Example sentences of "because [pron] can [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because nothing can travel faster than light , an object that can vary its output of energy within a period of a few days can be at best a few light-days across . |
| 2 | No , he must have said something first , now I come to think about it , because I can remember very distinctly the way he spoke . |
| 3 | But for a big landscape , a plane is a major advantage because you can cover much greater distances . |
| 4 | I 'd have tuna fish , I 'd have ham , everything because you can eat as much meat you could sit down and eat cabbage , swedes , runner beans , cauliflower , peas every vegetable |
| 5 | Driving your car when you could have walked is like cheating at cards — you do it because you can get away with it . |
| 6 | Because we can read aloud entirely novel letter strings such as slint , however , there must be a second procedure by which reading aloud is achieved : a non-lexical procedure . |
| 7 | This is because we can read only of anti-religious work as described in party documents and , from 1925 onwards , in the reports of the local League of the Godless . |
| 8 | May we not fall into the temptation of thinking something is right just because we can get away with it . |
| 9 | Well , if we draw stumps and do n't go to them and somebody writes to the Chief Constable and says I 'm very disappointed that your force no longer is gone A L O's then I shall be very happy that that letters received by the Chief because we can say well we told you so . |
| 10 | The arts are especially important and effective in arousing spiritual awareness because they can speak directly at a feeling level , as well as being free from any slavish dependence on religious ideas which are often rejected out of hand by secularists . |
| 11 | only reason I 've got one of these bloody poxy Hotpoint because they can fit right underneath erm into my kitchen unit . |
| 12 | Interestingly enough I also heard recently that takes patients from a private hospital , the , because they can give far better treatment than the private sector . |
| 13 | But pigeons must possess some other compass sense as well as the sun , because they can navigate correctly on overcast days , when the position of the sun is invisible . |
| 14 | Although viruses , plasmids , and transposons are relatively simple , they are probably not primitive , because they can replicate only inside living cells , using some of the machinery of those cells . |
| 15 | Chlorinated organic solvents pose a particular threat to groundwater quality because they can penetrate quickly and deeply into an aquifer as a dense plume if spilled in significant quantities , and they then dissolve slowly into the groundwater . |
| 16 | Constantly in fear of losing their jobs and joining the massive ranks of the unemployed , but an employment is bankrupt in this country , unemployment caused by Tories and which we all know brings suffering to our people , and let's face it , how long is the rest of Europe going to put up with Britain attracting overseas companies because they can get away with abusing and underpaying our workers ? |
| 17 | He 's probably going to do well on Capitol Hill , because he can relate well to those kinds of people just like Carter Brown ’ . |
| 18 | I 've said before that Gary is not a great guitarist because he can play fast ; he 's a great guitarist and he can play fast . |
| 19 | Of all the men of different nationalities I 've met and of all types , I have found good and bad in each , but my favourite still remains the Frenchman , because he can lie so convincingly . |
| 20 | Light is often used as a metaphor for God because it can convey both the presence and the unapproachability of the divine being . |
| 21 | ‘ Flying planes can be dangerous ’ is the type-sentence of semantic ambiguity because it can yield both a passive and an active interpretation , and here a variation is used to demonstrate the danger of paying too much attention to public opinion . |
| 22 | If anybody if anything survives because it can chew better or gallop better or bring forth it 's young alive or has a better circulation , it 's not the species . |