Example sentences of "because it [verb] [noun] [to-vb] " 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 | I find newspaper bingo even more repulsive than the cinema-hall type , because it encourages people to read newspapers for the wrong reason . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Church of Ireland rejoined in 1860 , because it lacked funds to continue its own system . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is not helpful because it restricts ability to play with the full face of the bat . |
| 13 | 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 . |