Example sentences of "[vb pp] because they [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The indirect effects of religious controversy on attitudes toward science have been stressed because they indicate the contingency of those attitudes at particular times and places . |
| 2 | They have come because they like my music and I owe them everything . |
| 3 | One local resident commented at the time , ‘ Possibly this area may have been picked because they think they might meet least resistance from a depopulated area ’ . |
| 4 | It could also well be the case that to allege that sponsorship and consultancy are permitted because they offer a lucrative source of additional income would be a contempt . |
| 5 | We 're seeing the end of a long period of Cold War which effectively the West have won because they have kept their defences up , er and I think as Tom King , he was out here last week , has said we need to keep a strong force here to make sure that the Soviets keep their side of the bargain and er start a withdrawal at some stage . |
| 6 | The trouble is , men 's emotions are generally misunderstood because they do n't talk openly about their feelings . |
| 7 | We may use physical methods of measuring light intensity that are apparently independent of our subjective experience — for instance photosensitive cells — but these are accepted because they correlate to a greater or lesser degree , under normal circumstances , with subjective experiences of brightness . |
| 8 | Otherwise candidates which are acceptable may be rejected because they do not occur in the source , and alternatives which are not acceptable may be accepted because they appear in the source and provide a good fit , even though they are not characteristic of the material being processed . |
| 9 | He knows they have been defeated because they have offended God in some serious way , and become the victims of his anger . |
| 10 | Many keen to set up in business will also be hampered because they have been unable to build up capital . |
| 11 | Woolly alder aphids are so named because they produce clumps of woolly wax from their bodies . |
| 12 | The above examples of culturally defined behaviour have been selected because they differ considerably from behaviour patterns in Western society . |
| 13 | These are selected because they have characteristics close to early social group work practice : the operationalization of values ; and a detailed method of enquiry . |
| 14 | We do n't know what the Department of Transport have done because they refuse to tell us . |
| 15 | The poles can not be shown because they lie at infinity . |
| 16 | In this last group , black elderly people are over-represented because they have often not worked in this country long enough to accumulate full pension entitlement . |
| 17 | Other fluids are sometimes used because they give better values of the governing parameters or because they have properties particularly appropriate to an experiment . |
| 18 | They find it harder to appreciate the successes of the mentally handicapped because they do not conform to their concept of success . |
| 19 | There are , of course , civil and legal reasons for this , but it also serves the purpose of confirming to the person that their relative has actually died because they have seen it for themselves , the proof is before them . |
| 20 | We do get work from individuals , I said we have an open policy and people come through with problems that they 've got because they know us and some we take up , we try and be helpful and , and take up individual problems and then we have a two way relationship with community groups and last and not , not , not least , we , we live across the corridor from the General Manager and he 's always flying in and giving us work as well . |
| 21 | Prest ( 1968 ) notes that studies can at least be consistent , so that situations where all income tax is allocated to labour ( plausible if Fig. 9–9(a) applies ) and all indirect taxation borne by consumers ( plausible if Fig. 9–9(b) applies ) should be avoided because they involve contradictory pictures of the supply side of the economy . |
| 22 | The argument that indirect taxes are to be preferred because they avoid the discrimination against risky investments of a direct tax system can also be rebutted . |
| 23 | But I 've been on an immense number of statutory instruments upstairs er and everybody says they 're greatly needed , they usually say they 're greatly needed because they want to go out in three or four minutes and ten thirty comes and ten thirty five they 're out . |
| 24 | ‘ There are some types of actress who are employed because they have a specific personality useful for one type of performance . |
| 25 | They would n't need them because of the , this technology and that that 's but nevertheless they do ha they would be conscripted because they do have to have the ground troops of |
| 26 | Ransom strips are so called because they change hands at high values , often up to one third of the total site value . |
| 27 | The clearing banks are so called because they operate a central clearing house in London . |
| 28 | The LIFESPAN Meta PI routines are so called because they provide a VMS command interface to LIFESPAN in a similar way to the Procedural Interface ( PI ) routines , but unlike PI they are supplied as executables for performing the following specific functions : Update Baseline , Directory Integrity Check , and Type Module . |
| 29 | The inert gases are so called because they do not readily form chemical compounds . |
| 30 | Many small species do so — knife fish in South America , elephant fish in West Africa , so called because they have an elongated lip like a small probing trunk . |