Example sentences of "because it [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | That is because it touches on many aspects of life that are deeply important to us : |
2 | She switched to London Weekend because it went on all night and watched another film , then a comedy about a Los Angeles police precinct . |
3 | It was big but it was n't tall because it walked on four feet . |
4 | It is possibly the least effective method of change because it depends on two steps both of which are unnatural . |
5 | Braille is a particularly useful tool for probing predictions from different models because it depends on fine discrimination of raised dot patterns , and a rule system of contractions . |
6 | The centre piece of the act is the onymous toad , unique among the frogs and toads because it has lost the horny pads ( the so-called nuptial pads ) that grow on the male 's hands during the breeding season and because it mates on dry land rather than in water . |
7 | If it succeeds , it will be because it concentrates on achievable tasks . |
8 | In prosecutions for many other crimes , for instance assault , testimony varied more because it built on actual incidents . |
9 | Nevertheless it requires separate assessment , not least because it drew on certain areas of experience not directly dominated by the monarch . |
10 | The stone flew in the air across the surface of the water , skimming as free as a bird but only because it bounced on that surface every now and then and refused to sink at the first contact . |
11 | This approach places a heavy emphasis on the institutions of the state alone ; it describes institutions and institutional relationships in suffocating detail ; and because it focuses on constitutional " law " quite uncritically it tends to see the connections between state and society formally , simply , and legalistically in a way that ignores informal patterns of power in society and economy . |