Example sentences of "because it [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The council 's findings must be quite damning , because it refuses to tell anyone what they are . |
| 2 | The man who kicks his car because it refuses to start ( and he has not checked the petrol gauge ) is not unlike the toddler who kicks the table for walking into him . |
| 3 | I do not think that Boots ' sponsorship helped the RNA , because it served to shut out the rest of the trade , but now that Boots has withdrawn and a new sponsor is being sought there is an opportunity to boost the award . |
| 4 | Reformers knew that the peasant commune stood in the way of economic diversification in the countryside , but felt that it had to be retained because it served to protect the interests of peasants against those of outsiders . |
| 5 | Obviously this second variant will tend to become common , because it happens to manipulate streams to its own ‘ advantage ’ . |
| 6 | The earth does not spin on its axis for profit , the sun does not shine because it happens to have shares in a household firm . |
| 7 | I know Japan is the country everyone points to , but it is the favourite one because it happens to show all the deficiencies of forecasting and combatting rivalry that are available . |
| 8 | If the incipient spin has progressed for more than about half a turn because the pilot has kept the stick back , applying the full opposite rudder must be a good thing because it helps to stop the rotation and to even up the stalling of the wings . |
| 9 | The mapping out of social classes is valuable initially in providing a broad picture of society , but more importantly because it helps to explain the dynamics of social change . |
| 10 | Methylation is now generally recognised as one way of switching genes off , and is particularly interesting one because it helps to explain a crucial but mystifying fact of multicellular life — the differentiation of the genetically identical cells of an embryo into the many different tissues of the mature organism . |
| 11 | That means so much because it helps to take the pressure off . " |
| 12 | This last convention is invaluable in early training because it helps to stabilise balance during the transfer from one foot to the other and is also valuable in such ballets as Birthday Offering as it echoes the period and style of Glazounov 's music . |
| 13 | Emphasise benefits over features and use a sales vocabulary ( e.g. your production people will like it because it helps to overcome ‘ down time ’ through waiting for the material to set ) . |
| 14 | I think it is sensible to separate his many librettos into categories — not for the sake of ultimate classification , but because it helps to understand the nature of the finished works , in their full musical dress . |
| 15 | It also claims our allegiance because it offers to protect our lives , limbs , and property , although it does little to protect us from predatory corporations . |
| 16 | And because it seeks to arouse , porn eroticises immorality which makes it especially dangerous to those who worry about these things . |
| 17 | The appeal for tolerance by gesturing to lists of Famously Artistic Homosexuals is one of the classic tropes of gay self-justification — it goes ‘ Sappho , Michaelangelo , Shakespeare … and me ’ — and it needs always to be resisted because it seeks to extend contemporary definitions of sexuality back to incorporate historical periods when categorizations of the sexual were quite different . |
| 18 | I support the Bill because it seeks to address a serious problem , but I believe that that problem is greater than it appears to be . |
| 19 | Some of it has been seen as justifiable because it seeks to ensure competition and prevent monopoly . |
| 20 | We are extremely critical of the strategy outlined in draft guidance because it seeks to meet a projected near doubling in aggregates consumption over the 20 year period 1991 to 2011 . |
| 21 | We are extremely critical of the strategy outlined in draft guidance because it seeks to meet a projected near doubling in aggregates consumption over the 20 year period 1991 to 2011 . |
| 22 | As a profession , nursing does not seem to react constructively to change : Keyzer ( 1988 ) argues that we are resisting the introduction of the nursing process because it seeks to alter the control of practice of promoting autonomy among junior nurses and less reliance on the medical model , challenging our social and organisational power structure . |
| 23 | Michael , 45 , who quit boozing because it threatened to wreck his life , has given up another ‘ vice ’ — being too generous . |
| 24 | Sartre had initially been attracted to her work because it seemed to demonstrate his own concern with the inauthenticity of human relationships , yet he would later reject her fiction simply on the basis that her novels are set in an upper-middle-class Parisian milieu . |
| 25 | Choreography cost money , and no-one out front really gave a toss anyway ; but all the same it rankled. because it seemed to say something unignorable about the station he 'd reached in life . |
| 26 | This view angered me because it seemed to judge everything in purely monetary terms . |
| 27 | It was the Second Law of Thermodynamics which gave Victorian intellectuals a certain frisson because it seemed to imply that the world was running down . |
| 28 | This queer way of writing filled me with foreboding , because it seemed to indicate a cold , self-centred nature , the reverse of the outgoing geniality he displayed to one and all . |
| 29 | Ironically , this intervention was felt to be unhelpful to the Prime Minister because it seemed to lend legitimacy to the possibility of a contest in the autumn . |
| 30 | It was a film made some years ago in black and white , but , despite the difficulty of watching it in a foreign language , the power of the drama gripped them both , Sarella because she was a professional and was impressed by the intensity of the acting , and Marc because it seemed to strike some deep chord within him . |