Example sentences of "[adv] because he [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He won the Republican nomination this year largely because he persuaded conservative voters that he favoured ‘ life ’ more than his two principle opponents . |
| 2 | This was not because he had any interest in values realized in animal life , but because he believed that some degree of goodness pertained to things or states of affairs which do not involve consciousness of any kind . |
| 3 | Not because he carried that coffin but because the people on his side are ravaged , their nerve ends are torn raw , and if he |
| 4 | If Euripides brought the spectator onto the stage , it was not because he enjoyed popular favour in his lifetime . |
| 5 | Perhaps the most significant intellectual advance of the mid-20th century was indeed made by Karl Popper , not because he provided any kind of method for scientists to pursue ( as he decidedly did not ) but because he showed for the first time in formal philosophy , that science is inescapably a human activity , and that if its underlying human-ness is ever shelved it is only temporarily , and for convenience , to ameliorate human frailty . |
| 6 | Hall ( 1987 ) , for example — possibly because he uses different definitions and sample size — presents a somewhat contrasting picture . |
| 7 | The marshal 's reception of the news was predictably sour , but he refrained from any overt suggestion that Thiercelin had been at fault , possibly because he accepted some share of the blame himself . |
| 8 | He may have acted in this way because the dog was worrying sheep , or because he wanted to annoy the dog 's owner , or simply because he despises all alsatians . |
| 9 | He appealed to most New Zealand judges simply because he made good use of the blindside , mixed up his passes and kicks and generally gave the impression that he could play the percentages very much in the New Zealand fashion . |
| 10 | Yes , we all know that he prefers consensus rather than confrontation and I suppose maybe because he has that kind of style he might be just what the doctor ordered for the nineties . |
| 11 | It is precisely because he had many titles that we did not see agree , he and I. Voila . ’ |