Example sentences of "in [noun sg] because it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frank and unremorseful about his homosexuality , he never fully resolved his attitude towards it , in part because it denied him the family he would have liked to have had . |
| 2 | California bears the brunt of illegal migration , in part because it receives nearly half the Mexicans coming across the border each year . |
| 3 | The NMA argued from the outset for a negotiated settlement , in part because of a fear that intransigence might lead to total defeat and in part because it had little money with which to fight the strike following the run-down of its funds during the 1921 lockout . |
| 4 | The ‘ executive ’ power today is important in part because it carries with it such wide powers of initiation of legislation . |
| 5 | He clashed with the former Labour MP on air , arguing the bombing was ‘ justified ’ in law because it had been ‘ reasonable in all the circumstances ’ . |
| 6 | This explanation was primarily glacio-eustatic in nature because it depended upon sea level fluctuation in relation to the amount of water stored in the ice-caps during glacial and interglacial phases . |
| 7 | Here were editions esteemed as being the first , and there stood scarcely less regarded as being the last and the best ; here was a book valued because it had the author 's final improvements , and there is another which ( strange to tell ! ) was in request because it had them not . |
| 8 | But if somebody , and they say to you , try , try not to tell people in advance because it inhibits them , I , I 'm not at all certain about that , but still , erm |
| 9 | It 's in writing because it 's got to be identified by somebody and your not around to say . |
| 10 | Religion plays a vital role in society because it provides an explanation of origin and destiny , of identity and purpose . |
| 11 | This is not done in man because it leads to Charcot joints and a deafferentation phantom , two signs the horse may not be able to display . |
| 12 | But The Sun thought that ‘ the meeting was a bogus one , if it was held at all ’ , further alleging that this clandestine organisation ( which said that it had met in secrecy because it feared Hooligan reprisals ) was a put-up job by someone in the pay of The Daily Telegraph . |
| 13 | ‘ Objectivity ’ , then , is more possible in English because it has a highly developed form of writing . |
| 14 | Word order is extremely important in translation because it plays a major role in maintaining a coherent point of view and in orienting messages at text level . |