Example sentences of "[noun] is so [vb pp] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Nutcracker suite in this charming 17th-century inn is so called because the low-ceilinged doorway has an exposed beam which has caught out the unwary and cracked a few heads in its time . |
| 2 | LOST-WAX casting is so called because the object to be cast is first modelled in wax ( over a clay core if the casting is to be hollow ) . |
| 3 | The wart-biter is so called because when first described by the Swedish naturalist Linnaeus , it was used by his native peasants to bite off their warts . |
| 4 | Hill climbing is so called because it is like what one would do to find the top of a hill in a Scottish mist : Keep going up . |
| 5 | Stein 's vis-á-vis instrument now in Verona is so called because the piano and harpsichord it combines face each other . |
| 6 | The model is so named because it describes a mechanism designed to compel managers to act in the shareholders ' interests which depends on vesting owner-like rights in the shareholders , as mentioned , to appoint , monitor , and replace the most senior tier of management and to make certain other fundamental decisions . |
| 7 | Cellular radio is so called because it divides the country into small areas served by a radio base , and then divides each of these areas into ‘ cells ’ . |
| 8 | This bird is so named because it incubates its eggs in a mound of rotting vegetation . |
| 9 | This system is so named because at beast two accounts ( for example , cash , stock , accounts payable ) are always affected by each transaction . |
| 10 | We have since learnt from an unreliable source that Arlo is so named because Mr and Mrs Bez were trying to work their way through a baby 's name book and got bored with it by the end of the ‘ A ’ section . |
| 11 | This pitch is so called because the 2nd Man , when rattling the bag of acid drops , fervently murmures ‘ Amen ’ to any remarks let fall by the leader while struggling with this steep wall of 8 cubits in stature ! ’ |