Example sentences of "[verb] this [noun sg] because it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has this name because it enables you to alter the order of slides — you just drag them to their required positions . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | The United States Senate rejected this provision because it thought it would bestow legal rights upon third parties . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They chose this area because it reminded them of the Alps and afforded them the chance to continue with their much loved skiing . |
| 7 | Perhaps women choose this style because it fits with their own , perfectly valid interactional or social goals . |
| 8 | I choose this example because it has been well worked through in a paper by Betty Lou Dubois in Language and Society ( 1987 ) . |
| 9 | She says she preferred this version because it follows the novel more closely . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Britain has been denied this freedom because it has never had a truly commercial broadcasting environment . |
| 13 | The emergence of the superego vastly extended this trend because it represented a characteristically human — or , we might say , neurotic — tendency : namely , an ability to redirect a drive to the extent that it is turned back against the ego itself ( i.e. , hate of the father becomes hate of oneself for hating him ) . |