Example sentences of "[is] [adj] because it [is] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 A hobby that demands complete attention is refreshing because it is totally absorbing .
2 Shatov 's murder , in the world of this novel , is momentous because it is potentially unremarkable .
3 This is fortunate because it is only if the value of the cosmological constant is very small that the universe would be suitable for beings like us .
4 The progress of beam weapon technology is deceptive because it is comparatively easy-to-build powerful lasers or particle-beam generators .
5 It 's perfect because it 's very sweet when you play individual strings but the minute you strum it you get the noise , the power .
6 Yes , quite , quite , it 's , it 's intriguing because it 's so un so different to what I had in mind .
7 Our research was designed to ensure that the field-worker was also around a great deal and was stubborn in exploiting the naturally occurring situations of privacy , where natural conversation is inevitable because it is interactionally difficult to abstain from it , such as in the back of vehicles , in the sanger while on guard duty , relaxing in many of the recreational rooms , or off duty .
8 In a sense , Barrett 's analysis is remarkable because it is so unremarkable .
9 said it looked alright , but to me she said it 's terrible because it 's so short , I 've never had it this short in my life but he said it looked OK
10 Like 13-year-old Joey Papineau , who could have told the baffled university dons : ‘ Neighbours is great because it 's not like real life .
11 The attack is effective because it is so fast — a sort of mugger 's ‘ blitzkrieg ’ — and the dust has usually settled before anyone even realizes what has happened .
12 We know that the Trojan War , you know erm , what 's described in the Iliad and the Odyssey to the kiddies and er all these Greek and Greek heroes , we know that war actually happened , but it happened an awful long time before these poems were written and er Freud 's view is that what happens in a culture is there 's some initial traumatic event like the French Revolution or Trojan War , there 's a period of latency during which it seems to be forgotten about and nothing very much happens anyway , and then at a later stage it comes back again , there 's a return of a repressed and er Freud erm Freud quotes one or two other examples , er of the same kind of thing and Mike 's example is a very good one albeit er perhaps it 's good because it 's so recent , so the point you 're making Mike is that are you saying that Freud 's analogy is , is credible where French history and even industrial relations is concerned that there was a trauma , the Revolution of seventeen eighty nine , there were latency periods and then this kept coming back from the repressed time and time again ?
13 Is it is it er I mean it 's reasonable because it 's only bottom one ?
14 This is important because it is directly relevant to understanding the mechanism of a type of eruption not yet observed at first hand by any human being , but one that would make the Mt Pelee eruption pale into insignificance if an example were to occur today .
15 But it is not just played for easy excitement : this is alarming because it is so near the edge of what is possible , and yet it has just enough in reserve for tremendous final prestissimo .
16 ‘ I think it 's beautiful because it is so spare .
17 The user , whether the operator of the system when it is operational or the manager of the department it is aimed to help , can readily check that the DFD is accurate because it is so graphical .
18 Even my finger 's split because it 's so cold .
19 Sometimes a most carefully planned game structure is ineffective because it is not for some reason appropriate either to the material or to the particular class .
20 This is convenient because it is now recognised that they are such an important aspect of the transaction ; and pension under-funding or , in recent times more likely , over-funding , can involve such large amounts of money that the arrangements will generally be negotiated separately from the rest of the agreement by specialist pension lawyers from the parties ' solicitors and the parties ' respective actuaries .
21 The adjustment to the rise and fall is difficult because it is always sticky , the wood chips tend to collect on the travel of the sliding table making the action very bumpy , the sliding table is always out of adjustment for one reason or another .
22 But of course there is some choice erm let me give you a final southern er Africa example of this , Botswana geographically is one of those countries cut off from the sea , it 's a very large country but much of it is uninhabitable because it 's so arid it 's therefore a small country by almost any standards , number of people , the economy of er of Botswana is small and it 's frankly dependent upon South Africa in many ways for its transport , for its economic wellbeing , for the movement of people erm and even some educational resources .
23 Oliver said , ‘ I expect she 's cross because it is n't her birthday .
24 Even a small increase in breast cancer is significant because it is already the most important cause of cancer death in women .
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