Example sentences of "because it is [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | His life of action is surely contrasted with the contemplative life of the shepherd and poet , who realize that Man 's past and present state ( 'what we are , and have been' ) is doomed , because it is based upon cruelty and the confining of imagination — surely this is the Cup of Stone , almost a Cap of Stone , laid upon ‘ the living well ’ . |
| 32 | All discourse is more or less reciprocal , if only because it is based upon assumptions about receivers . |
| 33 | The evaluation presented in this section is an interim one because it is based upon viewing the matrix from a rational economic perspective . |
| 34 | In respect of motion one five eight , the C E C is opposed because it is based upon a misunderstanding of the purposes of sectionalization . |
| 35 | I shall deal with the second recommendation first , because it is based upon a complete misunderstanding . |
| 36 | Creating your own designs on the screen does not actually involve any drawing because it is done by plotting a series of points or co-ordinates , which the computer automatically joins up to form a two dimensional shape it is a bit like joining the dots in a dot to dot picture , except that you have to decide where the dots will go and the computer does the joining up ! |
| 37 | Experience suggests , however , that attempting to tackle such problems sympathetically may be more likely to lead to an embittered and protracted dispute ( perhaps because it is seen as an admission that there may be doubt as to whether expulsion is really justified ) than acting decisively and impersonally , refusing to be drawn into arguments with the partner whose expulsion is sought . |
| 38 | Briefly , then , for we shall be returning to this same point later in the book , it can be said that the performance mode itself can be protective , either because it is seen to be mainly a technical or intellectual task , or because the dramatic form is powerful enough to enhance whatever the participants ' contribution might be . |
| 39 | Because it is seen to be of little direct help to teaching , that knowledge and vocabulary is abandoned and left at the college gates as soon as the BEd exams are over . |
| 40 | One can ask : does he mean that the horizontal moon , perhaps owing to some magnifying effect of the earth 's atmosphere , actually presents a larger appearance than the meridian moon , or does he mean merely that it looks bigger , perhaps because it is seen in a context of trees and houses ? |
| 41 | When the issue has not been discussed because it is felt to be too painful to talk about or because it is considered an unsuitable topic of conversation , then there may be problems . |
| 42 | Even at this level , evaluation of the war 's influence is superficial , because it is limited to political , legislative and institutional innovation . |
| 43 | It may then resort to thieving , or whining every time you eat , because it is disturbed with the uncertainty of its own feeding arrangements . |
| 44 | This is vandalism , all the more wounding because it is authorised by the Secretary of State who is supposed to protect Scotland 's interests . |
| 45 | We identify a stretch of language as a text partly because it is presented to us as a text , and we therefore do our utmost to make sense of it as a unit , and partly because we perceive connections within and among its sentences . |
| 46 | Sony 's position is less dangerous because it is building on the foundations of an already established physical format . |
| 47 | 2. it will do so because it is undertaken with such a belief ; |
| 48 | This answer to the problem of overcrowding is not thought to need any further explanation because it is assumed to be the rational course of action : people saw that it was the only feasible thing to do , and acted accordingly . |
| 49 | Albinos of any animal ( even humans ) have poor vision in strong light , so perhaps the Kigoi relies on the hand that feeds it because it is beaten to the foraging by normally-pigmented pondmates . |
| 50 | According to age-old local legends , the meaning of the word Carno comes from a hill in the centre of the Parish called ‘ clorin ’ because it is shaped like the back of a horse ; the Welsh farmers ’ word for the tail of a foal is ‘ torir clorin ’ . |
| 51 | On the face of it , this is offering a commander view because it is reporting on the command of the authority as a whole . |
| 52 | And that 's what 's threatening to people , because it is looking for a direct response ; it 's looking to form a dialogue . |
| 53 | The nail is an indirect object because it is related to the verb through the preposition — on . |
| 54 | One can then say that the mean velocity gradient depends only on u τ and y , although one can not say the same for U because it is separated from its origin by a region in which v is important . |
| 55 | Any prescription of the content or outcomes of teacher development is likely to be controversial because it is formulated from a value-position , but is a specification of process any less contentious ? |
| 56 | Some of the people who complain most bitterly about the community charge are those who discover after their homes have been repossessed that they must pay the charge not only on their new property — because it is imposed on the individual — but on the property which they lost , and which they thought was now the responsibility of the building society . |
| 57 | Gailani reputedly stated in an interview in March 1980 that ‘ as regards the West European initiative we support that part which provides for a withdrawal of Soviet troops ’ but ‘ we do not agree with the proposed neutrality of Afghanistan because it is imposed from outside ’ . |
| 58 | Optical fibre promises also to be cheap , because it is made of sand . |
| 59 | Simplesse does not offer an alternative for people allergic to dairy products because it is made from milk whey and eggs , although tests have shown that the microparticulated proteins in Simplesse cause no greater allergic reaction than the component proteins . |
| 60 | Because it is conducted at a particular point in the year , the spring , the LFS can not be used to investigate seasonal variations in the size or structure of the temporary workforce . |