Example sentences of "and [adj] because it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The original outline for settlement looks both feudal and foolish — foolish because the men of importance were to be ranged in a tidy hierarchy with outlandish titles like cacique and landgrave , and feudal because it rested on the assumption that the proprietors would get a permanent rental income from politically loyal and economically co-operative tenants . |
| 2 | Baffling because it is all so new and strange , and exciting because it brings the first hint , the first distant suggestion that for women an independent economic identity is possible . |
| 3 | ‘ If we thought it had something genuinely good about it , yes , but a lot of stuff is catchy and commercial because it sounds enough like everything else to be unchallenging and throwaway . |
| 4 | This again met with a cool reception from the other five , first because it might foreclose the question of EEC enlargement , and second because it seemed to seek to push the EEC more in an intergovernmental direction . |
| 5 | This is an important observation : first because it begins to reconcile the geochemical constraints on magma source region with geophysical models of large-scale plume-related magma generation , and second because it confirms the importance of the SCLM as a substantial contributory source region for basaltic magmatism . |
| 6 | This volume however is both unusual and welcome because it deals specifically with the work of Julia Kristeva ; it is informative in so far as it indicates the cross-disciplinary implications of her work , and it maintains a balance between the introductory and the complex . |
| 7 | Depressed and bewildered because it had inexplicably impaired his ability to think and concentrate , he soon guessed that his paralysis and clumsiness would make him always dependent on a wheelchair . |
| 8 | Every surface really does look fresher and brighter because it has been thoroughly cleaned . |
| 9 | He said the Budget was anti-poor and anti-Scottish because it cost 30 per cent more to heat homes in some parts of Scotland than the south-east of England . |
| 10 | The other side of the coin is that it is very satisfying and rewarding because it stretches me in every possible way . |
| 11 | The Procurator-General , however , on Jan. 10 declared this agreement null and void because it contravened an October 1989 ruling of the federal court in Brasília [ see p. 37292 ] . |
| 12 | But the peculiar nature of the relationship between women and men means that women 's struggle for liberation is particularly delicate and difficult because it involves the most intimate facets of life and affects social and personal relations within the family . |
| 13 | How insulting Delia Cope is , obviously she feels too high and mighty to read Spare Rib because it 's become less entertaining , uninteresting , uninformative and boring because it covers Black women 's issues . |
| 14 | It failed in the 1970s and 1980s because it offered no solutions to the new problems of chronic inflation and low growth . |
| 15 | You can help this natural process by using friction to remove the top layer of dead cells , making the skin look clearer and fresher because it enables the surface to reflect the light . |