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

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1 The pollen is tiny and minute , so minute that it can get up your nose and give you hay fever , but er you 're never gon na catch hay fever from modules because they 'll never be released , they 're relatively massive compared with , compared with pollen .
2 Reliance on the tenant 's audited accounts for the purpose of calculating turnover may be unwise for the landlord , not because those accounts may be inaccurate but because they may not be settled until well after the end of the rental period in question .
3 The concern is expressed on behalf of defendants in custody because they may ultimately be acquitted or given non-custodial sentences , and on behalf of defendants on bail because of the uncertainty and unpleasantness of a pending criminal trial .
4 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 .
5 Essentially , it is because they ca n't be bothered to do things for themselves .
6 This would put applicants in a very false position , perhaps drive away very talented applicants who might think that there were fewer places available for them , but also to encourage people who might in fact be struggling to go to any university in the country , it might encourage them to apply and to have a reasonable expectation of success because their sporting abilities were outstanding , they would then be disappointed because they would not be admitted and if they were admitted at that level , they would probably have a very unfortunate time at Oxford .
7 On other occasions , work is very ‘ peaky ’ and it would not make sense to employ our own staff because they would n't be occupied full-time .
8 Some of the items are fine as they are but are not given unconditional approval because they should only be eaten in moderation .
9 It will not be reached as a result of any programmed present redundancies , or by any new contracts with the generating industries , because they will not be renewed until early 1993 .
10 Very often there are schools , just across the road , full of children who will very probably become unemployed when they leave because they will not be equipped to fill any of the jobs that are available .
11 An example of it in use , and you must have ex what I 'm saying , it 's very important to have empirical erm , examples in your essays , right , because they will also be required in the short answer questions as well .
12 But the lies Emerson had told sprang up as a barrier between them , insurmountable because they could not be acknowledged .
13 It was indeed not very exalting to watch wounded comrades-in-arms die where they lay because they could not be removed .
14 Because we had evidence that memories of the exercise tended to fade quickly , it was decided to exclude schools which had submitted reports at the very earliest stage ( autumn 1980 to summer 1981 ) , and schools which were not due to submit reports until the last stage of the first cycle ( autumn 1985 to early 1986 ) were also excluded because they could not be expected to have made much of a start on the process .
15 If these were things that could not be fully understood or controlled , then they were all the more menacing because they could not be avoided .
16 Sainsbury 's , ranking 17 in The Times 1000 with 82 000 employees , when considering appointing a senior departmental director , chose to use headhunters for ‘ political reasons rather than convenience or speed ’ because they could then be informed in detail about the market for candidates .
17 Because they could still be comforted or distracted , by a sweet and a story .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 We have not included these qualities in our statements of attainment because they can not be mapped on to levels .
21 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 ) .
22 There may be many different bacterial species completely unknown because they can not be cultured .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 Lawrence warned : ‘ Bristol will be relaxed because they can not be promoted or relegated .
26 Today 's conventional data processing systems are often inflexible because they can not be updated efficiently and rapidly .
27 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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