Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] [adv] [verb] because " in BNC.

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1 The transperitoneal approach to the gall bladder is usually avoided because of the risk of intraperitoneal bile leakage or bowel perforation .
2 Hard thinking is indeed required because the kind of information which science is dealing with and seeking to extend is quite literally mind-boggling .
3 The link with the University College is further strengthened because the present Principal of the College , Dr David Morris , also holds the appointment of Professor of Agriculture at University College , Aberystwyth .
4 Gameplay is naturally limited because of the very nature of the type of game .
5 It is not just that dealing with Old Age Pensioners who have reported missing budgies falls outside the definition of what counts as ‘ real ’ police work , the work is also disliked because it is problematic , for policemen need to display competence in the way they convey sympathy while admitting that nothing will be done .
6 Hobson 's work is mainly remembered because Lenin used it to construct his own , quite distinct , theory of imperialism .
7 At the same time an ‘ open-style ’ management is also valued because that will further negotiating skills .
8 Sometimes it is difficult to tell whether a ceiling is badly cracked because people cover them up with ceiling paper or tiles .
9 Not all of the intercrystalline porosity that has been generated by late leaching is necessarily preserved because the host dolomites appear to have been compacted as leaching progressed , reducing the final porosity of the rocks ( Fig. 22b ; Clark 1980a ) .
10 The Nutcracker suite in this charming 17th-century inn is so called because the low-ceilinged doorway has an exposed beam which has caught out the unwary and cracked a few heads in its time .
11 Private ownership is also justified because by permitting individual property owners to pursue their own self-interest in a competitive market it is argued that we achieve an optimal allocation of society 's resources .
12 LOST-WAX casting is so called because the object to be cast is first modelled in wax ( over a clay core if the casting is to be hollow ) .
13 The right is further diluted because licences are available as of right during the last five years .
14 In agricultural history it is evident that a macro-economic overview is necessarily limited because we have no usable index of agricultural rent over any considerable period .
15 The CO heat of adsorption is thus raised because of strengthened metal-CO bonding , although the C-O bond will , of course , be weakened .
16 However , error introduced into digital map databases through the digitizing process is often ignored because the characteristics of digitizing error have not been fully defined and because no practical means of handling input data uncertainty exist within proprietary GIS software .
17 The hon. Gentleman is also mistaken because he has ignored the fact that in the past three years alone , £10 million of Department of Trade and Industry money has gone to the assisted area in west Cornwall .
18 It appears that this procedure is rarely used because of the ignorance and fear of disgruntled clients and because there appears to be a generally high level of satisfaction with the services provided .
19 However , it could be argued that an organisation is badly structured because it is poorly managed , and even if it were restructured , poor management would continue to depress the organisation 's performance — ie. performance may not be attributable only to structure .
20 Title is never extinguished because of its age of course .
21 Experience is likely to show that this optional page is rarely completed because the extra costs have to be passed on to clients .
22 But although it is such a widespread condition , endometriosis is often overlooked because it can only be diagnosed by a minor surgical procedure called laparoscopy ( the insertion of an illuminated instrument through a small incision in the abdomen ) and many suffers do have problems getting their GPs to refer them to a specialist who can do the these for them .
23 The wart-biter is so called because when first described by the Swedish naturalist Linnaeus , it was used by his native peasants to bite off their warts .
24 Hill climbing is so called because it is like what one would do to find the top of a hill in a Scottish mist : Keep going up .
25 Workers in Japan do tend to have fewer employers in the course of their career than in the West even though the comparison is somewhat distorted because of the concentration of lifetime guarantees in the large firm sector .
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 The significance of autonomy ( or rather the threat of its loss ) in relation to crime control is generally recognised because of its association with imprisonment .
28 In principle , repetitive work is best left to automatic machines but the flexibility of human performance is often needed because slight changes are required either to modify the product or to cope with different materials .
29 Monotony is often caused because the voice is ‘ all on one note ’ and has no change of tone .
30 The coat-of-paint approach is doubly mistaken because it suggests that fundamental issues of social justice , democracy and political and economic power are not raised by the struggle against racial subordination .
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