Example sentences of "because it [verb] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swessex , a bastard county created by the iniquitous reorganization of local government in the early ‘ seventies , comprised one and a half old counties knocked together because it looked neater that way . |
| 2 | The BBC says it chose Stewart Park , Middlesbrough , for a Bank Holiday special because it offered better car parking than parks in Stockton , while Stockton did not have an auditorium to compare with the size of Middlesbrough Town Hall . |
| 3 | He explained to me that it must be stronger because it contained stronger bonds and more of them than any previous material . |
| 4 | Because it gets better with the " spiritual " treatment of Alcoholics or Narcotics Anonymous . |
| 5 | It is also a particularly useful structure because it allows further information to be stored at the nodes . |
| 6 | We have adopted it because it gives greater strength and dignity and fullness to the design . |
| 7 | I think it er , on reflection I think er I would discourage members from having a three-way table show I like the , the one-off you know , one against one because it works better |
| 8 | APT is impressive , not least because it comes nearer than any rival to retaining essential qualities of open outcry , a feat unmatched by American exchanges which profess the greatest attachment to traditional trading . |
| 9 | I prefer white bread myself , because it makes better toast , but I always get a brown sliced for the cat which likes a little bit of butter with it . |
| 10 | In other words , to give , to the question , ‘ Why , on looking at the horizontal moon , would you believe it to be larger than the meridian moon if you had no reason to think otherwise ? ’ the answer , ‘ Because it appears larger ’ , is , if it means ‘ Because I perceive it as larger ’ to give no answer at all . |
| 11 | ‘ I do not like the law change because it puts greater pressure on referees , who now have more power than ever . |
| 12 | Despite some significant developments by BBC and Marconi engineers , the system still did not give better quality than 78rpm discs ; it only succeeded because it gave longer running-time , and it had lower running-costs because the tape could be magnetically erased and reused . |
| 13 | Because it appeared tougher , the second decree encouraged the TNCs to develop even more defences to protect their interests . |
| 14 | That is the quantity of extra resources that a competitive industry would use because it has higher average and marginal costs . |
| 15 | The government of the day will often let it be known to one of its aspiring party members that it would greatly welcome his ballot victory to promote a particular piece of legislation which it , the Government , does not wish to devote its own time to , either because of its controversial nature or simply because it has better things to do . |