Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [adv] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is often assumed that Foucault is simply the philosopher of discontinuity , merely substituting it where previously there had been continuity ; but the discontinuous is emphasized only because so much stress is normally placed on the continuous . |
| 2 | This is the ( non-forward-looking ) notion that punishment is justified simply because it is the expression of society 's abhorrence of crime . |
| 3 | Although this is perhaps another example of a sales setting , it is treated separately because of its diversity and ever-increasing importance , especially in view of 1992 European Community legislation and changes as they will affect the selling function . |
| 4 | The show is honoured here because skiffle , the Lady Chatterley trial , Kennedy 's election and Cassius Clay seem rather brash and silly by comparison . |
| 5 | No summary table is given here because there were so few questions . |
| 6 | Again , this was not a PNP initiative but is reported here because it concerned parents , children and schools and gives an example of the practice from which the LEA 's unwritten policy on home-school links has to be inferred . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ The lad is torn politically because while their president is happy to let us have him on trial , the trainer wants him back for matches . |
| 8 | The device is located centrally because the chemical can be distributed more quickly through the brain that way . |
| 9 | Although not closely related to other river dolphins , the tucuxi is included here because it shares a similar habitat . |
| 10 | Although this is one of the rarer conditions in children , it is included here because children with controlled glaucoma will be in the ordinary classroom . |
| 11 | Keeping a foot in both camps is made easier because the bid committee 's offices are on the same floor as his own at Manchester Theatres Ltd . |
| 12 | This movement away from children is made easier because the adults in publishing houses , criticism , and book-buying , have the critical apparatus and the criteria to assess illustrations as art objects . |
| 13 | The problem is made worse because consumers are rarely told of the risks associated with drugs : most , not unreasonably , expect their medicine to do them good . |
| 14 | It is made worse because the Opposition understandably wants to take advantage of a Prime Minister who seems dangerously , if not fatally , wounded . |
| 15 | Elean:Would you say that this ’ technical problem ’ , which is a technical problem for many writers is made worse because you are writing , not from the relatively safe ’ exile ’ of a liberal-democratic , capitalist European country ; but you are writing from inside the very belly of apartheid , where you do not have , at your disposal the support services and facilities , to help you to authentically reflect the true ’ spirit ’ of your people . |
| 16 | one is made better because of what 's happening inside his mind , but it has the opposite effect on someone else . ’ |
| 17 | An alternative is that under conditions which are maximally unfavourable for plural reference , when a plural reference is made , it is made only because no strain exists in those ( rare ) cases . |
| 18 | No one is turned away because of a lack of means . |
| 19 | No one is turned away because of a lack of means . |
| 20 | No one is turned away because of a lack of means . |
| 21 | Again , no one is turned away because of a lack of means . |
| 22 | The Classics section with Nemo , Krazy Kat , TinTin , Dick Tracy , is featured largely because the strips in it have been reprinted in the past few years . |
| 23 | Many escape and it is not unusual to have a blank day out hunting , when no fox is hunted mostly because of poor scenting conditions . |
| 24 | Mrs Stobbs , who lives in Killerby , near Darlington , said : ‘ It would be terrible if a wedding is ruined just because the chauffeur does n't turn up . |
| 25 | Almost every square inch of land on the cliffsides is cultivated simply because there is no flat agricultural terrain . |
| 26 | Note that no A–D converter is needed here because the data is already digital . |
| 27 | The word ‘ appears ’ is used advisedly because , although computers have been used to show that the equation does not work for values of n up to several thousand , no one has yet been able to prove for certain that there is no number n greater than 2 for which suitable values of x , y and z can not be slotted in to produce a valid equation . |
| 28 | Rather , in this context the word ‘ I ’ is idle , superfluous ; it is used only because Descartes is habituated to the use of ‘ I ’ in expressing his thoughts and feelings to other people . |
| 29 | The last meal is scheduled early because of the shift rota operated by officers . |
| 30 | ‘ Much of the structure of the Constitution is now mere form ; it is tolerated only because in practice its form is no indication of the way it functions . ’ |