Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [is] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because he is of the establishment — yet , like Greene , he operates on the margins ; because he is outwardly well presented and benign yet at the same time frequently boiling with rage ; because he writes a crystalline yet subtly dandified prose which does n't give up secrets easily . |
| 2 | But again Dostoevsky is fumbling after a creative or regenerative suffering , because it is of the essence of Raskolnikov 's questions , desires , feelings , and so forth ( which of course do appear in the novel ) that they should be agonized . |
| 3 | This ‘ separation from ’ approach is the root of such destructiveness because it is of the nature of the ‘ outsider ’ not to care . |
| 4 | Brunner by contrast appealed to the Reformers , and especially to Calvin , in support of his contentions that there is a ‘ general revelation ’ of God in the ordering of the created universe , simply because it is of his making and bears his signature , and that this has its subjective correlate in man , made in God 's image . |
| 5 | The point is worth considering for a moment , partly because it is of relevance to greatly more than the present conceptual issue . |
| 6 | This submission would make a nonsense of the rule that a grant for an uncertain term does not create a lease and would make nonsense of the concept of a tenancy from year to year because it is of the essence of a tenancy from year to year that both the landlord and the tenant shall be entitled to give notice determining the tenancy . |
| 7 | Pameton is little publicised because it is of value only to that small number of people who may misuse medicines . |
| 8 | Hartog and Hull stated that computed tomography of the pituitary does not have a role in cases of moderate hyperprolactinaemia because it is of little value in diagnosing a microadenoma . |
| 9 | If it is in isostatic equilibrium one section of lithosphere will stand higher than another because it is of lower density ( the crustal density or Pratt model ) , of the same density but thicker ( the crustal thickness or Airy model ) , or through a combination of both a lower density and greater thickness ( Fig. 2.9 ) . |
| 10 | This is because it is of the very nature of the protocol that acts adopted under it should not be applicable to the United Kingdom . |
| 11 | Perhaps because it is of the very essence of human beings that they transcend any situation into which they come or bring about . |
| 12 | ‘ They probably make you pay more for it because it 's of sentimental value . ’ |