Example sentences of "because it [vb -s] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fourth point is the one that requires the greatest skill because it presupposes that you apply the hook at precisely the right time . |
| 2 | The EC gets irritated at the mention of fraud because it fears that it weakens the Commission 's hand in GATT talks . |
| 3 | The Labour Party supports considerable state intervention because it considers that it is more important to divide the cake more fairly , even if this means having more allocative inefficiency and a smaller cake to share out . |
| 4 | Japan , which has no fossil fuel reserves of its own , wants to stockpile plutonium because it believes that it can develop the technology to transform it into plentiful and cheap electricity . |
| 5 | The health authority , one of the 30 most efficient in the country , is consulting on third-wave trust status because it believes that it can give a better service to patients and local people on that basis . |
| 6 | However , there is an equally wide body of opinion , expressed mainly by manufacturing industries , which oppose such a move because it believes that it would disrupt the long period of uninterrupted production between the August holiday and the Christmas break . |
| 7 | Like the unit in Pembrokeshire , it has done that because it believes that it can satisfy the Secretary of State on four points : first , that such a move would show benefits for patients ; secondly , that it would improve management capability ; thirdly , that clinicians would be involved in management ; and , fourthly , that the trust has a future of financial soundness . |
| 8 | The model is referred to as the ‘ grandmother cell ’ theory because it predicts that we should have populations of cells in our brains that fire only when we see our grandmothers . |
| 9 | No I think it could save lives , because it means that we have immediate access er to what 's going on and so on rare occasions , life and death decisions can be made down the telephone . |
| 10 | This suits other banks because it means that they can earn interest on surplus funds , knowing at the same time that they can get them very quickly , at call , if necessary . |
| 11 | Being a writer is in itself a type of contradiction because it means that you are both an actor , a participant in the world and also an observer , an interpreter , a maker of meaning . |
| 12 | So in fact a high score is , is quite good because it means that you recognize what your preferences actually are . |
| 13 | Not simply because it shows that you are enjoying yourself at that moment but because it actually contributes to your physical and mental health . |
| 14 | It is a revealing remark , because it shows that he does n't think of himself as being in the business of constructing anything like sentences , though a film sequence is a sort of visual sentence , composed of standard elements inflected in an infinite variety of ways . |
| 15 | The use of I in the paraphrase suggests moreover that it is the speaker who somehow sees himself before the infinitive event because it implies that he has not yet realized his desire . |