Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun sg] because it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andrew ( 4.4 ) : I want that box because it looks like my daddy 's car . |
| 2 | It has this name because it enables you to alter the order of slides — you just drag them to their required positions . |
| 3 | Divorce has this effect because it suggests that remarriage in the lifetime of one 's first partner is socially and even morally acceptable' ( Irish Times , 6 June 1986 ; also 31 May 1986 ; 14 June 1986 ) . |
| 4 | Yet it is a model which has some force because it provides a neat conceptualisation of relationships between those designated managers and those not . |
| 5 | The Educational Institute of Scotland has organised industrial action because it argues that the new school is still basically Bellarmine in a different building . |
| 6 | The Sinhalese wedding case also has general value because it provides an exceptionally clear example of the three-phase structure of rites of passage first recognized by Hertz and Van Gennep around 1908 but which has subsequently been shown to apply to all kinds of social rituals . |
| 7 | The system does not need dedicated hardware because it uses a standard DECsystem server . |
| 8 | This regulation of registration often causes bad feeling because it means that Chinese people friendly with foreigners are easily recognised and traced . |
| 9 | But as a Labour Group , we welcome this motion because it demonstrates the dishonesty of the Conservative Government in passing one of the most enlightened pieces of legislation without any of the resources to implement it . |
| 10 | That is to say , what educators are promoting primarily as ‘ a good thing anyway ’ is , on this occasion , likely to receive considerable reinforcement because it coincides with what the economic-technical revolution requires . |
| 11 | But really you should celebrate such uncertainty because it helps undermine myths of scientific omniscience . |
| 12 | Mrs Jones felt that the slow progress of the assessment and the limited information she received created new problems instead of resolving existing ones : ‘ It introduces so much trauma — you 're getting all the criticism all the time but you 're not getting any information because it takes so long . ’ |
| 13 | Does An exact copy of a Michelangelo statue lose artistic merit because it does n't have his name on it . |
| 14 | Well I think it 's been open to any higher education institution to grab this idea because it 's been around for a long time , the great beauty of Napier is to some degree it 's a centre of excellence it 's got its B A course so has Queen Margaret but at the bottom end but why should I say the bottom end at the bottom end it 's got the B A communications course at the top end it 's got apprentice training for printers . |
| 15 | The authors argue that newborn screening for Duchenne muscular dystrophy decreases emotional distress because it avoids delays in diagnosing the disease , and without newborn screening two or more boys could be born with Duchenne muscular dystrophy before parents realised that they were at risk of having an affected child . |
| 16 | Perhaps women choose this style because it fits with their own , perfectly valid interactional or social goals . |
| 17 | I choose this example because it has been well worked through in a paper by Betty Lou Dubois in Language and Society ( 1987 ) . |
| 18 | She says she preferred this version because it follows the novel more closely . |
| 19 | However , the Nationalism Today faction has not adopted the antisemitic conspiracy theory of politics in order to attract financial support , but it may attempt to seek such support because it holds antisemitic beliefs . |
| 20 | The state attracts seasonal labour because it has an intensive agricultural economy that complements the Mexican growing season : two-thirds of all state produce is harvested from June to September , when Mexico is not harvesting . |
| 21 | One suggestion is that pre-exposure to the context , by preventing the subsequent formation of context-target associations , might enhance latent inhibition because it ensures that particularly strong associations will be formed among the elements of the target itself . |
| 22 | We recommend this Plan because it offers financial protection in no less than THREE important ways areas where you are likely to be most vulnerable should an accident strike . |
| 23 | But he also likes this method because it appears that the famine is caused by the Irish themselves as a result of their lack of husbandry ( which confirms their savagery ) and , thus , appears a natural reward of their refusal to accept the civility of English rule . |
| 24 | Britain has been denied this freedom because it has never had a truly commercial broadcasting environment . |
| 25 | 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 . |