Example sentences of "because it [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd like to skip over this decision because it wakes me up in a sweat fairly often . |
| 2 | I do n't need an alarm clock because it wakes you up . |
| 3 | I find it very depressing because it takes me away from the constructive side of the business and into being a sort of financial PR and being defensive . |
| 4 | I , when , when we go down to playschool I walk but because it takes what fifteen minutes to walk into town I put him in the pushchair |
| 5 | ‘ We need him as president because it takes him off the streets , ’ said his close pal , David Leopoulis . |
| 6 | I do n't like to read because it takes my mind off myself . |
| 7 | You might wish to counter that because it takes you longer to go a smaller distance . |
| 8 | Risk is costly to individuals because it reduces their utility . |
| 9 | He had found that even in Britain , where officials tended to be dismissive of the idea of a plan , people from private industry were receptive when he explained the Netherlands ' plan at a meeting : ‘ They said , ‘ Yes , we should like such a plan because it reduces our uncertainty . |
| 10 | Because it obliges you to sit down and make a careful observation of the chosen subject , you discover so much more than by just pointing a camera . |
| 11 | This bird is so named because it incubates its eggs in a mound of rotting vegetation . |
| 12 | Literature is based on ‘ the very plurality of meanings ’ ( 1966 : 50 ) ; or , put in a slightly different way which nicely reverses an old critical saw , ‘ a work is ‘ eternal ’ , not because it imposes one meaning on different men , but because it suggests different meanings to one man' ( p.51 ) . |
| 13 | A technical problem such as this raises interesting methodological questions , because it forces one to ask which style of research is better suited to overcoming respondents ' resistance and suspicion , especially when talking about sensitive and controversial topics . |
| 14 | Politicians are wary of doing this , of course , because it forces them to accept their proper share of responsibility for the present state of anomie . |
| 15 | It is effective against the evolution-plus-natural-selection myth , because it forces us to reconstruct the narrative of his subsequent theorizing not as so many unknowing steps towards his final positions , but as so many deliberate departures from positions initially shared with his mentor . |
| 16 | Rewording is a worthwhile exercise because it forces you to come to terms with language . |
| 17 | This marketing approach to products has been beneficial for the consumer because it determines what a company will sell based on what the consumer wants , or the market place is ready to discover and buy , rather than on hope and guesswork . |
| 18 | We may shun involvement with other people because it threatens our identity , and so we remain aloof . |
| 19 | Erm internment erm I think is always a very dangerous option , because it presupposes there is no political solution . |
| 20 | Duran reckons that the Institute adds value to Microsoft 's business because it receives its products first and understands its philosophy and strategy best . |
| 21 | And because it keeps them busy … |
| 22 | I 've got , I mean I 've got my spots where I park it , I , it at Woolworth 's and outside the post office because it keeps it dry . |
| 23 | I tend not to tell people a song is n't about them because it disappoints them . |
| 24 | Sir , — I was relieved to read Mr Marshall 's letter ‘ Keep the audit , save the practice ’ , ( ACCOUNTANCY , January , p 6 ) because it tells me that there are others who share my fears for the small practitioner . |
| 25 | The simplicity , though , is deceiving because it tells you little about the developmental performance leading to the strongly and reliably determined patterns of differentiation and spatial organisation of the animal . |
| 26 | If I knew that policeman better , the one I met at the bus stop , she thought , I 'd be tempted to tell him , because it tells you how Rose felt about her son . |
| 27 | This was a very important speech in developing the plot of the play because it tells you much more about the slightly muddled character of Brutus and his reason for killing Caesar ( to help the public ) . |
| 28 | Poulantzas ' reply to this criticism is instructive , partly because it tells us more about pertinent effects themselves , but also because it casts light on his general approach . |
| 29 | Integrity expands and deepens the role individual citizens can play in developing the public standards of their community because it requires them to treat relations among themselves as characteristically , not just spasmodically , governed by these standards . |
| 30 | The writ is called a subpoena , because it requires him to appear upon pain of forfeiting a sum of money . |