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

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1 English was chosen , not just because the majority of its students are female , but because it is generally looked upon by commentators ( e.g. P. Scott 1984 ) , as the ‘ central liberal discipline ’ .
2 The study of technology is important in its own right , but it also deepens our understanding of a society as a whole because it is intimately connected with the way in which people are organised and the structure of their economy .
3 And that this , according to ancient legend , is because it is largely made of gold ? ’
4 The inversion of the unison ( the octave ) is omitted , because it is largely avoided in twelve-note music through its tendency to dominate as a tonal centre .
5 In reviewing recent empirical work on women 's consciousness , Beechey ( 1983 ) notes that : women 's class consciousness , because it is largely mediated through husbands ' employment , tends to be weaker than men 's ; many women , under the influence of capitalist and male-dominated ideology , remain unconscious of their gender-related disadvantages ; women 's consciousness probably varies over their life cycle ; and it is fractured and contradictory .
6 It is also a familiar method because it is already required by SSAP 21 to be used by lessees to account for their obligations under finance leases .
7 An addition may nut he able to take up its home address , because it is already occupied by a synonym from some other address .
8 Proviso ( a ) It is difficult to understand this defence because it is already included within the statutory definition of merchantibility as it will affect the description under which the goods are sold .
9 Not entirely that because it is also to do with the mechanism by which government grant is distributed .
10 This issue will be discussed first in this section because it is controversial and because it is also related to the issues of salinisation and soil erosion which will be examined below .
11 Migration ( Figure 4.5B ) has played the key role in these growth patterns — indeed , to a greater extent than might be expected from the overall rates of population change , because it is also compensating for substantial natural decrease in some of the fastest growing counties , principally those noted as retirement areas like East and West Sussex , the Isle of Wight , Dorset and Devon ( Figure 4.5A ) .
12 You probably already know what a larva is because it is also known as a caterpillar .
13 This , he says , is simply because it is well constructed in the manufacturing process , and quality always pays .
14 It would be hard to miss the path out of Thwaite , because it is well signposted by a farmer who has painted " Pennine Way , single file " on every stone or stump available , and why not ?
15 However , as far as churches and some other faith communities are concerned , City Challenge and the new Urban Partnership Fund are of limited significance ; the former because it is geographically limited to small areas of Bradford and Kirklees , and the latter because it is so meagre ; its national total of £20 million equals only twice the annual Urban Programme receipts in our three districts ( £10.8 million in 1992/3 ) .
16 Lakatos 's account was presented first in this book because it is best seen as a culmination of the Popperian programme and as a direct response to and an attempt to improve on the limitations of Popperian falsificationism .
17 At best it provides us with a partial and intensely partisan perspective because it is keenly committed to the view from the top — to the view of those who are more in control than controlled , and who are , therefore , centrally concerned to secure political stability and sustain a particular pattern of economic relations based on the economic order of capitalism and the free market .
18 And the prevailing compensation structure in practically all businesses reinforces this attitude because it is heavily biased towards managerial positions and titles .
19 It is a controversial establishment because it is entirely staffed by NSA personnel and there has been much local discussion as to whether the station operates in the interests of Australia or only America .
20 The business domination variant regards the state as responsive to a cohesive property-based class of capitalists because it is literally staffed by capitalists or closely associated social groups , especially in the key ( executive and judicial ) decision-making sites ( Domhoff , 1967 , 1976 , 1970 , 1978b ) .
21 Welfare fraud is an ideologically emotional topic , because it is usually expressed in terms of aggregated amounts ( Uglow 1988b ) .
22 Hangman is well known as a spelling game , but it is less useful than it should be , because it is usually played as a pure guessing game .
23 The unpleasantness is stressed because it is usually preceded by an enjoyable activity — eating a meal .
24 This is important , because it is sometimes given as an objection to attitude theories that they can not make sense of subordinate ethical clauses .
25 We must be careful with this argument because it is sometimes based on anatomical studies that have used insensitive methods or only a partial consideration of the data .
26 We have spent some time on the preliminaries , particularly the notation , because notation is essential for communication and because it is often neglected as a stage in attacking a problem .
27 The optimality account of ageing has come to be known as the ‘ pleiotropy theory of senescence ’ , because it is often developed in terms of genes with effects on more than one aspect of the phenotype , in this case on survival and fertility at different ages .
28 I am glad Tom Regan mentioned this word , because it is often used in the wrong sense , as he implied , simply for anyone whose ideals are rather extreme .
29 Even when hunched on the top step , no chink can be seen leaking around the doorframe , because it is perfectly insulated with foam plastic strip .
30 This is because it is chiefly used for steam raising in power stations and industry and , particularly in the former , it will continue to be replaced by coal and nuclear power .
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