Example sentences of "more [adj] because [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was all the more striking because the boast that he ran his papers just to make money contrasted strongly with the more complex motives , combining profit with politics , that were still typical of the proprietors of the early 1960s . |
| 2 | On the contrary , it was more cohesive because the mixed battalion system overcame the divisive effects of the strong corporatist sense developed by units composed only of one kind of soldier . |
| 3 | This is even more confusing because the predator receives the impression that it is approaching a fish that is swimming straight towards it . |
| 4 | This is made even more possible because the noisy environment impairs communication between people . |
| 5 | Travelling to York , Leeds , Manchester and Liverpool is even more straightforward because the new trains will continue to provide direct through services . |
| 6 | It 's more dangerous because a mammoth was near . |
| 7 | Only a handful of such grants are made each year , and Woodchester Mansion 's success is all the more remarkable because the building was only ever half-finished |
| 8 | The bringing of a criminal accusation was an open act , and its results were much more clear-cut because the punishment , if any , was publicly proclaimed . |
| 9 | Political faction had become far more pervasive because the Reformation raised the temperature of Scottish politics , which now took on a focused European dimension , and because once the strong rule of James V had gone , men without the aura of royalty had to struggle with religious and political problems that they had never experienced before . |
| 10 | Erm sea boundaries are now a bit more complex because the law of the sea has been changing erm over recent decades . |
| 11 | This has been all the more damaging because the costs of CD-I development can be very high indeed . |
| 12 | While siding with the poor is more rewarding because the poor represent less attractive pickings than the rich , they may be able to ‘ bargain' on the terms on which their support is obtained . |
| 13 | At the Marée in the market place of Rouen there are delicious fish dishes , excellent food at the Beffroy in the rue du Beffroy , all the more unexpected because the place looks too like Ye Olde Bunne Shoppe to be true . |
| 14 | Costs in contentious cases are more complicated because a successful party may normally recover some of the costs from the losing party . |
| 15 | In the Highlands the process has been all the more hurtful because the usurpers have so often been outsiders with grandiose ambitions . |
| 16 | This movement is usually made more apparent because the head sinks into the shoulders and the hands come close to the body to protect it from some blow , curse or frightening event , e.g. Juliet 's movement after her father has demanded why she is not conforming to his wishes . |
| 17 | They are all the more impressive because the road at their base nowhere attains much height , being lower than 350 feet above sea level at its summit . |
| 18 | Motor Angel ’ is two-thirds throbbing directionless pop where the vocals sound like Billy Idol , even more bewildering because the remaining third is outrageously good . |
| 19 | He said the tragedy was all the more desperate because the fatal blaze had been a minor one in firefighting terms . |
| 20 | To deny that they are ‘ owned ’ would be as unreal as to deny , on the basis of feudal theory , that land is owned — far more unreal because the owner 's freedom to do what he likes with his shares in public companies is likely to be considerably less fettered . |
| 21 | It was made the more difficult because the Iranians were at one remove from the hostage-takers ; even at best , all they could promise was to lean on Hizbollah and ask for a favour . |
| 22 | However , the task of a new nanny was made all the more difficult because the children , bewildered and unhappy , felt that they had come to take the place of their mother . |
| 23 | Processing static input is also more difficult because the scanning procedure often introduces additional noise to the input . |
| 24 | Estimating cholera-related deaths was made more difficult because the spread of the disease was not given official recognition , reportedly because of fears that it would adversely affect the country 's lucrative shrimp trade . |
| 25 | Compared to books , distribution of multimedia software titles would remain more fragmented because the market was growing rapidly and potential customers could be reached through many outlets , Mr McCarthy said . |
| 26 | On this occasion guests could use all the other rooms in Eugénie 's suite , except for her library and study , and the atmosphere was easier and more agreeable because the number of guests was limited to five or six hundred : |
| 27 | This is all the more necessary because the letters of the DNA code are by no means static , like hieroglyphs carved in granite . |
| 28 | With the approaching end of war in 1918 coalition became more positive because the coalition now had to deal with the issues that had been put aside for the duration , and more controversial because this pushed some Unionists into outright opposition . |
| 29 | It was the more attractive because a general election was imminent and Balfour , at least , hoped to lose it , thus transferring the burden to the Liberals . |
| 30 | My garden is all the more attractive because the gardens on either side are so rampant and untended : places where moss covers the paths , the grass is yellow and long and the stalks of sycamore seedlings have red , fungoid lumps . |