Example sentences of "because they give " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the light and shifty winds which Conner enjoys , because they give him ‘ leverage on the opposition ’ , Stars & Stripes came from behind on the third leg to gain 65 seconds on Koch 's America to take the lead which Conner clung to tenaciously for a 1min 56sec victory . |
| 2 | ‘ We 're just as keen on ordinary back gardens as parklands , because they give other people ideas . ’ |
| 3 | These are often vital for a beginner , because they give meaning to the tasks involved . |
| 4 | They performed well — many have sustained their popularity for years mainly because they give excellent performance for low cost . |
| 5 | Lung are never short of ideas , but their appeal is seriously limited because they give us a small taste of everything on their creative menu but seldom enough of one thing to really satisfy . |
| 6 | Slugs tend to concentrate in such refuges , presumably because they give protection from desiccation . |
| 7 | But I wanted to do them because they give very good training and will let me work all over the world . |
| 8 | Self regulation through medical audit , postgraduate education , and possibly professional reaccreditation are only a partial answer because they give no input to consumer or management . |
| 9 | Silk in actual fact mixtures of synthetic and natural fibres are very , very good because they give the warmth of the natural fibres plus the erm enduring properties of the manmade fibres which wash and last well , okay , but natural fibres are much , much warmer . |
| 10 | Chris : Because they give you different choices and you can sit with your friends and it 's better … in the winter it 's better than walking home . |
| 11 | Of all types of education , professional courses experience the tension between theory and practice most strongly , because they give considerable if not equal weight to each . |
| 12 | Now good that 's a really brilliant point on any graph to put the units in because they give marks for that , when they see your graph they want to see you 've put the units on . |
| 13 | For the man or woman with a first-class academic brain the administrative posts in the Home Civil Service have great attraction , above all because they give the satisfaction of doing work of paramount social and national importance . |
| 14 | Unlike other family dependants … women are economically dependent not because they need care but because they give it . |
| 15 | It would be well worth you doing that , because they give you , you can almost guarantee a question on graphs . |
| 16 | Elections are said to limit Parliament because they give power to electors who ignorantly demand ever more state intervention . |
| 17 | They differ fundamentally from traditional qualifications , because they give recognition for what people actually achieve at work , rather than merely testing the ability to learn . |
| 18 | The easiest uses to come to grips with are exclamations such as ( 1 ) above , because they give a very clear impression of somehow looking at the infinitive event from a position before : they express a desire or longing to realize the infinitive event , so that ( 1 ) might be paraphrased " I would love to be in England … |
| 19 | Other fluids are sometimes used because they give better values of the governing parameters or because they have properties particularly appropriate to an experiment . |
| 20 | Long words may seem attractive because they give an impression of formality . |
| 21 | Whereas I think cars now , because they give these guarantees on rust , they 've certainly given it a lot of thought , but , I mean there was certainly models that were riddled with problems were n't there ? |
| 22 | In one of his rare public reflective moments , he looked back on the three women in his early life , Mud , Lorraine and June , with gratitude because they gave him a good start , independence and the belief that he could always take care of himself , come what may . |
| 23 | I decided to keep them in the count because they gave an interesting sidelight on the history of lending libraries in England with some specific examples , and there were not too many of them . |
| 24 | It was Chapman 's second foreign tour ( after Northampton 's German visit of 1909 ) and he became a firm advocate of overseas ventures , because of their publicity value and because they gave an opportunity of displaying the English soccer style to foreign audiences . |
| 25 | I felt happier about the British teams because they gave the impression that they were more concerned about the victim than the vehicle . |
| 26 | I say ‘ solitary c. ’ because they gave me a little ward of my own , but it was anything but uncomfortable , as they gave me a treatment which ‘ private ward ’ patients in Britain might envy , except that the food of course was Chinese , and they insisted on giving me 5 meals a day , so that I had some trouble getting my appetite back to normal . |