Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] because it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus William Gilpin remarks in 1791 that Petworth House is badly situated because it does not lie at the centre of its park , but at an extremity , where it is elbowed by the churchyard ; Repton , whom Mr Rushworth thinks of employing at Sotherton , explains that proximity to a village may lessen dignity . |
| 2 | Enforcing such a duty against a person who refuses to pay damages is morally justified because it implements the moral rights of the defamed . |
| 3 | Despite some significant developments by BBC and Marconi engineers , the system still did not give better quality than 78rpm discs ; it only succeeded because it gave longer running-time , and it had lower running-costs because the tape could be magnetically erased and reused . |
| 4 | I was often called Hamlet because I so resembled my father 's appearance in his most famous film , the ‘ Coronation ’ Hamlet , so named because it had been released in Coronation year . |
| 5 | i.e. Theobald 's Road , leading from Southampton Row to Gray 's Inn Road , north of Holborn , east London , so named because it led to Theobalds in Hertfordshire where King James I had a hunting lodge in the early seventeenth century . |
| 6 | The next one was the Castle ford , so named because it lay directly under the castle rock , although almost two hundred feet below . |
| 7 | This bird is so named because it incubates its eggs in a mound of rotting vegetation . |
| 8 | The model is so named because it describes a mechanism designed to compel managers to act in the shareholders ' interests which depends on vesting owner-like rights in the shareholders , as mentioned , to appoint , monitor , and replace the most senior tier of management and to make certain other fundamental decisions . |
| 9 | In re Polemis [ 1921 ] 3 KB 560 was wrongly decided because it had held that once liability was established , a person was responsible for the direct consequences of his acts even though these were not foreseeable . |
| 10 | The original American ‘ Airknocker ’ — so called because it sounds exactly like an old vintage motorcycle — was powered by Aeronca 's own E-113C 40 hp engine , but the British C-100 version used a licence-built version of the famous horizontally-opposed twin , built by J.A.Prestwick Ltd. and designated the JAP-J99 . |
| 11 | So called because it dips automatically should a car approach from behind with all lights blazing . |
| 12 | Cellular radio is so called because it divides the country into small areas served by a radio base , and then divides each of these areas into ‘ cells ’ . |
| 13 | On into the Room Without a Name they had passed and through to the room it communicated with , the Room of Astonishment , so called because it had a cupboard in it with a little staircase inside that wound its way up into the loft . |
| 14 | Robert is team leader in the black back cell at the Coventry factory , so called because it deals with tiles that have a black PVC ply in the lamination . |
| 15 | Having set the backlight , bring in the key light , so called because it provides the photographic modelling and sets the general level of exposure . |
| 16 | Positive bias , so called because it has the effect of increasing the accessible success area of the catastrophe surface , results from a cultural environment orientated towards systems and standards , analysis and risk avoidance in R&D programmes . |
| 17 | This will be much appreciated because it saves agency staff time and effort in trying to find you work unnecessarily . |
| 18 | Currently , the NHS is much criticised because it does not have a comprehensive inventory of its fixed assets . |
| 19 | It would , of course , be fiercely resisted because it gives back power to the people . |
| 20 | Despite these encouraging results this technique was not widely adopted because it proved time consuming , generally insensitive , did not localise the neoplastic lesion , and was associated with false positive results . |
| 21 | The dislike of enquiry desk duty , because of its boredom , is thus compounded because it involves dealing with these sorts of incident . |
| 22 | The logarithmic technique is not normally used because it requires an extra search for every power-of-two increase in the number of records , while a higher-level index only needs to be built when an index has reached three or four tracks in size . |
| 23 | It is reported that the Seiko wordlist , for example , can always be easily identified because it accepts M-O-W-S-E as a correct spelling of the word ‘ mouse ’ ! |
| 24 | General relativity , on the other hand , was largely ignored because it seemed too complicated mathematically , was not testable in the laboratory , and was a purely classical theory that did not seem compatible with quantum mechanics . |
| 25 | The Design centre finally failed because it became too elitist and alienated the general public . |
| 26 | Besides , an idea is n't always abandoned because it fails some quality control test . |
| 27 | He sought resolve and found a little and went to lie down on the bed to read a paperback of Anna Karenina , which he had always fancied because it had a scene on a railway platform . |
| 28 | It shows up , for instance , when working out the path followed by Mercury — the planet most affected because it passes closest to the Sun . |
| 29 | This none-too-creditable story is probably included because it forms part of the family-tree of the ( later ) royal house , from which the Messiah himself was descended ( Matthew 1:3 ; Luke 3:33 ) . |
| 30 | The teaching of geometry has also declined because it has become increasingly fashionable to focus on ‘ achievable objectives ’ : children work steadily through textbooks and workcards . |