Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] because it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should it be abolished either because its use is unjustified or because it has fallen into disuse ? |
| 2 | It is likely that certain crimes have increased not because people have become more dishonest but because it has become easier to commit such crimes . |
| 3 | It 's going to be very strange , but I love all that because it gives me so much more of a challenge . |
| 4 | Spenser 's A View of the Present State of Ireland was written during 1596 but because it advocated far more severe measures than Elizabeth 's government would tolerate it was not allowed to be published until 1633 when it appeared in a somewhat watered down version edited by Sir James Ware . |
| 5 | To confuse the order of these levels or to omit one or more of them is dangerous — not because our faith is then invalid but because it does not rest on the strongest available foundations . |
| 6 | A dismissal may be unfair either because it was procedurally arbitrary or because it lacked good cause . |
| 7 | 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 . |