Example sentences of "because [pron] is [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if Prince pleases , in music , in bed , it 's because nothing is ever done just to please . |
| 2 | And he added : ‘ I do believe the public has a right to know , not least because she is largely financed by the taxpayer . ’ |
| 3 | Elvira is possibly the only lady in the world who can not be accused of enlarging her chest by putting tissue paper in her bra ; firstly because she is never seen in one and secondly have you seen the points on her high heels ? |
| 4 | Every bride looks beautiful — this is partly because of what she is wearing and partly because she is usually glowing with happiness . |
| 5 | family that we know and th , they 're , one of their sons is fo erm in London I suppose erm adapt here and he 's rather upset because she is now coming over to Britain to work for Telecom ! |
| 6 | It is not worth discussing any of these complications because one is rarely called upon to work out lines of current in a conductor . |
| 7 | This is more complicated because one is now dealing with three dimensions , and the reader is again referred to other sources for the theory . |
| 8 | Eighteen miles today , and tomorrow , the worst leg of all , twenty-six miles to Cambridge that ca n't be broken because there is nowhere to stop overnight . |
| 9 | Because there is no escaping the fact that we have , with full consciousness , terminated life . |
| 10 | The confessions add considerably to de Benedetti 's embarrassments , because he is already relying on the labyrinthine Italian judicial system of appeals , and the country 's statute of limitations to avoid the possibility of a jail sentence over his - fairly tenuous — involvement in the Banco Ambrosiano collapse . |
| 11 | ‘ Because he is also searching for the Presley hoard which is in the Volvo . ’ |
| 12 | In the case of someone like Christopher Rouse it is easier , because he is well established in this country , and very well liked by many conductors . |
| 13 | A lecturer normally owns the copyright in any book or article he writes because he is primarily employed as a teacher and not as a writer of books and articles , even though his employer may encourage this . |
| 14 | ‘ It will be a long process because he is slightly paralysed down one side , ’ admitted Joan . |
| 15 | A market maker does not have complete control over his portfolio because he is always required to make a market . |
| 16 | Because he is constantly handling , tasting and eating fungi the spores tend to work their way into the shaman 's skin , penetrating his bloodstream and saturating his body . |
| 17 | Because he is constantly having desires for these partial relationships satisfied , he is less likely to seek out non-distorting , non-partial relationships in the rest of his life . |
| 18 | The advantage of supine lying is that it allows the patient to work more easily , because the effect of gravity is reduced , and the patient feels safe because he is fully supported , so he can concentrate on perfect control of the selective movements in his limbs : this is an important stage in the preparation towards making steps , and ultimately to walking . |
| 19 | It rankles Couples , who had two three-week breaks last year , that many critics rate him an uninterested under-achiever and that he has failed to win more tournaments because he is so laid back . |
| 20 | The singing damsel , like the earth is a creator , superior to Coleridge because he is merely trying to recreate rather than create . |
| 21 | In thinking of these local enclaves , my Irish island is a misleading parallel because it is physically cut off . |
| 22 | One state Department cable to the US ambassador in Teheran asked him to remind the Shah the reforms were necessary " because it is generally agreed that without some reforms Iran as likely as Khrushchev predicted to fall to Soviets like ripe plum " |
| 23 | English was chosen , not just because the majority of its students are female , but because it is generally looked upon by commentators ( e.g. P. Scott 1984 ) , as the ‘ central liberal discipline ’ . |
| 24 | If kung fu kicks are to be effective , they must be delivered from the correct distance : if a kick falls short because it is badly timed , the kicker is placed at a disadvantage . |
| 25 | The study of technology is important in its own right , but it also deepens our understanding of a society as a whole because it is intimately connected with the way in which people are organised and the structure of their economy . |
| 26 | Athletes such as Boris Becker are fans of the fruit because it is easily digested to provide an instant energy high . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , in place of his ideal he substituted ‘ rough trade ’ , favoured by other homosexuals of his class partly because it is easily discarded . |
| 28 | And that this , according to ancient legend , is because it is largely made of gold ? ’ |
| 29 | The inversion of the unison ( the octave ) is omitted , because it is largely avoided in twelve-note music through its tendency to dominate as a tonal centre . |
| 30 | In reviewing recent empirical work on women 's consciousness , Beechey ( 1983 ) notes that : women 's class consciousness , because it is largely mediated through husbands ' employment , tends to be weaker than men 's ; many women , under the influence of capitalist and male-dominated ideology , remain unconscious of their gender-related disadvantages ; women 's consciousness probably varies over their life cycle ; and it is fractured and contradictory . |