Example sentences of "because [pron] [am/are] [vb pp] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Desires experienced at the level of practical consciousness are sometimes hard to assess because they are welded to the objects making up habitual routines . |
| 2 | Low-income families are put at grave risk and local authorities are unable to administer the housing benefit system efficiently because they are tied to the 20 per cent . |
| 3 | The theory was first put forward by H R Buchanan in his Manual of Psychometry in 1889 , when he argued that all objects contain the history of the world because they are connected to the Akashic Chronicles . |
| 4 | Many adult smokers continue smoking not through unfettered choice but because they are addicted to the nicotine in cigarettes . |
| 5 | They are committed to each because they are committed to the other . |
| 6 | He also makes the distinction between lexical and conceptual collocations ; the latter being word pairs that co-occur simply because they are associated to the same context or topic ( e.g. , ’ bomb ’ and ’ soldier ’ , ’ trouble ’ and ’ problem ’ , etc . ) . |
| 7 | Mosquitoes buzz around people 's heads at night because they are drawn to the carbon dioxide which we give off as we breathe . |