Example sentences of "[adj] because [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's a strange situation , ’ he continues , ‘ When I go and see a band I do feel conspicuous because of my age . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's a strange situation , ’ he continues , ‘ When I go and see a band I do feel conspicuous because of my age . |
| 3 | ‘ It is appropriate for spectators to applaud successful strokes in proportion to difficulty but excessive demonstrations by a player or his partisans are not proper because of the possible effect upon other competitors . |
| 4 | But that previous reinforcement is now represented in my brain : my brain is different because of it . |
| 5 | The situation in the islands is now fundamentally different because of the existence of Comhairle nan Eilean — the Western Isles Islands Authority — which has much greater resources both for investigating local problems and doing something to solve them , than any voluntary organisation possibly could , but the question remains whether the technique devised by the Lewis Association still has validity . |
| 6 | My mother soon began to drum into me the notion that I was different because of my eyesight , and therefore that I should not expect too much out of life . |
| 7 | We are employed for service , wholehearted service to Christ ; and the world needs to see it , to realise that Christians are different because of who our Lord is . |
| 8 | Black kids , at a stage during their latter secondary-school years , begin to feel different because of their blackness . |
| 9 | Whether or not the analogy of the firm as a cooperative family is a realistic one for the majority of labour , this idea forms a crucial part in the ideology that Japanese industrial relations are different because of a longstanding preference for conformity to group consensus . |
| 10 | Diana no longer felt so different because of her parents ' divorce but because a voice inside her told her that she would be separate from the herd . |
| 11 | Mental health is different because of culture and race yet the same irrespective of either . |
| 12 | Before leaving Butterworth v. Kingsway Motors it should be noted that if the same facts ( i.e. involving a motor vehicle ) were to occur again today , the result would be different because of the Hire Purchase Act 1964 , Part III ( see paragraph 5–40 above ) . |
| 13 | Where a continent moves towards a subduction zone associated with an intra-oceanic island arc the consequences are rather different because of the resistance of continental crust to significant subduction . |
| 14 | It was foolish , just to feel different because of her hair , but excitement had begun stirring within her . |
| 15 | ( 3 ) The financial relief accorded to a hirer under a consumer hire agreement following the owner 's recaption of the goods may be different because under s100 of CCA 1974 there are limitations placed on recovery of money following termination in the case of conditional sale and hire purchase . |
| 16 | To the enthusiast , the loss of no less than fourteen locomotive designs was countered by the application of highly distinctive sector liveries , all the more interesting because of the number of attempts made before the final choices were made . |
| 17 | The ‘ rational ’ and utilitarian planks of the success of the Green Movement are also interesting because of the burden they place on the importance of good science . |
| 18 | However , it is interesting because of its paradoxical nature ; the apparent lack of behavioural responsiveness actually conceals very much heightened psychological and physiological sensitivity , with which the sufferer copes by withdrawing into the inactivity of catatonic stupor . |
| 19 | The Supreme Court decision in Dames and Moore v. Regan537 is especially interesting because of the large number of potentially affected individuals , including the hostages detained in Tehran , foreign and American banking interests , commercial enterprises with dealings in Iran , and government agencies . |
| 20 | In addition , Ambrose 's ( 1974 ) classification is interesting because of its emphasis on transport availability and tenure which distinguishes his seven groups outlined in chapter 4 . |
| 21 | I suspect that , apart from being a most interesting fish for the hobbyist , at some time in the future scientists may come to look upon this fish as particularly interesting because of its many divergences from the normal Mbuna characteristics — in its habitat , less boisterous behaviour , relatively mute coloration , size dimorphism , sexual precocity , large brood size and small fry . |
| 22 | The combination with videodisc players is particularly interesting because of the ways random access can be exploited . |
| 23 | in the current climate you see it 's also erm interesting because of course this , this , this sort of theory depends who 's interviewing you . |
| 24 | The " time risk " illustrated in the drawing is interesting because of the inevitability of failure : the risk is shifted to the estimation of the length of time that might elapse before that failure . |
| 25 | erm er it 's very interesting because of course the children grow up probably much more comfortable around people who 've got mental problems than you or I would be |
| 26 | Cheltenham , part of the relatively affluent Southern ‘ sunbelt ’ of the UK is especially interesting because of its semi-rural setting and its traditional ( yet clearly fading ) image as a retirement community for the ex-colonial class . |
| 27 | Namibia is particularly interesting because of its " desert " elephants and black rhinos , which have suffered a recent upsurge in poaching and may become even more vulnerable as the country moves towards independence . " |
| 28 | They are minor , in the sense that one meets them relatively infrequently , but they are also quite interesting because of the linguistic sophistication they reveal in the usage of the ordinary speaker . |
| 29 | The is interesting because of course planning is an eggshells area where you have to tiptoe delicately through the tulips . |
| 30 | He says that no , the pond is n't just full of green slime and mud , there are thousands of tadpoles , which in themselves are interesting because of the way they metamorphose . |