Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [noun] because it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those women choose to work part time because it fits in with looking after their families . |
| 2 | Most other scientists , however , were willing to accept quantum mechanics because it agreed perfectly with experiment . |
| 3 | He asserts cautiously that there is a ‘ possibility that both genetic and environmental influences , and interactions between them , may be important in the causation of mental processes , including awareness ’ and goes on to say that awareness probably has survival value because it enables animals to respond to the complexities of the world in which they behave . |
| 4 | It 's clean , quick and simple — taking the mess out of cutting flower stems because it retains all the cut stems in the glass decanter until you actually want to discard them . |
| 5 | The Government has delayed responding to the need to equalise pension rights because it means equalising State retirement ages . |
| 6 | It has set up a unit to develop OTC drugs because it believes the Government 's health experts want to reduce reliance on prescription drugs as part of cost-cutting measures . |
| 7 | Secondly , disease is occasionally seen in an individual adult penned in a heavily contaminated calf paddock because it requires daily attention for some other reason . |
| 8 | Avoid mineral oil because it lacks the living qualities of vegetable oil and may even rob the body of some of its fat soluble nutrients . |
| 9 | Chairman Mao and his little red book actually sort of advocated table tennis because it did n't take up paddy fields ; it was very economical ; you can stick 10 tables in a canteen , so it was very much conducive to the communist way of life and of course , China … |