Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] because [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She compromised on the kitchen garden with prayers , which seemed to be heard because they reached the stable unobserved . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It can not be applied because we lack the starting point — a law of gravitation consistent with SR . |
| 4 | I am surprised whenever a good novel comes to be written because I understand the odds it was written against . |
| 5 | The field outside is full of foxes and rabbits but none of them will be preserved because you need the right conditions . |
| 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 | It has to be crossed because it offers the second-greatest prize in nomination delegates , but it is almost impossible to clear the field without some casualties . |
| 9 | This balance , which celebrates the survival of Black communities in situations of great hardship , whilst not losing sight of the economic circumstances in which urban poverty is generated , needs to be emphasised because it undermines the pernicious popularity of cultural stereotypes . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The speeches of ministers have reiterated the themes that it is not the job of government to solve as many problems as previously , that ministers should be more attentive to the interests of taxpayers when spending public money , that ‘ real ’ jobs will be created and sustained not by government subsidy but by workers making goods which people will buy , that the criterion of ‘ value for money ’ be applied to public-sector activities , and that the private sector should be encouraged because it creates the wealth which the public sector requires . |
| 12 | British immigration officials had refused to allow the couple to be reunited because they feared the marriage would not last |
| 13 | Aristotle believed that strict determinism must be rejected because it destroys the natural basis for distinguishing between voluntary and involuntary actions . |
| 14 | The SAC 's letter to the organisers says the grant will not be paid because it classes the festival as ‘ a local project ’ and can support only ‘ national and regional organisations and schemes ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |