Example sentences of "only because it [is] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , by focusing exclusively on girls , researchers have ignored the important premise that gender has any cultural meaning only because it is based on difference ( Hollway 1982 ) . |
| 2 | All discourse is more or less reciprocal , if only because it is based upon assumptions about receivers . |
| 3 | Like the donkey it is despised by its enemies and mistreated by its friends , but only because it is bound to be treated unfairly when it is seen unrealistically . |
| 4 | Physics was chosen as a representative subject , not only because it is studied by so few women , and is therefore a typically masculine discipline , but also because it tends to be regarded as the most objective , rigorous and , indeed , successful of the pure sciences . |
| 5 | Agency working has aroused interest in Britain not only because it is concentrated in particular local and occupational labour markets but also because of the special status that agency workers have in employment law . |
| 6 | Does he agree that gas is better not only because it is transported through its own pipelines and therefore takes transport off the road , but because it is green-clean and thermally more efficient ? |