Example sentences of "[is] [adj] because it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The treatment is controversial because it can have unfortunate ‘ side-effects ’ . |
| 2 | Jade is scarce because it can only crystallize in that form under geological conditions of heat and pressure which were confined to certain faults in the earth 's crust . |
| 3 | A hobby that demands complete attention is refreshing because it is totally absorbing . |
| 4 | ‘ It is unnecessary because it does n't do anything more than what Unix does today . |
| 5 | THIS Bernstein recording of Mahler 's Ninth Symphony is historic because it preserves the only occasion on which he conducted the Berlin Philharmonic , on October 4 , 1979 ( with a repeat the next evening ) . |
| 6 | The relevant economic argument that reaches the notice of even the ill-informed newspaper reader is the proposition that high taxation , or indeed any taxation at all , is undesirable because it limits the extent to which people work , produce and add to the ‘ wealth of the nation ’ . |
| 7 | Shatov 's murder , in the world of this novel , is momentous because it is potentially unremarkable . |
| 8 | The group is strong because it has access to power through its institutional involvement with the state , which is why Becker calls it a corporate bourgeoisie . |
| 9 | The sight of teenage fathers is striking because it is in such stark contrast with the role of their own fathers , who were n't seen pushing prams when they were nineteen . |
| 10 | In hot weather you may not be aware of how much a horse is sweating because it evaporates so quickly . |
| 11 | Is that because it 's full of chalk or is it cos |
| 12 | Their own chemical industry is cost-effective because it buys products at knock-down prices from places like Lauchhammer , where the incidence of cancer keeps increasing . |
| 13 | Written authority is preferable because it removes the room for doubt and argument . |
| 14 | you know and that 's right because it 's special and I , I really think that you know the U K and perhaps we can world some countries like Sweden and so on because of the high taxation have been able to keep their |
| 15 | No they , they did n't because the that 's right because it was cancelled last year it was the year before she did . |
| 16 | The flexibility and cheapness of overdraft borrowing is possible because it is an ‘ on demand ’ facility , and we can therefore call it in at any time . |
| 17 | What is particularly significant about this passage is the strength of conviction the teacher demonstrates that this kind of informal assessment is right because it provides the maximum amount of feedback to all concerned , and furthermore is an integral part of the learning process , and not , as so often happens , an adjunct to it . |
| 18 | Perhaps some positive aspects are contained within fat 's designation as taboo ; for instance , some people find fat attractive because it is forbidden and marginal : ‘ It may be that the forbidden is exciting because it is forbidden . |
| 19 | At this stage , he was firmly opposed to federation ; ‘ Federation is harmful because it sanctions segregation and alienation , elevates them to a principle , to a law . ’ |
| 20 | Unemployment is harmful because it imposes costs on society . |
| 21 | The area is popular because it contains , within a short walking distance of the village centre , the great crag of the Cove , the chasm of Gordale Scar and the glacial lake of the Tarn . |
| 22 | Freestanding lighting is popular because it 's easy to move around , needs no extra wiring if you have a convenient power point , and is available in a wide choice of designs . |
| 23 | ‘ This case is different because it appears not to involve the usual criminal fraternity . |
| 24 | It 's too early to call it a breakthrough but it is different because it does n't set out to kill tumours , it stops the process which spreads them . |
| 25 | Germany , of course , is different because it has a federal system , so that the central administration is important in policy-making terms and policy is tending to go more and more towards the centre , but the administration of the different states , federal states , what they call the Länder , has a very important executive role , and the central government has a much less important role in actually carrying out policy . |
| 26 | The law , ‘ All planets move in ellipses around the sun ’ , is scientific because it claims that planets in fact move in ellipses and rules out orbits that are square or oval . |
| 27 | In such cases the phase information is superfluous because it is implied in the plot of the amplitude behaviour and only the latter is required . |
| 28 | This conceptual inflation tends to reduce the effectiveness of the idea by playing into the hands of critics who maintain that the concept of dependency is unviable because it closes off the theoretical space for explaining growth and development , however limited , where it does occur . |
| 29 | Aintree says puckishly that this arrangement is reliable because it depends on people 's judgement , but it is also a hoaxer 's charter . |
| 30 | The traditional finish is French polish , which is so-called because it was invented by a French cabinet maker in about 1825 . |