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 | 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 . |
| 6 | There are always severe difficulties in comparing the tax systems of different countries because taxes and tax allowances take various forms in different countries . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And finally , it provides enhanced security because passers-by ca n't see what is on the screen . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Make the most of British pork because prices are low for the time of year . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Bodies evolve integrated and coherent purposefulness because genes are selected in the environment provided by other genes within the same species . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They 're claiming almost half a million pounds in compensation , plus extra damages because bailiffs were sent into their shops . |
| 21 | 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 ' . |
| 22 | One day , soon after he arrived in the dale he had reason to go to another farm and overheard a conversation between two old ladies.p They were lamenting that it was a sad day because outsiders were coming into the dale and taking over farms and was n't it a shame they could n't be let to locals . ’ |
| 23 | But if they can only be anticipated at the end of one of the odd periods , they will have an effect on real output because prices are fixed . |
| 24 | Most New Yorkers probably feel that Egypt is part of Europe , and wo n't want a dirty old European stone cluttering their favourite wilding ground ; others , the more politically correct , will feel that Egyptians have the greater moral claim because Arabs are slightly blacker than they are . |
| 25 | Some would argue that these programmes did not reflect contemporary reality because ministers in the Thatcher administration were generally more assertive than their predecessors . |
| 26 | Company-based amateurism is not real amateurism because owners try to invite excellent domestic or foreign players for their company clubs with the assurance of company works , as Sugawara said in his letter . |
| 27 | For example , does body size have a less important effect on the reproductive success of male zebras than male bovids because zebras fight with their teeth and hooves rather than by pushing ? |
| 28 | The Japanese may avoid explicit objections because politeness demands that the seller does not lose face . |
| 29 | Despite the fall in low-level sulphur dioxide due to the Clean Air Acts , urban rain is still more acid than rural rain because fumes from traffic and oil-fired central heating add to pollution from more distant sources . |
| 30 | But Darren Whitehouse faced a charge of possessing the drug rather than a supplying charge because police believed he was lying to protect his mother . |