Example sentences of "because [pers pn] are [adj] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Destroy them and we will impoverish future generations simply because we are unable to live within our environmental means . ’ |
| 2 | You might put it this way : We are human beings , not because we have souls but because we are able to conceive of the possibility that we might have souls . |
| 3 | As is so often the case , these gates have been made by someone who has obviously no experience of walking , because they are impossible to negotiate with a rucksack on , unless you climb onto the bottom bars of the fence around the gate to lift the sack above the top rail . |
| 4 | The Lilliputians , like us , have learnt bad ways — choosing officials because they are able to dance on a rope is just one example . |
| 5 | They are the seeds produced by the fern-like plants such as Mariopteris , but because they are difficult to link with their foliage they have been given separate names . |
| 6 | There is a danger that projects may be undertaken not because they are likely to lead to academically interesting results , but simply because they are susceptible to computerisation . |