Example sentences of "to [noun] because [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever Conservative Members may believe , I can assure them that there is a climate of fear among offshore workers who believe — rightly or wrongly , but I think rightly — that many employees are subject to discrimination because companies or contractors consider that they have placed too much emphasis on safety matters . |
| 2 | North ( 1986 ) , for example , has suggested that widespread cash-cropping of groundnuts in the Sahelian zone has obliquely contributed to desertification because farmers can not afford either to purchase fertilisers to maintain soil-nutrient status or to use a long fallow period . |
| 3 | Mr Kelman believes that the net result of the Law Commission proposal will be to increase the risks to companies because hackers who often tell their ‘ victims ’ about their insecure systems will be afraid to do so . |
| 4 | When he left Ford he went to Chrysler because cars were ‘ in his blood ’ ( Iacocca , 1984 : 141 ) . |
| 5 | Negative attitudes tend to spread more easily amongst individuals than from group to group because members of a group can argue more effectively amongst themselves than can an individual . |
| 6 | For example , it can not be argued that poor women resorted to abortion because doctors withheld information about other birth control methods . |
| 7 | There was , too , something unaccountable about Richard — perhaps the same wilfulness that induced him to live offshore although his marriage was in a perilous state — which attracted him to Pratts because celebrations were only held there for the death of a king or queen . |