Example sentences of "[coord] because [pron] have " in BNC.

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1 All too often students have difficulty or fail in their learning because they have an imperfect grasp of some concept , or because they have not learned some particular skill .
2 I can not imagine why yours have started so quickly , unless they are older than they look — they may have been kept in conditions where they have not grown on , due to overcrowding , or because they have been left with their parents for too long .
3 Perhaps teachers teach badly out of habit , it is ventured , or because they have never learned the skills of mixed-ability work in training .
4 Members may be attracted because the group offers the opportunity for affiliation , recognition or security , or because the goals are significant to the individuals , or because they have expectations that the group will satisfy their personal goals and motives .
5 Some of the entries in the archive are marked as being obsolete , either because they represent Supplement entries which have been incorporated into earlier OED entries , or because they have been discarded by lexicographers and are not to be included in the New OED .
6 Is this because they never had them or because they have lost them ?
7 The referendum or plebiscite is a device viewed with suspicion in some quarters , largely because they have often been used to ratify or endorse decisions already taken or policies already embarked on , as was the case with Britain 's entry into the EEC , or because they have been staged , and the issue presented , in such a way as to produce the outcome wanted by the government which initiates them .
8 Only the gorilla is particularly close to us in evolutionary terms ( though all of the top 10 animals are mammals ) , but many of the other favourites are distinctly humanoid in appearance , either because they sometimes stand upright , such as otters and polar bears , or because they have vaguely human-like faces .
9 Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past .
10 Other fluids are sometimes used because they give better values of the governing parameters or because they have properties particularly appropriate to an experiment .
11 When the public respond to your advertisements or because they have heard that you do personal injury work , it is not enough just to tell them that you do and expect them to come into the office .
12 Dewey then identified the characteristics of practical judgments in terms of their tentative and hypothetical character and suggested that we may often misjudge what is to be done either because we have overlooked relevant facts or misinterpreted them or because we have misjudged the best course of action to be followed .
13 Building societies will , generally , be sympathetic if you ask to suspend your mortgage payments for a fixed period because you have been made redundant or because you have a crisis .
14 On the other hand , a stock of components can avoid the frustration of being held up on a project because a mundane integrated circuit is temporarily unavailable , or because you have managed to break one lead away from a 100m capacitor .
15 If he can not do this quickly — either because you have not told him what questions you have answered , or because you have indicated them in an order that is not that in which you have attempted them — he is likely to be mildly annoyed .
16 This could be either because you have reached a voluntary agreement between yourselves regarding money or because you have both agreed on a clean financial break .
17 He or she may argue that the task is impossible , because you are not skilled enough or because you have never tried to sell the subject to other than students before .
18 However , because island animals have evolved in the absence of predators , because their populations are often fairly small to begin with , and because they have nowhere to run to , they tend to be extremely vulnerable when predators are finally introduced and island creatures are particularly prone to extinction .
19 Because the laws of war derive to a large extent from standards which have developed within states , and because they have always depended for their enforcement largely on national legal systems , court decisions have been a very important source of the laws of war .
20 They have the money because they have the glamour , and because they have the glamour they have the television , the media , the sponsorship , the grand stadia , the lush accoutrements for officials and plush hospitality boxes for the favoured — and yet more glamour .
21 They do so because they are black and black youths tend to identify strongly with other blacks , and because they have achieved visible success and black kids want clues as to how they too might be successful .
22 The heterostracans were associated with the hagfishes , chiefly because they lacked the specializations of the nasohypophysial opening and because they have a single branchial opening ( see below ) .
23 And because they have bigger appetites , they could eventually deplete the rivers ' resources , leaving them empty of salmon of any description .
24 And I think that 's what a lot of problem with condemned by the G P is is they 're not able to articulate the unhappiness that 's coming from the eating disorder , so they 're told to go away and put on a couple of pounds and because they have n't expressed that feeling the G P ca n't or is n't thinking enough to try and and poke into it a little bit more .
25 Some sufferers , notably juveniles addicted to many drugs , commonly take six to eight weeks because their minds are still fogged from the drugs during the first week or two and because they have not been accustomed in their earlier lives to dealing with emotional pain except by recourse to mood-altering chemicals .
26 We have dealt at some length with these important , if abortive , proposals because they throw a great deal of light on the complexities surrounding the financial control and management of public sector higher education and because they have influenced the subsequent debate concerning the need for some form of central control .
27 Because of the technical problems , because of the time that people had to give to do it and because they have got other things like induction meetings to go to .
28 Max Wallis , of the University of Wales , Cardiff , said : " FoE in England and Wales are paralysed since senior staff decided last January to take no stance over the Gulf war , and because they have frustrated efforts to discuss the issues at board level " .
29 I do n't think there 's a very great deal in the way of er lighting fittings one can talk about erm in houses in Harlow , it 's er , there 's a , a distinct difference between the light , a lot , lot of architects in , in Harlow have lived in Harlow you see and they will go in for all the very latest type of lighting fittings erm and because they have er access to the books for the various er designers of lighting fittings er , generally though , they , the majority of the people in the town er have come from er London boroughs and erm they view the same kind of lighting fittings they 've always been used to .
30 And because they have flowered early they could be damaged by frost .
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