Example sentences of "because it [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Backing up your data is vital , so book a lunch date if you choose level two , because it takes about one minute per megabyte of hard disk space to set up . |
| 2 | Will the Secretary of State answer that question truthfully because it strikes at the very heart of democracy ? |
| 3 | That is because it touches on many aspects of life that are deeply important to us : |
| 4 | This is an enormous area to consider briefly because it touches on the central issue of what is sometimes called ‘ the second industrial revolution ’ and , more precisely , on the relationship between labour and technological change . |
| 5 | I mean it 's not anything like as dramatic as that , but it 's , because it fluctuates in different quarters in the area , in different towns . |
| 6 | One proposal is to take a 2-kg piece of tellurium and leave this for a year ; tellurium is chosen because it transmutes into xenon , which is unreactive and relatively easy to detect . |
| 7 | The Open Software Foundation Research Company , which does advanced development of things like the microkernel , is apparently left unscathed because it operates on a different funding model . |
| 8 | The OSF Research Company , which does advanced development like the microkernel , is apparently unscathed because it operates on a different funding model . |
| 9 | Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning , probably because it smacks of divine intervention . |
| 10 | Thus free enterprise — the pursuit of fair profit , the generator of wealth and employment , the backbone on which social welfare is possible — can be viewed , at least by corporate officials , as the primary ethic for and of an industrial society , and conformity to this neutralizes any obedience to the law merely because it happens to be the law . |
| 11 | is that traffic calming or is it town centre enhancement because it happens to be in the middle of the towns . |
| 12 | Because it happens to be en route |
| 13 | Or in fact you go to London because it happens to be in reverse |
| 14 | So you know do you get all the credit for it , because it happens in institutions in your division ? |
| 15 | In the case of the Middle East , however , Hurd 's proposed new system will almost certainly be unworkable because it suffers from a set of internal contradictions . |
| 16 | But then it does go into that side , because it goes into |
| 17 | I 've had erm on two separate Sundays I 've had volunteers to come and help but and my son-in-law made a silt trap , and the Water Board erm made the sluice gate , because it goes into their stream , and it was part of their responsibility . |
| 18 | He says that the bid is hostile because it goes over the heads of the directors . |
| 19 | Poetry is provocative because it goes beyond prose which is descriptive . |
| 20 | Liz and her family love colour , although she admits that she gets into a rut buying navy and black ‘ because it goes with everything ’ . |
| 21 | Justification by faith , similarly , is important only because it goes to the heart of what it is to be a follower of Christ . |
| 22 | Then to differentiate the whole lot because it goes to cos . |
| 23 | Firstly , because it goes against its grain : women always have to find their own way to where they 're going . |
| 24 | Traditional teaching of English literature has been attacked because it creates in the pupil a mood of passivity , an instinctive submission to authority . |
| 25 | Other arts play their part ( film and theatre , for example ) but reading , because it involves the self in such an intimate and exposing way , and because it penetrates to and engages our unconscious , is particularly potent . |
| 26 | Because it reproduces inside another cell in this parasitic way , erm , it does n't have to find a mate or even bother to split in half to reproduce by asexual means . |
| 27 | This hooking action is important because it interferes with the opponent 's attempts to free his arm and keeps him closed off for a longer period . |
| 28 | Both high income commuters and lower income residents may resent development of this kind : the one because it interferes with their fantasy of the rural life , and the other because it pushes up house prices without providing any new job opportunities . |
| 29 | ‘ Why , because it interferes with your revenge theme ? |
| 30 | As we shall see , a gene may increase in frequency not because it increases the fitness of its carrier but because it associates with other genes that do , or even because it is in a sense parasitic on other genes . |