Example sentences of "[adj] because [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is appropriate for spectators to applaud successful strokes in proportion to difficulty but excessive demonstrations by a player or his partisans are not proper because of the possible effect upon other competitors . |
| 2 | Whether or not the analogy of the firm as a cooperative family is a realistic one for the majority of labour , this idea forms a crucial part in the ideology that Japanese industrial relations are different because of a longstanding preference for conformity to group consensus . |
| 3 | The situation in the islands is now fundamentally different because of the existence of Comhairle nan Eilean — the Western Isles Islands Authority — which has much greater resources both for investigating local problems and doing something to solve them , than any voluntary organisation possibly could , but the question remains whether the technique devised by the Lewis Association still has validity . |
| 4 | Before leaving Butterworth v. Kingsway Motors it should be noted that if the same facts ( i.e. involving a motor vehicle ) were to occur again today , the result would be different because of the Hire Purchase Act 1964 , Part III ( see paragraph 5–40 above ) . |
| 5 | Where a continent moves towards a subduction zone associated with an intra-oceanic island arc the consequences are rather different because of the resistance of continental crust to significant subduction . |
| 6 | To the enthusiast , the loss of no less than fourteen locomotive designs was countered by the application of highly distinctive sector liveries , all the more interesting because of the number of attempts made before the final choices were made . |
| 7 | The ‘ rational ’ and utilitarian planks of the success of the Green Movement are also interesting because of the burden they place on the importance of good science . |
| 8 | The Supreme Court decision in Dames and Moore v. Regan537 is especially interesting because of the large number of potentially affected individuals , including the hostages detained in Tehran , foreign and American banking interests , commercial enterprises with dealings in Iran , and government agencies . |
| 9 | The combination with videodisc players is particularly interesting because of the ways random access can be exploited . |
| 10 | The " time risk " illustrated in the drawing is interesting because of the inevitability of failure : the risk is shifted to the estimation of the length of time that might elapse before that failure . |
| 11 | They are minor , in the sense that one meets them relatively infrequently , but they are also quite interesting because of the linguistic sophistication they reveal in the usage of the ordinary speaker . |
| 12 | He says that no , the pond is n't just full of green slime and mud , there are thousands of tadpoles , which in themselves are interesting because of the way they metamorphose . |
| 13 | But um also in the eighteen century , the eighteenth century is quite interesting because of the way in which sexuality was conceptualised then . |
| 14 | The early emigrants went to Brazil and the Portuguese African colonies ( popular because of the common language ) . |
| 15 | Mr Daly said the hostel had proved to be popular because of the range of facilities offered . |
| 16 | Although the traditional approach is precisely this , Professor Preston argues that it is no longer adequate because of the effects of secularisation on Western society . |
| 17 | They were sitting on the terrace outside her curved stables-cottage , watching the sun go down over Capability Brown 's vista , uninterrupted because of the ha-ha ( however did it get that name ? ) — and they were talking , over glasses of wine , about poetry . |
| 18 | Going down the cinder path to the screen in the dark , with our one feeble torch , was always horrendous because of the rats scuttling across the path . |
| 19 | Irish detectives arrested James Rudman at a remote farmhouse in Co Kerry last month , just an hour before he would have been legally free because of a loophole in the law . |
| 20 | I regularly argue with the Table Office that we can table amendments to Bills which make provision for orders that are amendable because of the census legislation . |
| 21 | The junior Dog is a very small constellation , but is unmistakable because of the presence of Procyon , which is one of the nearest of the bright stars ; it is 11½ light-years away , and is the equal of 11 Suns . |
| 22 | This situation is not recognised over the major inversion centres of the Sole Pit and the Cleveland High because of the insufficient amount of Tertiary subsidence . |
| 23 | By comparison , on Gibson 's Flying V guitar , the bridge pickup has to sit rather high because of the effect the tune-o-matic bridge has in raising the height of the strings above the body , which I 've always thought looked and felt a little clumsy . |
| 24 | The personal rewards for primary nursing are high because of the closer relationship with a relatively small number of clients . |
| 25 | Eighteenth-century trumpet parts were written very high because of the impossibility of obtaining scale-wise passages on the natural instrument except amongst the very high harmonics of the series . |
| 26 | However , it is possible that the dust ages are erroneously high because of the loss of the initial isotopes other than by radioactive decay ( section 2.1.15 ) . |
| 27 | This would not necessarily occur for the risk ratings since these may have been initially quite high because of the drivers ’ unfamiliarity with the car when giving the first ratings . |
| 28 | Not so high because of the glass but because it 's got to have double folding shutters . |
| 29 | But top British and continental clubs were not simply interested because of the astonishing success of the Milk Cup in Northern Ireland . |
| 30 | The church is very light because of the large , decoratively traceried windows . |