Example sentences of "[adv] because [pron] [is] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps because it is situated not far from the Belgian border where stone is more readily available , it is a richly decorated late Gothic cathedral , definably Dutch in treatment but Belgian or French in design . |
| 2 | One can ask : does he mean that the horizontal moon , perhaps owing to some magnifying effect of the earth 's atmosphere , actually presents a larger appearance than the meridian moon , or does he mean merely that it looks bigger , perhaps because it is seen in a context of trees and houses ? |
| 3 | Experience suggests , however , that attempting to tackle such problems sympathetically may be more likely to lead to an embittered and protracted dispute ( perhaps because it is seen as an admission that there may be doubt as to whether expulsion is really justified ) than acting decisively and impersonally , refusing to be drawn into arguments with the partner whose expulsion is sought . |
| 4 | Specialist skills , apart from technology/computerization , did not figure very highly or very uniformly in responses , perhaps because it is felt that these are widely catered for already . |
| 5 | There is a tendency to make sentences unnecessarily complex , perhaps because it is thought that a convoluted structure makes them seem more formal . |
| 6 | In 1985 however , the Law Commission did recommend that a marriage entered into by a man or woman domiciled in England and Wales should not be invalid merely because it is entered into under a law which permits polygamy , provided that neither party is already married . |
| 7 | So , instead of toying with a carrot and lettuce leaf , 30-year-old Julie tucks into a delicious , three-course meal at a smart London hotel , declining chocolates and coffee only because she 's given up caffeine . |
| 8 | Only because it is assumed that if people understood the system in which they were involved they would not put up with it , and it would not go on . |
| 9 | All discourse is more or less reciprocal , if only because it is based upon assumptions about receivers . |
| 10 | However , by focusing exclusively on girls , researchers have ignored the important premise that gender has any cultural meaning only because it is based on difference ( Hollway 1982 ) . |
| 11 | Like the donkey it is despised by its enemies and mistreated by its friends , but only because it is bound to be treated unfairly when it is seen unrealistically . |
| 12 | Physics was chosen as a representative subject , not only because it is studied by so few women , and is therefore a typically masculine discipline , but also because it tends to be regarded as the most objective , rigorous and , indeed , successful of the pure sciences . |
| 13 | To understand the world one is in is to understand where it came from , and how it came ; and it is only because it is understood , or thought to be , that one can aspire to change it . |
| 14 | Agency working has aroused interest in Britain not only because it is concentrated in particular local and occupational labour markets but also because of the special status that agency workers have in employment law . |
| 15 | Backed by a combination of sticks and carrots , the advice often gains credibility only because it is taken . |
| 16 | What these contradictions add up to is the paradoxical point that the ‘ frozen moment of loveliness is more dynamic than the fluid world of reality only because it is frozen ’ , that art is more vivid than life only because it is not alive . |
| 17 | Does he agree that gas is better not only because it is transported through its own pipelines and therefore takes transport off the road , but because it is green-clean and thermally more efficient ? |
| 18 | We would n't turn it down because it 's made from new materials Indeed we welcome the use of such material in the countryside |
| 19 | And all because he 's determined to crush whatever spirit of independence Peter has . |
| 20 | But our language is constantly changing and what is correct is only so because it is accepted as such . |
| 21 | 2. it will do so because it is undertaken with such a belief ; |
| 22 | But Crosby wo n't see them in reserve team action tonight because he 's set to be away on scouting business . |
| 23 | SIR — Just because something is made in Japan does not mean it is wholly reliable . |
| 24 | Those who do love Frank ( and they are legion ) love him just because he is humiliated and embarrassed : they love him because he is vulnerable . ’ |
| 25 | And not just because he 's affronted at the idea of a dragon beating him over 100 metres . |
| 26 | ‘ Just because she 's produced over a thousand scripts and books ? ’ |
| 27 | Just because she 's read some trashy paperback she thinks she 's some kind of expert on the modus operandi . |
| 28 | Medved is right in attacking Hollywood for double standards in its defence of sexist rap music as the music of the streets , just because it 's made by blacks . |
| 29 | Notice how this is exploited in a Scottish radio advertisement for an automatic bank system that goes : ‘ Would n't it be helpful to have a bank that was n't shut just because it 's closed ? ’ |
| 30 | Foucault is critical of such a theory not just because it is based on a science/non-science distinction which for him is simply the product of a particular discursive formation which claims access to the real , rather than involving any epistemological questions of truth or objectivity , but also because it produces the notion of ideology as a secondary mediation ( as in Althusser 's interpellation ) in an inside/outside structure between the determinants of power and the individual subject . |