Example sentences of "because it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He chose a child as his lover because it fed that ego ; he lost her because he never cottoned on to the fact that children are children , no matter how grown-up they might appear . |
| 2 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 3 | It does n't , sometimes it goes more slowly sometimes it goes more quickly , sometimes it stops but because it takes two hours to do the hundred miles we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 4 | Particularly if dissimilar investments with different time scales are in competition for funds , the NPV method has merit in the general case , because it takes these factors into account . |
| 5 | particularly if dissimilar investments with different time scales are in competition for funds , the NPV method has merit in the general case , because it takes these factors into account . |
| 6 | And because it takes several months , and often a year or more , before a lender seeks to repossess , the 1991 repossession figures reflect the interest rates charged in 1990 . |
| 7 | The force within can also be manipulated through … Dieting , in which you are discouraged from eating meat because it provokes unhelpful vibrations and produces what might be called static interference in meditation . |
| 8 | She believes that the more placid Protestant religion to which she belongs is infinitely better , because it provokes fewer emotions , but calms the soul . |
| 9 | Learning linguistic terminology is enabling , because it forms one part of children 's growing vocabulary and thinking . |
| 10 | Salamanca Old Cathedral , so-called because it forms one unit with the much larger New Cathedral , was built in 1120 78 ( Vol . |
| 11 | Volatile solvent extraction is employed a great deal in the perfume industry because it produces superb fragrances which are truer to the aroma found in the living plant . |
| 12 | A simple unipolar drive circuit — so-called because it produces unidirectional currents suitable for use with a variable -reluctance type motor is discussed in Section 2.2 . |
| 13 | The pancreas is vital for digesting food , because it produces digestive enzymes as well as the hormone insulin . |
| 14 | But the potency with which c-Myc induces apoptosis suggests that deregulated c-Myc expression by itself is likely to be lethal because it kills any cell that encounters growth-limiting conditions , an almost invariable outcome in vivo . |
| 15 | Practical English Usage is invaluable because it solves many problems which are frequently not dealt with in coursebooks . |
| 16 | It did not worry about women 's invisibility precisely because it accepted prevailing views that politics should be left to men , that the proper forum for female participation is inevitably the family and that the main function of the politically competent woman is to socialise the children and to filter the needs of home and family into the political system . |
| 17 | It might be thought that the ideal of protected expectation is a distinctly democratic ideal , because it proposes that coercion be used only when authorized by procedures to which the people have consented . |
| 18 | It also gives a more useful reduction because it guarantees lexical output . |
| 19 | The borough argued that the leaflet was misleading because it omitted all references to the joint liability of spouses and cohabiting couples . |
| 20 | Now we 're told to , you know , beware of having too much fats , too much milk , too much this , that and the other because it creates all sorts of what 's the truth ? |
| 21 | It ‘ is more dynamic , not in the sense that it expresses movement ( which a noun can also express ) but because it creates more activity between the words of the sentence in which it is used ’ ( 1955a:75 ) . |
| 22 | The climate has this moderating power because it influences organizational processes such as communications , problem-solving , decision-making and the psychological processes of learning and motivation . |
| 23 | This model differs from the public law model because it presupposes separate spheres of operation for regulatory rules and " ordinary " law . |
| 24 | We are still languishing in the Edwardian era , when our great British Women 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore long flannels … when the bulk of entrants at Wimbledon were British because it took six weeks to cross the Atlantic , and another six to reach Australia ! |
| 25 | The defendant garage was liable in damages because it took eight weeks to repair a motor vehicle when a normally competent garage would have taken about five weeks . |
| 26 | They 'd spent part of the morning carrying boxes of some sort from one hut to another , apparently fairly heavy boxes , because it took both men to carry them . |
| 27 | The melee was extraordinary , because it took some time for Hunt to realize that he was world champion . |
| 28 | But Night Trap could not be exempted because it depicted violent actions involving realistic images of human beings rather than straightforward computer graphics . |
| 29 | The lysosome is called a ‘ suicide bag ’ said Prof Mayer , not only because it digests any waste materials by the use of powerful enzymes but also because this cocktail can kill off the cell . |
| 30 | Psychological empowerment is broader than a pure intrapsychic variable because it measures individual change within one 's social setting , such as one 's belief in one 's ability to act for community change , and one 's belief in the value of group action ( Chavis and Wandersman , 1990 ; Zimmerman , 1990 ) . |