Example sentences of "[coord] because it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I cried over that old letter , that fragment of academe , because it said in part what I had wanted , then wanted and still want to say to you and only to you , and because it expressed in part some of the physical ache and fear and disappointment I had felt , then felt and still ( in an increased measure ) feel . |
| 32 | And because it allows more tests in less time , mathematical modelling has become an essential tool for aircraft designers . |
| 33 | The German engineers last week agreed that they had met problems with the clay earth , which had proved unstable because of burrowing by rodents , and because it dries out in the summer . |
| 34 | And because it takes several months , and often a year or more , before a lender seeks to repossess , the 1991 repossession figures reflect the interest rates charged in 1990 . |
| 35 | On the whole speculation is frowned upon because it sometimes drives prices up in a monopolistic fashion ( through the cornering of some market ) and because it creates volatility ; yet where the speculator is a skilled trader in risks he is part of the system . |
| 36 | Madam , Nearly two million of us belong to the National Trust because we believe in what it stands for , and because it offers us superb value for our annual subscription . |
| 37 | The vole had eaten seeds and nuts and because it sensed the long winter to come it had eaten a little of everything : acorns , hazels , haws , hips , sweet catkins , sour apples , sharp sloes , soft blackberries . |
| 38 | The idea of class conflict has been the bane of serious medieval social history ; for it obscures the very powerful forces which unite local communities , whatever their social complexion ; and because it parodies the nature of medieval conflict . |
| 39 | The board agreed to Crocker 's demands because it believed that the bank was well managed , and because it knew that the Midland did not have the management strength to tackle retail banking in an entirely alien environment . |
| 40 | The centre piece of the act is the onymous toad , unique among the frogs and toads because it has lost the horny pads ( the so-called nuptial pads ) that grow on the male 's hands during the breeding season and because it mates on dry land rather than in water . |
| 41 | " I felt threatened by Marxism because it was the doctrine of a friend , and because it cut across our friendship " , noted Sartre . |
| 42 | After-care was considered necessary in order to ease the employer-employee relationship and because it added ‘ the personal touch which is the breadth of life to this and every form of charitable effort ’ . |
| 43 | ‘ The Blue Angel ’ was made in Germany in 1930 in both German and English versions , and because it became a world-wide smash hit , it remains one of the best-known and best-loved movies of all time . |
| 44 | Opera was rejected in the 60s because modernism found its dependence on human emotions embarrassing and messy , and because it seemed politically inept — a medium housed in monuments to the establishment and inadequate for the expression of political ideologies . |
| 45 | I did it for a bet — with one of my uncles , his side being that I would n't stick to anything — and because it seemed as good a way as any of getting away from home , but I was not uninterested and I have not forgotten my subject . ’ |
| 46 | I chose the example I did because it gave an important history of another library , Glasgow , and because it had also belonged at one time to the Guildhall Library , which had passed it on to them . |
| 47 | The weather became very bitter up here and because it had been a bad summer I had kept two of my cattle in the byre by the house all the time . |
| 48 | It was quite a lengthy questionnaire and because it had to cater for teachers whose experiences of SSE had differed considerably , for some teachers was not easy to complete . |
| 49 | And because it had that name she did n't link it up to other terms like masturbation or whatever . |
| 50 | Other arts play their part ( film and theatre , for example ) but reading , because it involves the self in such an intimate and exposing way , and because it penetrates to and engages our unconscious , is particularly potent . |
| 51 | And because it seeks to arouse , porn eroticises immorality which makes it especially dangerous to those who worry about these things . |
| 52 | And because it bears our Panda insignia it will help to spread the message about our work when friends and colleagues see you using it . |
| 53 | It 's completely cordless so it goes where you go , and because it operates on both batteries and mains , you 're not tied to the nearest plug . |
| 54 | Because of the perceived importance of the Munn approach and because it represents a parallel exercise at defining a national framework , we turn to a more detailed examination of it next . |
| 55 | Entry to this body was much sought after by wealthy young men , because of the prestige it conferred and because it guaranteed proximity to the Emperor . |
| 56 | At the moment the synthetic wood is two to three times more expensive than natural wood , but Collins and Aikman believes that the product can nevertheless be competitive because of the savings on incineration or dumping costs and because it lasts three to five times longer than wood . |
| 57 | James Thorne 's discussion of the long-standing debate over the interpretation of Robert Frost 's " stopping by woods " is instructive precisely because , among other things , it recognises the limitations of a stylistics that aims , or claims , to be objective and exhaustive , and because it highlights the need to be selective in description and open to the coexistence of multiple meanings in interpretation . |
| 58 | This difference is clearly illustrated in the work of Michael Riffaterre , my example of the stylistics of self-reference , which is interesting both for this reason , and because it contains a forceful criticism of and alternative to Jakobson 's linguistic poetics . |
| 59 | This is a problem both in its own right , and because it reflects the relative lack of all forms of power that women have in contemporary Britain . |
| 60 | This approach places a heavy emphasis on the institutions of the state alone ; it describes institutions and institutional relationships in suffocating detail ; and because it focuses on constitutional " law " quite uncritically it tends to see the connections between state and society formally , simply , and legalistically in a way that ignores informal patterns of power in society and economy . |