Sentence examples for because it lies close from inspiring English sources

IS sees the territory as strategic because it lies close to the edges of its "caliphate" and to a supply route used by foreign fighters joining the group.

We focused on the Rogue River because it lies close to the Umpqua River and the Chinook salmon in these two rivers undergo similar life cycles (Myers et al. 1998; ODFW 2003); thus, we felt comfortable using the parameter values reported by Ratner et al. (1997) for our modeling exercise.

The structures of the TdT, nST and aSa mutants provide further support for the conclusion that T432 is the principal phosphorylation site because it lies closest to the γ-phosphate.

Thus, it lies close to the auditory cortex.

Most of it lies close to the surface in relatively porous reservoirs.

The oculomotor nerve is predominantly affected as it lies closest to the pituitary.

This new resistance locus [site on the DNA molecule] is particularly interesting because it lies so close to genes that are gatekeepers for the malaria parasite's invasion machinery," Professor Kwiatkowski said.

Because it lies relatively close to the cluster in wild-type FNR, it was removed from here to ensure that it could not become a cluster ligand upon reconstitution of FNR containing the C122A substitution.

T432 is phosphorylated first because it lies consistently closer to Pγ.

Because Sabah lies close to the troubled southern Philippines, the State Department advises Americans visiting eastern Sabah to stay alert; indeed, the department issued a warning in 2010 that terrorists and criminal groups were planning attacks there and had targeted Semporna and Sipadan and Mabul islands.

The expansion proposal is controversial because the airport lies close to the Dungeness peninsula, an area of varied biodiversity.