Example sentences of "because [pron] ca [not/n't] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | do you want more potatoes because I ca n't eat these |
| 2 | If I kill myself , which is what I want to do because I ca n't bear this misery , then I will go to hell . |
| 3 | ‘ If I get unhealthy because I ca n't do any sit-ups , ’ he told Gina , ‘ it 's all your fault . |
| 4 | And , I 've just as a basic figure , I mean , they give up to a certain figure o before their hours you put a bit of tax and after that , but er we 've allocated him to work , in the afternoons when I 'm out , they allocate to her , the warehouse , because I ca n't afford any , er , as I say , they repairs a machine , it goes out faulty , and the onus is on me and the company |
| 5 | Because I ca n't take any freedom . |
| 6 | Because I ca n't take any freedom . |
| 7 | Because I ca n't understand this . |
| 8 | And so , when you come to the bible and you read the account of Jesus here on the earth , turning the water into wine , of Jesus stilling the storm , when you into the old testament and you read accounts there of the children of Israel , of the me , of the tremendous miracles that were performed by Jehovah , God for them well of course , there 's a natural explanation to it , because you ca n't do these things , there are natural laws that stop you doing them you can not take a glass of water , even if you 're God , you can not take it and make it into a glass of wine instantly , it 's got natural processes to go through . |
| 9 | The trouble was , although they 'd got me to do it — maybe because they knew it would save them money , or maybe because you ca n't get that kind of work done by your usual process shop — I did n't know how to do colour separations . |
| 10 | Because you ca n't get that sound any other way . |
| 11 | It was n't satisfying in terms of sound , though , because you ca n't get any sound , even though you 've got someone you consider to be the best guy out on the desk , but who happens to be three hundred yards away ! |
| 12 | Oh there was a tremendous variety , but then there were all the same in , erm you look at the er the three light fitting er it hangs down from the ceiling and has three branches out from it and it either has three lights hanging down or three hanging upwards , er with four ordinary bulbs in or candle bulbs in and shades , sometimes they have four , erm , there 's still an awful lot of those about and any lighting shop you look in you 'll still see plenty of those er and yet they 've got a tremendous number of disadvantages , one thing , a lot of them got glass shades , if you break one shade three year 's time you might as well throw away the fitting because you ca n't get another one er , and erm it 's a design that does n't , it does n't lend itself to giving a good lighting in a room at all er , it they , they harsh glassware , the edges of the glass during all round the room and that sort of thing |
| 13 | You , you ca n't have a transport football team because you ca n't get enough of us together at one time cos they 're working you see , when people want to go to and from work but er |
| 14 | But what the industry itself — that 's the hotels and the erm attractions — now have got to combine with us because we ca n't do this for nothing , you know , they will get erm from us , all our members , to the fact that they can buy media space at fifty per cent off . |
| 15 | But they 've a they 've given us that because we ca n't get any of the help . |
| 16 | Because they ca n't do this to delegates ! |
| 17 | And that 's hampering the whole development process because it 's high , high wages , high wages creates migration and the whole resource allocation reflects in the economies er are disrupted and because people are moving out of agriculture because they ca n't make any money from agriculture they think they can make some money in industry like agriculture itself is being starved of capital and er so it hampers the development process , I mean it 's a complicated business but er there may well be some , some sort of strands of sense that we can draw out of this , one of which may be well if the government sectors are too large in these countries essentially it does n't matter who owns these companies whether it 's , they were privately owned or government , erm if they are inefficient they are inefficient |
| 18 | ‘ People come to us from department stores because they ca n't find this kind of furniture there , ’ said manager Steve Raper . |
| 19 | Until there is a change in the law , charity shops will continue to lose thousands of pounds of income a week because they ca n't sell most of the toys donated to them . |
| 20 | She said he 's most upset because he ca n't drive any more , erm |