Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | No well I feel in the long run it 's probably wasting money because erm we keep bodging it up which costs money , we might just as well see how much it is to get it and do it , and do it erm . |
| 2 | In the large Ethiopian and Eritrean refugee camp at Towawa , near Gadaref in eastern Sudan , where 20 000 refugees have lived for over two years , parents stop their children using latrines because of the risk of the ground caving in during the rainy season . |
| 3 | Days eating scraps because I could not bear to enter a shop , talk to another human being , have people see me . |
| 4 | But it says this could lead to ‘ presentational difficulties ’ given ministerial assurances that the ‘ actively seeking work ’ condition would not affect ET because it was voluntary . |
| 5 | The quote ‘ These outfits lose money because no one wants them ’ does not make sense . |
| 6 | If ready cash was not available , it was easy to borrow money because interest rates were low and banks eager to lend to potential investors . |
| 7 | One Bangkok stockbroker says that ‘ when people make investments because they want to see their name on a school in their home village , they are heading for trouble . ’ |
| 8 | On the other hand , one could give Sharon the benefit of the doubt and conclude she has n't bothered to wear knickers because she knows Michael will probably mash her against a wall and rip them off anyway . |
| 9 | Foucault is particularly critical of the appropriating structure of totalization , Marxist or otherwise , insofar as it implies the superiority of the theorist who produces the totalization of knowledge ; in the same way , he distrusts the use of history as an encompassing framework because it works as a power structure that enables the expropriation and control of the past according to the perspective and truth of the present . |
| 10 | In January Joe came home on embarkation leave and was more free to see Sarah because his father was so engrossed in the baby . |
| 11 | However , people often object to having to take a bath after using pesticides because this conflicts with their traditional notion of hot and cold . |
| 12 | All the time I 'm either bingeing ( in secret ) or doing loads of exercise ; I really feel desperate to lose weight because I 'm going to be a bridesmaid soon , and I do n't want to look like a splodge at my brother 's wedding . |
| 13 | However , she also points out that perfectly healthy pear-shaped women are pressurised to lose weight because their bottom and thighs are unfashionably large in comparison with the rest of their body . |
| 14 | ‘ When they go onto these so-called new diets , people tend to lose weight because they automatically restrict themselves without realising they ought to be eating more bread , cereals , fruit and vegetables . |
| 15 | The next few years saw several appeals for sanity from top scientists who were Disarmers — in 1955 an appeal to renounce force because radio-activity could wipe out ‘ whole nations , neutral or belligerent ’ was signed by fifty-two Nobel prizewinners . |
| 16 | It also means you have real problems building relationships because you just expect to lose friends all the time . |
| 17 | A 15-member panel chosen to represent a cross section of the Dutch public has called for a moratorium on all commercial exploitation of genetically manipulated animals because there are still too many unknowns in genetic engineering . |
| 18 | we argued there that erm scale of migration was not necessary to be contained within Leeds and Bradford , to promote regeneration because we 're s we 're now , we have now exhausted all our brown field sites to the extent that we 've had to take land out of our greenbelt , but there we were looking at something in the order of four thousand dwellings in three dris districts , spread over fifteen years , and we might reasonably assume that they 'd come forward in a dispersed manner on a site by site basis er and be relatively small scale , certainly we would be looking at the local plans which flow from this alteration to make sure that will be the case , now a new settlement 's a completely different animal , you would have to come forward quickly otherwise it would not be regarded as a success , it would it would need wide publicity , perhaps across the whole region , maybe even beyond , it would be a a major attraction to anybody thinking of moving house er from Leeds to a a location which would be accessible to them to retain their employment in Leeds , so I think we were talking about two different things entirely , more than that Mr Brighton 's su suggested that fifteen hundred would not be an adequate scale , it would have to be , I think two thousand five hundred was his figure , er Mr Timothy 's suggested th the same sort of thinking , and Mr Brook to , that the the settlement would have to get bigger , erm which only compounds our problem , any any settlement which grew larger and larger and inevitably would contain more employment as well as housing would become more of a threat to the regeneration of Leeds and , perhaps to a lesser extent Bradford , and it 's on |
| 19 | If the authorities refrain from using force because they think it wiser to use other means , the effect is often as follows : … to prevent or resist violence , the governing class may use guile , cunning , fraud and corruption — in short . |
| 20 | ‘ Some women prefer seeing make gynaecologists because they find them more authoritative . ’ |
| 21 | and then that 's a fiver , and then you 've got the worry of and you got you got to go shops because when it 's so hot things go stale you 've got to have |
| 22 | First , to the extent that nationalized natural monopolies made losses because marginal costs lay below average costs , the government became increasingly concerned about the social cost of the distortions introduced elsewhere by the taxes required to finance these losses . |
| 23 | A motor manufacturer will only be in a position to estimate revenue because they do not know how many cars they will sell . |
| 24 | Agazadeh raised in his Sept. 16 speech the possibility that Iran would respond by increasing output , rather than continue to lose revenue because of low prices . |
| 25 | Although well furnished , the annexe rooms , which led off from the rear of the bothy , lacked cosiness because they were so cold . |
| 26 | He said that the woman , who had been diagnosed as a schizophrenic in 1986 after an attempted arson attack , would probably not be fit to stand trial because of her mental condition . |
| 27 | It rechristened the APT as the Abandoned Passenger Train and said that British technology had helped to develop the Exocet missile that sank Sheffield because the MoD , also ordering the missile from its French makers , insisted that British firms should have a share in the contract . |
| 28 | They actually look for strong leaders , or they want rules because they feel insecure without them . |
| 29 | and I 've only yo mentioned , well you mentioned money because you mentioned Harold Wilson |
| 30 | I say advantage because if you were to close your eyes while playing , it would be impossible to say which guitar the Carlton 's neck reminded you of most . |