Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] because they [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The indirect effects of religious controversy on attitudes toward science have been stressed because they indicate the contingency of those attitudes at particular times and places . |
| 2 | Here the two sentences are linked because they follow the grammatical pattern , definite article + proper noun + copula + complement , a link whose purely formal nature is revealed by the fact that it does not really survive translation into English , where the definite articles are not needed and an indefinite one is . |
| 3 | One might even extend the idea and talk of semantic parallelism where two sentences are linked because they mean the same thing . |
| 4 | She compromised on the kitchen garden with prayers , which seemed to be heard because they reached the stable unobserved . |
| 5 | Outward investment may be banned because it weakens the balance of payments and allows the life-blood capital to leak out of the system , whilst inflows of currency may be repulsed because they cause the exchange rate to rise to unacceptable levels or add to the domestic supply of money and thus threaten inflation . |
| 6 | The argument that indirect taxes are to be preferred because they avoid the discrimination against risky investments of a direct tax system can also be rebutted . |
| 7 | Thus pornographic representations are to be condemned because they reinforce the desires to treat people , and it is usually women , i n the way I have been arguing they are treated . |
| 8 | An example of the latter occurs in modern society when objects in a house may have to be removed because they remind the people in the house of a daughter who has had an illegitimate child . |
| 9 | British immigration officials had refused to allow the couple to be reunited because they feared the marriage would not last |
| 10 | AI believes they are held because they opposed the government 's policy towards the Shi'a community . |