Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] are [adv] [verb] because " in BNC.

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1 French Tomatoes are so called because in the traditional recipe French cream cheese is used in place of the low fat cottage cheese .
2 Male individuals are better protected because they are given an additional booster dose during military service .
3 The isolation is getting me down a bit — I have had to seek to be pretty resilient spiritually with George in , and so the extra resources are pretty deplete because of that .
4 The inert gases are so called because they do not readily form chemical compounds .
5 Patients with cerebral metastases are also excluded because oedema and necrosis of a responding tumour deposit may lead to serious neurological complications , such as stroke .
6 They were extremely impressed by what he said and were buoyed up by his message that the Government are determined to ensure that the proposals on reform of the common agricultural policy are strongly resisted because they are not in the interests of Scotland 's farmers .
7 Equally worrying is the fact that deaf people are effectively disenfranchised because they can neither get access to nor take part in the political debate .
8 Null values are usually permitted because in some situations the value will not yet have been allocated .
9 The clearing banks are so called because they operate a central clearing house in London .
10 Those papers known commercially as pastel papers are so called because they are coloured and often because they have a machine-made laid effect .
11 Other fluids are sometimes used because they give better values of the governing parameters or because they have properties particularly appropriate to an experiment .
12 In any case , high-rise buildings are seldom built because they are socially needed .
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