Example sentences of "because it [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the olive-branch , modern languages have derived a synonym for ‘ peace ’ ; the reason is that the olive is the product par excellence of peaceful cultivation , because it takes fifteen to twenty years to mature , and the destruction of olives was always the first task of an invading army . |
| 2 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 3 | It does n't , sometimes it goes more slowly sometimes it goes more quickly , sometimes it stops but because it takes two hours to do the hundred miles we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 4 | Learning linguistic terminology is enabling , because it forms one part of children 's growing vocabulary and thinking . |
| 5 | Salamanca Old Cathedral , so-called because it forms one unit with the much larger New Cathedral , was built in 1120 78 ( Vol . |
| 6 | We are still languishing in the Edwardian era , when our great British Women 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore long flannels … when the bulk of entrants at Wimbledon were British because it took six weeks to cross the Atlantic , and another six to reach Australia ! |
| 7 | The defendant garage was liable in damages because it took eight weeks to repair a motor vehicle when a normally competent garage would have taken about five weeks . |
| 8 | Perhaps , they argue , it is because it suffered two sudden floods in quick succession at a time of year — summer — when the invertebrate populations are least adapted to cope . |
| 9 | A curious mixture of shade , energy and colour , it transcended most of the other material on the album because it contained one of the group 's main strengths — a great chorus . |
| 10 | Provisions in the General Revenue Act of 1992 to make deductible against tax the current value of both tangible and intangible property donated to a non-profit organisation ( for example , a painting to a museum or shares to a hospital ) rather than their value at acquisition failed along with the whole bill when it was vetoed by President Bush last month because it contained forty tax increases . |
| 11 | In each of these cases the behaviour falls short of some natural notion of full cooperation , because it violates one or another of the non-verbal analogues of the maxims of conversation . |
| 12 | This process is particularly interesting because it involves two types of irreversible physicochemical changes ( problems in a general subject area that has recently seen the award of the Nobel Prize for physics to Pierre-Gilles de Gennes ) . |
| 13 | Professional Footballers ' Association spokesman Brendan Batson said : ‘ Paul spoke to us following his injury , but because it involves two members of our association we have to adopt a neutral position . |
| 14 | It is a relevant example because it involves one of the most searing of twentieth-century experiences , replete with both personal and broader political consequences , and it has recently been in the news . |
| 15 | A reverse takeover offer is , at first sight , curious , because it involves one company taking over another company with much larger resources . |
| 16 | Is a Van Gogh painting not art because it fetches millions at Sotheby 's ? |
| 17 | ‘ It 's also educational it depicts the elements and wildlife and functional , because it includes three carved benches . ’ |
| 18 | A SNOOTY hospice lost a £1,250 gift for its sick kids — because it banned three bikers . |
| 19 | But I 'm glad to know there are several families living near , because it gives one more scope , does n't it ? ’ |
| 20 | At the moment the synthetic wood is two to three times more expensive than natural wood , but Collins and Aikman believes that the product can nevertheless be competitive because of the savings on incineration or dumping costs and because it lasts three to five times longer than wood . |
| 21 | Because it costs two and a half times as much to collect as the money that is received . |
| 22 | It is doubly unfair because it hits thousands of workers who are earning less than the average industrial wage . |
| 23 | All I was told is that you 're getting twelve months guarantee , but you 've got to have a three thousand mile service , and as the gentleman said erm I recorded the deliveries and sent them all back and on the third one , when I took it in I asked if they 'd put a new set of points in for me and erm unfortunately when it came out there was no compression at all and because because I it was suggested that I dug my heels in a bit and got an independent report and erm basically they told me to get lost because it cost fifty pound to do the report . |
| 24 | He said the Budget was anti-poor and anti-Scottish because it cost 30 per cent more to heat homes in some parts of Scotland than the south-east of England . |
| 25 | Space is limited and the only other tank I have is a 21″ cube and I ca n't put him in there because it contains two small G. jurupari , a pair of G. brasiliensis , a pair each of Crenicara filamentosa , Cichlasoma sajica and Butterfly Rams , and an Ancistrus . |
| 26 | This is a complex table , because it contains four variables ; work through the effect of each explanatory variable systematically , looking at the relevant marginal relationships as well . |
| 27 | In my view it is just as vital not to ignore Marxist work because it contains one inadequate generalization , as it is not to ignore pluralist work because it is based on an idealized view of liberal democracy in Japan . |
| 28 | This body , because it contains fifty thousand million million tons of sodium chloride and similarly massive quantities of other dissolved salts , is undrinkable by most living creatures , but in scores of other ways is central — vital , indeed — to the existence of all life . |
| 29 | Piaget 's work is important because it provided one of the first developmental accounts of the emergence of logical thought . |
| 30 | Belfast Telegraph Plan 82 could fit the bill because it covers 20 selections with a fine guarantee of at least seven 1-1 draws together if eight of your 20 selections end as 1-1 draws . |