Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | In laser surgery , CO 2 lasers ( wavelength 10.6 ) are widely used because of the high absorption in water , and therefore in any soft tissue . |
| 2 | Furthermore , many key settlement policies have not been properly implemented because there has been a lack of co-ordination among the relevant planning agencies ( Cloke 1980b ) . |
| 3 | We support the views of the County Planning Officers Society and the Government that the 1981 provisions have not been widely used because of ( a ) the financial implications of compensation for minerals planning authorities ( MPAs ) , ( b ) the staffing and resource implications for MPAs who were expected to implement the provisions , and ( c ) the complexity and cumbersome nature of the provisions themselves . |
| 4 | Equally worrying is the fact that deaf people are effectively disenfranchised because they can neither get access to nor take part in the political debate . |
| 5 | Those which do not exist are effectively discarded because they are not stored in the list , however they could be regenerated from the graph should that become necessary at some future stage . |
| 6 | The humans are slowly dying because of the radioactive dust caused by a human war . |
| 7 | It is bad for morale , and therefore bad for your performance in subsequent interviews , if you are constantly rejected because you are clearly unsuitable for the jobs for which you apply . |
| 8 | The significance of the Carmelite school has been greatly exaggerated because of the widespread misunderstanding that the Carmelite Whitefriary stood on the site of the hospital , an important monastic site with a splendid fourteenth-century gate . |
| 9 | Trolls are greatly feared because of their unthinking ferocity and indiscriminate appetite . |
| 10 | Male individuals are better protected because they are given an additional booster dose during military service . |
| 11 | I am only guessing because we do not talk about things like that . |
| 12 | Woolly alder aphids are so named because they produce clumps of woolly wax from their bodies . |
| 13 | The toxins secreted by the skin are among the most poisonous substances known , and these frogs are so named because the Noamana , Choco and Cuna Indians of Colombia use the poison to tip their arrows and blow-darts . |
| 14 | Smock or frock mills are so called because their shape is said to resemble a man dressed in a smock . |
| 15 | The box terrapins are so called because of their ability to close the undershell or plastron at both front and back . |
| 16 | The warehouses known as the ‘ Little Germany ’ are so called because of their flamboyant architectural style . |
| 17 | French Tomatoes are so called because in the traditional recipe French cream cheese is used in place of the low fat cottage cheese . |
| 18 | Ransom strips are so called because they change hands at high values , often up to one third of the total site value . |
| 19 | Those papers known commercially as pastel papers are so called because they are coloured and often because they have a machine-made laid effect . |
| 20 | The inert gases are so called because they do not readily form chemical compounds . |
| 21 | The LIFESPAN Meta PI routines are so called because they provide a VMS command interface to LIFESPAN in a similar way to the Procedural Interface ( PI ) routines , but unlike PI they are supplied as executables for performing the following specific functions : Update Baseline , Directory Integrity Check , and Type Module . |
| 22 | The clearing banks are so called because they operate a central clearing house in London . |
| 23 | The monarch butterfly , found over much of North America , has been much studied because of its noxious qualities . |
| 24 | There seems to be no particular reason why the idea should not have cropped up earlier ( or indeed , later ) but , according to Bethe , its practical implementation could probably not have been much advanced because this depended on the development of high-speed computers and highly efficient fission triggers ; neither of these requirements could have been met at the beginning of 1950 . |
| 25 | These figures are only estimates because people have different metabolic rates . |
| 26 | Their conduct could not have been so described because the court believed that despite its insolvency , it was not inconceivable that the business could have been returned to prosperity . |
| 27 | Research on the influence of cultural factors on intelligence testing and test results have been conducted on a wide scale and the results are endlessly discussed because of the inextricable mixture of technical and value judgments . |
| 28 | It could not be said that a peace had been finally made because old habits in Alexandra would not die a final death and made her still reserved , a little wary . |
| 29 | In hydrology the systems approach has been easily assimilated because the hydrological cycle readily lent itself to systems representation and because use of the cycle , as in water resource systems , further commended the approach . |
| 30 | Cultural marginality , which encompasses the culture of poverty concept ( Lewis 1966 ) , has been largely discredited because of the implication that traits such as apathy and passivity , which are the hallmarks of the culture of poverty , are very strongly imbedded in those who grow up in such a culture and therefore prevent them responding positively if opportunities arise . |