Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the [noun] because " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've only come for the afternoon because Sheila 's off sick . |
| 2 | ‘ If you did n't die yourself , that only added to the spice because it was so heightened , it was so endlessly dramatic and exciting . |
| 3 | They were not much respected in the village because of John 's laziness . |
| 4 | Section 8 only came into the argument because it was contended on behalf of Mrs. Gillick that , but for section 8 , no minor could ever consent to medical treatment and that section 8 was designed only to lower the age of consent to such treatment from 18 to 16 : see [ 1986 ] A.C. 112 , 123 , per Parker L.J. , and at p. 144D , per Fox L.J . |
| 5 | The ‘ Ritz Bedroom ’ , for example , ‘ so named by the Ashleys because the bath in the adjoining bathroom was exactly like those in their favourite hotel , the Paris Ritz ’ , was furnished with some choice pieces of Louis XV vintage . |
| 6 | ‘ It was a first-past-the-post system and I can personally vouch for the result because I saw with my own eyes a clear majority for Prime Suspect . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It was a first-past-the-post system and I can personally vouch for the result because I saw with my own eyes a clear majority for Prime Suspect . ’ |
| 8 | Failure to clear it can only add to the guilt because it is also robbing a relationship the transparency that it lives on . |
| 9 | Bosses of the Tory-controlled authority say she can not stay in the school because she lives outside the priority area . |
| 10 | The heavy makeup melting even in the air-conditioning , the legless beggar who sleeps under the office porch and cleans their shoes in gratitude , the slums you can not observe because no roads go through the swamps and whose inhabitants do not exist for the State because the census officials can not reach them , the bomb-carriers serving as flower-pots , the boys selling themselves to the rich English ex-public schoolboys , the girls selling themselves to the fat German tourists , the police raping the boys and the girls they are protecting in the police-stations , the Committee officers boasting to Kate about the elegant jerk-offs in the massage parlours , their ever-decorative ever-bored wives boasting to Kate about their jewellery , the Thai girls saving up for eye and breast jobs , the luxury hotels where the high-class white whores hang out , the students shot by the military during a demonstration against the army regime , the girl students daring for the first time to stay out at night on the streets to picket , the crushing of strikes with bullets and beatings , the barring of political books in the Committee library , the anti-Communist adverts punctuating the Western films on TV . |
| 11 | Not squeeze to the side because they might not see you there . |
| 12 | The feeling in the country was for the Queen , and Haymo the Bishop advised the Archbishop not to go into the city because of the high feeling towards the bishops and the danger to their persons . |
| 13 | Obviously , I can not comment on the inquiry because of those investigations . |
| 14 | In some ways it is better to communicate with the client and say that nothing has happened , than not to communicate with the client because nothing has happened . |
| 15 | Unlike the other seven Lilley Group businesses , Robison & Davison was not included in the receivership because the management buy-out process had reached an advanced stage prior to the Lilley collapse . |
| 16 | Whisky exports were not included in the survey because comprehensive statistics on Scotch whisky exports are obtainable from the Scotch Whisky Association . |
| 17 | If the modern manic individual is uninhibited in the state of mania because , as Rado suggests , he has regressed to a state of psychic organization that existed in him at his mother 's breast and definitely before his superego formed , then we can see that the reason why the divine kings of early agricultural societies could be described as ‘ manic ’ lie in exactly similar conditions : a situation in which the ego is not constrained by the superego because their collective equivalents — primal father and mother on the one side , and the son on the the other — have become one in the person of the monarch ( who , in this respect , is decidedly and accurately described as an incarnation of the trinity ) . |
| 18 | Now ladies and gentlemen if you have any questions we 'll be happy to answer them for you Can you just wait for the microphone because the guys at the back ca n't hear the question |
| 19 | Kingston , whose coach Kevin Cadle watched Friday night 's semi-final , did not qualify for the tournament because they did not compete in the League last season although their form over the past three weeks suggests they will be front runners over the next seven months . |
| 20 | And we could n't You could n't just swim on the surface because if you let any part of your body above the water for any length of time , I mean it just burnt . |
| 21 | She was working in the er cupboard so I just pu I just put in the key because when Barbara come in she did n't lock it you see . |
| 22 | My father was not going with the doctor because the operation would have much less chance of success if they were stopped on the way . |
| 23 | Further deletions of the promoter up to position +2 are not shown in the figure because no further change in CAT activity was observed . |
| 24 | The SDLP 's public support for the Tories in the 1987 General Election caused its former leader , Gerry Fitt to comment : ‘ I would not vote for the SDLP because it is not a socialist party … |
| 25 | I found that amendments that sought to divert young people from criminal activity would not fit into the Bill because of what an Officer of the House described as ’ the curious geography of the Bill ’ . |
| 26 | The group comprised Albania ( accepted as a founding member ) , Armenia , Azerbaijan , Bulgaria , Georgia , Greece ( hitherto with only observer status ) , Moldova , Romania , Russia , Turkey and Ukraine ; Yugoslavia was not invited to the meeting because of the civil war in Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 27 | Luckily , this was not damaged by the hurricane because it was kept at the EAA Museum in Oshkosh . |
| 28 | There is something wrong with the relationships , there is as well as somebody doing the abuse , there are other people who are somehow complicit in the abuse because they 're allowing it to go on , they must have known , surely they must have known , why did n't they do something ? |
| 29 | Local farmers , too , were forced to face up to the unpleasant fact that they could no longer compete with the Poles because of the low cost of Polish labour and the high Reich and Polish tariff barriers . |
| 30 | Beneficial , not entered in the Derby because trainer Geoff Wragg felt he was n't good enough , is worth a wager in the King Edward VII Stakes . |