Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] because it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some parents will be very upset , in some cases because it cuts across their genuine convictions . |
| 2 | It is a necessary step if IBM is to remain competitive in networked environments because it enables data to move at the same speed between the CPU and peripherals as it moves over Ethernet . |
| 3 | Braille is a particularly useful tool for probing predictions from different models because it depends on fine discrimination of raised dot patterns , and a rule system of contractions . |
| 4 | Miss Bowes said : ‘ There has been an upward trend in rates in the last few weeks because it looked like Labour were going to win . |
| 5 | Earlier in this chapter it was argued that the use of DCF was justified on pragmatic as well as theoretical grounds because it provides a single index of value and avoids the necessity for comparing streams of cash flows . |
| 6 | Goblander was not just an anagram on old banger , it really expressed the way that decrepit old van had of gobbling up petrol as it chugged through the countryside making awful noises because it needed a new silencer . |
| 7 | The proposed broadening of the granting of investment aids for the purpose of protecting and improving the environment ( part of Article 3 ) is to be welcomed although it does not appear to square with the basic investment aid objectives of such plans because it appears to mean that environmental investment per se will qualify for support , even if not part of an agricultural improvement . |
| 8 | In practice , some States ( including the United Kingdom and the United States ) always return the documents through their Central Authorities because it enables them to monitor the implementation of the Convention . |
| 9 | Furthermore democratic socialism was feared and detested by doctrinaire Marxists because it offered planning in conjunction with freedom . |
| 10 | Maxwell 's theory clashed with these generally accepted assumptions because it predicted that light is an electromagnetic phenomenon and also predicted , as was to be realized later , that fluctuating currents should emit a new kind of radiation , radio waves , travelling at a finite velocity through empty space . |
| 11 | One glance at Hannah 's meadows told me that it had very real prospects because it did not have the lush , emerald green appearance of chemically fertilized land . |
| 12 | It also presented him with an interesting little self-discussion about his future prospects because it came when he was on the cusp between low-key acting roles and moderate fame . |
| 13 | He said copyart can be practised by people of differing abilities because it takes little or no skill to produce exciting and impressive images . |
| 14 | Finally , Bennett 's study is a step forward from previous studies because it differentiates between general secondary education and vocational secondary education . |
| 15 | The nature of pollution control work draws attention to these issues because it involves a substantial degree of discretion at field level among staff who are physically dispersed and isolated for most of the day while tending a complex and unpredictable environment . |
| 16 | The European Patent Office has got itself into a mess over these issues because it has proceeded to patent life forms without first examining properly whether the EPC , when interpreted as it was originally intended , actually allows the patents the patent office has granted . |
| 17 | Regulators like these restrictions because it makes it easier to monitor the risks banks are taking ; bankers object to the extra cost . |
| 18 | For more than half the road up you climb between more beech forests — the beech flourishes in these parts because it likes the moisture — and in spring or autumn you get that seasonal effect , whereby the trees that are only starting to turn brown at the foot of the pass are already losing many of their leaves at the top , or alternatively are still half-wintry at the top when already fully greened lower down . |
| 19 | This links itself to the three previous parts because it displays a process which metaphorically or symbolically represents change . |
| 20 | THE owner of a Newtownards pub targeted by loyalist bombers because it hosted folk music sessions has vowed that he will not give in to terrorist threats . |
| 21 | DRDA is also slower at processing multiple calls because it uses IBM 's own synchronous networking protocol , LU6.2 . |
| 22 | DRDA is also slower at processing multiple calls because it uses IBM 's own synchronous networking protocol , LU6.2 . |
| 23 | This has important implications for the study of protein-protein interactions because it demonstrates how one protein can bind to all members of a class of highly variable proteins by means of secondary structural interactions and recognition of highly conserved residues . |
| 24 | Its Win/U answer to the problem is expected to debut as a commercial product by the end of the year and is claimed to be a step ahead of rival technologies because it requires no Windows source code , see page four . |
| 25 | Opren , the anti-arthritis drug , was banned after its large-scale use and Mexico found itself unable to meet its international debts because it had discovered enormous oil resources . |
| 26 | In Asia , the miracle rice was wiped out in many areas because it had not been treated with the necessary chemicals . |
| 27 | It is a fact that the written essay — usually of 400 to 500 words long — has dominated the English language and literature curriculum for many years because it has been seen as the main vehicle for the transmission of knowledge in written examinations . |
| 28 | He did not merely jump on the bandwagon of the great railway boom , but rethought the whole business from scratch and — with sound reasoning — adopted a broad gauge ( 7 feet ) which only had to be converted to the ‘ standard ’ gauge of 4 feet 8½ inches after nearly sixty years because it had become isolated from the rest of the country 's railway network . |
| 29 | I had made them welcome , accepted their nonsensical stories because it did n't matter one way or the other , and then gone obligingly off to bed and left them to their meeting … |
| 30 | That benefits all patients because it takes the pressure off out-patient departments . |