Example sentences of "[adv] because [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These sentences seem unnatural perhaps because they lack short words like in and the and because consequently their rhythmic foot structure is irregular . |
| 2 | Of course , if we put too low a price on the asset we are selling , perhaps because we want large queues of buyers for this asset so we can claim how popular it is , we make a loss on the sale and you make a profit . |
| 3 | Our opponents say we do cause such disturbance but I suspect that is only that is only because they see all canoeists as a noisy bunch of exuberant youngsters . |
| 4 | Forestry is to a certain extent in conflict with agriculture not only because it removes large areas of land from farming for 50 or more years , but also because in its modern forms of organisation it tends to employ fewer local people . |
| 5 | And that 's only because I had good teachers — I do n't think that I have any special superhuman gift for it . ’ |
| 6 | The detention of COWAN 's president serves as a lesson especially because we had similar experiences with Brooklyn Village in Acornhoek , between 1989 and 1990 . |
| 7 | He won the Republican nomination this year largely because he persuaded conservative voters that he favoured ‘ life ’ more than his two principle opponents . |
| 8 | I then broke away because I saw two fighters above on the port side . |
| 9 | Acute social divisions may indeed have induced violence , a disruption of settled married life and so on , but there is no need to assume that relationships within the working class were intrinsically any more lacking in feeling than relationships amongst other classes , just because they took different forms . |
| 10 | A good scientific law or theory is falsifiable just because it makes definite claims about the world . |
| 11 | Just because you eat blasted snails does n't mean you 've got to behave like one ! ’ |
| 12 | This was to be precisely the starting assumption of positivist criminologists ( although they were interested in these differences not because they justified different levels of desert , but because they suggested different types of treatment ) . |
| 13 | But the claims of programmes must be scrutinized carefully , not because they offer wrong answers but because they assume that there are answers . |
| 14 | It 's not because I had Christian parents , it 's not because I 'd some advantage over you , or you had some advantage over me , it is all of God 's graciousness , it is all of God 's giving ! |
| 15 | Well I rang them up yesterday because I got two cheques left . |
| 16 | Many supermarkets now have bottle-banks , but returnable bottles are better still because they save natural resources and energy — manufacturers need to be pressured into recognizing this . |
| 17 | Flies can see in all directions at once because they have large eyes with thousands of lenses . |
| 18 | Hall ( 1987 ) , for example — possibly because he uses different definitions and sample size — presents a somewhat contrasting picture . |
| 19 | There is a twelve percent reduction in maintenance , partly because we sold some holdings , partly a cut in the service , it is a , it is a , it 's a , it 's a legal requirement to maintain the whole thing , under the terms of the agreement , and I 'm also , because of the change in our , dropping our , a land agent , now that 's a reduction of thirty three percent in the management of the estates , so I really am doing my best and resources quite rightly have held my noose in order to ensure that I do . |
| 20 | Business organisations differ from each other partly because they have different objects , despite similar objectives . |
| 21 | ‘ It is more difficult to be precise about this than about the earlier phases , partly because the pictures are rarer and less accessible , and have not been adequately photographed , partly because it includes considerable variations . ’ |
| 22 | Acid rain affects trees partly because it dissolves essential nutrients out of the soil , such as magnesium and calcium — but again releases aluminium , which the trees take up to their detriment . |
| 23 | This , he explains , was ‘ partly because I used four-letter words in front of the Prime Minister . ’ |
| 24 | Nor is the idea of community policing popular amongst ordinary constables in other sections of the police , often because it contradicts their views of what constitutes ‘ real ’ police work , but also because they have misguided notions about what community policing is , as well as a practical awareness of the unrealistic expectations held of it by enthusiasts . |
| 25 | The differences suggest that those in the non-manual occupational groups were more likely to choose early retirement than skilled manual workers , presumably because they had greater resources and hence more freedom of choice . |
| 26 | I 'm afraid I have n't experimented with these overmuch , mainly because I have some cottons on cone that are not branded , lurking in the cupboard . |
| 27 | What I am saying most specifically is take all of me — and here of course Gary began the melody on the piano and we all smiled and then she sang , sang her song , and believe me we did all listen to the words that night , we knew that the man who had been attacked was there , and we knew that O and Boy were standing shoulder to shoulder in our midst , we saw them in the centre of the mirror , saw ourselves standing beside them and standing by them and give me a drink now because I had such hopes of a lover of my own on that evening and here I am . |
| 28 | This underlines the importance of training schemes in which professionals have opportunities to meet older people who are in charge of their lives , who have something to say and who are not being seen simply because they have overwhelming problems . |
| 29 | ‘ People like Mrs Harry Brown are accepted in society simply because they have enormous sums of money . |
| 30 | 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 . |