Example sentences of "[noun pl] because [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 television audio and video signals because there is less loss of signal than through a twisted pair of wires or flex .
2 Many publishers prefer to deal with the street booksellers rather than the formal bookshops because they are better business : they pay more , are more commercially motivated and are closer to the public .
3 It held , for example , that Italy was in breach of its obligations under the Treaty when it required that researchers employed by the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche had to be Italians because they were civil service posts .
4 Could n't do that on the other products because there 's limited number of slots .
5 People only see the good-for-nothing sons who hang around bars getting into fights and pushing drugs ; they do n't see the real shepherd , the man who spends almost all of his life alone , spends his days making the cheeses they take for granted and his nights sleeping sometimes only for a couple of hours because it 's lambing time . ’
6 To exclude witnesses because there was ample evidence against a prisoner , or on a mistaken understanding of the prisoner 's defence , or on the basis of administrative inconvenience , would be an improper exercise of that discretion .
7 Surgeons in are being told to do less emergency operations because of the extra costs involved and in surgeons are ordered to give priority to patients who come from G P budget holders because there 's more money coming from those budget holders , nothing to do with basis of need .
8 The situation does not occur on stillwaters because there is enough water well out from the banks to allow the beats to be separated , if only by a few yards .
9 Yesterday , I was able to call all the Scottish Members because there was little pressure on the subsequent debate .
10 ‘ I always enjoy playing the world 's top four players because there 's less pressure on me , ’ said Wattana , who now meets either world champion Stephen Hendry or Alan McManus .
11 You are , perhaps , the captain of a pirate ship , proposing to take on a cargo of slaves because it 's easy money .
12 I burst into tears because I was sure Mum had pawned it or sold it .
13 It is necessary to-keep a small stock of gearboxes because there is some uncertainty about how many will be used on any day , and reordering subjects the firm to some delay .
14 According to Angela John 's history of the struggle , By The Sweat of Their Brow ( Croom Helm , 1980 ) opposition to the women 's work focused on control over their sexuality and motherhood and on the employers ' attitudes — some supported the women because they were cheap labour .
15 But over the lifetime of a Parliament the Lib Dem PSBR would fall below the Tories because ours is short term borrowing for investment and not longer term for tax cuts .
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