Example sentences of "[be] [adv] because [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're here because we want to see Earth Commander . ’ |
| 2 | She had n't been out because she wanted to stay in and look after Bradley . |
| 3 | Some requests or demands are reasonable and fair , but others certainly might not be so because they fail to take into account the child 's right to his/her needs and point of view , or because they are inappropriate to his/her level of development . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , I 'm here because I want to help you … ‘ |
| 5 | The section shaikhs and Ibrahim al-Sanusi were there because they had to guarantee to the Zliten people that all Zuwaya would accept the peace they had arranged . |
| 6 | It 's only because he wants to prevent the bomb going off that this belief of his makes him shoot . |
| 7 | ‘ It is only because you want to pry , to discover who writes to me , that you come out in this way every morning . |
| 8 | This is not because they wish to act in the public interest as exemplified in the values of their political masters , but rather because they wish to succeed in their careers and the way to do so is to appear efficient . |
| 9 | This is not because they want to preserve General de Gaulle 's regime . |
| 10 | This is partly because we need to understand and classify the vast amounts of pottery recovered from excavations at archaeological sites , and partly because of the high success rate of such analytical projects . |
| 11 | It is precisely because I want to see political changes of this kind that I support Home Rule for Scotland . |
| 12 | This was perhaps because he managed to stop Sandys sweeping the aircraft-carriers onto the junk-heap of history as he had intended to do when he first took office . |
| 13 | Oh no , it was just because I went to talk to my manager about it before I went and I went through my diary with him and everything . |
| 14 | ‘ It was n't because you wanted to see me , then ? ’ |