Example sentences of "[adv prt] because they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The car is generally occupied by an idiot or two gazing strictly ahead either with expressions that lead you to think that they are convinced they are doing everyone else a favour , or that they are only sitting down because they have insufficient brain to walk and chew gum at the same time .
2 Ceramic cook tops can give the semblance of an almost unbroken work surface , and so do the new magnetic induction units that look like tiles , but do not heat up because they use magnetic energy to cook food by energising molecules both in the food and the pan .
3 They arched up because they resisted further movement .
4 Notice that in deriving this expression we have used the result that on summation the expressions in cancel out because they represent relative demand shocks which sum to zero .
5 Sometimes it is necessary to take bits out because they need special coaching , but always put them back in context .
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