Example sentences of "[noun] because it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Salesman : ‘ sorry , guv , you 'll have to take a black Datsun because it does the same job , and is cheaper ! ’ |
| 32 | The husband does not like the car because it does not reflect his status . |
| 33 | The man who kicks his car because it refuses to start ( and he has not checked the petrol gauge ) is not unlike the toddler who kicks the table for walking into him . |
| 34 | *John wound up the toy car because it went . |
| 35 | There had once been a row at Goodwood when the scrutineers rejected Colin 's car because it did n't have a fireproof bulkhead . |
| 36 | Furthermore democratic socialism was feared and detested by doctrinaire Marxists because it offered planning in conjunction with freedom . |
| 37 | The terminology of fractions and strata has proved popular amongst Marxists because it provides a framework with which divisions within the working class and capitalists can be analysed . |
| 38 | Given that an investment in a financial asset is expected to yield a stream of cash flows into the future , the term structure of interest rates enters the APT equation because it describes the relationship between the cost of money and the period in which cash flows are expected . |
| 39 | Since I knew that I was to have the privilege of addressing this seminar , I have studied with great textual care the document issued by the federation under the title Dear Fellow Citizen because it appeared to me that it was ‘ the brief ’ for what I was to say to you . |
| 40 | In the past , Sun has turned over high-end graphics products to third parties because it has deemed growth at the high-end of that market to small to warrant its continued investment ( UX No 357 ) . |
| 41 | In old age he used to regret that he did so well in the classical scholarship because it caused him not to read history . |
| 42 | ‘ We need him as president because it takes him off the streets , ’ said his close pal , David Leopoulis . |
| 43 | It 's got a nice little swimming pool although evidently it looks really nice on the photograph because it looks like a big rectangular one . |
| 44 | is that traffic calming or is it town centre enhancement because it happens to be in the middle of the towns . |
| 45 | The case was reported in the Washington Post of Jan. 11 as one of the most closely watched of the judicial term because it tested the authority of federal judges , once they had found discrimination , to ensure that it was remedied . |
| 46 | This dust is sometimes called fines , and it is also called soil but this is a poor term because it implies an organic component , which is absent . |
| 47 | It is often called the appel à la Résistance , which is an apt term because it implies an analogy with the speech of 18 June 1940 . |
| 48 | Military expenditure is dysfunctional for the domestic economy in the long term because it leads to low investment , lowers overall growth performance and encourages high unemployment and balance of payments problems . |
| 49 | This is a key result because it covers the cases of most interest : the solar system effects and simple black holes . |
| 50 | Harry , director of a well-known Nottingham car hire and sales company specialising in vintage machines , chose the Fouga as his first jet warbird because it seemed the most appropriate aeroplane for his skills . |
| 51 | Your pistons are aluminium because you want a light weight because it going up and down , and if it 's very heavy when th the connecting rod wants to pull it back down again it will want to carry on straight out through the top of the cylinder head . |
| 52 | Even though he had been expecting it — hoping for it , really — he resented the interruption because it broke his chain of concentration . |
| 53 | Sharing is characteristic of a certain kind of non-competitive egalitarianism because it eliminates the possibility of debt ( cf. |
| 54 | Beware of resorting to a visual aid because it seems to look impressive . |
| 55 | A curious mixture of shade , energy and colour , it transcended most of the other material on the album because it contained one of the group 's main strengths — a great chorus . |
| 56 | Assessment may provide the foundations for an intervention programme because it describes an individual 's strengths and weaknesses , irrespective of the presumed underlying causes of those difficulties . |
| 57 | First , Europe 's defence needs are already satisfactorily met by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation , which is inherently more effective than any alternative because it includes the transatlantic nations . |
| 58 | Of all the goal categories , this one includes the largest variability because it reflects an individual 's experience in a socio-economic environment . |
| 59 | Fibre is important to us in healthy eating because it provides filling food without being fattening . |
| 60 | The Educational Institute of Scotland has organised industrial action because it argues that the new school is still basically Bellarmine in a different building . |