Example sentences of "it is [adv] [verb] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is instantly appealing because of the Minoans ' delight in grace , movement and natural forms — in short , their delight in life . |
| 2 | It is well recognized because unless you have managed to work out how things actually happen you have no chance of achieving anything at all . |
| 3 | But the subject is not only split in the sense of needing the other to complete itself ; it is also split because its identity is actually informed by the other , by what it is not : |
| 4 | It is especially prized because carbon , its major component , is by far the most important of all plant nutrients . |
| 5 | The smallest of all the pigs , the bullet-shaped pygmy hog lives in the tall grasslands of northern India , where it is highly endangered because of the practice of agricultural grass-burning and , lately , armed rebellion ( see ‘ Pigs in distress ’ ) . |
| 6 | An inquiry has indeed been set up by Gwynedd county council , but I understand that it is currently suspended because of police investigations . |
| 7 | The statue is much bigger than it looks ; it is always foreshortened because of the need to look sharply upward , and is actually over 4 metres high . |
| 8 | When an addition is made to the system of state-provided services , it is only made because there is a general opinion that the time is ripe for it and that such provision is ‘ only right ’ . |