Example sentences of "[adv] because it [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one of the Dallachy Strike Wing ( FP November , p29 ) has been less publicised than its counterpart at Banff to the south , perhaps because it operated the Beaufighter rather than the more glamorous Mosquito . |
| 2 | First , it seems that preliminary exposure to the training context can enhance the magnitude of the latent inhibition effect , perhaps because it retards the development of context-specificity ( Hall and Channell 1985 c ) ; second , giving animals extensive exposure to the training context alone after they have experienced presentations of the target stimulus in that context does nothing to diminish the size of the latent inhibition effect ( e.g. Hall and Minor 1984 ) . |
| 3 | High concentrations of the protein kinase inhibitor staurosporine will induce many cell types in culture to undergo apoptosis , perhaps because it blocks the intracellular signalling pathways activated by the extracellular survival factors that many cells require to live . |
| 4 | In the overhaul of government that accompanied the War of the Spanish Succession the servants of Philip V rejected the system of the Great Councils , less because it gave the grandees too much political power than because it was incurably inefficient and incapable of organizing the monarchy for the defence of the French dynasty . |
| 5 | Interval harmony is therefore to be recommended not only because it encourages the horizontal flow of parts and their final resolution into good harmony , but also because the process gives quicker and easier results . |
| 6 | The stored or potential energy in a raised weight can be used , for instance , to drive the mechanism of a grandfather clock though in most clocks a spring is usually more convenient , if only because it stores the same amount of energy which ever way up it is . |
| 7 | Edward VI 's Bill of 1547 encountered a great deal of opposition throughout English society not only because it concerned the chantries but also because it struck at the system of confraternities on which much of medieval life was based . |
| 8 | There are plenty of good reasons why nationalism thirsts for identification with ethnicity , if only because it provides the historical pedigree ‘ the nation ’ in the great majority of cases so obviously lacks . |
| 9 | He opposed raising the age of consent above 13 largely because it violated the right of free choice , and he opposed the provisions of the Bill relating to street soliciting . |
| 10 | National Savings were particularly competitive in the 1980's when emphasis was placed on raising government funds from this source , largely because it relieved the need somewhat to borrow from the banking system which created credit and therefore inflationary conditions , and because of the fear that government borrowing in the long-term capital markets would tend to ‘ crowd-out ’ industrial and commercial companies from that market , and impede their ability to raise funds for capital investment and long-term growth . |
| 11 | This is all the more annoying when one person 's attack was n't valid anyway because it missed the scoring area , or was otherwise unacceptable . |
| 12 | In fact it provides more because it yields the curvature K of any two-dimensional surface . |
| 13 | Devonport has claimed its original bid was provoked partly because it believed the navy intended to centralise nuclear refitting at Rosyth , thus undermining Devonport 's future , and is insistent that its proposal was unsolicited . |
| 14 | The government had to retreat over a plan to sell British Leyland trucks to America 's General Motors — partly because of a rooted popular affection for Britain 's ‘ Land Rovers ’ , partly because it had the air of a Westland mark II . |
| 15 | America lavished $1 billion on Liberia in the 1980s , partly because it provided the freed slaves who settled the country last century , mainly because Liberia gave a home to a Voice of America transmitter , a navigation beacon , a relay station for diplomatic communications , and a huge airfield where arms could be discreetly trans-shipped . |
| 16 | Plundering en route was forbidden , probably because it reduced the speed of the army rather than for any ethical reasons . |
| 17 | Probably because it started the 1980s with a fleet of new 125mph HSTs which had made a major impact on its market , the East Coast main line was far better placed to withstand the rigours of the recession than its West Coast neighbour . |
| 18 | This is thought a better explanation both because it avoids the metaphysical extravagance of non-natural properties , and because it clarifies the relation between moral judgement and action . |
| 19 | Foucault is critical of such a theory not just because it is based on a science/non-science distinction which for him is simply the product of a particular discursive formation which claims access to the real , rather than involving any epistemological questions of truth or objectivity , but also because it produces the notion of ideology as a secondary mediation ( as in Althusser 's interpellation ) in an inside/outside structure between the determinants of power and the individual subject . |
| 20 | The tough love hurts the family member not simply because it involves allowing the primary sufferer to experience the full painful consequences of addictive disease but also because it involves the family member in resisting his or her own addictive urges to " fix " all the problems and manage the life of the primary sufferer . |
| 21 | The dismay was in part because of the anticipated economic consequences of this militancy , but also because it threatened the existing social order of late Victorian England . |
| 22 | Also in Scandinavia was an important study of the mass movement processes on the slopes of Kärkevagge ( Rapp , 1960 ) and this was important not only because it endeavoured to quantify all of the processes that affect a slope in a subarctic environment , but also because it established the relative significance of the different processes and concluded that the most effective agent of removal was running water removing material in solution . |
| 23 | This is a powerful department , partly because of its responsibility for ensuring the financial health of the company but also because it controls the language and format in which the other functions draw up their expenditure plans and report progress against them . |
| 24 | This point is worth emphasizing not only because of its importance in the developing argument to follow , but also because it marks the way in which my use of ‘ the limit of an authority 's rightful power ’ differs from some common uses ( though it conforms with others , including the legal usage ) . |
| 25 | Questioning allows the salesperson to communicate more effectively because it provides the information necessary for the seller to know how to vary his presentation to different buyers . |
| 26 | Schellenberg gasped , mainly because it seemed the right thing to do . |
| 27 | Rather , as the polls came to trouble the Tories , the ‘ troubles ’ suddenly became of interest — purely because it appeared the Conservative Revolution might just be sustained with the assistance of that unlikely revolutionary , James Molyneaux , leader of the Ulster Unionists . |
| 28 | It 's well worth the trouble , though , firstly because it 's obviously ideal for bringing out the bass in small guitars , secondly because it looks just fabulous , and thirdly because it makes the inside of the guitar smell like an explosion in a spice market . |
| 29 | The selection of the 109 tagset is rather arbitrary , being chosen simply because it offered the most distinctive tagset that could be formed from combining the Text710 tagset with the LOB tagset . |
| 30 | In such a world the very idea of research and academic prowess becomes charged with structural ambiguity simply because it creates the potential for outsiders to bring challenging concepts across boundaries which , at other times , are sacrosanct . |