Because in early Anglo-Latin writing, paterfamilias (" head of a family, householder ") usually referred to a ceorl, Donald A. Bullough suggests that Alcuin's family was of cierlisc status: i. e., free but subordinate to a noble lord, and that Alcuin and other members of his family rose to prominence through beneficial connections with the aristocracy.

Because letters usually stand for consonants, it is classified as an abjad.

Because of this, is usually a more effective choice under these operating systems ; sensitivity for these two combinations can be enhanced by the CONFIG. SYS statement.

Because a server usually does not know how a document is encoded — especially if documents are created on different platforms or in different regions — many servers simply do not include a reference to the "" in the header, thus avoiding making false promises.

Because of statistical probability and restrictions on the relative diameters of the individual tubes, one of the shells, and thus the whole MWNT, is usually a zero-gap metal.

Because of its large size, Cs < sup >+</ sup > usually adopts coordination numbers greater than six-coordination, which is typical for the lighter alkali metal cations.

Because of the complex shape of this space, it is usually measured directly rather than calculated.

Because this cocoa mass usually is liquefied then molded with or without other ingredients, it is called chocolate liquor.

Because the number of " words " that can be formed is vastly larger than in standard English, the board usually ends up tightly packed in places, and necessarily quite empty in others.

Because these paired books had to fit a fixed total page length, one or both were usually abridged to fit, and Wollheim often made other editorial alterations — as witness the differences between Poul Anderson's Ace novel War of the Wing-Men and its definitive revised edition, The Man Who Counts.

Because forest canopies are usually higher than this, rain drops can often regain terminal velocity even after striking the canopy.

* Because the device is never shut off completely there is no " turn on " time, little problem with charge storage, and generally better high frequency performance and feedback loop stability ( and usually fewer high-order harmonics ).

Because the output pulses have a fixed amplitude, the switching elements ( usually MOSFETs, but valves ( vacuum tubes ) and bipolar transistors were once used ) are switched either completely on or completely off, rather than operated in linear mode.

Because of these and other side-effects, it is usually reserved for patients having exhausted other treatment options.

Because of the incompleteness of the fossil record, there is usually no way to know exactly how close a transitional fossil is to the point of divergence.

Because of the softness of pure ( 24k ) gold, it is usually alloyed with base metals for use in jewelry, altering its hardness and ductility, melting point, color and other properties.

Because of their size, eyesight and powerful kicks, adult giraffes are usually not subject to predation.

Because thyroid tissue usually contains a substantial reserve of thyroid hormone, thyrostatics can take weeks to become effective, and the dose often needs to be carefully titrated over a period of months, with regular doctor visits and blood tests to monitor results.

Because it is usually more convenient to work with unrestricted integrals than restricted ones, we have chosen our normalizing constant to reflect this.

Because of its high reactivity, lithium never occurs freely in nature, and instead, only appears in compounds, which are usually ionic.

Because of its reactivity with water, lithium is usually stored under cover of a viscous hydrocarbon, often petroleum jelly.

Because of this, these devices are usually operated between crossed polarizers such that they appear bright with no voltage ( the eye is much more sensitive to variations in the dark state than the bright state ).

Because a compound word is composed of established lexeme they are usually easier to acquire than loan words or neologisms.

Because of this, a conjure hand is also considered a hoodoo bag ; usually made by a respected community conjure doctor.

Because a mole of molecules may contain a variety of molecular masses due to natural isotopes, the average mass is usually not identical to the mass of any single molecule.

Because of the height-balancing of the tree, a lookup takes O ( log n ) time.

Because of this property, the collapsed stars were called " frozen stars ," because an outside observer would see the surface of the star frozen in time at the instant where its collapse takes it inside the Schwarzschild radius.

Because the process takes advantage of the nonlinearity of the isotherms, a larger column feed can be separated on a given column with the purified components recovered at significantly higher concentrations.

Because cylinder bore diameter, piston stroke length and combustion chamber volume are almost always constant, the compression ratio for a given engine is almost always constant, until engine wear takes its toll.

Because transpiration takes place during the cooler, more humid night hours, water loss is significantly reduced.

Because chemical diffusion is a net transport process, the system in which it takes place is not an equilibrium system ( i. e. it is not at rest yet ).

In 1551 the Council of Trent definitively declared: " Because Christ our Redeemer said that it was truly his body that he was offering under the species of bread 6: 51, it has always been the conviction of the Church of God, and this holy Council now declares again, that by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood.

Because the fortification takes place after fermentation, most sherries are initially dry, with any sweetness being added later.

Because a pinfall only requires a three-count from the referee, as opposed to a ten-count from a boxing referee to score a technical knockout, this rule gave birth to the saying " It only takes three seconds to beat your opponent.

Because this revolution takes place in underdeveloped, largely pre-capitalist countries such as Russia, Leninism establishes a single-party, authoritarian state, justifying single-party control over the state and economy as a means to safeguard the revolution against counter-revolutionary insurrection and foreign invasion.

Because of a long history of neutrality, the army does not take part in armed conflicts in other countries, but takes part in peacekeeping missions around the world.

Because this interaction takes place on atomic electrons it occurs with the same rate in both the heavy and light water.

Because a second of film constitutes 24 separate frames, even a short half-hour film like A Close Shave takes a great deal of time to animate well.

Because it takes so long to ingest a prey item, hunting mainly happens around dusk ; the onychophorans will abandon their prey at sunrise.

Because the spectrum from Planck's law of black body radiation takes a different shape in the frequency domain from that of the wavelength domain, the frequency location of the peak emission does not correspond to the peak wavelength using the simple relationship between frequency, wavelength, and the speed of light.

Because of its large number of tiny granule cells, the cerebellum contains more neurons than the rest of the brain put together, but it takes up only 10 % of total brain volume.

" Because Christian themes play such a large role in Uncle Tom's Cabin — and because of Stowe's frequent use of direct authorial interjections on religion and faith — the novel often takes the " form of a sermon.

In the presence of the static, uniform external magnetic field, the Hamiltonian for the absorbing center takes the form Ĥ = Ĥ < sub > 0 </ sup > + Ĥ < sub > 1 </ sup > which is parallel to the direction of the propagation of the electric field k. Because the transition occur between the two eigenstates of Ĥ < sub > 0 </ sub >, a and j, the absorption and the CD intensity are determined as follows:

Because of the land taken for the bogs, however, growth is limited, giving the town a rural flavor it takes pride in.

Because of its large size, a plantation takes advantage of economies of scale.

Because the induction takes place during the course of a normal conversation, Ericksonian hypnosis is often known as Covert or Conversational Hypnosis.

Because it takes roughly 20 years for seedlings to reach sexual maturity, repeated fires in the same area can cause local extinctions.

Because the fortification takes place after fermentation, most Sherries are initially dry, with any sweetness being added later.

Because of the multiple angles and takes required for a single mouthful of food, Meyer offered a bounty of $ 20 per every shot of a character eating.