Example sentences of "[pron] because it [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , in the right circumstances , happiness can be used to motivate the horse to do what we want ; and the horse that does something because it wants to will certainly try harder than one who does something because it is afraid of being hurt if it does n't . |
| 2 | Methylation is now generally recognised as one way of switching genes off , and is particularly interesting one because it helps to explain a crucial but mystifying fact of multicellular life — the differentiation of the genetically identical cells of an embryo into the many different tissues of the mature organism . |
| 3 | I know Japan is the country everyone points to , but it is the favourite one because it happens to show all the deficiencies of forecasting and combatting rivalry that are available . |
| 4 | The ERPS team are very fortunate that this facility is available to them because it has enabled the reconstruction work to be undertaken more efficiently . |
| 5 | This view angered me because it seemed to judge everything in purely monetary terms . |
| 6 | I would n't recommend this one it 's just this is good for me because it 's got sort of |
| 7 | It 's like the story Mum used to read me when I was a kid about the white puppy-dog that got lost and its little girl owner looked everywhere for it and when she found it again she did n't recognize it because it 'd got so dirty it was n't her little white dog any longer . |
| 8 | More than that he was almost certainly looking forward to it because it meant going home to be with the Lord . |
| 9 | Emphasise benefits over features and use a sales vocabulary ( e.g. your production people will like it because it helps to overcome ‘ down time ’ through waiting for the material to set ) . |
| 10 | ‘ They shouted at Trudy to open the till but she could n't open it because it had jammed . |
| 11 | Well there 's the fact that he might have borrowed the money for a ten million pound project , and he ca n't have a use of it because it 's named and he 's paying interest |
| 12 | The Selby approach seems to me to be er look at the land that is allocated which amounts to approximately a hundred hectares in the district and discount a great deal of it because it 's constrained in some way or another , and I 'll come back to those constraints later . |
| 13 | Similarly , if you are in covenant relationship with others in a church , then when such a need arises it is quite reasonable to do it because it needs doing . |
| 14 | sometimes there is a sense of doing it because it needs practising ; |
| 15 | Now he is said to regret it because it has inflamed the Thatcherites . |
| 16 | Society is increasingly helpless to deal with it because it has ceased to be society . |
| 17 | It can not change anyone because it fails to question its status as art and , therefore , its institutional presumptions and presuppositions ’ . |