But in the end, when we gaze into the looking glass, we are interested in the reflections mainly because they are ours. |
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I have yet to really read my runes purely intuitively, mainly because I see my runes as the no-nonsense divination tool I have. |
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It came close, mainly because the apricot sabayon was the perfect accompaniment, but failed because the cheese had not been sufficiently heated. |
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I don't buy into it, mainly because I don't believe I have a soul to be saved. |
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Ruth himself used to hand out nicknames to teammates, mainly because he was terrible at remembering people's real names. |
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He is not considered a good defensive player, mainly because of his lack of speed. |
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The films seem to get better on each repeated viewing, mainly because they have an almost throwaway generousness of ideas. |
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Some of the larger German stadia include areas of convertible seating, introduced mainly because of the demands of Uefa and Fifa. |
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It can but it won't, mainly because it is against the international commercial conventions. |
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This is mainly because people from the locality are showing great interest in working in the five-star development. |
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This task took me a couple of hours to complete, mainly because the tags were rather fiddly, but I'm extremely pleased with the results. |
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The four-page tabloids, little more than newsletters, materialized mainly because the editor used his personal computer at home. |
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Sword play, or fencing, was once the sport of aristocrats, inaccessible to the masses, mainly because they could not afford a sword. |
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I kind of liked some of it, mainly because I'd never seen anything about Sonic Youth before. |
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Large hypermarkets and stores already offer POS terminals mainly because of two reasons. |
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It's an elegant film but one that fails to engage, mainly because of the painfully slow pace. |
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Ricky is somewhere in Japan and seems to be happy without football, mainly because he loves playing pachinko. |
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India started off very slowly, mainly because the ball was swinging and seaming around on a damp pitch early in the morning. |
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But history will be kind to him mainly because the victors write the history and they write it to suit themselves. |
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It's an interesting one mainly because he's not really doing anything out of the ordinary with his weblog. |
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This high tar content is mainly because hashish is made using lots of other chemicals, which all add to the tar content. |
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Linux is one popular variety, mainly because it is free and runs on intel hardware. |
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From there we went to Brighton Marina, partly because it's a cool and happening place to visit, but mainly because it has free parking. |
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Words are confusing, but they're nothing compared to non-words, mainly because non-words lead to rash assumptions and misunderstandings. |
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He also argues children's shows work, mainly because of the potential return from merchandise and publishing spin-offs. |
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It's a pretty horrible story, mainly because it's depressingly plausible, like an urban myth that's come true. |
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I didn't feel very good on Friday night, mainly because of unrequited love. |
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And I can imagine the farmers' fears at the moment, mainly because we experienced a similar, smaller and unpublicised scare last year. |
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The number of national unions varied during the times, mainly because of frequent mergers. |
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Much of his concert work is slight, mainly because that's all the time he felt he could give. |
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This is a largely unexplored field, mainly because the size of the mirrors used in infrared space telescopes has so far been limited. |
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Motor racing features heavily in my columns, mainly because motor sport has been my passion for over 50 years. |
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I just cringe at the very sight of cheap painting tools mainly because the old saying that a bad workman always blames his tools is wrong! |
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I may be the last to know this, mainly because I'm behind in my web comic reading. |
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To be honest, it is mainly because of the trolls who get their jollies by flaming other people's opinions. |
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That's mainly because I love the experience of going to see a film and think that that makes up for any plot holes you may encounter. |
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Cheap brushes are a huge headache mainly because they shed hair and lose their shape quicker than quality brushes. |
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Yet he exudes a sense of calm and control, mainly because he has strict rules for how he operates. |
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Scorpio man is deliberately uncommunicative and withholds information, mainly because it upsets you and allows him to manipulate you. |
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I'm more used to the first approach, mainly because I think that's how you make the best records of classical music. |
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I haven't invested in any shares off my own bat, though, mainly because I don't know what I'm talking about. |
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But the boys were up for it, mainly because we had been written off and it was the last chance to win anything. |
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This transition from the rheumatic and nutritional heart diseases towards atherosclerotic diseases is mainly because of a change in lifestyle. |
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Attempts have been made before to exterminate the birds, but these efforts failed mainly because of a lack of funds. |
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They are unwanted here, then, mainly because their skins are darker than those of the exclusionist crowd. |
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I found two that stood out, mainly because they combined Fernet Branca with Dubonnet and gin. |
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For a drag racer, I'd pick him, mainly because he intrigues me. |
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This is mainly because of the larger gains in rollover spreads. |
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Although Early Triassic rifting in East Greenland and west of Norway has been described previously, limited evidence has been presented, mainly because of absence of data. |
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But she expressed no regrets mainly because of her concerns about how much her fetus suffered before termination. |
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Knowledge of the new alloy spread slowly, mainly because of the scarcity of tin, so the Bronze Age tends to have widely different dates in different parts of the world. |
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I like it mainly because it cooks up al dente like pasta should if you are paying attention, and then retains its toothsomeness instead of turning to mush. |
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But they still get to keep this week's top spot, mainly because the series ended in a split, and no one below them did all that much to leap ahead. |
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The Orangery restaurant is not as gorgeous as the rest of the house, partly because it is in a modern extension, but mainly because it is unattractively lit. |
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Even Margaret Oliphant got short shrift, mainly because of the prevailing male sniffiness about the fact that this eminent Victorian novelist wrote for a living. |
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In essence, he occasionally comes close to espousing a neo-Marxist theory, according to which extreme poverty persists mainly because of exploitation by the rich and powerful. |
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I have never been one for arguing, mainly because in the context of my extended family there were always plenty of aunts, uncles and cousins willing to take it too far. |
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Mutharika is seen as the odds-on favourite to win the presidency, mainly because the opposition has been unable to unite behind a single candidate. |
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I came across fewer real turkeys than outstandingly good books, mainly because I tend not to dip into a novel unless I think I've got a good chance of liking it. |
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It was a long, hard slog to the top, which took us around five hours, mainly because we were all heavily loaded up with the extra survival equipment and food supplies. |
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Every postcard has to be scanned and there is a high rate of rejection mainly because the machines cannot cope with the calligraphic variations flowing from the farmer's pen! |
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He is the least hostile of the civil and public service union leaders towards decentralisation, mainly because of his union's younger age profile. |
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West was singled out mainly because he kept punting the ball into the stands, hardly an unusual tactic when United had to win the game and were 2-in front. |
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In the past exotics were mostly planted, mainly because they were easier to prune, and their root systems didn't interfere with the underground service pipes. |
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But, in September, the Ethiopian government rejected the commission's ruling, mainly because it attributed the highly symbolic border village of Badme to Eritrea. |
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A typical teenager's Southeast Asian English would be rhotic, mainly because of prominent influence by American English. |
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I never wished you to become naturalized in France, mainly because of the compulsory military service. |
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Subsalt reservoirs such as Tupi were unknown in the twentieth century, mainly because the industry was unable to probe them. |
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No EU country achieves full compliance with the directive, mainly because of the geological nature of its soil and agricultural activity. |
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The last trolleybus, 623, ran for the final time in 1968 mainly because petrol and diesel made motorbuses a more economical alternative. |
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Malaria is also of interest mainly because of the need to disinsect the aircraft cabin when required by the government at destination. |
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Instead, it eliminates almost a third of them, mainly because they did not meet the avoidant criteria. |
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Fewer slaves died in the Middle Passage over time mainly because the passage was shorter. |
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Pakistan's cement industry is also fast growing mainly because of demand from Afghanistan and from the domestic real estate sector. |
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He had many birds as pets and particularly liked the sulphur-crested cockatoo mainly because it could talk but he liked all parrots. |
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Kapok is now seen throughout the tropics mainly because it was extensively cultivated for the fibrous kapok found in mature fruit capsules. |
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According to historian Robert Middlekauff, Common Sense became immensely popular mainly because Paine appealed to widespread convictions. |
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The larger species of crocodiles are very dangerous to humans, mainly because of their ability to strike before the person can react. |
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In other words, the dentist is unconfrontable mainly because she serves as a reminder of some earlier unpleasant experience. |
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Research into photorefractive polymers is very intense, mainly because these polymers can be used for holographic storage. |
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Reef systems are better developed along the Red Sea mainly because of its greater depths and an efficient water circulation pattern. |
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The boy was left with Bob Yancy mainly because nobody else would take him. Them's the facts. Now go on! |
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The juice of citrus fruits is acidic mainly because it contains citric acid. |
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Burdett, which was rejected by the Bradford committee as too expensive, mainly because of the valley crossing at Burnley. |
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My own particular favourite is the Harvey Wallbanger, mainly because I like the name. |
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This was mainly because of comments he made in an interview conducted by Mariella Frostrup for the newspaper The Observer. |
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The band explained that it was excluded mainly because it was almost seven minutes long and simply would not fit on the album. |
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I decided to pursue pottery, rather than painting, mainly because I wanted to create affordable and beautiful things. |
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However, this is mainly because it is not the prosecutor but the judges who question the defendant. |
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He championed the essaylike novel mainly because Tanizaki appeared to overpraise the novel that had an interesting story to tell. |
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This hate for the media is mainly because of the way he has been presented as a homophobe and racist by the media. |
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He occasionally appears with his son, Steve Gibb, who declined to use the Bee Gees brand mainly because of his much more different style. |
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Unfortunately, numerous inconsistencies and irregularities remained, mainly because a period of only 3 years was given for registration submissions. |
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The skull and mandible of proboscideans often lag behind other skeletal elements in a depositional environment, mainly because of flotation of the skull due to diploe. |
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However, there are some controversies regarding this definition mainly because the large number of chemical substances reported in chemistry literature need to be indexed. |
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This is mainly because of the limited availability of true wrought iron. |
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Prior to the introduction of plastics, ivory had many ornamental and practical uses, mainly because of the white color it presents when processed. |
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This was felt to be impracticable for the myriad of smaller warships and merchant vessels, mainly because the ships lacked the generating capacity to energise such a coil. |
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There is little in the way of modern settlements on the west coast other than West Sandwick, mainly because of the prevailing wind and the high cliffs that border much of it. |
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Production dropped mainly because the demand for oysters fell, while the supplies in the estuaries did not decline except in 1993 when the flatworm, Stylochus sp. |
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Seventeen species are listed mainly because they are endangered on a global scale, such as the European beaver, even if the population in Norway is not seen as endangered. |
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During World War II in the US, 13540 tons of silver were used in electromagnets for enriching uranium, mainly because of the wartime shortage of copper. |
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During the 19th century, the Breton language started to decline precipitously, mainly because of the Francization policy conducted under the Third Republic. |
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It's a magnificent honour, mainly because it means that I'm in the footsteps of the greatest authors that have lived, so that's a terrific commendation. |
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More recent studies suggest that the use of native and foreign words has been increasing, mainly because of the preference of Bengali speakers for the colloquial style. |
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The stories of Townscapes are almost 30 years old, but they don't feel dated, mainly because the issues the authors talk about are still so relevant today. |
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Brain structures and processes are important as well, of course, but mainly because of the crucial role they play in subserving these interactions. |
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The results reveal that the Stopford and Wells Model is unilluminating for matrices mainly because high foreign product diversification is not fitted by matrices. |
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He'd been to plenty of barnstormings, but he had been one of those who watched, mainly because he could ill afford to spend the dollar or two the pilot charged for the ride. |
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Pancreatic cancer is uncommon but rapidly fatal, mainly because the early stages of the malignancy often go undetected and the pancreas is difficult to examine and treat. |
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