Example sentences of "because they can [adv] be [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Unless you have regular lessons , which many owners do n't , either because they ca n't afford to or because they ca n't be bothered , it is unlikely that horse ownership will actually improve your riding .
2 Essentially , it is because they ca n't be bothered to do things for themselves .
3 Although it is intended to protect the film and record industries , the Bill outlaws all cassette recorders used for home computing , because they can also be used to tape music .
4 Such players as Clive Allen and Tony Cottee are shockingly under-valued these days because they can not be relied upon to step up their work-rate , to coin a phrase .
5 We have not included these qualities in our statements of attainment because they can not be mapped on to levels .
6 There is no independently characterisable subclass of dogs for which being a pet is a necessary or canonical trait ( lap-dogs do not count , because they can not be distinguished without invoking the characteristic of pet-hood ) ; nor are there distinguishable sub-types of pet which are canonically or necessarily dogs ( except , of course , lap-dogs , which do not count here , either , and for parallel reasons ) .
7 There may be many different bacterial species completely unknown because they can not be cultured .
8 Her camp confirms the lengths to which Kylie is prepared to go to maintain the environment-friendly campaign and reveals she REFUSES to handle everyday plastics , because they can not be broken down naturally and pose a threat to the habitat .
9 These codes are quite different from the models of poetics because they can not be reduced to a structure , and consequently the text itself can not in turn be reduced to a structural homology of a code .
10 Lawrence warned : ‘ Bristol will be relaxed because they can not be promoted or relegated .
11 Today 's conventional data processing systems are often inflexible because they can not be updated efficiently and rapidly .
12 The rich people of the southern US like to live in adobe houses because they can virtually be made into sculptures .
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