Example sentences of "to [be] [vb pp] because it [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | It has to be crossed because it offers the second-greatest prize in nomination delegates , but it is almost impossible to clear the field without some casualties . |
2 | I , I 'm always reluctant to put down specific methods of writing new procedures , or who 's responsible for it , or where it 's got to be done because it depends entirely on what it 's about . |
3 | This balance , which celebrates the survival of Black communities in situations of great hardship , whilst not losing sight of the economic circumstances in which urban poverty is generated , needs to be emphasised because it undermines the pernicious popularity of cultural stereotypes . |
4 | ‘ You do n't want to be healed because it means you do n't have to justify running away . ’ |
5 | The appeal for tolerance by gesturing to lists of Famously Artistic Homosexuals is one of the classic tropes of gay self-justification — it goes ‘ Sappho , Michaelangelo , Shakespeare … and me ’ — and it needs always to be resisted because it seeks to extend contemporary definitions of sexuality back to incorporate historical periods when categorizations of the sexual were quite different . |
6 | Reformers knew that the peasant commune stood in the way of economic diversification in the countryside , but felt that it had to be retained because it served to protect the interests of peasants against those of outsiders . |
7 | There is no need for such work to be abandoned because it does not feature explicitly in our programmes of study and , indeed , it would be the opposite of our intention if this were to happen . |