Example sentences of "because it [vb -s] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus free enterprise — the pursuit of fair profit , the generator of wealth and employment , the backbone on which social welfare is possible — can be viewed , at least by corporate officials , as the primary ethic for and of an industrial society , and conformity to this neutralizes any obedience to the law merely because it happens to be the law . |
| 2 | is that traffic calming or is it town centre enhancement because it happens to be in the middle of the towns . |
| 3 | Because it happens to be en route |
| 4 | Or in fact you go to London because it happens to be in reverse |
| 5 | No new generic names has been proposed fro " Ophiophthalmus " partly because there has been no opportunity to look at all the material but mainly because it remains to be demonstrated that it is distinct from the genus Ophiomitrella as stated before . |
| 6 | Like its author , this is a book which insists you forgive it every one of its manifest faults simply because it presumes to be no other than it is . |
| 7 | The Dynacord is expensive , sure , and that 's the stumbling block , because it demands to be taken seriously and wo n't be found wanting . |
| 8 | Standing sex has had a bit of a bad press — mainly because it tends to be used for illicit love-making by young couples who have no bedroom to go to . |
| 9 | Physics was chosen as a representative subject , not only because it is studied by so few women , and is therefore a typically masculine discipline , but also because it tends to be regarded as the most objective , rigorous and , indeed , successful of the pure sciences . |
| 10 | Finally , because it tends to be selective in terms of the types of people involved , migration also has the power to produce substantial and rapid changes in the population composition of individual places . |
| 11 | Because it tends to be used in thicker layers than watercolour , the surface character of the paper will have less effect on the painting . |
| 12 | I doubt very much whether we 'll have a score on that because it tends to be that we do n't find out what happens in Italy until er the following morning . |
| 13 | Grown-up critics manage to deny its appeal ( probably the very same priapic excitement they derived from rock in their unreconstructed youth ) because it seems to be at odds with their sexual politics . |
| 14 | I may also have dwelt too long on the years between 1690 and 1730 , but this was simply because it seems to be most people 's favourite period . |
| 15 | Beta , at a distance of 78 light-years , is of special note because it seems to be associated with material which could possibly indicate a planetary system , and has actually been photographed from the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile , though to the ordinary observer Beta looks like a normal white star . |
| 16 | The issues are probably too complex to be adequately dealt with here , but the government should certainly give Gorbachev 's initiative every encouragement because it seems to be in this country 's own long-term interests . |
| 17 | The notion is attractive because it seems to be the central organising principle for a lot of discourse . |
| 18 | Although that is not this case , I have done so both because we were told that it would be helpful to all those concerned with the treatment of minors and also perhaps the minors themselves and because it seems to be a logical base from which to proceed to consider the powers of the court and how they should be exercised . |
| 19 | A couple of lousy articles a month , stuff I make up and toss off and get no feeling from doing , just a feeling of disgust because it seems to be all I 'm fit for ! " |
| 20 | I do not know to which local authority the hon. Gentleman is referring , but may I try to explain the context of the debate to him , because it seems to be going straight over the heads of Conservative Members , as was evident in that intervention which I shall now try to answer . |
| 21 | Therefore , if we are to exalt the work of Georgia O'Keeffe , let us not exalt it because it seems to be a rare psychic perception of the world peculiar to a woman , but because it is good painting . ’ |
| 22 | Virtually what it did it came out of the last parish council 's conference which I attended on your behalf and er the Director of Planning and Development , Colin promised to lay on a seminar for parish councillors because it seems to be the one service which always gets criticism at the parish council 's conference . |
| 23 | A television turned off by remote control continues to use a quarter of normal power because it needs to be electrically awake to receive the next remote signal to switch back on . |
| 24 | Presumably you ca n't use it for anything else because it needs to be very smooth and perfect . |
| 25 | Because it has to be larger and heavier to provide comparable power , the diesel fitted to a basic one-litre car tends to be at least 1.6 litres . |
| 26 | Because it has to be dealt with at a personal level , some find it difficult to deny the request . |
| 27 | His idea is that you can vote if if the voter in your constit if a person you vote for in your own constituency loses , you can then switch your vote to anyone else in the country and erm you can have a list of maybe ten or twenty people and erm you will so you 'll hand in your ballot paper with all these names on , signed ballot paper because it has to be public you can hand in your signed ballot paper with all these names on and if your own candidate loses , then er your vote goes to your second person and if that person loses it goes to the third and so on . |
| 28 | But as a general rule there w because it has to be negotiated , it would not be er supplied . |
| 29 | However , an American Express card will fall within s.1 because it has to be paid for . |
| 30 | That is simply because it has to be that low if some of these houses are to be considered habitable at all , and if others are to be inhabited by two , or often by three , families at the same time . |