Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [adj] because it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is quite clear , sir , that on the existing allocations , thirteen years to go , that the figure of nine thousand seven hundred dwellings , if you want to stick by that figure , my view it should be lower because it has too much an assumption for migration in a constrained area , if you want to stick by that figure , the nine thousand seven hundred will be reached without a new settlement , of that I have no doubt whatsoever . |
| 2 | He explained to me that it must be stronger because it contained stronger bonds and more of them than any previous material . |
| 3 | Anyway , as I say , you must be careful because it will run out . |
| 4 | Again , the placebo could be powerful because it meets some psychological need for attention and treatment . |
| 5 | However , this need not be the case : the lower surface gravity of Mercury could be responsible because it confines ejecta blankets and secondary craters closer to the primary than is the case on the Moon . |
| 6 | the means , which the defendant uses to inflict loss on the plaintiff , may be unlawful because it involves conduct wrongful towards a third party . |
| 7 | First , it may be necessary because it is impossible or inappropriate to rely on specimens of breath for one of the reasons specified in section 7(3) . |
| 8 | For what it is worth , I think he may be right because it is possible to find objects in space from remembered information . |
| 9 | Contracting may be effective because it makes evasion difficult , facilitates communication , and offers rewards to the patient . |
| 10 | Thus , the use of tax records means that income may be missing because it is not taxable or not declared ( the adjustments made to reported income are discussed by Pechman and Okner , 1974 ) . |
| 11 | An act of ill-treatment may be significant because it has a serious effect upon the child . |
| 12 | Or a semantic constituent may be untestable because it is completely determined syntactically , like — ness in His kindness was overwhelming , and thus does not participate in any contrasts at all . |
| 13 | They say it would be cheaper because it would avoid the difficult tunnelling terrain of waterlogged sand and gravel which has prevented the building of Tube lines to much of south London . |
| 14 | A new contributory scheme of this kind would be expensive because it must be generous enough to lift people off means-tested supplementary benefit ; and it would still leave them entangled in a cohabitation rule of some sort . |
| 15 | No , but it would be nice because it 's an extra one on the list . |
| 16 | 9 ) Polyurethane varnish would be suitable because it is hard wearing , easy to apply and wo n't cover up the grain of the wood . |
| 17 | ‘ I know fighting Bowe would be exciting because it would be a rematch of the Olympic final and no doubt he 'll be gracious enough to give me the chance to fight him again , ’ he jibed , tongue in cheek . |
| 18 | He further argued , or at least implied , that to permit a ‘ non-catholic ’ to adopt children would be wrong because it might put such children 's eternal salvation in jeopardy ( Whyte 1980 : 188–9 ) . |
| 19 | The setting of targets would be wrong because it would mean exercising positive discrimination , whereby not necessarily all jobs would go to those with the right and proper talents to do them . |
| 20 | The contracting phase will be unsuitable because it has no strong thermodynamic arrow of time . |
| 21 | So below an area with a very high biological activity , where there 's a very large amount of calcium carbonate raining down , the C C D will be deeper because it will take that much longer for this material that 's rained down to actually dissolve . |
| 22 | This way of seeing the development of databases can be misleading because it should not be implied that either each new generation will replace the previous generation ( all these systems will be used for some foreseeable time in the future ) or that each new generation is necessarily better than the previous one ( the appropriateness or otherwise of an approach will depend on the organisation and its applications ) . |