Example sentences of "because [pers pn] is the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Letting the woman have responsibility to decide what to do with herself should be allowed because she is the person who knows most about the situation she is in — many of the Catholic Church 's leaders are male and have not experienced the disturbing and difficult situations many women face . |
| 2 | I think that a possible abortion should be consulted with a Family Planning Officer and doctors before a decision is reached but it should be the woman 's final choice because she is the person responsible for herself and child . |
| 3 | Is it just because everyone else does , because she is the kind of person that people ask to parties , because her name inscribes itself by automatic writing on guest lists ? |
| 4 | ‘ There was no question of her getting preferential treatment because she is the Secretary of State 's mother . |
| 5 | This is quite appropriate because he is the Emperor of Turkey , and a mighty one at that . |
| 6 | Because it is the guarantee of the most important freedom , the freedom of expression and representation of opinion , political democracy ought to have come first . |
| 7 | This is because it is only the school and its daily managers who can assess what it can afford — and what it has to afford — to do in terms of staff time and money and because it is the school which has , in the end , to initiate any assessment of the type of community assistance which will provide its partners with the benefits they seek . |
| 8 | It almost goes without saying that in contemporary society a certain amount of money is an important human requirement , not necessarily for its own sake ( though that may also be the case ) , but because it is the wherewithal for other requirements . |
| 9 | For one thing , it is misleading to quote any definite power for a telescope , because it is the eyepiece which determines the magnification . |
| 10 | It 's the kind of endorsement superstars never give while selling their movies , something said because it is the concern at the top of Connery 's mind . |
| 11 | ‘ This car is like my nephew , ’ he said , ‘ because it is the daughter of my sons . ’ |
| 12 | Because it is the hub of so many activities , Edinburgh has excellent communications . |
| 13 | Do n't make the mistake of thinking of your machine 's case as the most important part of the machine just because it is the bit that you see most of ! |
| 14 | To officials and apparatchiks obsessed with this legacy of backwardness , the West is advanced because it is the West , not because it is capitalist . |
| 15 | And because it is the tradition , it all seems at once brisker and more tender , easier and less crucial than in the outside world : though this may be an error ; the easiness might be an art too . |
| 16 | My reason for not having done it myself and my father 's reasons for not having done it with the National Gallery is that , in the case of Yale , I 'm looking forward to the day when there 'll be other people interested in English art who will give paintings or money to the Center for British Art just because it is the Center for British Art , where they would n't do it if it was the Paul Mellon Center for British Art . |
| 17 | This passage from Turnbull & Co. v. Duval is important because it is the foundation stone on which the ‘ agency ’ approach adopted by the recent cases has been built . |
| 18 | The difference is defined as total factor productivity ( TFP ) because it is the change in output resulting from changes in the way in which quantities of capital and labour are employed and not from changes in the quantities themselves . |
| 19 | It is the one because it is the other , he wrote . |
| 20 | The film covers only the first two-thirds of the book but is dramatically more satisfying because it is the story of Tom Joad 's political awakening . |
| 21 | So I welcome Neeme Jarvi 's interpretation of Mahler 's Fourth Symphony with the Royal Scottish Orchestra because it is the work of a conductor who has looked closely at the score and not been afraid to give full personal rein to what he found there . |
| 22 | " Five Waters " makes a subtle and indirect comment on the nuclear influence in the Pacific Ocean , and has especial resonance because it is the work of a New Zealand artist . |
| 23 | When countries lose their competitive edge , manufacturing is hit hardest because it is the part of the economy most vulnerable to international competition ( it is hard to import haircuts or dry-cleaners ) . |
| 24 | Because it is the convention that second reading is concerned only with general principle of the bill , textual amendments are not allowed to be proposed at this stage . |
| 25 | Like Brillat-Savarin 's famous fondue and the fonduta of Piedmont , the fondue of Franche-Comté is really a cream of eggs and cheese ( not , be it noted , scrambled eggs and cheese ) and has been rejected , I fancy , as being unauthentic either because it is more difficult to cook correctly than the Swiss version or because it is the cheese purveyors rather than the egg-marketeers who have been on the job . |
| 26 | Because it is the celebration of a relationship , this physical vulnerability functions best on a foundation of psychological and spiritual vulnerability . |
| 27 | If in a subsequent Act Parliament chooses to make it plain that the earlier statute is being to some extent repealed , effect must be given to that intention just because it is the will of the Legislature . |
| 28 | In these situations it is the contractual foundation which is all important because it is the contract that regulates the basic rights and liabilities of the parties . |
| 29 | This is no doubt because it is the Government which would , on the hypothesis that section 47 was invalid because inconsistent with article 30 , have failed to take the necessary steps to ensure that section 47 was amended or repealed as necessary . |
| 30 | I must read the letter , written by Dr. Beer on behalf of the practice , because it is the crux and the purpose of the debate : ’ The Right Hon. Jeremy Thorpe recently underwent a new and innovative neurosurgical operation carried out by Professor Hitchcock , Consultant Neurosurgeon at the Midland Centre for Neurosurgery and Neurology , Nottingham , as a National Health Service patient . |