Example sentences of "[coord] because [pron] [vb -s] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Languages can be learned because the student has a specific purpose for his own development ( such as improving his career prospects ) , or because he has an interest in the culture or the language itself . |
| 2 | The Labour party can not have it both ways : it attacks the system either because it expects people to claim or because it requires a register . |
| 3 | Some people go into teaching with the intention of becoming active in the union , either out of genuine commitment to teaching as a profession , or because it offers a political platform . |
| 4 | Because of the perceived importance of the Munn approach and because it represents a parallel exercise at defining a national framework , we turn to a more detailed examination of it next . |
| 5 | This difference is clearly illustrated in the work of Michael Riffaterre , my example of the stylistics of self-reference , which is interesting both for this reason , and because it contains a forceful criticism of and alternative to Jakobson 's linguistic poetics . |
| 6 | This modern view has come about not as a result of any further substantial constitutional developments — perhaps strangely , or perhaps significantly , the issue has never been seriously tested — rather , it has come to enjoy widespread , although not universal acquiescence largely because Dicey ( following Stephen and an equivocating Blackstone ) posited it as a central feature of the English constitution and because it has a deceptively simple logical appeal . |
| 7 | Kicks , punches and elbow strikes can all be directed at the ball , and because it has a certain amount of give in it , practitioners can get a more or less accurate feeling of how a punch or kick will feel against a human body . |
| 8 | Metronidazole was chosen because of its wide use in gastroenterology ( diverticulitis , small bowel bacterial overgrowth syndromes , sepsis , etc ) and because it has a well defined antimicrobial spectrum . |
| 9 | Remember that a lecturer is usually appointed , not because he can teach , but because he knows a great deal about a particular topic in which he has specialised . |
| 10 | Not because his title count there totals five ( out of 10 ) already , but because he enjoys a challenge that will call for every shot in the book , and some not in it . |
| 11 | The foetus may become handicapped not because it is genetically abnormal or have a metabolic defect , but because it contracts a disease or infection while in the womb . |
| 12 | It is indeed historic , not because reforms of local government have not taken place before — they have done so often — but because it offers a reform of the structure of local government . |
| 13 | In this context , Bryan Gould 's decision to challenge John Smith for the Labour leadership , as our political correspondent wrote last week , is welcome — not because he will win , but because it forces a debate to take place . |
| 14 | You will probably be weighed at each visit , not because there are strict guidelines about weight gain , but because it gives a general indication that all is well if you are gaining steadily . |
| 15 | Thus the religion is adhered to , not because it fully meets a need , and can provide a source of actual enjoyment in worship and other activities , but because it provides a lifeline to be used in emergencies , when all other hopes of help have failed . |
| 16 | The conventional notion of literary ‘ tradition ’ does , it is true , compensate for the lack of an historical overview , but because it implies a common pool of resources repeatedly drawn on by a succession of different writers , it is profoundly antithetical to Formalism and its key principle of defamiliarization . |