Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] because they [vb base] " in BNC.

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1 Now good that 's a really brilliant point on any graph to put the units in because they give marks for that , when they see your graph they want to see you 've put the units on .
2 There are those which are not unlike the polytechnics both because they offer a very high percentage of advanced work and also because they are almost as big .
3 Minimum vacuum standards are used by most of the tube manufacturers today because they need tubes made as quickly and cheaply as possible .
4 It 's hard with family to pull the wool over their eyes emotionally because they have seen you go through all sorts of things when you are growing up . ’
5 Others are amnosics either because they have no sense of smell , or their sense of smell has become temporarily impaired due to prolonged exposure to an odour .
6 Current musical fashion may dictate a leaner , more vital Mozart style , but it would be a great pity to dismiss these beautiful and extremely musical accounts just because they fail to match present-day ideas .
7 and in empirical sorry and in in empirical work we tend to use these nonlinear demand functions simply because they have this nice property that they have constant elasticity , and it makes subsequent calculations considerably easier , and you may think in actual fact that linear demand curves are quite restrictive .
8 Colleagues , I have members in my branches who are unemployed but still pay full contributions not because they have to cos they want to ,
9 Termites resemble ants superficially because they have convergently adopted the same habits .
10 They performed well — many have sustained their popularity for years mainly because they give excellent performance for low cost .
11 Many researchers fail to make the best possible use of libraries simply because they know so little about the bibliographical tools that are available to help them .
12 on that point er would the er minister indicate whether or not the British government supports the attitude of the French government because of course the British government at the time of the Edinburgh summit were wholly in favour of the agreement to require the European parliament to meet both in Brussels and in Strasbourg and therefore I assume that there 's an identity of interest between the British government and the French government on this question since the French government are maintaining their er opposition to the er six extra seats simply because they want to see a new parliament building constructed in Strasbourg , is that a position that the British government supports ?
13 Typically , teachers ask questions not because they do not know the answers , but because they want to test their pupils ' knowledge .
14 Sometimes parents can not answer the questions clearly because they have never thought of observing their child 's behaviour so closely .
15 Shareholders , banks and so on do not necessarily tightly constrain managers essentially because they lack enough information to do so , and this is either a result of some problem in the market for information ( e.
16 Although homoeopathy is appealing to the lay practitioner , and the number of lay colleges is increasing rapidly in this country at the present time , such developments are viewed askance by some of the medically qualified practitioners mainly because they fear that lay homoeopaths will not possess an adequate grasp of basic medical principles — a fear reflected in the recent BMA report on alternative medicine .
17 I have always enjoyed holidays alone because they allow me to do what I want to do and not what someone else wants to do .
18 They have become coordinators largely because they have established their reputations as the first to counteract those years of neglect , but they have themselves suffered more from that neglect than the new generation of community language teachers which is at last emerging .
19 Sometimes it is necessary to take bits out because they need special coaching , but always put them back in context .
20 They decided , according to this writer , to bring up their babies alone because they want to be independent and manage their lives without a man .
21 And they chop someone 's hands off because they think it 's OK .
22 He had an impulse to say , ‘ This is the music of 1988 ; these are our heroes ; that building on the headland is our architecture and I dare not stop my car to help children home because they 've been taught with good reason that a strange man might abduct and rape them . ’
23 Secondly , some variables such as alternative opportunities Β , will affect wages directly because they affect union preferences .
24 The Secretary of State shared this preference for assessment by teachers , but the Conservative leadership was split on this issue with Mrs Thatcher herself favouring nationally standardised pencil and paper tests mainly because they lend themselves to direct comparisons between schools .
25 It is possible , of course , that the depression or anxiety is felt in response to the physical symptoms — rather than being directly caused by the food itself — or that the person experiences certain mental responses to certain foods simply because they expect to do so .
26 Recourse is already had to white papers and official reports not because they determine the meaning of the statutory words but because they assist the court to make its own determination .
27 Similarly , some organisations do not brief employees properly because they claim they do not have the time to do so .
28 It claims many of the 3m British women receiving contraceptives on the National Health Service will not want to take older , cheaper types just because they remain available free .
29 Erm so many people throw marks away because they do n't put thing down things that are obvious .
30 Many exam candidates lose marks simply because they do n't bother to read the question carefully enough and therefore fail to answer the question that 's posed .
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