Example sentences of "[coord] because [pers pn] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , many crimes go unrecorded , either because they are undiscovered , or because they are not reported to the police . |
| 2 | But unfortunately there are few descriptive accounts of people 's efforts to reduce the likelihood that an event will occur , perhaps because effective responses are self-evident , or because they are not easily assessed by investigators in that successful action will have removed the difficulty . |
| 3 | ‘ ( 1 ) In this Act a ‘ self-regulating organisation ’ means a body ( whether a body corporate or an unincorporated association ) which regulates the carrying on of investment business of any kind by enforcing rules which are binding on persons carrying on business of that kind either because they are members of that body or because they are otherwise subject to its control . |
| 4 | ‘ ( 1 ) In this Act a ‘ self-regulating organisation ’ means a body ( whether a body corporate or an unincorporated association ) which regulates the carrying on of investment business of any kind by enforcing rules which are binding on persons carrying on business of that kind either because they are members of that body or because they are otherwise subject to its control . |
| 5 | To the children who find any sort of role play difficult ( perhaps because it has been discouraged at home , or because they are very shy ) it communicates to them that you approve of such play . |
| 6 | If the citizens of modern London are more productive in a material , measurable sense than those of ancient Athens , it is not because more of them are educated or because they are better educated . |
| 7 | Commons Members unable to attend conference through sickness or because they are abroad on parliamentary business may send instruction to the secretary of the party or to a parliamentary colleague on how their vote shall be cast provided that they send to the secretary on or before the date on which conference opens an explanation in writing of their absence . |
| 8 | As , on many visits to the schools , we argued far into the evening , several Commissioners and their hosts became unclear as to whether Public Schools should be abolished because they were very good or because they were very bad . |
| 9 | That getting married and having children should n't be something you do because your family thinks it 's a good idea , or because you 're not much good at anything else . ’ |
| 10 | Valerie Cass might have resented Michael Banks 's affair with her precious daughter , either because of his age or because she was just jealous . |
| 11 | This could have been the return to the stresses and strains of normal life or because she was no longer taking Arg Nit so I put her on Arg Nit LM1 . |
| 12 | The purchaser will insist on an asset sale either because he has identified significant liabilities which he can not risk or because he is simply nervous as to the general state of the business and the risk of unforeseen liabilities . |
| 13 | Not for the first time she wondered cynically whether she craved Tyler Blacklock because he was tall , darkly handsome and unattainable , or because he was fast becoming a very rich and influential man . |
| 14 | Or because he was still bored ? |
| 15 | Your affairs are ours , and if I do n't believe in it on principle , or because I am not mature enough for publication , neither do I despise ‘ vile money ’ . |
| 16 | Er , I went on to say throughout the ages the government has repealed legislation , there 's nothing new about repealing legislation it is repealed either because it is proved unworkable or because it 's simply outlived its shelf life . |
| 17 | But as I suggested in the last part of Chapter 2 , this difference is not of any great practical significance : whether deviant motivations are taken as given because they express free will ( classical theory ) or because it is not deemed fruitful to attempt their explanation ( control theory ) does not , in itself ; have any practical implications for the subsequent criminological enterprise . |
| 18 | Do you consider any of these to be culture specific : either because the genre does not exist in some cultures , or because it is substantially different ? |
| 19 | The North Sea is obviously so shaped that very strong northerly winds can cause a piling up of water in the southern part of the sea , either because the escape route through the Straits of Dover is narrow , or because it is quite possible for the winds in the North Sea to be predominantly northerly while the winds in the English Channel are predominantly westerly . |
| 20 | But to the men of Kufra whose fathers or grandfathers had settled there because it was so centrally placed on trade routes , or because it was so remote from Ottoman , Italian or British control , ‘ central government ’ appeared indeed as a real force , but as one located — so to speak — in the extreme northwestern corner , in Tripoli . |
| 21 | Mr Clinton has failed to draw clear lines not just because the world , seen from the Oval Office , is complicated , nor because he is congenitally easy-going ; it is also because the structure for effective leadership is not yet in place . |
| 22 | I 've just asked him about the collaborative review the focus is apparently on national curriculum so that means maths , English and , but they want to look ge more general issues and because they 're in on a Wens Tuesday and a Wednesday he said that they would go in a look at , three of them would go in a look at taught tutorial lessons they will want to talk to me about the tutorial programme I would hope that that would involve somebody else cos I 've got the bit of the fence that I sit on and ask one or two of you to give your opinion if , if you 're available . |
| 23 | It is difficult to assess the number of garbage pickers , because this fluctuates seasonally and because they are not really enumerated in official statistics , but Birkbeck estimates that at the time of the study , there were between 1,200 and 1,700 garbage pickers in Cali . |
| 24 | We shall also look at the Cinderellas of settlement studies — hamlets and farmsteads , which have received little attention but are of immense importance because they are widespread and because they are clearly related to both the origins and the decline of villages . |
| 25 | And because they are mostly sociable creatures , academics enjoy slaking their thirst in the senior common room , in campus bars and off-campus pubs . |
| 26 | The ‘ proletarianization ’ of such groups has been stimulated by their rapid post-war growth , and because they are directly employed by large corporations or the state . |
| 27 | And because they are so general , the complementary counterfactual claims are unilluminating . |
| 28 | Computers are becoming more popular every day and because they are so useful , it is important that you learn something about them . |
| 29 | Contact lenses are less frequently prescribed for children than spectacles because physical growth is still taking place and because they are relatively more expensive . |
| 30 | PCs have generally been used because of the cost of procurement and because they are more readily available within the Service . |