Example sentences of "to [noun] because it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Hugh Rushton , Research Director for the Philip Kingsley Trichology Clinic , believes that hormone replacement therapy ( HRT ) is very effective in restoring condition to hair because it maintains a better balance of hormones , particularly oestrogen . |
| 2 | And that we have an obligation to listen to noise because it shows us the grim truth of reality . |
| 3 | The Government wants to reduce productivity payments to dentists because it says they 're treating too many patients.The move has been described by one dentist as appalling.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 4 | The Government wants to reduce productivity payments to dentists because it says they 're treating too many patients.The move has been described by one dentist as appalling.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 5 | We may succumb to flattery because it makes us feel good . |
| 6 | And , attempts to encourage greater accountability and competition between authorities have tended to flounder because it has been accompanied by a higher degree of centralization and control and a wider gap between the possibilities of locally generated finance and overall levels of spending . |
| 7 | The North Berwick line enjoys a spectacular claim to fame because it has at some time or other in its history been powered by every possible form of motive power ; horse , steam , diesel and electricity . |
| 8 | Risk is costly to individuals because it reduces their utility . |
| 9 | I have never met anyone who objected to capitalism because it relied on the freedom of the individual to buy and sell , to produce and innovate , to save and invest . |
| 10 | Psychological needs Some of us give to charity because it appeases our guilt . |
| 11 | An alternative view is that s.64 is restricted to explosives because it falls within the part of the Act dealing with explosives . |
| 12 | Many people are attracted to Yugoslavia because it offers such great value for money . |
| 13 | But she made no move to leave , so I had to say not at all , I 'd gone to bed because it seemed the warmest place . |
| 14 | The answer to this question is of concern to government because it has responsibility for managing the economy in the interests of the community . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , the bureaucracy , both civil and military , grows from strength to strength because it does fulfil the requirements of the post colonial state . |
| 16 | Somewhere here were the contributions of Duroc 's ancestors : a series of articles co-written by Pierre Henri Duroc and Donatien Alphonse Francois , Marquis de Sade , speculating on the limits of the human mind when confronted with endless pain ; some transcripts from the meetings of Robespierre 's Committee of Public Safety , in which the fates of some of the first families of France were decided on a whim ; a suppressed account of certain discoveries in a pre-human city that came to light in 19th-century French Equatorial Africa before the cyclopean stones mysteriously sank into the soft jungle earth ; Cauchemar et Fils , Maitres des Mondes Perdues , an unpublished novel by M. Jules Verne that was purchased from the author by a Great-Great-Great-Uncle and consigned to obscurity because it described a steam-driven engine to open up a gateway to a world of dreams that bore a remarkable similarity to a device that the Duroc of the time had indeed developed . |
| 17 | Or in fact you go to London because it happens to be in reverse |
| 18 | Its secession , however , would be a blow to Serbia because it controls the narrow strip of Adriatic coast that includes the rump federation 's only commercial port and naval base . |
| 19 | This tree is familiar to botanists because it has the largest seed known , as well as one of the largest leaves . |
| 20 | I want to welcome obviously particularly er the order relating to Wales because it confers on Wales er one additional seat , giving us five altogether because of the rise in the Welsh population over the last ten years and that er although Wales was under represented under the previous erm er you know distribution of seats which gave us only four we will be slightly over represented when we have five because you simply ca n't have four and a half seats , it 's got to be one or the other but since the Welsh population is continuing to rise very rapidly then it is likely that that will be put right . |