Example sentences of "[conj] because it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand an ambassador might refuse a present because he thought it insultingly small , because his mission had been unsuccessful , or because it seemed that the monarch he represented was about to go to war with the one whose court he was leaving . |
| 2 | They do n't want to risk a break-up — perhaps for the sake of the children , or because it suits them to be married for other reasons . |
| 3 | A dismissal may be unfair either because it was procedurally arbitrary or because it lacked good cause . |
| 4 | The Labour party can not have it both ways : it attacks the system either because it expects people to claim or because it requires a register . |
| 5 | Some people go into teaching with the intention of becoming active in the union , either out of genuine commitment to teaching as a profession , or because it offers a political platform . |
| 6 | Fundholding poses ethical problems , either because it secures a better service for the patients of a fundholding practice over those whose doctors happen not to hold a fund , or because it does not . |
| 7 | Alternatively there may be a commitment to competition as the appropriate form of economic organization , either because competition is a good in itself , or because it delivers the goods . |
| 8 | Severe actions may be sanctioned against Ireland because it is naturally cursed , or because it needs extreme measures to bring it the fruits of reformation ( desired by God ) , or because it holds some particular horror for England which the English will deserve unless they do something about it . |
| 9 | A node that is in the A2 ( secondary activation ) state ( either because its stimulus has only recently been presented or because it has been activated internally by means of an excitatory associative link ) will not be able to move into Al . |
| 10 | For example , does an animal recoil from a naked flame because it can feel the heat or because it can ‘ see ’ the heat — or because it has some completely different sense that alerts it to the danger ? |
| 11 | To someone without this discriminative capacity , either congenitally or because it has not been developed , a thing can present a blue appearance , but he can not see it as blue . |
| 12 | The Court also considered the reverse situation , where the third party claims that it has become entitled to the benefits of a Convention , either because it has declared itself willing to be bound , or because it has shown its willingness by its conduct . |
| 13 | Should it be abolished either because its use is unjustified or because it has fallen into disuse ? |
| 14 | It examines whether the shareholders of the acquiring firms gain from the takeover because their firm has become more efficient or because it has become more powerful and monopolistic . |
| 15 | Thus in many cases where a buyer seeks to reject goods supplied under a sale contract , it does so because the transaction has proved uneconomical , for instance because the market has fallen , or because it has found a cheaper source of supply ; it may then sieze on any trivial breach , or any ambiguity in the contract , in order to justify rejection of the goods . |
| 16 | Finally , it is quite in order to conclude with a brief mention of any potentially useful information that is lacking either because it is not available to you or because it has never been collected ( but could be ) . |
| 17 | There is a further variation on the above procedure , which is that under section 2 of the 1936 Act steps can be taken at an early stage on grounds of the novelty and importance of the order , or because it deals with matters outside Scotland , to convert the order into a substituted Bill , in which case it goes through both Houses as a Bill and is not dealt with under the standard 1936 procedure . |
| 18 | Hanson buys firms either because it believes them to be under-managed , or because it believes the firms ' existing managers have over-extended themselves . |
| 19 | This is because it explicitly focusses on areas that the organisation may have previously neglected , or because it challenges the organisation to rethink areas to which it had paid insufficient attention . |
| 20 | Severe actions may be sanctioned against Ireland because it is naturally cursed , or because it needs extreme measures to bring it the fruits of reformation ( desired by God ) , or because it holds some particular horror for England which the English will deserve unless they do something about it . |
| 21 | I 'm pleased you think that because it gets me off the hook now . |
| 22 | ‘ I grew up in the country , ’ she murmured , not sure why she had told him that because it had no bearing on the subject . |
| 23 | You might wish to counter that because it takes you longer to go a smaller distance . |
| 24 | to get together and communicate that because it 's set down as target you 've got to do it so you will , you will set the time aside where it 's easy enough |
| 25 | It 's going to be very strange , but I love all that because it gives me so much more of a challenge . |
| 26 | She said , between sobs that seemed to tear her chest open , something that sounded like , ‘ All my fault He knew it could n't be that because it did n't make sense but there was no point in asking her what she had said because she was crying too hard She cried and cried and Nick sat and watched . |
| 27 | The Government will cause that because it has no mandate so it follows that if the Government has no mandate you must resist its attempts to exercise one . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ What I have found in the region is that because it has experienced more downturns than other parts of the UK it has a resilience to the dips the economy may take , ’ he said . |
| 29 | This is thought a better explanation both because it avoids the metaphysical extravagance of non-natural properties , and because it clarifies the relation between moral judgement and action . |
| 30 | And because it keeps them busy … |