Example sentences of "because it [vb -s] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a lie is unkind because it keeps false hope alive , as well as preventing the child from coming to terms with the parting and the inevitable grief . |
| 2 | Also I mean er we take your point and we 've made it before Ken that there 's a real danger of asking for a report from someone like Professor Gower and then picking it , instead of actually taking the whole thing because it does actually add together in some sort of coherence erm and had Professor Gower 's report been an exception in this entirety , we may not have been had the pleasure of having you back again today , but thank you very much , er all three of you for coming points so clearly |
| 3 | Also I mean , we take your point and we 've made it before Ken that there 's a real danger of asking for a report from someone like Professor Gower and then cherry picking it , instead of actually taking the whole , because it does actually add together in some sort of coherence erm and had Professor Gower 's report been accepted in its entirety , we may not have been had the pleasure of having you back again today , but thank you very much er all three of you for coming . |
| 4 | Detecting the sink is particularly useful , because it enables quicker centring to be made . |
| 5 | Erm desk is a bit of a funny one because it 's just got the K. |
| 6 | It 's simple because it 's just got three at the top . |
| 7 | Water , water everywhere but not a drop to drink — because it 's all gone down the sink ! |
| 8 | They would n't , because it 's only gone up a penny like , there 's nothing to stop them putting it i , up two penny ! |
| 9 | ‘ Only one on this bike because it 's only got one seat ’ , ( Simon 4.3 ) . |
| 10 | It 's black because it 's still got a lot carbon in it . |
| 11 | Local politics is understood as being difficult to manage from the centre , because it reflects locally generated demands , through local democratic institutions ( including political parties , community groups and other local interest groups ) . |
| 12 | Prokofiev 's solemn and doom-laden funeral march finally stamps the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet because it has already echoed through each stage in the unfolding of the plot . |
| 13 | Constitutional authorities are critical of the established constitution precisely because it has somehow allowed , and not limited , the emergence of the pattern of party politics and state intervention which they regard as so disastrous for Britain and her economy . |
| 14 | They only feed the cuckoo because it has successfully manipulated their behaviour . |
| 15 | Dr Mann , a leading American psychiatrist , has written : ‘ The church has failed me and most of my patients , because it has never discovered the secret of community fellowship . ’ |
| 16 | Britain has been denied this freedom because it has never had a truly commercial broadcasting environment . |
| 17 | Women because they are weak and stupid and live in the shadow of men and are nothing compared to them , and the Sea because it has always frustrated me , destroying what I have built , washing away what I have left , wiping clean the marks I have made . |
| 18 | He explained that the district hospital has developed a strong sense of community service , partly because it has always had to find ways of reaching a scattered population . |
| 19 | with these posts as well , because it has actually stated we have employed an Environmental Officer . |
| 20 | The example of Theravada Buddhism is the most important because it has explicitly taught that there is no Creator God , yet Buddha has been turned into a father-like figure in popular devotion against the best intentions of the monks . |
| 21 | On the whole , however , I believe that , though school assembly should cease to be compulsory as an act of worship ( largely because it has long ceased to be that anyway ) , there should be a place in the timetable for the compulsory teaching of Christianity , as long as Church and State are linked . |
| 22 | Mansfield Park , for example , is no less a great house because it has recently arrived , or because the income that supports it is drawn from the West Indies and not from its own land . |