Example sentences of "because [pron] is one of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alix Bowen has always known that she will have to go to the party , because she is one of Liz Headleand 's two closest friends , and she has pledged her support , for what it is worth . |
| 2 | The new editor of The Sunday Telegraph , Trevor Grove , was appointed because he is one of Max Hastings 's closest colleagues , and can mobilise these resources . |
| 3 | Platt has had to wait in the wings because he is one of four foreign players fighting for the permitted three places . |
| 4 | The site is particularly important because it is one of the few such castles to have developed out of an earlier Norman stone-built ring-work fort . |
| 5 | The State is seen as developing as class differentiation increases , because it is one of the tools by which a dominant class maintains itself . |
| 6 | I have discussed active transport at some length , because it is one of the processes on which the maintenance of spatial differentiation in organisms ultimately depends . |
| 7 | Such a circumstance would be most regrettable — and not only because it is one of the functions of education to dispel confusion . |
| 8 | I mention this only because it is one of the dominant features in an inspector 's life , the shadow of which he feels at all times . |
| 9 | It is certainly worth finding , because it is one of the most unusual objects in the sky . |
| 10 | It is a heartening sight , evocative of all the sun and bright colours of Provence ; it is economical because it is one of those composite dishes which you gradually build up , to which you can make additions or subtractions and for which the planning of the colours , flavours , extra salads , vegetables , sauces , becomes perfectly intoxicating — but steady , keep a hold , or you 'll find you 've made enough food for thirty , and you 'll have to order another case of wine and invite twenty more guests … |
| 11 | The first is that the retention by the state of taxes unlawfully exacted is particularly obnoxious , because it is one of the most fundamental principles of our law — enshrined in a famous constitutional document , the Bill of Rights 1688 — that taxes should not be levied without the authority of Parliament ; and full effect can only be given to that principle if the return of taxes exacted under an unlawful demand can be enforced as a matter of right . |
| 12 | If qualification is hard to define , it is because it is one of the fundamental notions that are called on in building linguistic structures ; it is one member of a subsystem which in its essence will actually reduce to three terms : qualification , equation ( on which see Section 1.7 ) , and absence of relation . |
| 13 | This is the first controlled trial of a bismuth enema preparation in patients with distal ulcerative colitis. 5-Aminosalicylic acid was used as the alternative treatment because it is one of the most effective topical treatments available . |
| 14 | If you read Totem and Taboo , and I , by the way I do expect all of you er to read it , because it is one of the set er books , and one of the things I 'm not gon na do in these lectures on the black books , is to tell you what the book says , and just kind of repeat it in the lecture . |