Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] because [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are obvious reasons why not , but its absence contributes to a continuation of failed projects because authors make heroic assumptions and quantify them to produce fanciful targets . |
| 2 | And that 's money we have to spend , and it in a way that was a controversial decision because members of the Council were genuinely concerned about spending money on what might be seen to be central services , when they were having to face not improving staffing in elderly persons ' homes . |
| 3 | Men are also able to gain the lion 's share of the floor in cross-sex talk because women provide them with ‘ hearer support ’ in the form of minimal responses ( like mhm , yes ) and questions — when you ask someone a question you cede the floor to them . |
| 4 | The closure would probably have to be done in stages , eg one weekday a week to start with , though that could be worse than total closure because motorists would switch to local roads for one day , but total closure might force them to switch modes altogether . |
| 5 | They say that they are following this course because bookshops are essentially ineffective in expanding their market and that it is unreasonable for them to be restricted to selling their product to us alone . |
| 6 | However , there are many exceptions to this rule because animals need to tune into the frequencies important for their survival . |
| 7 | I only ask this question because devotees of this composer have probably never been in a better position to acquire a good cross-section of his output on disc . |
| 8 | To blame an individual doctor for making a diagnosis of child sexual abuse because adults find anal abuse difficult to understand and accept has serious implications . |
| 9 | There are always severe difficulties in comparing the tax systems of different countries because taxes and tax allowances take various forms in different countries . |
| 10 | And then we had the er the battledress was issued , the khaki , and erm we was had our head headquarters were started , the headquarters were started in an office at , one of the office rooms at the at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company by the , the top offices we used to call them , by the gates , we had one of the rooms there for and it eventually became the armoury when we got some equipment because rifles etcetera was in very short supply after Dun Dunkirk So eventually we had a few rifles and er when the er we got a few rifles and er the sirens went it was the practice at the beginning when the sirens went in this area for everything to stop and everyone down the shelter but it happened four or five times , everybody realized how non-productive this was , that the time that was lost and there was nothing happening in this area so it was decided by the R T B that we , the , the people off the shop floor would n't stop work until the attack was really imminent or it had started because if this , this was happening all over the Midlands area and of course if you , if you multiply that by the number of people at work you can imagine how much production was lost erm and also when the sirens went Major at the factory used to get the chappies out from off the shop floor , get the few rifles we 'd got , take we in to King George 's playing fields there was a , a brook running across King George 's playing fields then , it had n't and a trench which was extended to stop er aircraft from landing in King George 's cos it was just a big open space . |
| 11 | The demand curve DD measures the marginal social benefit because consumers equate the value of the marginal utility of the last unit to the price . |
| 12 | And finally , it provides enhanced security because passers-by ca n't see what is on the screen . |
| 13 | ‘ The thing is , ’ explains Derry , ‘ that women to us and women to you are two different things because women in the Forest are like something out of , uh , they 've all got that sort of hillbilly vibe about them . |
| 14 | Contract hire is the more popular method because vehicles are exempt from special car tax and VAT but remain the property of Motability Finance who pay for the car insurance , servicing and maintenance . |
| 15 | ‘ It is generally thought from talks I have had with other chairman that there will be between 600 and 800 players released at the end of this season because clubs are seeking to trim their wage bills . |
| 16 | Make the most of British pork because prices are low for the time of year . |
| 17 | Noble argues that the technical performance of the two systems in their development phase was similar but that the NC system was adopted in preference to the record-playback system because managements preferred the tighter control given to them by the NC system ( Noble 1977 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ But the Federal Communications Commission has recognised that mirror equivalence is an entirely unrealistic standard because telecommunications systems , markets and regulatory regimes are constantly evolving and can not be identical . ’ |
| 19 | They were treated in this way because birds might be able to acquire the skill simply by coming across an already opened milk bottle . |
| 20 | A placebo controlled trial does not present this problem because subjects give informed consent , but regularly in case-control studies subjects are not told the true reason for the study for fear that the study will be biased . |
| 21 | Large families began to threaten this prosperity because expectations of consumption kept rising while costs of children , especially for middle-class education , also rose . |
| 22 | It works in the high street because suppliers are trying to sell more washing machines and videos than there are customers wishing to buy them ; the firms are therefore forced to compete on both price and quality , to the benefit of the consumer . |
| 23 | Recent work by Zeki ( 1983a , b ) shows that Land 's theory is of more than theoretical interest because cells in area V4 have properties compatible with it whereas cells in Vl do not . |
| 24 | Bodies evolve integrated and coherent purposefulness because genes are selected in the environment provided by other genes within the same species . |
| 25 | It is generally agreed that Japan possesses many of the institutional characteristics of other capitalist societies , but these institutions do not produce the same degree of impersonal alienation because subordinates are regularly consulted and authority is ‘ soft ’ and legitimate . |
| 26 | Cattle may be short in specific areas because finishers have already pushed through everything they have got before they are hit with the complications of the subsidy system . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's good to be just one of a group of comedians doing warm up sometimes you do ten minutes one night I had to do six hours because things were n't ready . |
| 28 | Need for official reserves Because governments have frequently intervened in foreign exchange markets , the operation of floating exchange rates has , like the adjustable peg system before it , required the availability of official reserves . |
| 29 | They 're claiming almost half a million pounds in compensation , plus extra damages because bailiffs were sent into their shops . |
| 30 | I 'm firmly convinced that if we had been operating under the old style of management , making a consensus decision , the clinicians would have got to their clinical representative and said there 's no way we want that — we want everything twice as big and gold-plated taps because patients will die , etc. , and their rep would say , " I 'm sorry but it 's completely unacceptable to my colleagues ' . |