Example sentences of "because they can [adv] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We have not included these qualities in our statements of attainment because they can not be mapped on to levels . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | There may be many different bacterial species completely unknown because they can not be cultured . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Lawrence warned : ‘ Bristol will be relaxed because they can not be promoted or relegated . |
| 9 | Today 's conventional data processing systems are often inflexible because they can not be updated efficiently and rapidly . |
| 10 | The rich people of the southern US like to live in adobe houses because they can virtually be made into sculptures . |