Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so I have an English voice because I come from that background . ’ |
| 2 | I could partly understand Sally 's comments because I heard at second hand from Jack Mason about the bickering that went on between manufacturers and the players ' agents about contracts . |
| 3 | Well without sort of , saying because I work in that department , it 's good , erm I sincerely believe that it is very good . |
| 4 | Because I have on good information and I 'll say it for the first time on this programme , I intend to give this in my evidence tomorrow , that Rover intend to close not the south works first , but the north works first . |
| 5 | The Anniversary Organising Committee had felt that a clock should be commissioned to replace the one which had been stolen , and perhaps because I have for some years specialised in the reproduction of historic clocks , my name was one of those considered . |
| 6 | At least , that was the thought I had , but for some reason I must have found it very nice because I stayed for 30 years ! ’ |
| 7 | Because I look at hard times and I make this vow : This will not stand . " |
| 8 | Anxious , because you know from past experience that when the convenient moment arrives for you to sow , the weather will turn wet or cold , even snowy , and effort and seed would be wasted , yet time is slipping by and the crops most worth raising are those that come first . |
| 9 | Yes , it 's very hard because you get to that stage where you know you can only really push forward for so long , then when it you know , the whistle looms near , you try and you know , you 're just going to go for the result really , and keep it you know , a clean sheet and just get a point out of the game . |
| 10 | When you ask , you do not receive , because you ask with wrong motives . ’ |
| 11 | Deep learning — like knowing how to dress yourself or clean your teeth or ride a bicycle , which you learned to do when young and which have entered your consciousness at a deeper level so that you rarely think consciously about them because you engage in these activities daily and apparently intuitively . |
| 12 | But er not really seriously because you see in those days it , it was illegal for anything like that . |
| 13 | ‘ There 's never been a great woman composer , ’ said my mother with an air of triumph , not because she delighted in this deficiency of her sex , but because she thought it percipient to have noticed . |
| 14 | Linda Agran , a film executive , told me that she chose a female gynaecologist , Wendy Love , to do her hysterectomy because she believed in positive discrimination . |
| 15 | Because she lived against this woman . |
| 16 | That was a bad time for her because she fell between two stools in a way . |
| 17 | Some of the costs are met by head office — it gets all of the revenue because we sell in this country — but in the case of France where we have a separate legal entity , what we 're after is contribution statements by unit of accommodation for the UK revenues , and one or two other costs with those French locally incurred expenses . |
| 18 | ‘ We have had patients from as far away as Wales because we specialise in cardiac rhythm problems . |
| 19 | Because we work in far-flung locations , it is very important for all the tutors to come together to discuss the programme every so often . |
| 20 | " We ourselves would not have used a comma in the example above because we think in that example there is a greater degree of interdependence between the parts of the sentence . |
| 21 | ‘ We are here because we believe in long-term ship-building . |
| 22 | I find it very helpful because we deal with immediate problems . |
| 23 | Stopping only to emphasize that this is not because we belong to different disciplines and that several other final positions are open to anyone from either discipline , we then leave readers to make up their own minds , or else to decide that there is no monopoly of wisdom to be had . |
| 24 | Those poor men had a lot of problems driving in the poles to carry the lines and were obliged to use explosives on the last stretch over my land because they came across solid rock . |
| 25 | In the course of time , because they developed from human imagination to which there are no limits , the powers ascribed to the first ‘ gods ’ became exaggerated beyond all reason . |
| 26 | This is plausible because in our common-sense construction crimes involve real people as victims ; many corporate crimes , because they fall on impersonal organizations or distant countries , fail to match this common-sense stereotype , and therefore can be viewed as non-criminal . |
| 27 | He refused to sign again with his club and sought , inter alia , declarations that the rules of the Football Association relating to the retention and transfer of football players , including the plaintiff , and the regulations of the Football League relating to retention and transfer were not binding on him , because they operated in unreasonable restraint of trade . |
| 28 | Pop videos themselves are consistently reactionary in their sexual imagery ( and this is an aspect of the cooption of new pop to which I will return ) if only because they draw on visual conventions of masculinity and femininity ( taken from cinema history and television commercials ) that are much more coherent than pop 's adolescent ambiguities . |
| 29 | Two trial drillings produced results that attracted the interest of several US companies , but negotiations to exploit the well for commercial use broke down because they insisted on full control over the project , which the St Lucia government refused because it considered it to be a matter of national interest . |
| 30 | They oblige all , including non-Catholics , because they proceed from right reason , and not because they are taught by the Catholic Church . |