Example sentences of "because it is [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The problem with ballet is it alienates people because it is culture .
2 Erm I do n't necessarily think that a road running through that area would increase development pressures and basically because it is greenbelt , it 's not going to development pressure .
3 Because it is Japan 's turn .
4 • Understanding : Every member is encouraged to UNDERSTAND the meaning of the mission today through reading the magazine , Missions and Missionaries , given free to all members , so that there will be a growing realisation that the Church is Catholic because it is missionary , and that without the missions the Church would not be itself .
5 Because it is ripstop , and fraying is therefore limited , pinking shears would only be decorative and not at all necessary .
6 ‘ What I mean is , that whereas poetry — Shakespeare , for e–ample — can have tragic themes without merely upsetting the audience — because it is poetry , a higher plane of existence than normal life …
7 Just because it is 21°C ( 70°F ) beside the hotel swimming pool does not mean that the weather is the same in the hills — it may well be raining there or the mist may be descending .
8 Everything was very legitimate and above board , but we had very specific requirements of what we wanted this representation to be , because it is life size .
9 The US still wants its verbal support because it is cover for American policy in the Middle East , but that 's all it is .
10 ( Australian silky oak ) because it is drought resistant
11 Trust is an overriding consideration of all policemen and women , because it is part of the team basis by which police work gets done , whether formally in terms of managerial expectations or informally within the occupational culture ( Holdaway 1983 : 1 15 ) , but it is particularly important in the RUC .
12 So some horses are unfriendly because it is part of their genetic makeup , and other horses are unfriendly due to lack of proper handling when they are young .
13 But because it is part of the school ethos ( for teachers and pupils alike ) that it is embarrassing to show that you have been hurt , people remain mostly unaware of the pain that these mundane disparagements cause .
14 By way of reply , Strawson can of course fall back on his belief that this is not true of our commitment to reactive attitudes because it is part of ‘ the general framework of human life ’ , which can not be given up .
15 Because it is part of the shared assumptions of the discourse participants that these discourse subjects exist , they do not need to have their existence asserted in the discourse .
16 It is because it is part of the structure of attitudes to possess such unrealized , implicit potentialities , that the implicit aspects can be termed the unstructured pan of the attitudinal structure .
17 I can not change my feeling because it is part of my upbringing — I feel that the English culture is being swamped .
18 The men and women in the national health service go into our hospitals and work exceedingly hard , not necessarily by choice , but because it is part of the work that they undertake to do .
19 The verb in a sentence such as The sun shines brightly is not deictic in the sense that the verb to come is , but is nevertheless deictic because it is part of a system which relates specific entities to reference points .
20 First of all the British Met Office erm receives information from all over the world , and it is able to do this because it is part of a massive weather organisation called the World Met Organisation , and this is linked by very , very high-speed communications worldwide .
21 Mr Murphy also raised the issue of why Navan Resources wished to mine andalusite when it can be manufactured more cheaply than it can be mined : ‘ Maybe because it is gold — there is gold there but the problem with gold is getting it out , because that is a very difficult process which involves the use of cyanide as a metal wash ’ .
22 ‘ But we shall not be altering our style of play just because it is Swansea .
23 If states wish to solve problems of unemployment , then military expenditure is not a very effective method because it is capital rather than labour intensive .
24 But because it is Kiev it looks as if many truths , many pasts , will continue to co-exist there side by side .
25 Independent scaffolding : So called because it is self supporting and not tied in to a structure except as temporary restraint .
26 It is often supposed that the steam does something because it is steam .
27 I do n't think there is an overall meaning to be got by the symbolism of hands , though they are used many times to mean different things with many characters though in some cases what makes them symbolic is because it is hands that are being referred to and not another part of the anatomy .
28 ‘ That history , because it is God 's history , is a purposeful line ; but because it is human history as well , it is also a zig-zag one . ’
29 Because it is autumn again , and the frosts have arrived , they are knocking up a spot of cider .
30 Actual details of food are fleeting : menus flash up , dishes make a brief appearance and the thief wonders why there is salt in the custard ( because it is Hollandaise , naturally ) .
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