Example sentences of "because [art] [noun sg] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An exception is made in this instance because the policeman 's task in maintaining law and order exposes him to a greater risk of attack than other members of the public . |
| 2 | The overall aims of the work were achieved because the girl 's development picked up , the boy 's behaviour was better understood , and the mother 's confidence improved . |
| 3 | I only knew something of all this because the girl 's mother kept in touch with me occasionally through innocent looking postcards and just the one phone call put through to our telephone me when her husband died in 1986 . |
| 4 | Angel explained that he did not in fact wish to enter the Church like his brothers , because the Church 's views were too strict and did not allow free thinking . |
| 5 | They 'd been out of action because the church 's spire was too weak to support them . |
| 6 | The negative externality in this case arises either because the market rewards only those who are first ( rather than rewarding films on the basis of their R&D inputs ) , or because the market rewards product innovations which cannibalize existing products ( rewarding the innovator at the expense of rivals rather than because the innovator 's efforts have expanded the market ) . |
| 7 | In contrast to the Fife project with its one reed species , diversity of plants and animals here is intentional ; the variety provides a buffer against unpredicted changes in the waste-stream , a check against the overproduction of any one constituent of the wetland , and — because the system 's make-up is allowed to change — a means of continually testing refinements not anticipated in the original biological analysis . |
| 8 | But in fact it was the docking crew as a whole who were at fault , because the platform 's progress towards the support cradle should have been halted as soon as it passed completely through the field , so that earthing and other safety procedures could be instigated . |
| 9 | ‘ Because the bastard 's mad ! ’ |
| 10 | These can be disappointing because the camcorder 's auto-exposure system , in opening up the lens aperture to maximise the average brightness of the shot , will probably record the coloured lights as colourless points of light . |
| 11 | That was Henry VIII and he wrote it because the King 's daughter , Princess Elizabeth , was getting married . |
| 12 | ‘ There were no sheep in the king 's gardens , ’ explained the bachelor , ‘ because the king 's mother had once had a dream . |
| 13 | This may be because the GP 's previous contact with the family facilitated such contact or that a balance to the GP 's assessment was sought . |
| 14 | But population data are regarded as primary data because the Registrar-General 's department , as a single entity , collects and analyses the information . |
| 15 | The putative father of a boy of two was ‘ banned ’ by a High Court judge from seeing his child ‘ grow up ’ because the boy 's mother planned to marry another man and in the words of Mrs Justice Heilbron ‘ The boy might suffer emotional upheaval by having two fathers ’ ( The Times , 23 March 1988 , p. 3 ) . |
| 16 | These frogs are so-named because the male 's call sounds like " ko-kee " to us , but each frog only hears one syllable . |
| 17 | These arguments were advanced in a case about an architect whose position as the certifier under a building contract is different from the position of a valuer , because the architect 's client is the employer under the building contract , and the employer and the contractor do not instruct the architect jointly . |
| 18 | I ca n't see what Andy 's doing because the man 's body is in the way , but then Andy hits into him , bowling him backwards and he shouts and I wriggle away from them ; I scramble off through the ferns on all fours and then stop and look back and the man 's got Andy , he 's struggling with him , leaning over him , folding him , pressing him down , and Andy 's breathing hard , grunting , trying to break free . |
| 19 | The film was a big success , partly because of its openness about sex ( made possible by the appointment of John Trevelyan to head up the BBFC ) , but also because the hero 's class resentment brought to the surface emotions that British cinema normally repressed . |
| 20 | This is because the shell 's spiral form remains invariant under the transformation of combined rotation and enlargement . |
| 21 | Because the athlete 's heart is so muscular it can pump the same amount of blood with 50 beats per minute that the average heart pumps with 75 beats . |
| 22 | Parliament was , however , peremptorily told by the King not to proceed with the matter , because the Company 's affairs were being dealt with by the Crown . |
| 23 | Because the machine 's speed is reliant upon the whim of its rather dim-witted crew , the player has little control over its speed at all . |
| 24 | Away from machines , such mistakes are rare because the mosquito 's system has a number of safeguards . |
| 25 | Sunbathing is traditionally supposed to help spotty skins because the sun 's drying tendency unblocks greasy pores and encourages quicker cell renewal . |
| 26 | Because the sun 's rotation drove the planets around , the whole system would have come to a gentle halt for the duration of the miracle . |
| 27 | ‘ Masses of hugs and kisses from your silly adoring Tessa , because the sun 's shining , and I know there 'll be a letter from you tomorrow , and because anyway all I want to do is to send you masses of hugs and kisses … ’ |
| 28 | Deep-sea fish and whales have little or no light by day or by night , because the sun 's rays can not penetrate far below the surface . |
| 29 | Then obviously it 's statements to parents and depending on what happens there because the parent 's evening and I 've put |
| 30 | Ma Bell is prepared to pay so much because the firm 's chairman , Robert Allen , is convinced that the computer and telecommunications industries are converging . |