Example sentences of "be [verb] because it [be] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Oh well it could n't have been carried because it was long di I do n't know how cos I ca n't remember .
2 The Secretary of State 's authority on this matter has been accepted , not out of docility or in the belief that the Secretary of State for Scotland is infallible in curriculum matters : it has been accepted because it is very obviously based on a clear national consensus .
3 Mr. Levy , for J. 's parents , sought to persuade us that the particular order here could be justified because it was only an interim order , designed to ‘ hold ’ the situation for a short period until a full hearing .
4 It is perfectly clear to me and fellow Councillors that a report which is so badly and which so badly uses statistics , can not be received because it is not of sufficient quality for this County Council and support the District Council to use it .
5 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 .
6 The distinction between sheep of hardy and other breeds should be abolished because it is only very loosely related to degree of handicap .
7 Addressing the GPC on March 2 , Kadhafi repeated his suggestion that Libyans generally should be free to organize all import and export trade by themselves , adding that " any organization which takes care of this should be disbanded because it is officially a burden on the state " .
8 But the total flux should not be affected because it is still related to the applied voltage by eqn ( 4.66 ) .
9 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 ?
10 The Criminal Law Revision Committee 's Eighth Report , Theft and Related Offences , Cmnd 2977 , 1966 , 39 , said that electricity could not be stolen because it was not a substance and the Divisional Court held so in Low v Blease [ 1975 ] Crim LR 513 ; instead a separate offence , s.13 , abstracting electricity , was created .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 One had to be destroyed because it was too dangerous to handle .
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 I bought an answering machine — I leave it on all day when I 'm working because it 's quite a foil !
16 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 .
17 b ) In cases where a Default Notice has not been served because it is not required under the Consumer Credit Act , we shall send you a letter of demand , requiring repayment of a specified sum .
18 He says that the council are looking at a number of options , the pool is being considered because it 's very costly to run .
19 Zaire is a huge tropical forest , which is virtually untouched , and not being touched because it 's too inaccessible .
20 If this is done , then the work of individual teachers within the school contributes to the general pattern of pupils ' development , rather than being wasted because it is not adequately prepared for , or followed up by other teachers .
21 This interpretation of the structure of power and the role of the state in modern capitalism has been questioned because it is overly determinist and descriptive .
22 The unpleasantness is stressed because it is usually preceded by an enjoyable activity — eating a meal .
23 It is disliked because it is physically an exhausting activity ; more than any of the other tasks it consists of actions which have to be repeated time and time again with little variation .
24 If a point is missed because it is too deeply embedded in its cultural setting in one place , it stands out prominently and unequivocally in another .
25 Its potential use was limited because it was not absorbed from the gut and so was ineffective if given by mouth , and because tyrocidine , in concentrations liable to occur during therapeutic use , damaged or destroyed red blood cells .
26 Perhaps the decision was made because it was here that Manzoni fell when attempting to negotiate a stairway with more enthusiasm than regard for his age .
27 Poland was condemned because it was not a proper nation-state , but it was condemned for its efforts to become one .
28 Alia , however , in a letter on Feb. 19 to Catherine Lalumière , Secretary-General of the Council of Europe , stated that Omonia was excluded because it was not a political party .
29 The field was chosen because it was superficially very dull — lacking any obvious heterogeneity of contour and relatively homogeneous in soil properties .
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