Example sentences of "[prep] be [adj] because it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I consider this tendency to be dangerous because it undermines the great eighteenth-century idea of the unity of mankind , an idea that is so menaced anyway by racism and other movements of the same sort . |
| 2 | It ought also to be useful because it provides a context which is meaningful to children , and in which a variety of reading skills can be learned . |
| 3 | Later Macmillan was reputed to have defended his decision in a sentence which is likely to be authentic because it has the Macmillan ring : ‘ I thought we had had enough of Martha and it was time for some Mary. , |
| 4 | But the potency with which c-Myc induces apoptosis suggests that deregulated c-Myc expression by itself is likely to be lethal because it kills any cell that encounters growth-limiting conditions , an almost invariable outcome in vivo . |
| 5 | We consider database to be online because it has a number of distinct features functionality . |
| 6 | When delivered , it was discovered to be poisonous because it had been contaminated with castor oil . |
| 7 | Imre Szász , a large , solid-framed man , pointed out to me that in Hungary the Budapest accent was , for a long time , held to be inferior because it had been debased by non-Magyar and , in particular , Jewish elements , whereas the country accents were all perfectly acceptable . |
| 8 | To answer this question it must be noted that in sociology ( and elsewhere ) a feminist perspective appears to be polemical because it runs counter to the accepted male-oriented viewpoint — a viewpoint which is rarely explicitly articulated . |
| 9 | It used to be important because it made it more difficult to score with groin kicks , and it led to narrow stances with the leading foot turned inwards . |
| 10 | Barthes is here influenced , no doubt , by the founder of deconstruction , Jacques Derrida , who argued that contrary to the traditional view that speech is the exemplary case of language in use , and writing an artificial substitute for speech , writing ought to be privileged because it exposes the fallacious metaphysics of presence , of the autonomy of the subject , which speech encourages . |