Example sentences of "[adj] because [pron] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was a witness and so on you see and down below and the sergeant said to me , the sergeant came up and said to me , you 'll have to be careful because he said that boy , he was sitting there with his mother , poor woman , all in black and er the em the boy 's employer had got a solicitor on his behalf , you see , and I said well I can only speak through and say what happened , that 's all I can do and er , so of course when I went into the witness box this man came and er asked me all sorts of questions . |
| 2 | I got muddled because I thought that teacher , it 's just a psychology . |
| 3 | They were lucky because they had each other . |
| 4 | Edmund was lucky because he got this chance to do a university you see in |
| 5 | Practical English Usage is invaluable because it solves many problems which are frequently not dealt with in coursebooks . |
| 6 | It has become fashionable to say that this kind of equality is unimportant because it offers little protection against tyranny . |
| 7 | But the potency with which c-Myc induces apoptosis suggests that deregulated c-Myc expression by itself is likely to be lethal because it kills any cell that encounters growth-limiting conditions , an almost invariable outcome in vivo . |
| 8 | They produce press releases and they send it off and they feel terribly bitter and twisted and unhappy because nobody takes any notice of it , but they do n't realize that what they 've actually produced makes no sense at all to the person receiving it on the other end . |
| 9 | Anyway , one day I had tickets to see Mike Oldfield and I was really upset because we had these gigs and so I had to sell them . |
| 10 | He would get upset because he forgot some books and say he was stupid . |
| 11 | Bu but , but the rich because they have more resources are more highly productive . |
| 12 | The question is important because it gives some clue as to the likely rise in the long-run house price to income ratio ( because demand for housing has shifted upwards , while supply remains relatively constant ) . |
| 13 | ‘ My children , I am very happy because you love each other , and because one day you will get married . |
| 14 | County boroughs totally opted out of the surrounding county council 's affairs , but for the other types of subordinate authorities the situation was complicated because they performed some functions for themselves while other functions in their areas , such as education , were run by the county council . |
| 15 | Until then Frank had been safe because they had each other , and the things that troubled him were half buried and might well have sunk past danger . |
| 16 | OXFORD BOOKWORMS are successful because they combine these elements . |
| 17 | I mention him in particular because he understood that opera concerns those ecstatic moments when a man or a woman has to use a means of expression other than the spoken word . |
| 18 | Conversation was difficult because she walked several yards behind Joe , and always crossed the street at least two cars ' lengths away . |
| 19 | ‘ Customers said it was great that we were open because it showed some normality in the town . ’ |
| 20 | The borough argued that the leaflet was misleading because it omitted all references to the joint liability of spouses and cohabiting couples . |
| 21 | Cuvier 's system was open-ended because he considered each species to be a variation of the underlying type adapted to a particular way of life . |