Example sentences of "be [adj] because it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We pray for those who are sad because it has been the first Christmas without a loved one , and who grieve with their memories . |
| 2 | Cox argued that the interception had been unlawful because it did not meet the published criteria regulating such interceptions . |
| 3 | It is quite clear , sir , that on the existing allocations , thirteen years to go , that the figure of nine thousand seven hundred dwellings , if you want to stick by that figure , my view it should be lower because it has too much an assumption for migration in a constrained area , if you want to stick by that figure , the nine thousand seven hundred will be reached without a new settlement , of that I have no doubt whatsoever . |
| 4 | The contracting phase will be unsuitable because it has no strong thermodynamic arrow of time . |
| 5 | To answer this question it must be noted that in sociology ( and elsewhere ) a feminist perspective appears to be polemical because it runs counter to the accepted male-oriented viewpoint — a viewpoint which is rarely explicitly articulated . |
| 6 | It may , in fact , be counter-productive because it produces a state of high emotional arousal ( anger or anxiety ) that is notorious for interfering with the acquisition of new skills and behaviours . |
| 7 | Later Macmillan was reputed to have defended his decision in a sentence which is likely to be authentic because it has the Macmillan ring : ‘ I thought we had had enough of Martha and it was time for some Mary. , |
| 8 | I consider this tendency to be dangerous because it undermines the great eighteenth-century idea of the unity of mankind , an idea that is so menaced anyway by racism and other movements of the same sort . |
| 9 | Julia knew that it could not be real because it brought with it even more horrible visions , in one of which Comfort and Anthony had her pinned to the ground and were hitting her with garden rakes with specially sharpened tines . |
| 10 | Barthes is here influenced , no doubt , by the founder of deconstruction , Jacques Derrida , who argued that contrary to the traditional view that speech is the exemplary case of language in use , and writing an artificial substitute for speech , writing ought to be privileged because it exposes the fallacious metaphysics of presence , of the autonomy of the subject , which speech encourages . |
| 11 | Contracting may be effective because it makes evasion difficult , facilitates communication , and offers rewards to the patient . |
| 12 | It ought also to be useful because it provides a context which is meaningful to children , and in which a variety of reading skills can be learned . |
| 13 | the means , which the defendant uses to inflict loss on the plaintiff , may be unlawful because it involves conduct wrongful towards a third party . |
| 14 | We consider database to be online because it has a number of distinct features functionality . |
| 15 | p must of course be negative because it represents the space-charge density of electrons . |
| 16 | Again , the placebo could be powerful because it meets some psychological need for attention and treatment . |
| 17 | But the potency with which c-Myc induces apoptosis suggests that deregulated c-Myc expression by itself is likely to be lethal because it kills any cell that encounters growth-limiting conditions , an almost invariable outcome in vivo . |
| 18 | It used to be important because it made it more difficult to score with groin kicks , and it led to narrow stances with the leading foot turned inwards . |
| 19 | When delivered , it was discovered to be poisonous because it had been contaminated with castor oil . |
| 20 | However , this need not be the case : the lower surface gravity of Mercury could be responsible because it confines ejecta blankets and secondary craters closer to the primary than is the case on the Moon . |
| 21 | Imre Szász , a large , solid-framed man , pointed out to me that in Hungary the Budapest accent was , for a long time , held to be inferior because it had been debased by non-Magyar and , in particular , Jewish elements , whereas the country accents were all perfectly acceptable . |
| 22 | In the case of the Middle East , however , Hurd 's proposed new system will almost certainly be unworkable because it suffers from a set of internal contradictions . |
| 23 | He explained to me that it must be stronger because it contained stronger bonds and more of them than any previous material . |
| 24 | An act of ill-treatment may be significant because it has a serious effect upon the child . |
| 25 | Now that Mr Major has won his own mandate , it is important to understand that , though the Conservative Party has sometimes been successful because it has stolen the Labour Party 's clothes , this is not the reason for its success on this occasion . |
| 26 | She 'd only been annoyed because it upset all her work plans . |
| 27 | We are still languishing in the Edwardian era , when our great British Women 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore long flannels … when the bulk of entrants at Wimbledon were British because it took six weeks to cross the Atlantic , and another six to reach Australia ! |
| 28 | Hopes were high because it seemed that Britain might be prepared to modify its position : note had been taken of a speech made by Bevin in the House of Commons on 22 January 1948 when he commented that the idea of unity was undisputable and that ‘ the time is ripe for a consolidation of Western Europe ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ Customers said it was great that we were open because it showed some normality in the town . ’ |
| 30 | But those who bought the book from the human interest angle may have been disappointed because it contains only a couple of references to my condition . |