Example sentences of "because they [verb] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the wing of a bat and the paddle of a porpoise are homologous because they show the same underlying pattern of bones typical of a mammalian forelimb . |
| 2 | The fat men : were they less fat because they were smaller , and so you needed less stomach to appear fat ; or were they more fat , because they developed the same stomachs , but had even less frame to support them ? |
| 3 | One might even extend the idea and talk of semantic parallelism where two sentences are linked because they mean the same thing . |
| 4 | One group of sites could be seen to be more or less contemporary because they produced the same types of tool , while those which produced other types could be shown to be earlier or later in date . |
| 5 | It 's a long-established human set-up , whose name comes from the Old Arcturean quickspeak for ’ family Organization ’ — because they like to affect a patriarchal system and because they demand the same absolute loyalty and devotion that one would show to close kinfolk . |
| 6 | Our own genes cooperate with one another , not because they are our own but because they share the same outlet — sperm or egg — into the future . |
| 7 | Pointing to the way in which poverty structured the lives of the majority of her respondents , she concluded that ‘ young Black women and young white women become pregnant for the same sorts of reasons , and this is because they share the same socio-economic contexts ’ ( Phoenix , 1988a , p. 154 ) . |
| 8 | In practice however it would appear that PGCE courses do resemble each other in many significant ways , no doubt because they have the same ultimate purposes and because the limited time available enforces a focus on fundamental issues leaving little opportunity for additional , idiosyncratic areas of study . |
| 9 | He used it to explain how different chemical compounds may contain the same elements in the same proportions — ‘ isomerism ’ — because their atoms are differently arranged , and how different substances may have the same crystalline form — ‘ isomorphism ’ — because they have the same number of atoms in the same arrangement . |