Example sentences of "because they did " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then overnight they redraft them because they did n't really matter in the first place . |
| 2 | Cambridge English represented the former : Richards and Leavis wanted an evaluative criticism , because they did not believe that literature was simply a matter of disinterested individual response ; it was an index to the condition of civilization , which made judgements imperative . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They were also used in hydraulic systems because they did not react with the materials used in the pipes and pistons . |
| 5 | They said they had come to Britain because they did not need a visa and because they thought it was a free country . |
| 6 | Sources close to the Prime Minister , Yitzhak Shamir , said while he welcomed greater US involvement , he had misgivings about the wording of Mr Baker 's proposals , presented orally , because they did not ensure a clear-cut Israeli veto power . |
| 7 | If he was not to be a lecturer at Cambridge because they did not think him academic enough , and if he was not to be a parish priest because he could not keep teenagers in order and because the adults were said not to understand him and because he felt a teaching vocation , where was his right place ? |
| 8 | Fewer people were coming forward to take jobs because they did n't like having to go to school . |
| 9 | And all the rest of humanity which offended you , too : Jews , gipsies , the mentally handicapped , Poles , Russians — the Untermensch — — the subhuman , subhuman because they did not have blue eyes and blond hair , white skin or , that vaguest , and because most vague , most potent of myths , the right blood . |
| 10 | Therefore , they decided to put their energy into a battle they could only lose , and not just because of television but also because they did so little on their own account to improve the cinemas , and to provide an environment which would lure potential audiences away from their increasingly comfortable homes . |
| 11 | The law would make it unlawful to deny people a job either because they were union members , or because they did not want to belong to a union . |
| 12 | Union leaders should take immediate steps to ensure that no one was ever denied a job because they did not have a union card . |
| 13 | I was going out with this guy called John Colley whose relations were sort of minor gangsters in London and I went to work for them because they did n't mind my not being English . |
| 14 | Their newspapers provided odd bits of information , such as plutonium-poisoning maps that frightened readers rather than reassuring them because they did not know how to interpret them . |
| 15 | The banks have been holding off up till now , because they did not want loan losses further to dent their earnings , already hit by the stockmarket fall , in the current financial year . |
| 16 | Yes , it is true , but I must add the following : even her hand-outs to beggars were based on negation : she gave them money not because beggars , too , belonged to mankind , but because they did not belong to it , because they were excluded from it , and probably like her , felt no solidarity with mankind . |
| 17 | Once they heard her say , ‘ But Harry , you ca n't keep on — ’ And then she must have put a hand over the mouthpiece , because they did not hear anything else until , suddenly , another voice spoke . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's because they did n't live long enough , ’ he explained . |
| 19 | The point he missed was that they did not tax because they did not need to tax ; he despised the Scottish crown for its failure to collect the infamous taille , but this had , after all , been introduced to France only because of the need to finance military expeditions . |
| 20 | Intimacies soon followed and , because they did not share a common language in those early days , the words of love that they shared over breakfast had to pass through a translator . |
| 21 | Mr Coleman , referring to Cabra 's latest proposals for Craven Cottage , said : ‘ We rejected the proposals because they did not follow our own guidelines for the future devlopment of the site , based on recommendations made by the government inspector following the public inquiry in February 1990 . ’ |
| 22 | Limited — not because they did n't want to care , they just did n't know how to care for this type of patient … . |
| 23 | Many senior members probably preferred the style , activities and energy of the Artisans but were precluded from joining because they did not qualify , i.e. were not weekly-paid , or a member of the working-with-hands society . |
| 24 | Yet the numbers of women choosing not to marry receded in times of rising real wages , and the same conditions lowered the average age at marriage Hence , it is wise to remember that many women remained unmarried only because they did not have the means to start a new household with a husband . |
| 25 | They talked about a project together with director Hal Ashby , who was trying to raise finance for a film based upon a remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice ( which Nicholson later made with Jessica Lange ) , but MGM pulled out because they did not think Michelle Phillips was a big enough name , not apparently appreciating that she was once a starring member of a world-famous singing quartet . |
| 26 | There was no anaesthetic because they did n't have any . |
| 27 | They never did anything like this to his brother , you know , because they did n't dare . ’ |
| 28 | Some may be seen 20 or more years later to have been seminal but were ignored because they did not fit into the theories current at the time . |
| 29 | When Pat Arrowsmith gave out similar anti-war material to British troops , this time related to Northern Ireland , the justices before whom she appeared acquitted her because they did not think the publication to be ‘ insulting ’ . |
| 30 | CD 's early agreements with Macrone , Bentley , and Chapman & Hall were unsatisfactory because they did not take into account the rapidly increasing value of his writings . |