Example sentences of "because it [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This last feature is quite a nice touch , because it would enable control over a mono mix of your amp 's signal for monitoring purposes . |
| 2 | I need my dream , I 've got to have it — like I had to have that fairy-and-goblin curtain material when I was about six and I thought I 'd die when Mum said No , we must have the blue flowery material because it would outlast my six-year-old fairy-and-goblin phase . |
| 3 | So construed , section 9(4) would have some effect , because it would prevent a court from ordering a Crown officer or servant to give evidence of the executive branch 's current attitudes or policies , but it would be of very limited scope . |
| 4 | Bona fide NVOCC 's would have no objections to this practice , but bad faith NVOCC 's would oppose it because it would prevent them from issuing their own bills on a ‘ freight prepaid ’ basis after they had obtained ‘ freight collect ’ terms from the actual carriers . |
| 5 | Expressing such views requires courage because it would appear to be taboo to talk about protecting fee income . |
| 6 | And it is true that if , for example , there were a library catering specifically for the mentally retarded , this would be the first to be closed because it would create the greatest publicity . |
| 7 | Lord MacDermott CJ found such an argument surprising because it would create a large loophole in the legislation . |
| 8 | The plan was rejected because it would result in an unacceptable loss of light to the High Altar of the RC Church next door . |
| 9 | Constance was the only adult to whom she would dream of divulging Sam 's plot , since whether Constance approved or not , she would not be difficult about it : clearly , she did not approve , either because the act would be an invasion of property and privacy or because it would land them all in trouble . |
| 10 | He opposed the new clause because it would cover only half of the Scottish bus industry — that half which the Bill will privatise . |
| 11 | I once heard a sermon in which the preacher defended atomic weapons on the ground that Satan would never use them because it would hasten his own destruction ! |
| 12 | The NFU is also against undergrounding because it would disrupt farming during installation , repair and maintenance work . |
| 13 | In order to establish the appropriate conditioned responses ( or expectancies ) during the first stage of training , the subjects would have to attend to and discriminate those features that distinguish A from C and those that distinguish B from C. Any plausible mechanism capable of allowing a subject to do this would also endow the subject with an enhanced ability to discriminate between A and B because it would involve the animal in coming to respond to the distinctive features of each of the three stimuli . |
| 14 | Some specific proposals could be made here , for example ( 1 ) a link between the St Leonard 's cycleway ( see Opportunity No.9 ) and the east end of the Meadows cycle route — eg via a suitably traffic-calmed Montague St. ; ( 2 ) a link from the West end of the Meadows northward to Princes St. A north-south route through the new developments to the west of Lothian Road is not suitable ( for this purpose ) because it would involve too long a deviation and the crossing of major roads . |
| 15 | He accepted that the introduction of a night sleeper was something which could n't be contemplated in their present accommodation because it would involve the carer sleeping in the same room as the plaintiff . |
| 16 | Canada was valued because it would bring peace and security to the American colonies and would allow them to continue to increase their imports of British goods in a much more tranquil continent . |
| 17 | If the registration service was erm , asked to ma to reduce its budgets for ninety four , five and future years , by twenty thousand , it could do it in to three , four , five because it would bring forward twenty thousand pounds worth of carry forwards . |
| 18 | This kind of teaching , it was argued , implicitly if not explicitly , was unacceptable because it would lead to an undermining of loyalty to the nation and government in minds too tender truly to comprehend the import of what was happening to them . |
| 19 | The CDP has hitherto resisted such a proposal on the grounds that it would represent direct competition with university applicants who might thereby fail to see the polytechnics as a clear alternative and because it would restrict student choice to a limited number of institutions . |
| 20 | You would , of course , not be likely to select a sequence just because it would stand on its own . |
| 21 | In the meantime , oxygen could not have accumulated at this early stage ( without biological help ) because it would absorb the same ultraviolet rays . |
| 22 | They say it would be cheaper because it would avoid the difficult tunnelling terrain of waterlogged sand and gravel which has prevented the building of Tube lines to much of south London . |
| 23 | ‘ The morality of the one has determined the morality of the other and the disestablishment of the Church could save the monarchy because it would avoid embarrassment . ’ |
| 24 | About half the remainder had firm reasons for preferring cash to credit at least in this instance — because it was cheaper , or because it would avoid a chain of later bills , for example . |
| 25 | The Commission argued that this was the best system because it would avoid both tax evasion and double taxation . |
| 26 | The court held that this was a breach of the Convention guarantee of free speech , because it would deter journalists from contributing to public discussions of issues affecting the life of the community : " The limits of acceptable criticism are wider as regards a politician as such than as regards a private individual … the former inevitably and knowingly lays himself open to close scrutiny of his every word and deed by both journalists and the public at large , and he must consequently display a greater degree of tolerance . " |
| 27 | Tory loyalists argue that the Peyton amendment would jeopardize this sort of competition , because it would deter enterprising B R managers from leaving the public sector to stage management buy-outs . |
| 28 | He enjoyed a good relationship with Acheson and it suited both men for Dulles to be closely involved in policy formulation : Acheson because it would diminish at least some of the acrimony in Congress and Dulles because he wished to consolidate his record so that he could become Secretary of State in the next Republican administration . |
| 29 | This is partly because it began trying to sell to government schools only a year ago , and partly because it would prefer not to give its machines away . |
| 30 | The US has been trying for a decade to clinch the deal , not least because it would give its nuclear forces control of what is seen as the strategically vital Pacific zone and a new set of options if its Philippine naval and air bases are threatened . |