Example sentences of "[coord] 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 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 .
22 And because it keeps them busy …
23 After re-packing her case , she fervently hoped for the last time , she had a wash , and because it looked sunny and warm outside dressed in a skimpy vest with a blouse over the top , and a rather strange Fifties-style skirt covered in poppies .
24 Undertaking an obligation to obey the law is an appropriate means of expressing identification with society , because it is a form of supporting social institutions , because it conveys a willingness to share in the common ways established in that society as expressed by its institutions , and because it expresses confidence in the reasonableness and good judgment of the government through one 's willingness to take it on trust , as it were , that the law is just and that it should be complied with .
25 The crop must be cut before it is dead ripe to avoid shedding of grain , and because it does not stand in the sheaf to harden , it usually requires artificial drying .
26 Mud is today rejected because of the inegalitarian social plan of most developing nations and because it does not allow housing professionals any control over the housing process , and indeed would make them largely irrelevant .
27 This is a purely inductive method , tempting both for its simplicity and because it does without unobservables .
28 What it most certainly is not , is ownership by national or local public authority : and because it does not look to the Government as its banker and so imposes no liability on the public sector borrowing requirement , it provides no levers for a hypothetical State economic planning agency to handle .
29 The first example describes , and because it does not comment , appears to legitimise the hierarchical organisation of labour in offices , with the majority of workers on lower pay than the minority .
30 And because it assumes that gender differences are biologically or culturally fixed , it is especially likely to neglect psychological or social differences between women , to take female subjectivity as defining feminism , and to treat psychology as a form of social action in itself .
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