Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] because it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But money matters because it enables the elderly to continue to retain the power of choice in many areas of their lives , to defend themselves to some extent against the ‘ slings and arrows of outrageous fortune ’ and to enjoy a well earned retirement with dignity . |
| 2 | So erm y'know there 's a sense in which some people feel rather suspicious of this sort o y'know the family dynamics type theories because it draws attention away from the responsibility of the people who actually do the abuse . |
| 3 | The implicit view is that walking is irrelevant to city transport problems because it does not cause pollution , or accidents , or noise , or congestion : it is not a problem as such . |
| 4 | Haldane and Hogben 's Marxism made them critical of pedigree studies because it taught them that biological determinism should be supplemented by economic determinism . |
| 5 | The EC is blocking pork and beef imports because it claims that American slaughterhouses are unsanitary ; the Americans are blocking some wine imports because they have not tested a drug used in its production . |
| 6 | The report will also reject the argument that Japan needs special trade sanctions because it operates a different sort of capitalism . |
| 7 | Virtually what it did it came out of the last parish council 's conference which I attended on your behalf and er the Director of Planning and Development , Colin promised to lay on a seminar for parish councillors because it seems to be the one service which always gets criticism at the parish council 's conference . |
| 8 | In most countries , governments have accepted an increasing role in regulating health , safety , and quality standards because it has been recognized that this is a potentially important area of market failure . |
| 9 | Capital matters because it protects depositors ( or , more realistically , the government guarantor of deposits ) should a bank 's loans go sour . |
| 10 | The Government has delayed responding to the need to equalise pension rights because it means equalising State retirement ages . |
| 11 | It has set up a unit to develop OTC drugs because it believes the Government 's health experts want to reduce reliance on prescription drugs as part of cost-cutting measures . |
| 12 | Most other scientists , however , were willing to accept quantum mechanics because it agreed perfectly with experiment . |
| 13 | It 's clean , quick and simple — taking the mess out of cutting flower stems because it retains all the cut stems in the glass decanter until you actually want to discard them . |
| 14 | For example , the vole Clethrionomys glareolus is under-represented in buzzard pellet assemblages because it favours microhabitats with thick vegetation while the buzzard concentrates on the more open parts of the environment ( Append . |
| 15 | Argos can offer goods at lower prices than its High Street competitors because it has n't got as many overheads . |