sovereignty was useful because it allowed conservatives to discredit any effort to reform traditional society ; it was possible because the generation of 1760 included pious bureaucrats like Floridablanca , esprits forts like Aranda , and cosmopolitan experts like Olavide ; it was made plausible by the Janus-like face of reform itself . |
| 25 | Despite these encouraging results this technique was not widely adopted because it proved time consuming , generally insensitive , did not localise the neoplastic lesion , and was associated with false positive results . |