Example sentences of "[vb pp] because it [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says that the council are looking at a number of options , the pool is being considered because it 's very costly to run . |
| 2 | In the two-roomed apartment on the Rue de Montparnasse , Beatrice kept a ‘ twixty ’ , a bottle of brandy so named because it was never full and never empty . |
| 3 | Despite that it has to be commended because it is not possible to sympathise with the railway 's present economic situation if unnecessary sums are spent on throw away publicity material . |
| 4 | And girls were n't employed because it was n't decent for them to be concerned with sex cases . |
| 5 | Keeping a big horse is expensive ; I know , I 've got one , and when I worked out what he cost me to keep I got to £50 per week and stopped because it was too frightening . |
| 6 | The contagion which spreads from the enemy can be arrested because it is clearly subversive , but how is it treasonable to demand for one 's fellow socialist citizens what is clearly permitted to others ? |
| 7 | If correction techniques are employed upon the list of allowable strings , the intended word may still not be found because it is sufficiently different from the entries in the existing list of allowable strings . |
| 8 | It is also worth mentioning three sets of existing attitudes which have to be overcome because it is always wise to know what you are up against . |
| 9 | Zaire is a huge tropical forest , which is virtually untouched , and not being touched because it 's too inaccessible . |
| 10 | The first ending to Bladerunner , cut because it was too depressing , had Harrison Ford 's detective discovering that he too was a replicant . |
| 11 | Pompeii was not the only town to suffer from the rain of pumice and ash ; the fall-out in fact covered an area of hundreds of square kilometres and several other Roman settlements , but Pompeii was particularly badly hit because it was so close to the volcano and was down-wind of it , so that the ash-laden eruption cloud was carried towards the town by the prevailing wind . |
| 12 | One had to be destroyed because it was too dangerous to handle . |
| 13 | It needs to dry for a full two minutes before you get dressed because it 's quite sticky . ’ |
| 14 | Simply this that any government of any colour , at any level , central or local and any organization charged with the responsibility of meeting the needs of elderly people which proceeds on the tacit assumption or makes the blatant assertion that there is no longer any poverty in Scotland is requiring to be contradicted because it is not true . |
| 15 | Dalgliesh thought of him as a type of police officer less common than formerly but still not rare ; the conscientious and incorruptible detective of limited imagination and somewhat greater intelligence who had never supposed that the evil of the world should be condoned because it was frequently inexplicable and its perpetrators unfortunate . |