Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [verb] a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though I suppose I was chosen because I have a better understanding of what they are about than your average pen-pusher . ’ |
| 2 | I said they would be noticed because you got a better response from people who put you in small groups feel there is less pressure on them . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ The reason KimberlyClark chose Humberside is because they got a higher level of grant aid . |
| 4 | Well because they had a better goal average in all the other games . |
| 5 | It did seem that the main force squadrons in other Groups had more casualties than we did , partly because they had to cope with fully awakened defences , gun and searchlight crews as well as fighters , after PFF had done their job , and perhaps also because they had a higher proportion of new , inexperienced crews who were usually the first to come to grief . |
| 6 | Levels in the former group were higher because they compounded a greater burden which already existed by 1795 . |
| 7 | If people buy Volvos because they think a better car will plug the hole in the ozone layer , they will buy nuclear power on the same principle . |
| 8 | They had been followed to Sleetburn by the Wilkinson family , who had moved from West Thorngarth Hill down the dale at Hury because they needed a bigger farm , I seem to remember . |
| 9 | Southgate ( 1980 : 33 ) has shown how British police have diffiulties in dealing with domestic disputes , but if anything the situation in Northern Ireland is easier for the police because they have a clearer knowledge of their role : to be on hand to prevent serious crime . |
| 10 | they had no vision of a classless society , erm , personally while I 've no desire to see uniformity , I see no earthly reason why some people because they have a lower income should be compelled to live in inferior and perhaps crowded conditions , whereas the man with five or six or seven times their income can choose a larger house in a much more delightful district and I think it is things like that that make the difference between what I as a young socialist agitator was advocating and what we find today . |
| 11 | The Lancet had a steeper fall from six to seven authors , perhaps because they published a smaller proportion of large group studies ( and hence had a higher modal ‘ 6 ’ value ) than NEJM . |
| 12 | Deciduous trees appear less affected than conifers , partly because they offer a smaller area of foliage , and partly because they shed their leaves each autumn and hence are not exposed to air pollution for such a long time as conifers . |
| 13 | He stood out among them not only because he had a surer command of his people at home , but also because Cuba is where it is , so the Russians helped him much more than the rest . |
| 14 | I 'm not all that keen on the race because he prefers a flatter track . |
| 15 | I 'm not all that keen on the race because he prefers a flatter track . |
| 16 | Both Roche and Berk are companies of repute , and I do not think that Berk would like to be described by Dalyell as ‘ fly by night ’ simply because it produces a cheaper product . |
| 17 | While there was , at least for Monnet and Schuman , an altruistic motive behind the scheme , it is clear that France found the idea attractive because it offered a better way than the International Ruhr Authority of binding the new West Germany to external control while it was still relatively weak . |
| 18 | Families favour the Arts Centre over bed and breakfast accommodation because it offers a greater privacy . |
| 19 | Dr Hugh Rushton , Research Director for the Philip Kingsley Trichology Clinic , believes that hormone replacement therapy ( HRT ) is very effective in restoring condition to hair because it maintains a better balance of hormones , particularly oestrogen . |
| 20 | Incidentally , the round African hut is highly appropriate for keeping cool in hot sun because it presents a smaller surface area than a square building would . |
| 21 | We would be inclined to use the first , because it gives a better sense of the feel of the anthology ; but this is a fairly arbitrary decision , where rule-books do not help . |
| 22 | They say that 20 per cent of American motorists who can run cars on unleaded petrol are switching back to lead because it gives a better performance . |
| 23 | Fundholding poses ethical problems , either because it secures a better service for the patients of a fundholding practice over those whose doctors happen not to hold a fund , or because it does not . |
| 24 | Fishermen fish yellowfin rather than skipjack or albacore tuna because it commands a higher price — its flesh is white , while skipjack and albacore are a darker , red colour . |
| 25 | Pressure groups in industries that produce selected goods ( like good X ) have a reason to push for such selective subsidy because it implies a higher demand for their output . |
| 26 | The snag with multimode fibre is that , because it carries a wider beam of light , it suffers more from spurious internal reflections . |
| 27 | It was difficult to calculate Hewlett-Packard Co 's margins , he said , because it has a wider-ranging business . |
| 28 | Some firms like BP try to use as much North Sea crude as possible , because it has a lower sulphur content than Arabian Gulf oil . |