Example sentences of "because it is [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United States is particularly vulnerable in this respect , both because it is lacking in some valuable resources , and because its vast productive machine uses so much of everything . |
| 2 | It differs from ordinary hammer drills ( which operate on a ratchet/percussion mechanism ) because it is operated by an electro-pneumatic mechanism . |
| 3 | My heart , to love him ; my will , to do his will , my mind , to glorify him ; my tongue , to speak to him and of him ; my eyes to see him in all things ; my hands to bring whatever they touch to him ; my all only to be a real ‘ all ’ : because it is joined to him . |
| 4 | The grid scheme of city layout with streets crossing one another at right angles and with a uniformity of street width and building design , which became the pattern for the classical world of Greece and Rome and was later adopted in Europe and modern America , was developed in Ionian Greece from the seventh century B.C. ; this street pattern is often referred to as Milesian because it is named after the city of Miletos on the coast of Asia Minor . |
| 5 | ‘ The box , because it is situated on the seafront , takes a fair battering from the weather and special paints , developed for the North Sea oil industry , have to be used to paint the box every year . ’ |
| 6 | In the station in which the unit is based ( not Easton ) , the attitude of the policemen towards it is not positive , partly as a result of their ambivalent attitudes toward sex crimes , but mostly because it is policed by women , who therefore are said to spend their time in Boots and Marks and Spencer , making it an easy duty ( FN 30/11/87 , p. 18 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A bourbon-type whisky , it is very full because it is treated with maple-wood charcoal to remove the lighter flavours . |
| 9 | I have no doubt whatever … provided the production is good , I mean provided there are good people to perform it — and that is the case in Munich … but when your music is performed by a mediocre orchestra , it will always be the loser , because it is composed with so much discernment for the various instruments and is far from being commonplace , as , on the whole , Italian music is . |
| 10 | Who is to say that the poorer countries of Europe are to be happy with a dominant Germany just because it is said to be good for ‘ Europe ’ ? |
| 11 | The word ‘ aura ’ is derived from the Greek avra meaning breeze because it is said to be continually in motion . |
| 12 | It is , however , easy to recognise that the choreography for The Three-Cornered Hat has greater authenticity because it is based on the folk and flamenco dance Massine had studied in Spain . |
| 13 | Mr Ibrahim al-Beshari , Foreign Minister , said Libya would continue to fight UN Security Council Resolution 748 ‘ because it is based on the logic of force , not of law ’ . |
| 14 | The study is tentative , because it is based on a handful of subjects . |
| 15 | They say the survey is inaccurate because it is based on incorrect figures that the Prime Minister gave to parliament this year . |
| 16 | ( Ruby does not need FDA clearance because it is based on products that occur naturally . ) |
| 17 | However , the idealist production of knowledge leads to mistaken knowledge because it is based on an incorrect account of the determinate relation between reality ( or social being ) and ideas . |
| 18 | Foucault is critical of such a theory not just because it is based on a science/non-science distinction which for him is simply the product of a particular discursive formation which claims access to the real , rather than involving any epistemological questions of truth or objectivity , but also because it produces the notion of ideology as a secondary mediation ( as in Althusser 's interpellation ) in an inside/outside structure between the determinants of power and the individual subject . |
| 19 | An alternative explanation though , would say that the US model is not appropriate for Japan because it is based on the ideal of atomistic competition between a large number of small firms . |
| 20 | In my view it is just as vital not to ignore Marxist work because it contains one inadequate generalization , as it is not to ignore pluralist work because it is based on an idealized view of liberal democracy in Japan . |
| 21 | Reflecting on the same contrast , Carol McMillan refers to Hegel 's view of the family as an inferior organisation to the state because it is based on love . |
| 22 | This has also been criticized by Ronald Fletcher , in a thorough analysis , because it is based on a false view of the human nervous system . |
| 23 | Foucault is most explicit on this , arguing that what he terms the ‘ repressive hypothesis ’ regarding Victorian sexuality is misleading : because it points to too narrow an interpretation of the family ; because it avoids class differentiation ; and because it is based on a negative rather than positive concept of power . |
| 24 | However , by focusing exclusively on girls , researchers have ignored the important premise that gender has any cultural meaning only because it is based on difference ( Hollway 1982 ) . |
| 25 | … in-service training is often much less effective than it could be because it is based on an ‘ educational model ’ i.e. is focussed largely on the individual . |
| 26 | I have called it inductivist because it is based on inductive reasoning , as will be explained shortly . |
| 27 | Most deaf people are still educated within a system which has at its base a language that is , at best , not fully accessible because it is based on hearing ; at worst , it is a language which is completely alien and does not adequately describe deaf experience . |
| 28 | What I can not comply with , is the regular imposition of a psychometric system of evaluation , which has already decided who will fail and in what proportions , because it is based on a deficit model of learners , and a culturally and politically determined view of intelligence and ability . |
| 29 | Their whole scheme is flawed , because it is based on the assumption that a Labour Government will have to raise £6.3 billion . |
| 30 | The law on the issue of consent continues to change because it is based on public policy . |