Example sentences of "[adj] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually screamingly conspicuous because they 're such a new , unfamiliar concept for most tourists . |
| 2 | From the Col there is , in summer , a rack railway that will lift you , if you are so minded , to the conspicuous because lonely summit of La Rhune , which is far and away the most prominent mountain at this Atlantic end of the Pyrenees , even though it is no more than 3,000 feet high . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's a strange situation , ’ he continues , ‘ When I go and see a band I do feel conspicuous because of my age . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's a strange situation , ’ he continues , ‘ When I go and see a band I do feel conspicuous because of my age . |
| 5 | Basic training and a posting to a Regiment lay ahead , all of it an unknown quantity , and my enthusiasm was so manifest because everything that lay in front of me was so foreign . |
| 6 | Meyers finds ‘ The equation of the anus with the life source … an obscene and outrageous idea ’ ( Homosexuality and Literature , 148 ) and concludes that Birkin is using Ursula as a homosexual substitute — this being even more perverse than homosexuality proper because ( according to Clifford Allen in a book ominously titled Homosexuality : Its Nature , Causation and Treatment ) the anus in homosexual love symbolizes the vagina and ‘ anal intercourse is only unconscious incestuous behaviour ’ ( p. 50 , quoted by Meyers , Homosexuality and Literature , 178 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ It is appropriate for spectators to applaud successful strokes in proportion to difficulty but excessive demonstrations by a player or his partisans are not proper because of the possible effect upon other competitors . |
| 8 | That talent was presumably the main reason for his appointment , and that 's only right and proper because if there 's one thing England can learn from Bob Dwyer , it is that you sometimes have to be prepared to let a young side lose in the short-term to gain in the long-term . |
| 9 | Taking these two elements together then , pay differentials are considered as only proper because someone with better qualifications and a longer service record may be expected to contribute more to the company . |
| 10 | Nevertheless he is uniquely different because he is not only a hero but also a powerful magician in the tradition of many Slav and Asiatic epics . |
| 11 | Three years later came the 246GTS , the targa version , which looked substantially different because the elimination of the roof meant a strong roll bar had to be housed behind the seats . |
| 12 | But that previous reinforcement is now represented in my brain : my brain is different because of it . |
| 13 | He argued that cells become different because , at the time of cell division , different genes are transmitted to different daughter cells ( he did not use the word gene , but that is what he meant ) ; whereas in fact all body cells contain the same genes , and become different because different genes are activated in different cells . |
| 14 | He argued that cells become different because , at the time of cell division , different genes are transmitted to different daughter cells ( he did not use the word gene , but that is what he meant ) ; whereas in fact all body cells contain the same genes , and become different because different genes are activated in different cells . |
| 15 | He saw that the alternative was to suppose that cells become different because they are exposed to different external influences . |
| 16 | The situation in the islands is now fundamentally different because of the existence of Comhairle nan Eilean — the Western Isles Islands Authority — which has much greater resources both for investigating local problems and doing something to solve them , than any voluntary organisation possibly could , but the question remains whether the technique devised by the Lewis Association still has validity . |
| 17 | Written communications are different because whilst what you write represents your behaviour even though you are not present , it is n't happening ‘ in flight ’ as do face-to-face behaviours . |
| 18 | The ‘ Dawn of civilisation ’ produced events of a different kind , different because they were , for the first time , modified by man himself to provide a new source of ‘ goodness ’ to be added to the storehouse that is the Created God . |
| 19 | will be different because every work record and experience is different . |
| 20 | These guitars represent total design philosophies , not marketing exercises where a manufacturer or ad agency has tried to hoodwink us into believing the instrument really is different because its headstock is slightly more rounded than the Ibanez — or whatever other triviality they 've come up with that month . |
| 21 | You could make them the same overall diameter , you could even get the tensions to be the same , but when you play those strings they 're going to feel completely different because a string with a thin core and a heavy wrap is going to move more freely than one with a heavy core and a thin wrap . |
| 22 | Here are some sentences in which two consonant sounds are identical to look at but sound slightly different because one is voiced ( the vocal cords vibrate ) and the other is unvoiced . |
| 23 | ‘ Hothousing is entirely different because it involves a pushy parent force-feeding their child to be bright — the natural spark is n't necessarily there , ’ says Mr Short . |
| 24 | In the factory it was different because work was separated from home in a way they had never experienced before . |
| 25 | ‘ This case is different because it appears not to involve the usual criminal fraternity . |
| 26 | Constance realised why she could hold her own in this elegant crowd : she was different because she was foreign but , more important , admirable because she was British . |
| 27 | My mother soon began to drum into me the notion that I was different because of my eyesight , and therefore that I should not expect too much out of life . |
| 28 | We are employed for service , wholehearted service to Christ ; and the world needs to see it , to realise that Christians are different because of who our Lord is . |
| 29 | Women and men respond to material pressures on their speech , and these pressures are different because — outside a tiny elite anyhow — women and men participate in different status hierarchies which are not readily comparable . |
| 30 | This month is different because I am asking you to help other people . |