Example sentences of "be [vb pp] because it [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Traditional teaching of English literature has been attacked because it creates in the pupil a mood of passivity , an instinctive submission to authority . |
| 2 | So it is possible that , in the course of evolution , the preening activity of the male has been accentuated because it signals to a female that he is in a state of conflict . |
| 3 | Fundamentalism is a belief system that can not be refuted because it comes from a supreme being . |
| 4 | There is a partial line on the map which I think this Council agreed before my time but that is not a line which could be implemented because it starts from nowhere and goes to nowhere and we are still I believe in , in , in limbo so far as the exact route which might be proposed either the northern or the southern end . |
| 5 | The work of Melanie Klein is omitted because it relates to the technicalities of psychoanalytic therapy , which is not of central concern here , where it does not impinge on sociology . |
| 6 | One proposal is to take a 2-kg piece of tellurium and leave this for a year ; tellurium is chosen because it transmutes into xenon , which is unreactive and relatively easy to detect . |