Example sentences of "because it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | On the whole speculation is frowned upon because it sometimes drives prices up in a monopolistic fashion ( through the cornering of some market ) and because it creates volatility ; yet where the speculator is a skilled trader in risks he is part of the system . |
| 32 | According to mediation theory , discrimination training produces distinctiveness because it establishes A-X and B-Y associations . |
| 33 | I enjoyed doing this because it took people by surprise . |
| 34 | Because it took anthropomorphism to the nth degree , Mr Lendrem 's conclusions may be summarised as follows : ( 1 ) When ducks sleep they close their eyes . |
| 35 | It was the finest adventure of all , because it took place in the known world of childhood and , at the same time , released the child from the bondage of illness , old age and the death that adults died . |
| 36 | Manchester/Liverpool rivalry aside , the meeting was important because it took place in a magazine which is a vehicle for the Spandaus , Durans and Marilyns of this world to say ‘ Hey look at me . |
| 37 | In sharing the Reds ' upset win in that national trial he proved a bit of success as a distributor and made two scorching breaks which hinted at a swashbuckling touch to his nature : ‘ I was very keen to make a good impression in the trial because it took place a week after my ‘ B ’ debut against Ireland and I wanted to make up for two particular errors in that game . |
| 38 | It says it faces problems because it receives money for average rather than actual salaries . |
| 39 | Although initially withheld because it depicted conditions of extreme deprivation , the Commission 's report was nonetheless instrumental in the decision , taken at Montego Bay in 1947 , that the West Indies , under a federal system of government , should be guided toward Dominion-hood . |
| 40 | Unionist control of local government was resented because it represented minority control and the resentment was kept alive by accusations of discrimination in the allocation of council jobs and housing . |
| 41 | Franco reacted in this way not because Yagüe 's attitude posed any real threat to his position , but because it represented indiscipline . |
| 42 | Some say this is in fact useful because it keeps people busy at a time when , as we have seen , it is probably too painful to have time on your hands to sit and reflect . |
| 43 | DRDA is also slower at processing multiple calls because it uses IBM 's own synchronous networking protocol , LU6.2 . |
| 44 | DRDA is also slower at processing multiple calls because it uses IBM 's own synchronous networking protocol , LU6.2 . |
| 45 | Familiarity can also encourage a mutual sense of trust which enhances the officer 's capacity to detect and control because it encourages self-reporting of deviance . |
| 46 | The bubble policy is efficient because it encourages equalization of the marginal cost of cutting back pollution at different plants within the firm . |
| 47 | The thinking of politicians for whom education is only important if it helps boost the national economy , and this is important because it helps people enjoy what they want , and this is important because it encourages consumption and thus industry , either goes round in a vicious circle or takes off on an interminable regress . |
| 48 | I find newspaper bingo even more repulsive than the cinema-hall type , because it encourages people to read newspapers for the wrong reason . |
| 49 | The practice of providing secondments to education and business is unique in education business liaison because it requires participants to transcend the barriers of classroom or workplace to break out of their normal work pattern behaviour and to learn by direct experience from others ' work settings . |
| 50 | Negatively this principle denies that comprehensive rationality is possible , because it requires information processing and computation capacities only possible of God rather than mortals ( Simon 1957a , p. 3 ) . |
| 51 | This is when two people should begin the real act of loving , but they rarely do because it requires effort and commitment . |
| 52 | To some extent the spending was diversionary because it deflected attention from the cuts that were occurring in the orthodox funding mechanisms for current and capital expenditure . |
| 53 | However , because it groups entries alphabtically according to the areas of responsibility given to particular topic editors , it can be slightly confusing . |
| 54 | Many other desiderata of the socialist revolution came into the same category , but women 's education was of particular interest because it ran counter to widespread expectations shared by most men and probably most women . |
| 55 | For example , the vole Clethrionomys glareolus is under-represented in buzzard pellet assemblages because it favours microhabitats with thick vegetation while the buzzard concentrates on the more open parts of the environment ( Append . |
| 56 | Gainsharing is COHSE 's favoured option if PRP is introduced ‘ because it recognises team work and would be easier to monitor ’ — but the union has strong reservations . |
| 57 | In the bad old days of low-carbohydrate diets , many people did , indeed , imagine that those saintly ‘ protein foods ’ were calorie-free — I have even known poor souls pouring down vastly fattening cream under the mistaken impression that it was calorie-free because it lacked carbohydrate ! |
| 58 | He ( among others ) perceived adolescent labour as an obstacle to efficiency not only because it lacked knowledge of employment opportunities and the ability to distinguish between the merits of different occupations , but also because its inherent ‘ adaptability ’ was ‘ wasted ’ ( always a key notion in National Efficiency circles ) by the ‘ haphazard ’ nature of the transition which left too many youths in dead-end jobs and failed to enrol them in any form of further education . |
| 59 | The Church of Ireland rejoined in 1860 , because it lacked funds to continue its own system . |
| 60 | Precisely because it lacked access to captive overseas markets for cheap raw materials and for the sale of manufactured goods , the German economy had been forced into developing high-quality competitive produce for cut-throat international markets . |