Example sentences of "the [noun] [adv] because it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have represented both approaches simplistically , to draw out the contrast specifically because it seems that Howard favoured both approaches , but did not have the experience of both to see the contradictory implications . |
| 2 | This lodges in the mind precisely because it floats free of the mythic grist . |
| 3 | Thus free enterprise — the pursuit of fair profit , the generator of wealth and employment , the backbone on which social welfare is possible — can be viewed , at least by corporate officials , as the primary ethic for and of an industrial society , and conformity to this neutralizes any obedience to the law merely because it happens to be the law . |
| 4 | The court office can not refuse to issue proceedings by the process requested by the plaintiff/applicant merely because it considers such process to be inappropriate ( Baker v Thatcher ( 1984 ) 134 NLJ 863 ) . |
| 5 | I am disappointed with the amendment principally because it says that the Bill ’ fails to establish independent consumer ombudsmen ’ . |
| 6 | I invariably gain weight if I 've eaten rice the evening before because it retains water and is often served with spicy food which is dehydrating . |
| 7 | Just the same as you can accept the fact that somebody says to you that I can not really afford your windows , right , just the same as when you first speak to them on the phone , you can say oh sorry , sorry to bother you and put the phone down because it said you |
| 8 | ‘ It is more difficult for spinners to grip the ball today because it does not get scuffed like it used to . |
| 9 | I understand , however , that it may be suggested that the Bank issued the notice not because it required the documents for the performance of its functions under the Act but simply to provide a conduit for information to the Board and without regard to the Bank 's own functions . |
| 10 | The government kept the army small in the past mostly because it had noticed that autocratic regimes with large armies are vulnerable to military coups . |
| 11 | The Aldershot principally because it gave a structure to what I had to say at least went up there fairly confident of what I had . |
| 12 | Transnational corporate corruption is therefore perhaps the most pernicious form of crime in the world today because it involves robbing the poor to feed the rich , and brings into political power rulers and administrators who in general will put self-interest ahead of the public interest , and transnational corporation interest ahead of national interest . ’ |
| 13 | Erm it 's g there now obviously the end of year it builds up over the end of the year partly because it relies on the extra recruitment and the increasing sales per er per capita erm or per capita sales I should say . |
| 14 | The Labour party can not have it both ways : it attacks the system either because it expects people to claim or because it requires a register . |
| 15 | Second , it was in the economic interests of the colonial ( and home ) administrations to persuade or force the cultivator to grow produce for the market either because it increased the cultivator 's taxability and therefore he/she could contribute to the infrastructural administrative and policing costs of the colony ; or , where settlers would or could not do the job , it would provide a source of cheap food for the mining workers , particularly in southern Africa . |